Blanche d'Artois, Regent of Navarre
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The descent relies on a few newer connections being recognized. As Leo van de Pas sources, ES already gives us the ascent from Blanche up to [http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00027070&tree=LEO Isaac II Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium]] (d 1204) and his wife Herina or Eirene. However ES gives no parentage for this Eirene. Leo notes "Isaac's wife may have been a member of the Palaiologos family." | The descent relies on a few newer connections being recognized. As Leo van de Pas sources, ES already gives us the ascent from Blanche up to [http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00027070&tree=LEO Isaac II Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium]] (d 1204) and his wife Herina or Eirene. However ES gives no parentage for this Eirene. Leo notes "Isaac's wife may have been a member of the Palaiologos family." | ||
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+ | However a Gen-Medieval posting (cited) makes this connection definite citing: "Rudolf Hiestand, “Die Erste Ehe Isaaks II | ||
+ | Angelus und Seine Kinder” in Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen | ||
+ | Byzantinistik, 47 [1997]: 199-208. On January 18-19, 2000, Don Stone | ||
+ | cited this and other articles to support the proposition that the | ||
+ | first wife of Isaac II Angelos was a daughter of Georgios Comnenodukas | ||
+ | Palaiologos, whose wife was a Georgian princess. He also wrote that | ||
+ | Jean-Claude Cheynet and Jean-Francois Vannier, in Etudes | ||
+ | Prosopographiques, 1986, esp. 156-158, 162-163, show that Andronikos | ||
+ | Palaiologos was called “beloved brother-in-law” of Isaac II Angelos, | ||
+ | Emperor of Byzantium. See | ||
+ | [http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/d4ba348a038117a7/8a22561a8cd087d4?lnk=gst&q=%2Baspae+%2BPalaiologos# here]. | ||
+ | On March 15-24, 2003, Igor Sklar provided additional information | ||
+ | indicating that the mother-in-law of Isaac II Angelos was Aspa of | ||
+ | Ossetia, daughter of David of Ossetia and Rusudan of Georgia, daughter | ||
+ | of David IV, King of Georgia and Rusudan of Armenia, see | ||
+ | [http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/8bb3109e040d86c2/91e8424efaa0f0ee?lnk=gst&q=%2Baspae+%2Bgeorgia# here]" | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
*"Proposed DFA through Georgia", by shpxlcp@comcast.net, 24 Aug 2008 | *"Proposed DFA through Georgia", by shpxlcp@comcast.net, 24 Aug 2008 | ||
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00005198&tree=LEO "Blanche d'Artois, Regent of Navarre"] at genealogics | *[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00005198&tree=LEO "Blanche d'Artois, Regent of Navarre"] at genealogics |