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From: Rafal Prinke <RAFALP% >
Subject: Theophano
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:18:34 CET


Hi everyone,

I have just subscribed and could not refrain from adding a bit to
the Theophano discussion.

"Paul M. Gifford" < .> wrote:

>This may not help, but I have the _Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium_ with me and
>here is the entry concerning her (3: 2065):
>
>Theophano (Lat. Theophanu), wife of the German emporer Otto II (973-83); born
>ca.955, died Nimwegen 15 June 991. Her grant of dowry from Otto II specifies
>that she was a niece of Emp. John I Tzimiskes, but M. Uhlirz attempted to show
>that she was descended from the Lekapenoi.

Don Stone < > wrote:

>Lindsay L. Brook's "The Byzantine Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles,
>Prince of Wales," The Genealogist, vol. 2, 1981, gives (on p. 6) the
>information that Romanos m. (1) 943 Bertha (Eudokia), b. c. 927/30, d.
>949, dau. of Hugo, King of Italy, m. (2) 956 Theophano (Anastaso), dau.
>of Krateros, a bar keeper, and Maria, both of unknown ancestry. Brook
>doesn't specifically cite the source of his information about the first
>marriage.

In a recent article in the German "Genealogie", vol. 22, 3/4, 1995,
Walter Regula discards Romanos as her father (following P.E. Schramm's
argument of "impedimentum consaguinitatis" of the first degree; "Kaiser,
Basileos und Papst", Historische Zeitschrift 129, Muenchen 1924).
He also does not accept Schwennicke's (ES) choice of the dukes of Taron
of the Bagratids. He quotes: (a) G. Wolf, "Nochmals zu Frage: Wer war
Theophano?", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 81, Muenchen 1988,
(b) O. Kresten, "Byzantinische Epilegomena zur Frage: Wer war Theophano?",
in: Kaiserin Theophano, vol. 2, Koeln 1991, (c) H. Benrath, Die Kaiserin
Theophano, Muenchen 1978, as supportive of his choice, namely that
she was a daughter of Konstantin Skleros, patrikios, and Sophia Phokaina,
d. of Leon Phokas and niece of emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.

The whole article is a well documented lineage of three Byzantine
princesses back to ancient Persia (Darius I).

Best regards,

Rafal

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Rafal T. Prinke The Kornik Library
Polish Academy of Sciences
Poznan, POLAND http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~rafalp
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