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Leonidas I (Sparta, about 540 BC - Thermopylae, 480 BC) was king of Sparta between 490 and 480 BC. Son of the king of Sparta Anaxandridas II, belonging to the Agiad family, succeeded his half-brother Cleomenes I, whose daughter Gorgo he married, and lost his life fighting with the 300 soldiers of his guard in the famous battle of Thermopylae, part of the Second Persian War. He was the seventeenth king of Sparta of the Agiad dynasty, a lineage that the Greek historian Herodotus makes descend from the demigod hero Heracles, saying that he was "son of Anaxandridas of Leo of Euricratis of Anaxander of Euricrates of Polydorus of Alcamenes of Teleclus of Archelaus of Agesilaus of Dorissos of Leobotes of Echestratus of Agis of Eurysthenes of Aristodemus of Aristomachus of Cleodeus of Illus of Heracles».