Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia
Ariobarzanes I, named" Philoromaios"( Ariobarzán ēs Philorōmaíos," friend of Rome"), was the king of Cappadocia from 95 BC to c. 63 BC – 62 BC.
Ariobarzanes I was a Cappadocian nobleman of obscure origins who was of Persian descent.
Ariobarzanes I was originally put in place by the citizens vote of Cappadocia after the Roman Senate rejected the claims of Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia and was supported by the Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
He was in control on- and- off of a kingdom that was considered a Roman protectorate and he was removed three separate times by King Mithridates before not only securing but actually increasing his lands under general Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War.
He eventually abdicated, making way for the rule of his son Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia in c. 63 BC – 62 BC.
Ariobarzanes' queen was a Greek noblewoman, Athenais Philostorgos I. Athenais bore Ariobarzanes I two children: a son, Ariobarzanes II, who succeeded him, and a daughter, Isias Philostorgos, who married the King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene.
Ariarathes X of Cappadocia
Ariarathes X, surnamed" Eusebes Philadelphos Pious, brother- loving"( Ariaráthēs Eusebḗs Philádelphos), was the king of Cappadocia from c. 42 BC to 36 BC.
He was of Persian and Greek ancestry.
His father was King Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia and his mother was Queen Athenais.
He became king after his brother Ariobarzanes III Philoromaios was killed.
His rule did not last long as Mark Antony of Rome removed and executed him, replacing him with Sisines, who became Archelaus of Cappadocia.
Gordius of Cappadocia
Gordius( in Greek Γoρδιoς), a Cappadocian by birth, was the instrument of Mithridates Eupator( 120 – 63 BC), king of Pontus, in his attempts to annex Cappadocia to Pontus.
Gordius was employed by him, in 116 BC, to murder Ariarathes VI, king of Cappadocia.
Gordius was afterwards tutor of a son of Mithridates, whom, after the murder of Ariarathes VII he made king of Cappadocia as Ariarathes IX.
Gordius was sent as the envoy of Mithridates to Rome, and afterwards employed by him to engage Tigranes, king of Armenia, to attack Cappadocia, and expel Ariobarzanes I, whom the Romans made king of that country in 93 BC.
Sulla restored Ariobarzanes in the following year, and drove Gordius out of Cappadocia.
Gordius opposed Lucius Licinius Murena in the Battle of Halys, 82 BC.
Laodice of Cappadocia
Berenice or Laodice of Cappadocia, also known as Laodice(" Laodíkē"; flourished from the mid-120s BC to the 90s BC) was a princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and a queen of the Kingdom of Cappadocia.
Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia
Ariarathes IX Eusebes Philopator (Ariaráthēs Eusebḗs Philopátōr; reigned c. 101–89 BC or 96 BC–95 BC), was made king of Cappadocia by his father King Mithridates VI of Pontus after the assassination of Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia.
Since he was only eight years old, he was put under the regency of the Cappadocian Gordius.
Early in his reign, he was overthrown by a rebellion by the Cappadocian nobility, who replaced him with Ariarathes VIII of Cappadocia, whom Mithridates promptly expelled, restoring Ariarathes IX.
In 95 BC the Roman Senate ordered his deposition, and, after a short period of direct Pontic rule, a brief restoration of Ariarathes VIII and an attempt of creation of a republic, put in his place a man chosen by the Cappadocians, who rejected the idea of a republic:
Ariobarzanes
I Philoromaios.
He was later expelled by Mithridates's ally Tigranes the Great, bringing another brief restoration of Ariarathes IX, who was deposed once again by the Romans in 89 BC.
Two years later, in 87 BC, Ariarathes IX died fighting for his father in Thessaly.
Mithridates VI of Pontus
Mithridates VI or Mithradates VI (or ; , from Old Persian "Miθradātagift of Mithra") (135–63 BC), also known as Mithradates the Great (Megas) and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus and Armenia Minor in northern Anatolia from about 120–63 BC.
Mithridates is remembered as one of the Roman Republic’s most formidable and successful enemies, who engaged three of the prominent generals from the late Roman Republic in the Mithridatic Wars:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Lucius Licinius Lucullus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.
He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus.
Nysa (wife of Nicomedes III of Bithynia)
Nysa or Nyssa( flourished second half of 2nd century BC) was a Princess from the Kingdom of Cappadocia in Anatolia.
Nysa was a monarch of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry.
She was the daughter and first- born child of the monarchs Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia and Laodice of Cappadocia.
Her parents were cousins and her younger brothers were the Kings Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia and Ariarathes VIII of Cappadocia.
