Philip II married a Macedonian woman named Cleopatra. Since Alexander was only half Macedonian, any child that Philip and Cleopatra produced would have birthrights to the throne.
Philip II ruined his relationship with his son, Alexander the Great, by rejecting Alexander's mother who was a Greek from Epirus and marrying another woman who was a Greek from Macedonia. Alexander, and especially his mother, felt that Alexander would no longer be in line to inherit the throne should Philip II die with an heir that was a full Macedonian Greek. There have been speculations that Alexander had killed his father but in light of this reason, it has been proposed that it was Alexander's mother that may have arraigned to assassinate Philip, not Alexander.
His empire was in the east. Roman influence at that stage was confined to Italy.
Alexander and Philip came from Macedonia.
Philip Alexander Bruce died on 1933-08-16.
Philip Alexander Bruce was born on 1856-03-07.
Philip II and his son Alexander the Great
Philip Alexander Munz has written: 'California spring wildflowers'
King Philip II was Alexander's father.
Alexander III the Great is the son of Philip II of Macedon.
Alexander's father was Philip II of Macedon. Philip had conquered most of Greece by the time he died in 336 BC. Alexander was 20 and began completing the plans Philip had made to invade Persia.
It will ruin our friend like relationship
Alexander Philip Wilson Philip has written: 'On the powers on which the functions of life in the more perfect animals depend and on themanner in which they are associated in the production of their more complicated results'