Granddaughter of Herod the Great through his executed son Aristobulus, and so Antipas's own niece as well as, before their marriage, the wife of his half-brother — Matthew names him 'Philip' (14:3), though Josephus's account of the same marriage calls her first husband simply 'Herod,' a private citizen with no territory, and never calls him Philip at all. ⚠ The identification is one of the New Testament's genuinely unresolved knots: some historians read Matthew and Mark's 'Philip' as a mix-up with the better-known PHILIP THE TETRARCH (who ruled Iturea and Trachonitis east of the lake, and who — in a further tangle — later married Herodias's own daughter by this first marriage); others note that Herodian princes routinely carried more than one dynastic name, so 'Herod Philip' may simply have been this man's fuller name. This translation gives the reading as Matthew states it and does not try to settle a genealogy Josephus and the Gospels do not quite agree on. She left her first husband for Antipas, and it is her grievance against John — who had told Antipas plainly that the marriage broke the Law — that the banquet of Matthew 14 finally satisfies.