She was the namesake of her paternal grandmother Nysa of Cappadocia a previous Queen, wife of the previous King Ariarathes V of Cappadocia and mother of Ariarathes VI.
She was born and raised in Cappadocia.
At an unknown date, Nysa became the first wife Greek King Nicomedes III of Bithynia, who reigned between from c. 127 BC to c. 94 BC.
Nysa and Nicomedes III were distantly related as they held lineage from the Seleucid dynasty, the Antipatrid dynasty and the Antigonid dynasty.
Through marriage, she became Queen of Bithynia.
Nysa bore Nicomedes III two sons and a daughter:
Nicomedes IV of Bithynia who reigned as king from c. 94 BC to about 74 BC; Socrates Chrestus and Nysa.
Not much is known about her life.
Nicomedes III married her mother.
It is not known weather Nysa died prior to this or whether Nicomedes divorced her.
Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia
Ariarathes VII Philometor(" mother- loving")
( Ariaráth ēs Philomḗtōr; reigned in 116–101 BC or 111–100 BC), King of Cappadocia, was the first son of King Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia and his wife Laodice of Cappadocia.
Ariarathes VII had an older sister called Nysa and a younger brother called Ariarathes VIII of Cappadocia.
In his first years he reigned under the regency of his mother Laodice, the eldest sister of the King Mithridates VI of Pontus.
During this period the kingdom was seized by King Nicomedes III of Bithynia, who married Nysa.
Nicomedes III was soon expelled by Mithridates VI, who restored upon the throne Ariarathes VII.
However, Ariarathes VII objected to his father's assassin, and ally of Mithridates VI, Gordius, having a role in the government of Cappadocia.
So Mithridates VI had Ariarathes VII killed in 101 BC.
Mithridates VI then put onto the Cappadocian throne his own 9 year old son, Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia, with Gordius as the regent for the young king.
Stratonice of Cappadocia
Stratonice( fl. 3rd century BC) was a princess of the Seleucid Empire.
She was one of the daughters born to the Seleucid Monarchs Antiochus II Theos and Laodice I. Among her brothers was the Seleucid King Seleucus II Callinicus and prince Antiochus Hierax.
In c. 257 BC, Antiochus II
Theos arranged for Stratonice to marry Ariarathes III.
Between 255 BC- 250 BC, Antiochus II
Theos recognized the Seleucid client state of Cappadocia to become an independent kingdom.
In 255 BC, Ariarathes III of Cappadocia started co-ruling with his father, Ariamnes II.
Ariarathes III would later proclaim himself as the first king of Cappadocia.
Through her marriage to Ariarathes III, Stratonice became the first Queen of Cappadocia.
Stratonice and Ariarathes III, had a son called Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia who later succeeded his father as King of Cappadocia.
Ariarathes IV later married his maternal second cousin Antiochis.
Ariarathes VIII of Cappadocia
Ariarathes VIII
Epiphanes( Ariaráth ēs Epiphanḗs; reigned c. 101 – c. 96 BC and in 95), King of Cappadocia, was the second son of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia and wife Laodice of Cappadocia.
Ariarathes VIII had an older sister called Nysa and an older brother called Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia.
Ariarathes ascended to the throne when the Cappadocian nobleman rebelled against his maternal uncle, King Mithridates VI of Pontus and his son, the puppet King Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia.
He was speedily driven out of the kingdom by Mithridates VI, and shortly afterwards died a natural death.
The death of both sons of Ariarathes VI meant that the Cappadocian royal family was extinct.
So Mithridates VI placed upon the Cappadocian throne his own son Ariarathes IX, who was only eight years old.
However, King Nicomedes III of Bithynia sent an embassy to Rome to lay claim to the Cappadocian throne for a youth, whom, he pretended, was a third son of Ariarathes VI and Laodice.
According to Justin, Mithridates VI also, with equal shamelessness, sent an embassy to Rome to assert that the youth, whom he had placed upon the throne, was a descendant of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia, who fell in the war against King Eumenes III of Pergamon.
The Roman Senate, however, did not assign the kingdom to either but granted liberty to the Cappadocians and, in 95, ordered to depose Ariarathes IX.
After a short period of direct Pontic rule and a brief restoration of Ariarathes VIII, an attempt to restore a Cappadocian republic was made by the Roman Senate.
As the people wished for a king, the Romans allowed them to choose whom they pleased, and their choice fell upon Ariobarzanes I.

Question: What nationality is Ariarathes Ix Of Cappadocia's father?