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From: Don Stone <>
Subject: Re: [Gen-Ancient] Georgia & the Caucasus - Garden of Eden? [Was: Edessa, Judea, and Armenia]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:27:19 -0400
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Carolyn Clark Campbell wrote:

> Here's the line I have from David IV the Builder, King of Georgia, to
> Henry IV of England. I would be happy to know any errors in this
> lineage.
> David IV the Builder King of Georgia, ( - 1125)
> & Gurandukht, Kipchak Princess
>
> Dimitri I King of Georgia, ( - 1155)
> King of Georgia
> & unknown
>
> Lyubawa Gd.Dchs. of Kiev, (~1100 - 1167)
> & Izyaslav II Mstislavich, Grand Duke of Kiev (1097 - 1154)
> m. 1154
>
> Euphrasyna (or Helen) IZASLANOVA, (1130 - 1186)
> & Geza II King of Hungary, (1130 - 1161)
> m. 1146


According to Toumanoff's _Les Dynasties de la Caucasie Chrétienne_ (p. 136),
a daughter of Dimitri I of Georgia married in 1154 Iziaslav II, Grand Duke
of Kiev (from 1146-1154).

According to _Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists_ by
Weis/Sheppard/Faris (line 242), Euphrosine, wife of Geza II of Hungary, was
the daughter of Mstislas II, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1076, d. 1132) and his
wife, a daughter (d. 1168) of Dmitri I of Novgorod.

According to _Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe_ by Louda and
MacLagan (Table 135, p. 271), Mstislas I (d. 1132, apparently the same as
Mstislas II above) is given as the father of Izyaslav II (d. 1154).

This is as far as I can go with the resources I have at home, but it looks
like Henry IV of England is descended from the sister of Izyaslav II, the
Grand Duke of Kiev who married the daughter of Dimitri I of Georgia.

-- Don Stone


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