Shakespeare, and his wife Anne had three children: Susanna, who was born in 1583 and twins Judith and Hamnet, who were born in 1585. Generally the son of the Emperor would be elevated to Caesar (until that title was abolished) and then eventually Co-Emperor when he got old enough. For anyone interested in not possible but verified living descendants of Byzantine Emperors, I cover the subject in my Blood Royal II thread in the Royal Genealogy section, commencing with post #44 on page three. Susanna married John Hall in 1607 and had one child, Elizabeth, in 1608. The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire, and it survived over a thousand years after the western half dissolved. John II Komnenos: 1118-1143: 5. None of their own contemporaries appear to have doubted their imperial descent. It's rather hard to say what it was exactly; an eldest son had a good chance of succeeding his father is about as systematic as it got, and that most definitely did not apply in all cases. no, there just aren't the records to do it. This video claims that there was a will of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI in which he left his titles to Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Are Byzantine kings and princesses related to the British Royal Family? 1508), a member of the papal guard and great-nephew of the last emperor. The Greek throne was proposed to the King Peter I/IV as descendent of Commeno, but he declined - A conversion to Orthodox Church was needed. The absence of any mentions of John Palaiologos in contemporary sources means that the Paleologus family's status as genuine male-line descendants of the last few Byzantine emperors can not be proven, but it is not impossible. None of these, though, come close to meeting your criteria as they died as emperors. anyway, the Romanovs are clear and undisputed direct descendants of quite a few Byzantine Imperial Families. Is there any such will? Just as any other empire, the Byzantine had a system of social classes. Originally formed and governed by nobility from the Roman Empire. View entire discussion ( 15 comments) More posts from the byzantium community. This list does not contain the achievements of the emperors during their reign, just the tragic end that befell on them during their rule. These routes typically involve either linkages among the ruling dynasties of the post-Roman Empire Germanic states, or those between the ancient dynasties of the Caucasus and the rulers of the Byzantine Empire. This is a list of the Byzantine emperors from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD, which marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire (or the Eastern Roman Empire), to its fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. The Turkish Cypriots are Sunni Muslims. Justinian's childless uncle became the Roman Emperor Justin I in A.D. 518. Their younger brother Thomas however was not, being the father of the aforementioned Zoe, or Sophia as she was renamed on marriage. The point of reciting the succession from Andronicus II was to show just how junior the Montferrat line was, and I really don't see why an heir through females from them would be preferred to an heir through females from Thomas. Under the Ottoman Empire, the archbishop of the Church of Cyprus was made responsible for the secular as well as the religious behaviour of the Orthodox community and given the title ethnarch. The sheer expanse of time is difficult to grasp as the four hundred year old Roman Empire merges into the Byzantine Empire which was to last for even more centuries. YouTube,  There is a branch of geneology referred to as "descent from antiquity" that tries to trace some of the 8th and 9th century royals to the Roman period. If an emperor reigned for more than one sitting, his lifetime dates are given followed by the dates of his reigns. Of the emperors who were deposed, most were killed immediately or within a few days of losing power. … 488 by the Byzantine emperor Zeno. Around the emperor there existed a highly sophisticated and very well organized bureaucracy. John III Doukas Vatatzes: 1221-1254: 2. Then in 1261, Michael's position bolstered by the recapture of the City from the Latins, John IV was blinded and shipped off to a monastery. He adopted Justinian either before or after he became emperor; hence the name Justinianus. During the late 6th and early 7th centuries, the Byzantine Empire was under frequent attack from all sides. So if the eastern Roman Empire is restored in the future it might have a ruling emperor (more or less equivalent to an American President or a British Prime Minister) and one or more reigning co emperors (more or less equivalent to modern symbolic monarchs) who will