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From: Don Stone <>
Subject: Re: [Gen-Ancient] Georgia & the Caucasus - Garden of Eden? [Was: Edessa, Judea, and Armenia]
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:34:19 -0400
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Carolyn Clark Campbell wrote:
> Thank you -- any information on who were the children of Andronicus I
> Comnenus and who they married? Are there lines to Europe through him?
According to Toumanoff's _Les Dynasties de la Caucasie Chrétienne_ (1990, p.
490) the legitimate children of Andronicus are (leaving names in their
French form):
1. Manuel (b. bef. 1152, d. 1186), sebastocrator, father of Alexis I, Emp.
of Trebizonde.
2. Jean (b. 1158/9, d. 1184), cesar.
3. Marie (b. bef. 1160), marr. aft. 1184 Theodore Synadene.
4. princess, marr. bef. 1181 Romain N. [surname unknown].
5. Irene (b. 1169), marr. 1182 Nicephore Paleologue.
6. Alexis (b. bef. 1170, d. ca. 1199), ancestor of the Andronikaschvili.
The illegitimate children given are:
7. Irene, m. Alexis, bastard son of Emp. Manuel I.
8. Alexis.
Descendants are given only for 1 and 6, and I couldn't see any early lines
into Europe from either of these. So far as I know, Andronicus is not an
ancestor of Henry IV of England, for example.
-- Don Stone
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