Pietro II of Aragón, King of Sicily

Pietro married Elisabeth of Carinthia on 23 Apr 1322. Elisabeth (daughter of Otto II of Carinthia and Euphemia of Silesia and Breslau) was born about 1298; died in 1352. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Beatrix of Sicily-Aragón was born in 1326; died on 12 Oct 1365.

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Also called Fadrique.

Federico married Eleanora d'Anjou in May 1303 in Messina, Sicily. Eleanora (daughter of Charles II, King of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem and Maria I, Queen of Hungary) was born in Aug 1289; died on 9 Aug 1341 in Catania, Sicily. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Aug 1240

Pedro married Constance of Sicily on 13 Jun 1262 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Constance (daughter of Manfredo, King of Sicily and Beatrice of Savoy) was born in 1249; died in 1301 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 6 May 1309

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Also count of Anjou.

Charles married Maria I, Queen of Hungary in 1270. Maria (daughter of Istvan V, King of Hungary and Erszebet of Kumania) was born about 1257; died on 25 Mar 1323 in Naples, Campania, Italy; was buried in Santa Maria Donna Regina, Naples, Campania, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1257 and 1258

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"Conquered the Balearic Islands, 1229-1235, and the kingdom of Valencia, 1233-1238, adding their territory to that of Aragon." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

James I, King of Aragón (d. 1276) =
Teresa Gil de Vidaure

Jaime Fernández de Aragón (b. 1238) =
Elfa de Azagra (b. ~1250)

Jaime II =
Beatríz de Lauria

Beatriz de Xérica =
Pedro Ponce de León II (d. 1352)

Pedro Ponce de León IV (d. ~1374) =
Sancha de Haro

Pedro Ponce de León V (d. 1448) =
María de Ayala

Juan Ponce de León (d. 1469) =
Catalina González de Oviedo

Eutropio Ponce de León =
[prob.] Catalina de Vera Zurita

Violante Ponce de León =
Roy Diaz de Guzmán y Riquelme

Alonso Riquelme de Guzmán of Asunción, Paraguay =
Ursula de Irala

Catalina de Guzmán of Buenos Aires, Argentina =
Jerónimo López de Alanis

Rodrigo [Ponce de León] López de Alanis =
Isabel Naharro de Humanes

Mariá Ponce de León y Navarro =
Augustin de Labayen

Juana de Labayen =
Gaspar de Avellaneda

Maria Rosa de Avallaneda =
Juan de San Martín

Francisca Javiera se San Martin =
Marcos José de Riglos

María Jacinta de Riglos y San Martin =
Mariano José de Zavaleta Aramburu (1762-1837)

María Isabel Zavaleta Riglos (1779-1883) =
Patricio Julián José Lynch Roo (1779-1881)

Francisco de Paula Eustaquio Lynch Zavaleta, sometime of San Francisco, California (1817-1886) =
Mrs. Eloïsa Ortíz Alfaro Eldridge (1834-1913)

Ana Isabel Lynch Ortíz (San Francisco, 1861-<1949) =
Robert Guevera Castro (b. California, 1855)

Ernesto Rafael Guevara Lynch (b. 1900) =
Celia de la Serna Llosa

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna (Argentina, 1928-Bolivia, 1967)

James married Violant of Hungary on 8 Sep 1236 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Violant (daughter of András II, King of Hungary and Yolanda of Courtenay, Queen Consort of Hungary) died on 12 Oct 1251; was buried in Cistercian Monastery of Vallbona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Jolanta, Yolande.

Manfredo married Beatrice of Savoy about 1248. Beatrice (daughter of Amedee of Savoy and Marguerite of Burgundy) was born on 4 Mar 1223; died before 10 May 1259. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Beatrice de Provence on 31 Jan 1246. Beatrice (daughter of Raymond Berenger and Beatrice of Savoy) was born in 1234; died on 23 Sep 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1240
• Alternate death: 6 Aug 1272

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Also called Steven, Stephan. Turned back the invasion of Hungary led by Otakar II of Bohemia.

Istvan married Erszebet of Kumania. Erszebet (daughter of Kuthan, Khan of the Cumans) died after 1290. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Jul 1178, Huesca, Aragón, Spain

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"Crowned by Pope Innocent III in Rome and declared his kingdom a feudatory of the Holy See, 1204. With other Spanish kings he took a prominent part in the victory over the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa, 16 July 1212, but lost his life supporting his brother-in-law, Raymond VI of Toulouse against the crusader Simon de Montfort, in Languedoc, at the battle of Muret." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Pedro married Marie of Montpellier on 15 Jun 1204. Marie (daughter of Guillem VIII de Montpellier and Eudokia) died on 21 Apr 1213 in Rome, Italy; was buried in St. Peter's, Rome, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 26 Oct 1235

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"On advice of Pope set out with an army of 15,000 men on crusade to the Holy Land, 1217, but the expedition failed. Upon his return he found Hungary in near anarchy. Hungarian nobles extorted from him the Golden Bull (Hungarian Magna Charta), 1222." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

András married Yolanda of Courtenay, Queen Consort of Hungary. Yolanda (daughter of Peter II of Courtenay, Emperor of Constantinople and Yolanda of Flanders) was born about 1200; died in 1233. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also King of Sicily 1196-1250.

