Triteuta

Triteuta (Ancient Greek: Τριτεύτα; fl. 230–219 BC) was the first wife of Agron, the king of the Ardiaei (r. 250–231 BC), with whom she had a son named Pinnes. Some time before his death (231/230 BC), Agron divorced Triteuta and married Teuta. Their son, crown prince Pinnes, was placed under guardianship of step-mother Teuta (the Queen regent) until after the First Illyrian War (228 BC). According to Dio, Demetrius of Pharos married Triteuta and became regent for Pinnes,^[1] after the war, thus becoming the most powerful of the Illyrian rulers in the 220s BC.^[2] With Demetrius removed from the throne in 219 BC it is likely that Triteuta was no longer queen.

References

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• A. E. Astin (7 December 1989). The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-521-23448-1. 
• Danijel Dzino (21 January 2010). Illyricum in Roman Politics, 229 BC–AD 68. Cambridge University Press. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-1-139-48423-7. 
• Marjeta Šašel Kos (2005). Appian and Illyricum. Narodni Muzej Slovenije. ISBN 978-961-6169-36-3.