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{{Infobox royalty
| name            = Aristobulus IV
| title           = prince of Judea
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| image           = Aristobulus IV.png
| caption         = Aristobulus IV, in the 1493 [[Nuremberg Chronicle]]
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| spouse          = [[Berenice (daughter of Salome)]]
| issue           = [[Herod Agrippa|Herod Agrippa I]]<br>[[Herod of Chalcis]]<br>[[Aristobulus Minor|Aristobulus the Younger]]<br>[[Herodias]]<br>[[Mariamne III]]
| royal house     = 
| dynasty         = [[Herodian dynasty]]
| father          = [[Herod the Great]]
| mother          = [[Mariamne I]] Hasmonean
| birth_date      = 31 BC
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| death_date      = 7 BC 
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{{other people||Aristobulus (disambiguation){{!}}Aristobulus}}
'''Aristobulus IV''' (31–7 BC) was a prince of [[Judea]] from the [[Herodian dynasty]], and was married to his cousin, [[Berenice (daughter of Salome)|Berenice]], daughter of [[Costobarus]] and [[Salome I]]. He was the son of [[Herod the Great]] and his second wife, [[Mariamne I]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jjraymond.com/religion/aristobuluschildren.html |title=The Children of Aristobulus IV |publisher=Jjraymond.com |date=2008-08-22 |accessdate=2014-01-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106031551/http://www.jjraymond.com/religion/aristobuluschildren.html |archivedate=2014-01-06 }}</ref> the last of the [[Hasmoneans]], and was thus a descendant of the Hasmonean Dynasty.

Aristobulus lived most of his life outside of [[Judea|Judaea]], having been sent at age 12 along with his brother [[Alexander, son of Herod|Alexander]] to be educated at the Imperial court of [[Roman Empire|Rome]] in 20 BC, in the household of [[Augustus]] himself. Aristobulus was only 3 years old when his paternal aunt [[Salome I|Salome]] contrived to have his mother executed for adultery. When the attractive young brothers returned to [[Jerusalem]] in 12 BC, the populace received them enthusiastically. That, along with their perceived imperious manner, picked up after having lived much of their lives at the very heart of Roman imperial power, often offended Herod. They also attracted the jealousy of their older half-brother, [[Antipater (son of Herod I)|Antipater II]], who deftly incited the aging king's anger with rumors of his favored sons' disloyalty. After many failed attempts at reconciliation between the king and his designated heirs, the ailing Herod had Aristobulus and Alexander strangled on charges of treason in 7 BC, and raised Antipater to the rank of his co-regent and heir apparent.

Herod, however, retained affection for Aristobulus' children, three of whom, [[Agrippa I]], [[Herod of Chalcis|Herod]] and [[Herodias]], lived to play important roles in the next generation of Jewish rulers.  A fourth, Aristobulus' eldest daughter [[Mariamne III|Mariamne]], was the wife of [[Antipater (son of Herod I)|Antipater II]] at the time of his execution and, thereafter, may have been the wife of Ethnarch [[Herod Archelaus]].

==Family tree==
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{{Tree chart | HCh | | Ma3 | | Hds | | HA1 | | AMi |Ma3=[[Mariamne III]]|HAr=[[Herod Archelaus]]|Hds=[[Herodias]]|HCh=[[Herod of Chalcis|Herod V]] of Chalcis|HA1=[[Herod Agrippa|Herod Agrippa I]]|AMi=[[Aristobulus Minor]]}}
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{{Tree chart | ACh | | HA2 | | Brn | | Ma6 | | Dru |ACh=[[Aristobulus of Chalcis]]|HA2=[[Herod Agrippa II]]|Brn=[[Berenice (daughter of Herod Agrippa)|Berenice II]]|Ma6=[[Mariamne (daughter of Herod Agrippa)|Mariamne VI]]|Dru=[[Drusilla (daughter of Herod Agrippa)|Drusilla]]}}
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[[Category:Children of Herod the Great]]
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[[Category:Sons of kings]]
[[Category:Adult filicides]]

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