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[9751] living - details excluded
Alphonso reigned 739-57 as the first regular ruler of the nascent kingdon of Asturias. He is son of Pedro, Duke of Cantabria, a Christian leader. Alphonso's marriage with Ermesinda united Cantabria and Asturias under his rule when Fafila, Ermesinda's brother, was killed by a bear in 739. Alphonso began the first counteroffensive against the Muslims - while they were engaged in a civil war between Arabs and Berbers after 740, and during the great famine of 748-753.
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From: Bryant Smith [skip1@ix.netcom.com] 11 Oct 1998: "I decided your tree was most probably mostly correct in a long morning of study. Here's why:
"I. Tompsett's Directory [etc.] is wrong in at least two regards, at least if my Encyclopedia Britannica is right. It sets forth two key facts: A. Aurelio was a "brother or cousin" of Fruela son of Alfonso I. Tompsett satisfies this requirement by making Aurelio the son of Fruela of Cantabria (son of Pedro), and Pedro the father of Alfonso I; hence making Pedro the grandfather of both Aurelio and Fruela of Asturias. However, B. Silon was a brother-in-law of Aurelio. Tompsett's own database shows that Silon m. Adosinda, dau of Alfonso I. So (unless Silon had a sister who m. Aurelio, of which there is no indication) Aurelio must be a brother of Adosinda, and therefore a son of Alfonso I not of Fruela of Cantabria.
"II. I think however that your identification of "Vimaranus" as the wife of Aurelius is mistaken. E.B. sheds no light on the issue, but Tompsett's database shows a Vimerano son of Alfonso I. I suggest that "Vimeranus" (the gender of the word is wrong for a daughter) was brother not wife of Aurelius. It doesn't make a difference genealogically, but it adds interest to the mystery of the mediaeval murders.
"III. Fruela of Asturias died 768, "murdered by his brother" [E.B.]: Which brother? Vimarano died in 767, "murdered" [Tompsett]: By whom? Were both Fruela and Vimarano murdered, or does Tompsett have it wrong? If Tompsett is right and Vimarano was Fruela's brother, and if my logic above is sound and Aurelio was also Fruela's brother, and Fruela and Vimarano were both murdered, then the brother who murdered Fruela was either Vimarano or Aurelio (unless there are missing brothers! {e.g. Bermundo?}); and if Vimarano was murdered after Fruela, the murderer of Vimarano may well have been Aurelio. E.B. does not mention
Vimarano, nor does it identify any brother of Fruela except possibly Aurelio [as "brother or cousin"]. I infer that if Aurelio had murdered Fruela then E.B. (a) would not be in doubt over Aurelio's relationship to Fruela and (b) would have named Aurelio as Fruela's murderer. Ergo, I infer that the murderer-brother of Fruela was Vimarano.
"IV. Was Aurelio the father of Bermundo I? Very interesting in this regard is your note on Aurelius, citing Lomax indicating Aurelio was brother rather than father of Bermudo and leaving open whether their father was Fruela son of Pedro, or Alfonso {son of Pedro}. Tompsett does make them brothers, but sons of Fruela son of Pedro. But Tompsett is wrong, at least as to Aurelio (vide supra), as to their paternity. So Lomax' position boils down to this, that Bermudo was either a son, or a grandson, of Alfonso I. E.B. supports this vagueness by referring to Bermudo as a "descendant of Alphonso I." And the available dates leave sufficient room for doubt, but I see no good reason for giving Aurelio another brother and muddying the murder mystery!
"V. Your note on Alphonso I refers to the Fafila who was killed by a bear as Ermesinda's brother but E.B. says he was Pelayo's brother (Ermesinda's uncle). BTW your database does not include him in either position!"
>>AEM notes: The database has been revised since this message was received. Also see the genealogical chart for this family at (1/99):
http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~edvasc/medieval/gen5.html and the ancestral chart at http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/ancient/il/iberia01.htm.