Friedrich married Bianca Lancia. Bianca (daughter of Manfredo Lancia) was born about 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 11 Jul 1253, Montmelian, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
• Alternate death: 13 Jul 1253

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Also called Amadeo, Amadeus. Count of Savoy. "Generally a supporter of Friedrich II in Italy, who made him Duke of Chablais in 1238, but after his death a supporter of the pope; with the financial help of Henry III of England won additional lands to provide for his brothers; curtailed the power of local lords by enhancing that of appointed officials." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Amedee married Marguerite of Burgundy in 1222. Marguerite (daughter of Hugh III of Burgundy and Beatrice of Albon) was born in 1192; died in 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1243
• Alternate death: Bef 1244

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Also called Anna or Anne of Burgundy.

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• Alternate birth: 5 Sep 1187, Paris, France
• Alternate death: 9 Nov 1226, Castle of Montpensier, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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Nicknamed "le Lion". Pretender to the throne of England, 1216-17.

Louis married Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France on 23 May 1200 in Church of Port-Mort, Eure, Normandy, France. Blanche (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born before 4 Mar 1188 in Palencia, Castile, Spain; died on 26 Nov 1252 in Paris, France; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 4 Mar 1188, Palencia, Castile, Spain
• Alternate death: 27 Nov 1252, Paris, France

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Also called Blanca.

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• Alternate birth: 1198

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Count of Provence & Forcalquier, 1209-45.

Raymond married Beatrice of Savoy on 5 Dec 1220. Beatrice (daughter of Tomaso I and Margaret of Geneva) died in Dec 1266. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Defeated by the Mongols 1241, he fled to Dalmatia, returned 1242 to a destroyed country and devoted the rest of his reign to its reconstruction and defense against neighboring incursions." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Béla married Maria Laskarina about 1218. Maria (daughter of Theodoros I Komnenos Laskaris, Emperor in Nicea and Anna Komnena Angelina) was born about 1206 in of Nicea, Anatolia; died in 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Köten, Kutan, Kuthens, Kotyan, Kotjan, Koteny, Kötöny, Kuethan, Zayhan, and Jonas, he was the leader of the Kipchaks, a Turkic people called Cumans by the Byzantines, Kun by the Hungarians, and Polovtsy by the Russians. They were a shamanist Turko-Mongol tribe which controlled the steppes above the Sea of Azov.

From Wikipedia: "Köten (Russian: ?????, Hungarian: Kötöny, Arabic: Kutan?; fl. 1223–41) was a Cuman–Kipchak chieftain (khan) and military commander active in the mid-13th century. He forged an important alliance with the Kievan Rus against the Mongols but was ultimately defeated by them at the Kalka River. After the Mongol victory in 1238, Köten led 40,000 'huts' to Hungary, where he became an ally of the Hungarian king and accepted Catholicism, but was nonetheless assassinated by the Hungarian nobility."

Said to have been the son of a Suthoi, Khan of the Kumans.

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Called "the Chaste" (el Casto); also "the Troubador." By 1162, as his paternal heritage, Count and Marquess of Barcelona, Tortosa, and Lerida, and Count of Tarragona, Gerona, and Cordagne. By 1164, as his maternal heritage, King of Aragon, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza. In 1166, by devolution, Marquess of Provence.

Christened Ramón, he was called both Ramón and Alfonso from birth. When he took the united throne of Aragon and Barcelona, he took Alfonso as his single name as a gesture to the Aragonese.

The issue of his birth year was for a time confused due to the fact that his mother's eldest son, b. 1155, was actually christened Alfonso. This prior Alfonso died in 1162.

Szabolcs de Vajay (citation details below) has his birth as in 1157, before 25 March, in "Villamayor del Valle," a place we cannot locate.

Alfonso married Sancha of Castile on 18 Jan 1174 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. Sancha (daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile and Richeza of Poland) was born on 21 Sep 1154 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died on 9 Nov 1208 in Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain; was buried in Monastery of Nuestra Señora, Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1155
• Alternate birth: 21 Sep 1155, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Alternate birth: 1157

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Founded the Monastery of Nuestra Señora in 1188; became a nun there after her husband's death.

