Vol I File 12: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James

2. Winithar, King of the Ostrogoths to Berengaria

1. Vultwulf
2. Valaravaus
3. Winithar (Withemir or Vinitharus) , conqueror of the Vanadi-Slavs, succeeded Hunimund as King of the Ostrogoths A.D. 400. He was conquered by the Huns under Balamir. His son was Wandalar.
4. Wandalar (Vandalarius), conqueror of the Vandals, died in 459. He had three children as follows:
- 1. Valamir, died 468/69.
- 2. Theodemer (Thiudimir). See below.
- 3. Vidimir the Elder, died in 473, father of Vidimir the Younger, who married Vittimir (?).
5. Theodemer (Thiudimir), died in 475, married Erchiva ( Evelena, Erelieva, Eusebia), a concubine.
6. Theoderic the Great of Italy, died August 30, 526, married Theodora. He became the King of Macedonia. He was also the King of the Visigoths.
7. Theodora, married Severinus, Count of Cartagena. They had at least two children as follows:
- 1. St. Isidore.
- 2. Theodosia, sister of St. Isidore. See below.
8. Theodosia, married Leovigild of Spain,
9. St. Hermengild, died in 585, married Ingunda of France, daughter of Sigebert I. of France and his wife, Brunchildis of Spain. Sigebert I. was the son of Clothaire, son of Clovis. See this ancestral line elsewhere in the Line of Kings of France in Volume I.
10. Athanagildo, married Flavia Juliana.
11. Ardebasto, married Godo.
12. Ervigio of Spain, married Liubigotona of Spain, who was also descended from Clovis.
13. Pedro, Duke of Cantabaria.
14. Fruela, Duke of Cantabaria, died 760. He was the father of at least two sons as follows:
- 1. Rodrigo Frolaz. See below.
- 2. Ramiro I, who married Urraca of Castile. See below.
15. Rodrigo Frolaz, Lord of Castile, married Sancha.
16. Diego Rodriguez, Lord of Castile, married Paterna.
17. Uracca of Castile, married Ramiro I. of Leon, son of Fruela, above.
18. Roderick, Count of Castile, father of Diego.
19. Diego Rodriguez, Porcellos, married Asura. They had the following two children:
- 1. Fernando. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.
- 2. Sulla Asura. See below.
20. Sulla Asura, married to Nuño Nuñez, Count of Amaya.
21. Teresa Elvira, married Flavio Lain.
22. Fernan Lainez, married Ximenia Nuñez.
23. Lain Fernandez, father of Nuño.
24. Nuño Lainez, married Engilona.
25. Lain Nuñez.
26. Diago Lainez (Castro) married Teresa Nuñez de Amayo, daughter of Nuño de Amaya, son of Afonso V of Leon, who died in 1028, also descended from Fruela, above.
27. Roderigo Diaz, El Cid (The Lord), Campeador (Champion), born at Bivar about 1040, died in 1099, renowned in song and story above any hero of Spain. In 1094, at the head of 7,000 men, he captured the richest city of Spain in the most fertile region of Europe, the greatest achievement of his life, and became King of Valencia del Cid. Less than 100 years after his death, romance began to add all manner of fabulous adventure to his history. It is even said that his embalmed body sat, with sword in hand, for 10 years or more in his ivory chair besides the high altar in the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardena, until buried erect in his chair beside his wife. He married in 1074 his mother's first cousin, Ximenia of Asturias, who died in 1103, daughter of Diego Rodriguez and his wife, Ximenia of Leon, daughter of the said Afonso V, the Noble, King of Leon, 999-1027. See this lneage elsewhere in Volume I.
28. Elvira, married Ramiro II, Count of Moncon.
29. Garcia Ramirez IV. of Navarre, King of Navarre, died in 1150, married Marguerite de l'Aigle. They had the following children:
- 1. Sancho VI., King of Navarre (1150-1194), died in 1194, married Sancha of Castile. They had a daughter, Blanche of Navarre, who married in 1195, Thibault III., Count of Champagne. These two had in turn a son, Thibault I. King of Navarre, who married in 1232, Marguerite of Bourbon, and they had a son, Henry I. of Navarre, who married in 1269, Blanche of Artois, granddaughter of Louis VIII., King of France (see the lineage to these two elsewhere in the Kings of France in Volume I.). The daughter of this marriage, Jeanne of Navarre, married in 1284, Philip IV., King of France, and their daughter, Isabel, became the wife of Edward II., King of England.
- 2. Blanche of Navarre. See below.
30. Sancho VI. (VII?), King of Navarre (1150-1194), died in 1194, married Sancha of Castile. They had the following children:
- 1. Sancho VIII., King of Navarre (1194-1234), d.s.p.
- 2. Blanche of Navarre. See below.
31. Blanche of Navarre, married Sancho III. of Castile, son of Afonso VII., King of Leon, Castile, and Galicia (1126-1157). See the ancestral lineage above.
32. Afonso VIII. of Castile, died in 1214, married Eleanor, sister of King John of England and daughter of King Henry II. of England. They had six children, shown elsewhere, including a daughter, Berengaria.
33. Berengaria of Castile, married Afonso IX, King of Leon, 1166-1229, also descended from El Cid. They had at least the following two children:
- 1. Ferdinand III, King of Castile, 1191-1252, married Joan de Dammartin. They had a daughter, Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.
- 2. Berengaria of Leon, See below.
34. Berengaria of Leon, married Jean de Brienne, crowned King of Jerusalem in 1210, Emperor of the East, born in 1148, died in 1237.
35. Jean Brienne, died in 1296, married Jeanne Chateaudun.
36. Blanche Brienne, married William de Fiennes, living in 1270.
37. Margaret Fiennes, married in 1280 Edmund Mortimer, 1st Lord Mortimer, born in 1261, died in 1304, great grandson of Llewelyn the Great.
38. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, married Joane Geneville.

See continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume II.

Part G.

Early Russian Ancestors

1. The Russian Nobility (Duke Rurik of Novgorod to Anne of Kiev) to Richard de Clare, Surety

Ref: Hallu, Roger, "Anne of Kiev, Queen of France", (in French and Russian) located in the Pittsburgh Carnegie Public Library, Main Branch.

1. Rurik of Novgorod, Grand Duke of Kiev, ruled during the period 862-879. He died in 879. He was succeeded by his nephew, Oleg. Oleg was, like Rurik, a semi-legendary personage, who freed the Eastern Slavs from the rule of the Khazars, a powerful Turkic stock, and he concluded a treaty with the Byzantine Empire. He ruled during the period 879-912, when he was succeeded by Rurik's son, Igor. Rurik was probably a Danish Viking.
2. Igor, son of Rurik of Novgord, ruled as Grand Duke of Kiev from 912 to 945. He was born in 875 and married St. Olga. She was born about 890 in Russia. In 945 Igor was assassinated for exhorting large sums from his subjects to pay for his campaigns against the Byzantines. Olga became regent of the grand principality of Kiev, in the period 945 to 955, until her son reached majority. She hunted down Igor's murderers and had them scalded to death. In about 955 to 957 she became an Orthodox Christian and shortly afterwards ushered in the new era in Byzantine-Kievian relations by visiting Constantinople. There she was baptized, or rebaptized, taking as her Christian name, "Helena", in honor of the Byzantine empress. It was through her efforts and those of her grandson Vladimir that Christianity was brought to Russia. She was canonized by the Orthodox Church. Her feast day is July 11. She died in 969. Igor died in 945.
3. Sviatoslav, son of Igor and St. Olga, Grand Duke of Kiev, was born in 936 and died in 972, ruling during the period of 972-977. He married Maloucha, a servant of the Queen Olga, daughter of Malko I. Yaropolk, son of Sviatoslav and an unknown woman, ruled during the period 972-977. He was succeeded by his half-brother, Vladimir.
4. Vladimir I. (St. Vladimir) The Great, a third son of Sviatoslav, was Grand Duke of Kiev in the period 977-1015. He was born about 956 and died in 1015.

He married (1) Olova, by whom there was the first son, Vicheslav, Prince of Novgorod, born in 977, died in 1010.

He married in 979 (2) Rogneda, daughter of Prince Rogvolode (Rognald) of Polotsk. From this marriage there the following children:
- 1. Isiaslav, Prince of Polotsk, was the second son, died in 1044.
- 2. Yaroslav (Jaroslav) I He was the fourth son. See below.
- 3. Vsevolod, the fifth son, Prince of Doulebes, married Sigrid Storraade.
  
  He had a son by a Greek woman:
  - 1. Sviatopolk I., Prince of Tourov (988-1015), Prince of Kiev (1015-19), was the third son of Vladimir I., married _________, daughter of Boleslav of Pologne.
    
    He had a sixth son, Sviatoslav, Prince of Drevlianes, died in 1015, by Malfrida, a Czech woman.
    
    He had two sons, Mstislav, Prince of Tmoutarakan, the seventh son, died in 1036, and Stanislav, Prince of Smolensk, the seventh son, by d'Adele, a Czech woman.
    
