What all do you know about king leonidas he was a spartan and he was a king. Gorgo was the daughter of King Cleomenes I. She was married to her uncle Leonidas.?

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Leonidas was one of four royal sons of the Spartan king Anaxandridas, of the Agiad branch of the Spartan monarchy (Sparta had two royal houses, the other being the Eurypontid; and two kings at any given time). He succeeded his brother Cleomenes I, in 488 BC. His reign was only eight years long, and is notable only for his actions at Thermopylae. He inherited from his brother an aggressive anti-Persian foreign policy; which he seems to have carried out to the end. Leonidas was married to his niece, Gorgo, the daughter of Cleomenes. He left one son that we know of; who came to the thone as a child upon Leonidas' death at Thermopylae (in the early years of his reign an uncle, Pausanias, served as regent for him). At Thermopylae ("The Hot Gates") he responded to the Persian demand that the Spartans "lay down their arms (weapons)", with the Greek words Molon Labe: "Come and take them!" After the battle, the Persians mutilated his body, causing wide-spread Horror and hatred in Greece towards the Persian invaders. Years after his death, a hero cult was set up in his honor.