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From: John Carmi Parsons< >
Subject: Re: Arpads etc.
Date: 30 Sep 1998 10:50:03 -0700


On 30 Sep 1998, Rafal Prinke wrote:

>
> "Erols" < > wrote:

> > Geza I, 1040-1077, King of Hungary, married Synadena, born in
> >Constantinople. Does anyone have any info on her parents? I have her
> >father as Theodulos Synadenos, no further info., My apologies to Greek

According to K.G. Windisch, _Kurzgefasste Geschichte der Ungarn_ (Bresslau,
1784), Synadene's mother was a sister of the Byzantine Emperor Nikeforos III
Botoniates. This is repeated in M.D. Sturdza, _Dictionnaire historique et
genealogique des grandes familles de Grece, d'Albanie et de Constantinople_
(Paris, 1983, p. 425), with the additional statement that Nikeforos wanted to
make the Hungarian queen's brother his heir. Note that "Synadene" is merely
the Greek feminine form of the surname "Synadenos" and does not appear to
have been the queen's real Christian name, which seems to be unknown (see
Janos Bak, "Roles and Functions of Queens in Arpadian and Angevin Hungary
[1000-1386 A.D.]," in _Medieval Queenship_, ed. J.C. Parsons (New York,
1993), p. 23).

I have no data on Nikeforod Botoniates' forebears.

John Parsons

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