Descent From Antiquity

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Genealogists wishing to trace a DFA to Western Europe by this route face the difficulty of establishing a valid line of descent from the Bagratids to the nobility and royalty of Western Europe. One possibility is the Taronid link. It is known that one of the branches of the Bagratids were rulers of Taron. After they entered Byzantine service, one Maria Taronitissa married [[Ioannes Komnenos|Ioannes Komnenos (1128-76)]], Duke of Cyprus, whose daughters were the wives of the Crusader monarchs of Antioch and Jerusalem. Thence a line can be traced easily to the Lusignans and hence to the House of Savoy. Another line, researched in a paper by Dr. Rafal T. Prinke, a well-known Polish genealogist, leads through Helene Komnena, wife of George I "Longhands" Grand Duke of Kiev, and is based on identyfing her mother Irene as Kata, daughter of David IV "the Builder", King of Georgia.
 
Genealogists wishing to trace a DFA to Western Europe by this route face the difficulty of establishing a valid line of descent from the Bagratids to the nobility and royalty of Western Europe. One possibility is the Taronid link. It is known that one of the branches of the Bagratids were rulers of Taron. After they entered Byzantine service, one Maria Taronitissa married [[Ioannes Komnenos|Ioannes Komnenos (1128-76)]], Duke of Cyprus, whose daughters were the wives of the Crusader monarchs of Antioch and Jerusalem. Thence a line can be traced easily to the Lusignans and hence to the House of Savoy. Another line, researched in a paper by Dr. Rafal T. Prinke, a well-known Polish genealogist, leads through Helene Komnena, wife of George I "Longhands" Grand Duke of Kiev, and is based on identyfing her mother Irene as Kata, daughter of David IV "the Builder", King of Georgia.
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Another DFA proposes that Blanche Capet (d.1302), wife of Edmund Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Lancaster descends from David IV, King of Georgia.  And then many generations earlier from Sumbat I, Prince of Kartli who descends from Ashot "the Great" Kouropalates of Iberia (d. 29 Jan 826), who descends from the Exilarch's in Baghdad.

Revision as of 19:20, 25 August 2008

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