Cleopatra was born in early 69 BC. C. of the union of the reigning pharaoh Ptolemy XII and a mother about whom there is no certainty, possibly the wife of Ptolemy XII Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (also known as Cleopatra V), mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphena. Cleopatra Tryphaena disappears from official records a few months after Cleopatra's birth in 69 BC. Ptol's three youngest sons