    He had a ninth son, Soudislav, Prince of Pskov, imprisoned in 1036, released in 1058, died in 1063, by _____, a Czech woman. He died in 1063.
    
    He had a tenth child by ______, named Pozvizd.
    
    He married in 989, Anne of Byzantia. From this marriage there were two sons as follows:
    - 1. Boris, Prince of Rostov, child no. 11., died in 1015, married a princess from Bohemia.
    - 2. Gleb, Prince of Mourom, child no. 12., died in 1015.
      
      Vladimir I. is also reported to have had the following daughters: the first, unnamed, married Bernard of Norway; the second, Premislava, married Ladislas le Chauve, cousin of St. Etienne and father of Andre (Andrew) I. of Hungary; the third, Marie Dobrogneva.
      
      Vladimir I. is reported in some sources as the first Czar of Russia, though that name was not used officially until the 16th Century. He was canonized on the basis of converting Russia to the Christian religion. He was succeeded by his son, Sviatopolk I., during the period 1015-1019, after which time another son, Yaroslav (Jaroslav) succeeded him.
5. Yaroslav (Jaroslav) was Grand Duke of Kiev from 1019 to 1054, the fourth son of Vladimir I. He was baptized in 988, and died in February 20, 1054. He married (1) __________; and in 1019 (2) Ingegerde of Sweden, daughter of Olaf Skotkonung III, King of Sweden (son of Erik Segersall, King of Sweden), born probably in the 960's. died about 1020, and Astrid, a descendant of Swedish royalty, back to Edmond I, who ruled from 900 to 907. Her grandfather was Eric VII. of Sweden. She was born in 1000 and died in 1051. They had the following children:
- 1. Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod, born in 1020, died in 1052, married a German princess, Oda de Stade(?).
- 2. Elizabeth, born in 1022, Queen of Norway, died in 1070, married in 1041, (1) Harald III., King of Norway. They had a son, Magnus III., King of Norway, who married Margaret of Sweden; a daughter, Ingegerde, who married Olaf III., King of Denmark; and finally a son, Olaf III., King of Norway. The last son had in turn a son, Magnus III., King of Norway and a grandson, Sigurd I., King of Norway. Elizabeth married in 1067, (2) Sven II., King of Denmark. They had sons Olaf III., King of Denmark, and Eric III., King of Denmark.
- 3. Isiaslav I., Grand Prince of Kiev (1054-1073), born in 1024, died October 3, 1078, married about 1043, Gertrude, who died January 4, 1107, daughter of Mieszco II. Lambert, King of Poland, 1025-1034. They had a son, Sviatopolk II (Michael), Grand Prince of Kiev, born 1050, died April 16, 1113
- 4. Sviatoslav II., Prince of Kiev (1073-1076), born in 1024, died in 1076.
- 5. Anne Yaroslavna of Kiev. See below.
- 6. Vsevolod I., Prince of Kiev (1078-1093), born in 1129, died in 1093, married Marie of Byzantine. They had Vladimir II., Grand Prince of Kiev, born 1053, died May 19, 1125, married about 1070, (1) Gyhta, daughter of Harold II., the Saxon, King of England. They had a son, Mstislas II., Grand Prince of Kiev, born 1076, died April 15, 1132, married in 1122 (2) the daughter of Dmitri I. of Novgorod.
- 7. Anastasia, Queen of Hungary, born in 1031, died in 1074, married Andre (Andrew) I., King of Hungary. They had a son, Salomon I., King of Hungary, 1063-1074, who married Sophie, daughter of Emperor Henry III. of Germany.
- 8. Viateschlav of Smolensk, born in 1033, died in 1057, married the daughter of Otto of Saxony.
- 9. Igor of Vladimir-Volynsky, died in 1059 or 1060.
6. Anne Yaroslavna of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav, married Henry I. of France, who became King of France during the period 1031-1060, uniting the Eastern domains in Russia with Western Europe. See his ancestral lineage elsewhere in Volume I. She was also the fiancee of Henry III., Emperor of Germany. Anne and Henry I. had two sons as follows:
- 1. Philip, who became Philip I., King of France. See elsewhere for the continuation of this lineage in Volume I.
- 2. Hugh Magnus. See below.
7. Hugh Magnus, married Adelheid Vermandois, daughter of Herbert I., Count of Vermandois. They had a daughter, Isabel Vermandois.

See continuation of this lineage in the French Kings from Hugh Capet, etc in Volume I.

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