be the heirs of one or … A series of regional traumas—including pestilence, warfare, social upheaval, and the Arab Muslim assault of the 630s—marked its cultural and institutional transformation from the Eastern Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire. Easily create a Forum Website with Website Toolbox. All Byzantine Emperors regarded themselves as Roman Emperors,, the term "Byzantine" being coined firstly by Western historiography much later, in the 16th century. It is well known that he was son of  Theodoros Palaeologos. I couldn't find any evidence to this, and sounds like a legend or made up rumor of some kind. Also of two sons, from neither of whom is there known descent, and of an elder daughter Helena, who married Lazar II Brankovic, Despot of Serbia. Puyi was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Posted by 2 days ago. @bator: The King Peter was the first Emperor of Brazil, and he was also King of Portugal. The Byzantine Empire was the medieval continuation of the ancient Roman Empire, with its capital having been transferred from Rome to Constantinople in the 4th century by Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great. Nevertheless the offsprings of the imperial family sold the right to claim the throne to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Spanish monarchs. In other words, there was social mobility. Therefore, the House of Holstein-Gottorp was choosen because they´re descendents accepted to convert - Wittelsbach was an option, but they also didn´t accept. The cross was the official flag of the Byzantine state. Yet he never styled himself a Byzantine or Constantinopolian emperor. 1 year ago. He and his brother John fought in the English civil war battle of Naseby, in the king's side and after the victory of the Parliamentarians he was self-exiled to Barbados where his mother had land possessions. Two of Flaminio's sons it appears had descent lasting to the 20th century, and one of them. There was no law which regulated inheritance in Byzantine Empire. The Romans conquered Greece fully in 146 BC. There is actually a great possibility of the existence of living descendants of the Byzantine Imperial Family of  'Palaeologos'. I hope we talk more and make an attempt to meet with other descendants someday if possible. This category is not shown on its member pages. During the Byzantine Roman Empire 324-1453. 55. This is a list of XII (Byzantine) Eastern Roman Emperors that had been the main target of a plot, had been deposed, assassinated or had been a victim of any kind of misfortune that didn’t end their life naturally. The structure was loose, not rigid. The last emperor, Constantine XI, did not have children before he died in the fall of Constantinople, so there are no direct descendents. This category contains eponymous categories. The only pretender who might is the Ottoman, but I don't know if he does or not. The vast number of bureaucrats needed to run the massive and complex administration of the eleventh century empire vanish. There is a variety of imperial, state and navy flags, symbols and emblems. But they could quite feasibly have been replaced by such a new dynasty at one point or another, and had their reign endured beyond 1453 perhaps would have been. Can we reliably trace any of them? Other known 'emperor-authors' are Leo V the Armenian (813 to 820), Leo VI the Wise (886 to 912), Constantine VII (reigned 913 to 959), and Theodore II Laskaris (1254 to 1258). Tiberius II Constantine: 578-582: 4. Dogukan asks what nation (if any) can claim to be the blood descendants of Byzantium. Two major groups here: i) emperors whose reigns were terminated with their death ii) emperors who abdicated or were deposed before their death i) Emperors who died as emperors. The Byzantine Empire is a Italian kingdom centered around the fortress city of Constantinople, and spreading across the Turkish region. So This Emperor of Trabzond Manuel III had a daughter and I am a descendant of this Daughter of Manuel III. Theodosios III: 715-717: 6. An Illyrian, Justinian was born Petrus Sabbatius in A.D. 483 in Tauresium, Dardania (Yugoslavia), a Latin-speaking area of the Empire. This was inherited by Charles V, Holy Roman emperor. He recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261 and transformed the Empire of Nicaea into a restored Byzantine Empire. So I assume Schneider is either referring to the 1830s or the 1860s? As I recall, the current British royal family is descended from at least two of the later Byzantine emperors. If an emperor reigned for more than one sitting, his lifetime dates are given followed by the dates of his reigns. He was followed by his son, Andronicus III, and he by his, John V, whose son and successor was Manuel II (notable for having visited England). If some of the Italian princes married decendants of Byzantine emperors, their blood would have found its way into the French and Spanish royal families, thence to England. 