Descendants of Darius I Great to Alfred Landon

Generation 2 (con't)
"Darius the subject", while Xerxes was the eldest son born in the purple after Darius' rise to the
throne, and Artobazan's mother was a commoner while Xerxes' mother was the daughter of the
founder of the empire.[6]
Xerxes was crowned and succeeded his father in October-December 486 BC[7] when he was
about 36 years old.[2] The transition of power to Xerxes was smooth due again in part to great
authority of Atossa[1] and his accession of royal power was not challenged by any person at court
or in the Achaemenian family, or any subject nation.[8]
Almost immediately, he suppressed the revolts in Egypt and Babylon that had broken out the year
before, and appointed his brother Achaemenes as governor or satrap (Old Persian:
khshathrapavan) over Egypt. In 484 BC, he outraged the Babylonians by violently confiscating and
melting down[9] the golden statue of Bel (Marduk, Merodach), the hands of which the rightful king
of Babylon had to clasp each New Year's Day. This sacrilege led the Babylonians to rebel in 484
BC and 482 BC, so that in contemporary Babylonian documents, Xerxes is refused his father's title
of King of Babylon, being named rather as King of Persia and Media, Great King, King of Kings
(Shahanshah) and King of Nations (i.e. of the world).
Although Herodotus' report in the Histories has created certain problems concerning Xerxes'
religious beliefs, modern scholars consider him as a Zoroastrian.[10]
Xerxes I Ahasuerus and Christian Hahn had the following child:
3. i. ARTAXERXES I 3 MAKROKHEIR (son of Xerxes I Ahasuerus and Christian Hahn) was
born in ,,British Columbia,Canada. He died in 425 AD in ,,British Columbia,Canada.
He married KOSMARTYDENE THE CONCUBINE. She was born in 100 AD in ,,British
Columbia,Canada. He married QUEEN ANDIA OF BABYLON. She was born in 123 AD
in ,,British Columbia,Canada.
Xerxes I Ahasuerus and Esther Hadassah had the following child:
4. ii. ARTAXERXES I MAKROKHEIR (son of Xerxes I Ahasuerus and Esther Hadassah) was
born in Persia, Iran. He died in 425 AD in Persia, Iran. He married KOSMARTYDENE
THE CONCUBINE. She was born in 100 AD in ,,British Columbia,Canada. He married
QUEEN ANDIA OF BABYLON. She was born in 123 AD in ,,British Columbia,Canada.
She died in Babylon.
Generation 3
3. ARTAXERXES I 3 MAKROKHEIR (Xerxes I 2 Ahasuerus, Darius I 1 Great) was born in ,,British
Columbia,Canada. He died in 425 AD in ,,British Columbia,Canada. He married KOSMARTYDENE
THE CONCUBINE. She was born in 100 AD in ,,British Columbia,Canada. He married QUEEN ANDIA
OF BABYLON. She was born in 123 AD in ,,British Columbia,Canada.
Notes for Artaxerxes I Makrokheir:
ARTAXERXES°
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ARTAXERXES° (Per. Artakhshacha; Gr. Artaxerxes; Heb. and Aram. ??????????????????? and
??????????????????; in Heb. once also ???????????????????; Aram. Papyri ???????), name
of three Persian kings.
(1) Artaxerxes I was surnamed Makrokheir (Greek) or Longimanus (Latin), meaning "the
long-handed." He reigned from 465 to 425 B.C.E. The first 16 years of his reign were troubled,
with the Greeks attacking his northwestern holdings and supporting a revolt in Egypt which lasted
from 460 to 454, and with Megabyzus, the satrap of Transeuphrates (embracing Syria, Palestine,
and Transjordan) who reconquered Egypt for Artaxerxes, himself rebelling in 449-48. To end the
war with the Greeks Artaxerxes was compelled to assent to the "peace of Callias" (449), which was
a humiliation for Persia. It was probably during these troubled first three-fifths of his reign that the
provincial authorities of *Samaria were able to persuade the king that the rebuilding of Jerusalem's