Guillem married Eudokia about 1179. Eudokia was born between 1160 and 1164; died on 4 Nov 1202. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A multi-thread discussion of her possible origins was begun and led by Peter Stewart on SGM, beginning with this post.

She may or may not have borne the name Komnena, but she was definitely a member of the family of Manuel I Komnenos (1118-1180), emperor of Byzantium, who sent her to marry Raymond Berenger III of Provence. In circumstances best described as hazy, Berenger turned her down, and she wound up marrying Guillem VIII, seigneur of Montpellier, instead.

She was the mother of Guillem's only legitimate child, Marie, who wound up being the mother of James I (1208-1276), King of Aragon.

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• Alternate death: 23 Apr 1196

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A descendant of Harold II, King of England.

He and his wife Anna/Agnes were 5Xgreat-grandparents to Philippa of Hainaut, wife of Edward III.

Béla married Anna de Châtillon about 1171. Anna (daughter of Renaud de Châtillon-sur-Loing and Constance of Antioch) was born in 1154; died in 1184. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Agnes; Agnes of Antioch. Great-great granddaughter of Philip I, King of France.

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From Wikipedia:

Peter II was a son of Peter I of Courtenay, the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second Queen consort Adélaide de Maurienne. His mother was Elisabeth de Courtenay, daughter of Renaud de Courtenay (died 1194) and Hawise du Donjon.

Peter first married Agnes I, via whom he obtained the three counties of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre. He took for his second wife, Yolanda of Flanders (died 1219), a sister of Baldwin and Henry of Flanders, who were afterwards the first and second emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Peter accompanied his cousin, King Philip Augustus, on the crusade of 1190 and fought (alongside his brother Robert) in the Albigensian Crusade in 1209 and 1211, when he took part in the siege of Lavaur. He was present at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.

When his brother-in-law, the emperor Henry, died without sons in 1216, Peter was chosen as his successor, and with a small army he left his residence of château de Druyes, in France to take possession of his throne. Consecrated emperor at Rome, in a church outside the walls, by Pope Honorius III on 9 April 1217, he borrowed some ships from the Venetians, promising in return to conquer Durazzo for them; but he failed in this enterprise, and sought to make his way to Constantinople by land. On the journey he was seized by the despot of Epirus, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, and, after an imprisonment of two years, died, probably by foul means. Peter thus never governed his empire, which, however, was ruled for a time by his wife, Yolanda, who had succeeded in reaching Constantinople. Two of his sons, Robert and Baldwin, in turn emperors of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Peter married Yolanda of Flanders in Jun 1193. Yolanda (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born about 1175; died in Aug 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also King of Sicily 1194-97.

Heinrich married Constance of Sicily on 27 Jan 1186 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Constance (daughter of Roger II, King of Sicily and Beatrice de Vitry-Réthel) died on 27 Nov 1198. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1178, Aiguebelle, Savoy
• Alternate birth: 20 May 1178
• Alternate death: 1 Mar 1233, Moncalieri, Piedmont, Italy

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Count of Savoy. He was named after Thomas Becket.

Tomaso married Margaret of Geneva in May 1195. Margaret (daughter of William I of Geneva and Beatrice de Faucigny) died on 13 Apr 1236. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1256
• Alternate death: 8 Sep 1257

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Also called Beatrice of Geneva.

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• Alternate death: 25 Aug 1192, Acre, Palestine

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Duke of Burgundy.

Hugh married Beatrice of Albon on 1 Sep 1183 in Saint-Gilles, Languedoc, France. Beatrice (daughter of Guigues X of Albon and Béatrix) was born in 1161; died on 15 Dec 1228 in Château de Vizille, Vizille, Isère, France; was buried in Hayes Abbey, near Grenoble, Isère, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Vennois, Albon, and Grenoble.

Philippe married Isabella of Flanders, Queen Consort of France on 28 Apr 1180 in Abbey of Saint-Trinité, Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born on 23 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, France; was buried in Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Isabella of Hainaut.

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• Alternate death: 5 Oct 1214, Gutiérre Muños, Arévalo, Spain
• Alternate death: 6 Oct 1214, Gutiérre Muños, Arévalo, Spain

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Also Lord of Gascony. "Defeated by the Moorish Almohad invaders in 1195, but defeated a combined army of the kings of Leon and Navarre the same year. Won a great victory over the Moors at Navas de Tolosa, 1212." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, which gives the date of his marriage to Eleanor as September 1177, unlike other sources which date it to September 1170.]