1 They don't seem to come back, yet from their reduced territories and apparently simplified state apparatus, the Komnenian emperors carry out some of the most impressive feats of logistics in the entirety of Byzantine history. If some of the Italian princes married decendants of Byzantine emperors, their blood would have found its way into the French and Spanish royal families, thence to England. In any case, there are plenty of specific family studies and more general works of Byzantine prosopography that would have some discussion to your purpose. The Angeloi were the 14th of these dynasties, but the first whose founding Emperor was descended from any previous occupant of the throne. I do think it is very cool to have the surname of past emperors though. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Byzantium under the Constantinian and Valentinianic dynasties, Laskarid dynasty (Empire of Nicaea, 1204–1261), House of Habsburg (incl. There was another king with the same epithet: ... obviously in an effort to fake a relation with the glorious Komnenid dynasty and perhaps to make people forget the family ties with the emperor he had mutilated. This was called the "Malady of the Purple," because any one with power could seize the throne in the Byzantine Empire. It was traditionally fairly meritocratic, which was helped by the fact that noble ranks never became hereditary in the Byzantine Empire. The King of the Belgians, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the Prince of Liechtenstein are all descended from this last union, which should be mainstream enough. The last Palaiologos ruler, Giovanni Giorgio, left illegitimate issue, a son named Flaminio. Prince Philip is a direct descendant of the Byzantine Emperors, and Prince Charles and William will be as his descendant. This was the imperial bride show organised for an emperor to find himself an empress. None of their own contemporaries appear to have doubted their imperial descent. They had no sons but three daughters. Many features may not work properly without it. And as did Archduke Otto and therefore his heir Archduke Karl, which brings us back to where we started. Theophilos: 829-842 Most Cruel Byzantine Emperors (tyrants and paranoid rulers) 1. Shop unique Byzantine face masks designed and sold by independent artists. 0 0. Besides, as you may remember there were often one or more co emperors along with the ruling emperor. The Wikipedia information that got me started was that a Princesse d'Arenberg married a Pfalzgraf of Zweibruecken, bringing descent from Thomas Palaiologos to the Dukes of Bavaria. There were specialized scrinia and later sekreta (something like ministries) responsible for the central administration. There were 16 Byzantine imperial dynasties, plus nine one-off Emperors who established no continuing line. @DutchMonarchist: The Otto´s heir, King Ludwig of Bavaria did an oath at this marriage renouncing to the Greek throne. Remember: Using others' images on the web without their permission may be bad manners, or worse, copyright infringement. Vimeo,  No, there are no direct descendants of William Shakespeare living today. Of the emperors who were deposed, most were killed immediately or within a few days of losing power. This is a family tree of all the Eastern Roman Emperors who ruled in Constantinople. There is no traceable descent from the eldest daughter Maria, last Queen of Bosnia, but there is from the other two. The abdication was a result of the Republican Revolution, which also ended 267 years of the Qing Dynasty, as well as 2,000 years of the traditional and ancient imperial system in China. Many lines descend from that marriage to the present day; you can go. Holy Roman Empire after 1440), Spain (Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Family_tree_of_Byzantine_monarchs&oldid=998144879, Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 January 2021, at 01:14. I have been making desultory efforts to find a line from the Castrioti and therefore Thomas Palaiologos into mainstream royalty rather than Italian aristocracy, but had failed to look in the obvious places, as the Wikipedia article on the Palaiologoi gave me the clue I needed (though I then followed a different path from the one Wikipedia had set me on): Helena Palailogina m Lazar II Brankovic, Despot of Serbia, Jerina Brankovic m Gjon Castrioti, Duke of San Pietro in Galatina, Ferrante Scanderbeg-Castrioti, 3rd Duke of San Pietro in Galatina, Erina Scanderbeg-Castrioti m Pietro Sanseverino, 