_Sviastoslav I, Grand Duke of KIEV __________+
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[4717] Vladimir II reigned 1113-25, succeeding his cousin Svyatopolk II. He also had Iaropolk (d. 1139) and Yuri Dolgoruki of Suzdal (d. 1167 - had Andrei Bogolubski [d. 1174], Michael [d. 1176] and Vsevelod of the Big Nest [d. 1212]). http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p80.htm offers: "Vladimir II Monomakh Vsevolodovich, Prince of Pereyaslavl, Smolensk, Chernigov, and Kiev was the only son of Vsevolod Yaroslavich, Great Prince of Kiev 1078-1093, by his first Byzantine wife, a relative (usually thought to be a daughter, but with little justification) of emperor Konstantin IX. '... named Vasilii at my baptism by my pious and glorious grandsire Iaroslav, but commonly known by my Russian name Vladimir, and surnamed Monomakh by my beloved father and mother and for the sake of Christian people, ... .' He was born in 1053. He was the son of Vsevolod I Yaroslavich, Prince of Pereyaslavl, Chernigov, and Kiev and Maria Monomacha. He married Gytha of Wessex, daughter of Harald II Godwinesson, King of England and Eadgyth Swanneshals (?), circa 1070 in sometime in the mid-1070s; His 1st. 2nd Prince of Pereyaslavl, 1st reign, Rus, between 1076 and 1078. 3rd Prince of Smolensk, 1st reign, Rus, between 1077 and 1095. 4th Prince of Chernigov, Rus, between 1078 and 1094. He married N. N. (?) before 1090; His 2nd. 2nd Prince of Pereyaslavl, 2nd reign, Rus, between 1094 and 1125. He was occupied with a campaign against Oleg Svyatoslavich between May 1096 and June 1096. He routed and killed the Polovets khan Tugorkan on 19 June 1096 in near Pereyaslavl, Rus. He wrote Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich of Chernigov, after he had killed his son Izyaslav in battle, calling Izyaslav "my child - and yours" (inferring that Oleg was the godfather) after 6 September 1096. 3rd Prince of Smolensk, 2nd reign, Rus, between 1097 and 1113. He led an expedition against (the?) Polovtsy in 1103. He was named as the successor of his cousin, Grand Prince Svyatopolk II, by the veche (city council) of Kiev in 1113. He tried to restore unity to the lands of Kievan Rus, up to then beset by constant civil wars. 14th Prince of Kiev, Rus, between 1113 and 1125. He was known as an adept administrator, whose ability to curtail the internecine warfare among his princely relatives revived, if only temporarily, the declining strength of Kievan Rus. He was also noted as a builder; he founded the city of Vladimir on the Klyazma River in northeastern Russia, which by the end of the 12th century replaced Kiev as the seat of the grand prince. He left a will before 19 May 1125; In his 'Testament, which he wrote for his sons and which constitutes the earliest known example of Old Russian literature written by a layman, Vladimir recounted participating in 83 noteworthy military campaigns and recorded killing 200 Polovtsy princes. But he concludes his words with: 'Let not my sons or whoever else reads this document criticise me. I do not commend my own boldness, but I praise God and glorify his memory because he guarded me, a sinful and a wretched man, for so many years in these dangerous vicissitudes, and did not make me inactive or useless for all the necessary works of man. As you read this screed, prepare yourselves for all good works, and glorify God among his saints. Without fear of death, of war, or of wild beasts, do a man's work, my sons, as God sets it before you. If I suffered no ill from war, from wild beasts, from flood, or from falling from my horse, then surely no one can harm you and destroy you, unless that too be destined of God. But if death comes from God, then neither father, nor mother, nor brethren can hinder it, and though it is prudent to be constantly upon one's guard, the protection of God is fairer than the protection of man.'" Cf. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/RUSSIA,%20Rurik.htm#VladimirMonomachdied1125B. A description of Vladimir's era is provided in the novel "Russka," Edward Rutherfurd ( NY: Ivy Books, 1991).