AGRIPPA, HEROD II. (27—T oo), son of Agrippa, Herod I., and like him originally Marcus Julius Agrippa, was born about A.D. 27, and received from Claudius the tetrarchy of Chalcis and the oversight of the Temple on the death of his uncle, Herod, A.D. 48. In A.D. 53 he was deprived of that kingdom and given other provinces instead. He tried to prevent the Jews from rebelling, and when war broke out sent auxiliaries to help the Romans. He died in Rome in A.D. oo. He was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great. It was before him and his sister Berenice (q.v. B.2) that St. Paul pleaded his cause at Caesarea (Acts xxvi.). He supplied Josephus with in formation for his history.