@The Anointed,
Mary’s father, Heli, a Davidic and Hasmonean prince, called Alexander Helios III, was apparently executed, in the world where many Davidian aspirants, as the “young lions of Judah”, were eliminated by the cruel and tyrannical King Herod the Great., Etc.
In those days, Israel was in a state of upheaval as the Jews searched for a successor to the throne of David to free them from the yoke of Roman rule.
The great grandfather of the biblical Jesus on his mother’s side was Yehoshua/Jesus III, who was the high priest in Jerusalem from 36 to 23 BC and is believed to have been murdered at the orders of Herod the Great. The sonless Yehoshua, had three daughters, Joanna, Elizabeth and Anna/Hanna, whose mother was from the tribe of Asher.
Knowing that his Zadokian lineage would become extinct unless his ageing daughters were placed with future husbands according to the Torah, he married them off to chosen husbands.
Joanna was betrothed to Joachim from the non-royal genetic lineage of David. The second daughter of Yehoshua III, was Elizabeth. This was the Elizabeth, who, at a very advanced age was to become the mother of John the Baptist in 7 BC, a year before the birth of Jesus and some 16 years after the death of her father ‘Yehoshua/Jesus III,’ in 23 BC, and she was betrothed to a Levite priest by the name Zacharias of the priestly course of Abijah.
The young Davidian prince Heli, ‘Alexander Helios III’ the son, or adopted son of Mattathias ben Levi, was chosen by Yehoshua/Jesus III the high priest in Jerusalem, as the candidate to marry his daughter Hanna/Anna.
Jehoshua III, the High Priest until 23 BC, is supposed to have died three years before the birth of his grand daughter ‘Mary.’ If it was his death that ended his period as high priest in Jerusalem in the year of 23 BC, this would mean that Mary was born in 20 BC.
Therefore, Mary would have been 7 years old when her father Heli was murdered in 13 BC, and 14 years old when she gave birth to Jesus, who was born in 6 BC, two years before the death of Herod the Great in 4 BC, making Mary about 47 years old when Jesus, the first of her three biological sons, was crucified.
It is said that after the death of her father, Alexander Helios=Heli, “who was a father of renowned,” the seven-year-old Mary, was removed from her mother and taken north into the land of Galilee where she was raised under the protection of the Jewish zealots whose aim it was, to throw off the yoke of Roman rule and establish a descendant of King David, back on the throne of Israel.
Her mother was a very old prophet, named Anna/Hanna, whose father was Yehoshua/Jesus III and whose mother was Phanuel of the tribe of Asher, she had been married in 21 B.C. and seven years later her husband ‘Alexander Helios III’ was murdered, she had remained in Jerusalem after her daughter Mary was taken north by the zealots and never left the Temple; day and night she worshipped God, fasting and praying.