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From: "John Yohalem" <>
Subject: Re: LEO VI- Emperor of Byzantium
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 00:31:20 -0400


DavidBotts wrote

>>Just as many (especially genealogists) like to believe Leo's daughter DID
>marry Louis the Blind and bear his son, Charles Constantine, which gives us
the
>only genealogical descent between the pre-Crusade Byzantine emperors and
modern
>Western Europe.
>
>OK, based on this statement, one of these links is amiss. Who can spot it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave Botts
>
>
>1 Basileos I 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: 812 Adrianople, (now Turkey)
> *2nd Wife of Basileos I 'of the Byzantine Empire':
>.... +Eudoxia Ingerina 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: Abt. 835
Constantinople,
>(now Turkey)
> 2 Leon VI 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: September 19, 866 Constantinople,
>(now Turkey)
>..... +Zoe Karbonopsina b: Abt. 885 Constantinople, (now Turkey)
>. 3 Konstantinos VII 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: Bef. November 905
>Constantinople, (now Turkey)
>....... +Eleni Lekapene 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: Abt. 906
Constantinople,
>(now Turkey)
>... 4 Romanos II 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: 940 Constantinople, (now
>Turkey)
>......... +Theophano 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: Abt. 936 Constantinople,
>(now Turkey)
>..... 5 Theophano 'of the Byzantine Empire' b: Abt. 956 Constantinople,
(now
>Turkey)
>........... +Otto II 'of Germany' b: 955 (now Germany)
>....... 6 Mathilde 'of Saxony' b: Abt. 979 Saxony (now Germany)
>............. +Ezzo 'of Lorraine' b: Abt. 955 Lorraine (now France)

Well, this one is off, because the Theophano who married Otto II was NOT the
daughter of Emperor Romanos II but one Theophano Sklerena, belonging to a
noble family distantly connected to Romanos's successor and brother-in-law,
John I Tzimiskes. I believe her father's name was Bardas Skleros, but I
could be wrong....

So none of Otto II's descendants are, in fact, descended from Byzantine
Emperors, or not this way.

Woulda been nice, though, huh?

Jean Coeur de Lapin


John Yohalem


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