4th Prince of Bisingnano, Vittoria di Sanseverino m Fernando di Capua, 4th Duke of Termoli, Vittoria di Capua m Francesco Pignatelli, 2nd Duke of Bisaccia, Maria Francesca Pignatelli m Leopold Philippe d'Arenberg, 4th Duke of Arenberg, Charles Marie Raymond d'Arenberg, 5th Duke of Arenberg, Princess and Duchess Leopoldine d'Arenberg m Joseph Niklas, Count of Windisch-Graetz, Countess Sophie Luise of Windisch-Graetz m Karl, 5th Prince of Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Princess Adelheid of Loewenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg m Miguel I, sometime King of Portugal and the Algarves. Well the children of Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth have a known descent from the Byzantine kings, but it is more from their father then their mother. The chain to Maximilian Joseph: Charles Marie Raymond d'Arenberg, 5th Duke of Arenberg as above, Princess and Duchess Anna Luise d'Arenberg m Pius August, Duke in Bavaria, As we know, the House of Palaiologos as the last ruling house of the Byzantine Empire (or East Rome) also ruled the Margravate of Montferrat in Italy until the 16th century. The Empire of Trebizond has been far less researched than the Byzantine Empire, let alone the Roman Empire, yet it was the last real surviving descendant of those empires.. Famed for its lucrative trade … This Skleroi branch descended from the late emperor Basileios I's family, through their mother Gregoria. A powerful court official of the Nicaean Empire, when Theodore II Laskaris died leaving a seven-year-old heir, John IV, his path to succession was crystal clear. So why her existence and her many descendants always get totally ignored in these discussions is beyond me. There was likely very little movement between classes in Byzantine society but there was one quick route that could be taken from the very bottom to the very top of the social ladder. This category is used for administration of the Familypedia project, and is not part of the encyclopedia. Someone else discovered the link, even though they evidently struggled to express themselves in any human language (I have no problem with Pfalzgraf of Zweibruecken, Princesse d'Arenberg or Dukes of Bavaria, but the combination in the context was just all wrong). There is no traceable descent from the eldest daughter Maria, last Queen of Bosnia, but there is from the other two. I then capitalised on this unknown's work. Metacafe,  Constantine XI- the last of the emperors had the same name as the first Byzantine emperor- would die as the last of the Roman emperors in the final siege of Constantinople in 1453 without any sons, neither did his brother Demetrios the despot of Morea have children, although their youngest brother Thomas married to the Genoese Caterina Zaccaria had 3 children: Andreas, Manuel, … Kindest Byzantine Emperors (really nice guys) 1. It's meaningless, as bator's link acknowledges, to speak of an heir to Byzantium. Statistically, yes, a lot of individuals are possibly descended from the emperors of Ancient Rome since the Most Recent Common Ancestor of anyone of … Thursday, March 29, 2012 The last descendant of the Byzantine emperors in Barbados the grave of Ferdinandus Paleologus in Barbados. One, possibly the elder though sources differ, was Jerina, who married John Castrioti, son of the great Scanderbeg. Andronikos II Palaiologos: 1282-1328: 7. There were a lot of Byzantine emperors, they held onto part of Italy for a long time. Map showing the extent of the Byzantine Empire in c. 600 and c. 900, including the themes for the latter date . The first that comes to mind is Ivan III, his father was a brother of the last Emperor Constantine.There is a link that Lucien just posted on it. Get up to 20% off. None of these, though, come close to meeting your criteria as they died as emperors. King Otto was only desposed and replaced by the house of Holstein-Gottorp in the 1860s. Other known 'emperor-authors' are Leo V the Armenian (813 to 820), Leo VI the Wise (886 to 912), Constantine VII (reigned 913 to 959), and Theodore II Laskaris (1254 to 1258). One of them. CONSTANTINIAN : Julius Constantius d. 337: Constantine I 272–313–337: VALENTINIANIC: Julian 331–360–363: Helena d. 360: Constantine II 316–337–340: Constantius II 317–337� At the Barbados islands there is a grave of a person called Ferdinadus Paleologus. Zoe being regarded as in some sense heiress, which she wasn't at all really, is due to her marriage and the Russian claim to have inherited the mantle of Byzantium, though I feel that that was rather more in the sense of being spiritual successors as Orthodox sovereigns than any claim to lineal inheritance. The deed was actually done on the child's eleventh birthday, if anything