Alfonso married Eleanor of England in Sep 1170 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront, Normandy, France; died on 21 Sep 1214; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1161 and 1162
• Alternate birth: 1161
• Alternate death: 25 Oct 1214, Burgos, Castile, Spain

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Also called Leonor.

"Of all Eleanor of Aquitaine's daughters, her namesake was the only one who was enabled, by political circumstances, to wield the kind of influence her mother had exercised. In her own marriage treaty, and in the first marriage treaty for her daughter Berengaria, Eleanor was given direct control of many lands, towns, and castles throughout the kingdom. She was almost as powerful as Alfonso, who specified in his will in 1204 that she was to rule alongside their son in the event of his death, including taking responsibility for paying his debts and executing his will. It was she who persuaded him to marry their daughter Berengaria to Alfonso IX of León. Troubadours and sages were regularly present in Alfonso VIII's court due to Eleanor's patronage." [Wikipedia]

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• Alternate death: Between 11 Sep 1209 and 30 Nov 1209, Palermo, Sicily

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Count of Provence.

Alfonso married Garsenda of Sabran in 1193. Garsenda (daughter of Rainou de Sabran dit du Cayler and Garsenda of Forcalquier) was born about 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Garsenda of Forcalquier, Gersenda of Sabran, Garsenda de Proensa, Garsenda de Proença.

From Wikipedia (accessed 25 July 2021): She "was the Countess of Provence as the wife of Alfonso II from 1193 and the Countess of Forcalquier in her own right from 1209. She brought Forcalquier to the House of Barcelona and united it to Provence. She was also a patron of Occitan literature, especially the troubadours, and herself wrote some lyric poetry and is counted among the trobairitz as Garsenda de Proensa. She was, in the words of her most recent editors, 'one of the most powerful women in Occitan history'."

She retired to the monastery of La Celle in the mid-1220s, but in 1242 she visited her newborn great-granddaughter Beatrice of England and Beatrice's parents, granddaughter Eleanor of Provence and her husband King Henry III of England, in Bordeaux. Henry was pursuing a war in France at that time and Garsenda brought 60 knights to his service. Her date of death is unknown, but she may have lived as late as 1257.

Matt Baker of usefulcharts.com has pointed out that if this Garsenda were to be regarded as the founder of a matrilineal dynasty, and if that dynasty operated by rules paralleling that of patrilineal dynasties (i.e., male descendants are only considered members of the House if their mother was a member; having a grandmother as a member doesn't convey membership in the House), then the putative "House of Garsenda" would be the greatest royal dynasty in the history of Europe, containing within itself:

6 Queens Regnant
38 Queens Consort
27 Kings
7 Holy Roman Emperors
5 Holy Roman Empresses
3 Empresses Consort
1 Prince Consort (Prince Philip of Great Britain)
1 Kaiser (Wilhelm II)
1 Empress Regnant (Catherine the Great)
1 queen mother (Helene of Romania)

Video: Europe's Hidden Matrilineal Dynasty: House of Garsenda. Chart here.

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• Alternate death: 26 Oct 1235

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"On advice of Pope set out with an army of 15,000 men on crusade to the Holy Land, 1217, but the expedition failed. Upon his return he found Hungary in near anarchy. Hungarian nobles extorted from him the Golden Bull (Hungarian Magna Charta), 1222." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

András married Gertrud von Meran before 1203. Gertrud (daughter of Berthold VI von Andechs and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz) was born about 1185; died on 28 Sep 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Leo van de Pas's site:

Theodoros distinguished himself during the siege of Constantinople by the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1203-04. After the sack of the city he established himself in the town of Nicaea that became the rallying point for the Byzantines.

Theodoros formed a new Byzantine state in Asia Minor and in 1206 assumed the title of emperor. His state was besieged by his enemies, but he fought successful defensive campaigns against the Latin emperor of Constantinople Henri of Flanders. He defeated his rival Alexius I, emperor of Trebizond, and successfully attacked Kay Khusrau I, the sultan of Rüm (Iconium or Konya). Theodore's most important victory was gained in 1210 when he captured Alexius and the city of Antioch.

He had five children by his first wife Anna Komnene Angelina, who died in 1212. Two daughters would have progeny. He next married Philippa of Armenia, but this marriage was annulled after one year on religious grounds. Their son Konstantinos had no rights to the throne, instead becoming duke of Thrakesion. In 1219 he married Marie de Courtenay .

By the time of his death in August 1222 Theodoros had ruled over a territory covering the old Roman provinces of Asia and Bithynia. By his courage and military skill he enabled the Byzantine nation not only to survive, but ultimately to defeat the Latin invaders.

Theodoros married Anna Komnena Angelina in 1199. Anna (daughter of Alexios III Komnenos Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina) was born about 1174; died in 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]