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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: Christine of Austria (von Österreich)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:40:08 -0600
wrote:
>
> I thought that the question of the ancestry of Agatha, the wife
> of "King" Edward Atheling had been a complex genealogic problem that
> was resolved by Szabolcs de Vajay after the publishing of two
> interesting and definite articles:
Many thought the same, and this became the solution of choice for 30
years, but within the past few years, Rene Jette presented an
alternative theory that has received much ink, both in favor and opposed
(and has been discussed here numerous times - search the archives for
Agatha). Basically, he follows another chronicler in concluding that
she was daughter of the Jaroslav of Kiev.
The root of the problem is that the closest that exist to contemporary
sources present information that is contradictory, and impossible to
harmonize into a single solution. These two theories each reject the
chronicles which support the other position as being mistaken or
corrupt, and while circumstantial arguments can be made on both sides,
it has proven impossible to definitively exclude either one.
Thus, we are now in the position of the man with two watches (a man with
one watch always knows what time it is, but one with two can never be
sure that either is right).
ta
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