Blanche d'Artois, Regent of Navarre

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of David IV, King of Georgia and Rusudan of Armenia, see
 
of David IV, King of Georgia and Rusudan of Armenia, see
 
[http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/8bb3109e040d86c2/91e8424efaa0f0ee?lnk=gst&q=%2Baspae+%2Bgeorgia# here]"
 
[http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/8bb3109e040d86c2/91e8424efaa0f0ee?lnk=gst&q=%2Baspae+%2Bgeorgia# here]"
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In that discussion, Don Stone states : "Hiestand's article is of special interest because it explores the
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hypothesis that the first wife of Isaac II is a member of the
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Palaiologos family, perhaps the daughter of Georgios Palaiologos
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Komnenodoukas, megas hetaireiarches (Grand Heteriarque).  This is based
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on a reference to Andronikos Palaiologos (probable son of Georgios) as
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beloved "gambros" [brother-in-law or son-in-law, though the former is
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more likely] of Emp. Isaac II in a document (from 1191, I think) printed
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in A. Papadopoulos-
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Kerameus's _Analekta ..._, II, Petersburg, 1894, p. 362.  Unfortunately,
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the genealogy of the early Palaiologoi is somewhat murky; Lindsay
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Brook's "The Byzantine Ancestry of the Prince of Wales," _The
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Genealogist_ 2 (1981): 3-51, gives (p. 22) Andronikos as son rather than
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brother of Alexios, son of Georgios, and _The Oxford Dictionary of
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Byzantium_, 1991, v. 2, p. 1558, gives Andronikos as son-in-law of
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Alexios.  (From the latter source we also learn that palaiologos means
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"junkman.")  In any case, _The Doukai_ by Demetrios I. Polemis, 1968,
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asserts (top of p. 156) that Georgios had a son Alexios by an
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unidentified wife.
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Georgios Palaiologos's wife might be Aspae, a cousin of the Georgian
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princess Kata or Katae; Aspae and Katae are mentioned in a scholion to
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the histories of John Tzetzes.  (See, e.g., Paul Gautier, "La Curieuse
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Ascendance de Jean Tzetzes," _Revue des Etudes Byzantines_ 28 (1970):
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pp. 207, ff., esp. pp. 208-9.  See also A. Kazhdan, "Rus'-Byzantine
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Princely Marriages in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," _Harvard
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Ukrainian Studies_ 12/13 (1988/1989): 414-429, esp. p. 423.  And
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finally, see Jean-Claude Cheynette and Jean-Francois Vannier, _Etudes
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Prosopographiques_, 1986, esp. pp.156-158, 162-163.) 
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Katae married (as second wife) Alexios, son of Emp. John II Komnenos.
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This is a different princess Kata from the one (probably a generation
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earlier), daughter of David IV the Builder (b. 1070, king from
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1089-1125, d. 1125), who Rafal Prinke has shown was the wife of the
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sebastokrator Isaak Kommnenos and the mother of Emp. Andronikos I
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Komnenos.  Cheynette and Vannier, p. 162, say that Alexios married his
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first wife Dobrodeja in 1122, that she died in 1131, and that he then
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married Katae, who was probably (from chronological considerations) a
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daughter of the Georgian king Demetrios I (d. 1156/8), son of David the
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Builder.  At court Katae used the first name Eudocia.  On the following
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page they say that Aspae was married to a Palaiologos ca. 1135; Hiestand
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says (p. 206) the marriage took place ca. 1145.  Cheynette and Vannier
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call attention to a letter of Tzetzes addressed to the wife of the Grand
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Heteriarque at the time of the march of the Germans against
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Constantinople in July-Aug. 1147; they believe that this Grand
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Heteriarque is George Paleologus and that his wife (to whom the letter
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was addressed) is perhaps Aspae.
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There is thus the possibility of a Georgian royal descent for the first
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wife of Isaac II Angelos, though it may be hard to confirm or pin down
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details.  Rafal: could you inquire of your Georgian correspondent, Prof.
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Mariam Lordkipanidze, whether modern Georgian scholarship sheds any
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light on Aspae? "
  
 
==Sources==
 
==Sources==
 
*"Proposed DFA through Georgia", by Shawn Potter, 24 Aug 2008  
 
*"Proposed DFA through Georgia", by Shawn Potter, 24 Aug 2008  
 
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00005198&tree=LEO "Blanche d'Artois, Regent of Navarre"] at genealogics
 
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00005198&tree=LEO "Blanche d'Artois, Regent of Navarre"] at genealogics

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