Herod Antipas, the tetrach of Galilee during the Roman Empire, divorced his wife, Phasaelis, and unlawfully married Herodias, the wife of his brother Herod Philip I.

King Herod, the bloodthirsty Judean ruler who reputedly tried to kill the infant Jesus, died an excruciating death, brought on by kidney disease and finished off by gangrene, a medical sleuth said.

Jan. 25 -- He was a ruthless man who died a miserable death. More than 2,000 years after Herod the Great succumbed at age 69, doctors have now settled on exactly what killed the king of ancient ...

New evidence suggests that Herod the Great (or King Herod as he is called in the Bible’s New Testament) died of chronic kidney disease. These findings will be revealed at this year’s ...