were needed to magnify the enormity of this abominable piece of cruelty and betrayal. So even if there are direct descendants of the last emperor of the East living among us, I personally would not consider that they are 'the' Byzantine Bloodline, because it was not officially a bloodline-based system of succession. As far as I know, "Emperor of the Romans" isn't used by any of the monarchs that could possibly. I did feel quite pleased about it all, though. Seeing another descendant of the Komnenos Line of the Byzantine Emperors is making me feel elevated View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts mikhaelalex Yes, there were plenty of nobles in Europe who could trace their ancestry to various Byzantine emperors. Which was the foundation of the Palailogoi as the last and longest-reigning dynasty of Imperial Byzantium, and was in fact if not quite par for the course not altogether out of line with the way some earlier dynasties had ascended. BYZANTINE CHRISTIANITY PART I: ORTHODOX CHURCHES Within Byzantine Christianity, there are 15 autocephalous Orthodox Churches, i.e., autonomous self-governing churches that are in communion with each other, but with internal self-government, including the right to choose its own leaders (a patriarch or a metropolitan) and to resolve internal problems. I do think it is very cool to have the surname of past emperors though. Paco. Once a part of the Roman Empire they have become arguably more powerful then their original Empire as they have been led affectively and expanded quite steadily since they were founded. Thanks, but not really. The Qing Dynasty followed the father-to-son succession practice; however, it wasn’t mandatory that only the eldest son would become the successor. The Empire of Trebizond was an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire that existed from 1204 to 1461 CE, ruled by the Megas Komnenos Dynasty, descendants of the Komenos Byzantine emperors. The link is also correct in saying that as far as we know the posterity of Zoe, youngest daughter of Thomas Palaelogus and second wife of Ivan III of Russia, is entirely extinct. The Montferrats would not have been in contention, and their heir through a female still less so. Though the majority of these pretenders have claimed descent from the final ruling Byzantine dynasty, the Palaiologoi, some have instead claimed descent from other dynasties, such as the Laskarids, Komnenoi, Kantakouzenoi or Angeloi. The absence of any mentions of John Palaiologos in contemporary sources means that the Paleologus family's status as genuine male-line descendants of the last few Byzantine emperors can not be proven, but it is not impossible. History Background. That they use always with the common elements of the cross and the double-headed eagle. The Sassanid Empire was pressing from the east on Syria, Egypt, and Anatolia. Helena wasn't heiress either, but she was Zoe's full sister, elder to boot, and while Zoe's posterity is extinct hers is abundant. Dailymotion,  This category is not shown on its member pages by default. Andronicus's heir was an elder son from his first marriage, Michael IX. p.s. Obviously Dom Miguel has the descent, as does Victor Emmanuel and as do the children of King Michael of the Romanians. One could have been made Emperor by acclamation of the army (like in its distant Roman past), by birth, proclaimed so by the Patriarch (with the military's support as well of course), or simply by just taking it (like Basil I did). Alexios V Doukas Murtzuphlos (1204) Alexios V Doukas remained in history with the peculiar nickname "Murtzuphlos". Charlemagne has a probable descent from some proconsuls in the Roman period, but not to any emperors. emperor Ioannes' first wife had been (the probably late) Maria Skleraina, daughter of Gregoria, and sister of Bardas Skleros and Konstantinos Skleros. We know that there isn’t any documented evidence for any such descendants, and so we can quickly dismiss the common misconception that they exist. Those daughters, Sophia of Denmark and Ingeborg of Denmarkwere progenitors of several lines of mighty Northern European princely dynasties, spreading Byzantine ancestry. One difference with the Palailogoi was that they did at least have abundant descent from earlier dynasties, rather than appearing out of nowhere as for example the great Macedonian dynasty did. The genealogy chart I made begins with Constantine the Great’s dynasty or the Constantinian Dynasty of the Roman Empire going all the way down and ending with the 1 st Tsar of Russia. What I am Happy about is that finally I have come in contact with a fellow Distant Kinsman/Cousin. this is somewhere in the mid 1300s. 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