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Lambert Unknown1
M, #11777, Deceased, b. about 670
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Parents
| Father | Guerin Unknown (b. about 612, d. about 677) |
| Mother | Gunza Unknown (b. 612) |
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| Son | Sigrand Unknown+ (b. about 720) |
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| Marriage | Lambert Unknown was married.1 |
| Death | He died Y Y, Y.1 |
| User Reference Number | He; 18924 |
| Birth | He was born about 670.1 |
| His father Guerin Unknown died about 677. | |
| His son Sigrand Unknown was born about 720. |
Citations
- [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
Jeffrey Eric Hunt
M, #11778, Deceased, b. 1954, d. 2022
| Consanguinity | 3rd cousin 1 time removed of Adrian John Snelson |
Parents
| Father | Eric William Hunt (b. 29 June 1925, d. 20 November 1967) |
| Mother | Alice Ann Hilton (b. 1927, d. 2001) |
| Person References | Alice Lawton c1750 - Ellen Burtch Ellen Woods c 1755 - George Critchley c1716 - 1756 Hannah Clitheroe c 1782 - Margaret Wellesbey c1750 - Thomas Mollyneux |
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| User Reference Number | Jeffrey Eric Hunt; 24066 |
| Birth | He was born in 1954. |
| His father Eric William Hunt died on 20 November 1967 in Runcorn. | |
| His mother Alice Ann Hilton died in 2001. | |
| Death | Jeffrey Eric Hunt died in 2022, at age ~68. |
Vladimir I the Great Unknown1,2
M, #11786, Deceased, b. about 958, d. 15 July 1015
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Parents
| Father | Sviatoslaw I Unknown (b. about 942, d. March 972) |
| Mother | Malusha Unknown (d. about 1000) |
Family: Rogneda Unknown (b. 962, d. 1002)
| Son | Yaroslav I Unknown+ (b. about 978, d. 20 February 1054) |
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| Residence | Vladimir I the Great Unknown resided See notes.1 |
| User Reference Number | He; 18799 |
| Note | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Residence Saint Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great (c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestovo) was the grand prince of Kiev who converted to Christianity in 988, and proceeded to baptise the whole Kievan Rus. His name may be spelled in different ways: in Old East Slavic as Volodimir, in modern Ukrainian as Volodymyr, in Old Church Slavonic and modern Russian as Vladimir, in Old Norse as Valdamarr and the modern Scandinavian languages as Valdemar. Vladimir was the youngest son of Sviatoslav I of Kiev by his housekeeper Malusha, described in the Norse sagas as a prophetess who lived to the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future. Malusha's brother Dobrynya was Vladimir's tutor and most trusted advisor. Hagiographic tradition of dubious authenticity also connects his childhood with the name of his grandmother, Olga Prekrasa, who was Christian and governed the capital during Sviatoslav's frequent military campaigns. Transferring his capital to Preslavets in 969, Sviatoslav designated Vladimir ruler of Novgorod the Great but gave Kiev to his legitimate son Yaropolk. After Sviatoslav's death (972), a fratricidal war erupted (976) between Yaropolk and his younger brother Oleg, ruler of the Drevlians. In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsmen Haakon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway in Scandinavia, collecting as many of the Viking warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod, and on his return the next year marched against Yaropolk. On his way to Kiev he sent ambassadors to Rogvolod (Norse: Ragnvald), prince of Polotsk to sue for the hand of his daughter Rogneda (Norse: Ragnhild). The well-born princess refused to affiance herself to the son of a bondswoman, but Vladimir attacked Polotsk, slew Rogvolod, and took Ragnhild by force. Actually, Polotsk was a key fortress on the way to Kiev, and the capture of Polotsk and Smolensk facilitated the taking of Kiev (980), where he slew Yaropolk by treachery, and was proclaimed konung, or kagan, of all Kievan Rus. In addition to his father's extensive domain, Vladimir continued to expand his territories. In 981 he conquered the Cherven cities, the modern Galicia; in 983 he subdued the Yatvingians, whose territories lay between Lithuania and Poland; in 985 he led a fleet along the central rivers of Russia to conquer the Bulgars of the Kama, planting numerous fortresses and colonies on his way. Though Christianity had won many converts since Olga's rule, Vladimir had remained a thorough going pagan, taking eight hundred concubines (besides numerous wives) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods. It is argued that he attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing thunder-god Perun as a supreme deity. The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, as the result of a consultation with his boyars, Vladimir sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. The result is amusingly described by the chronicler Nestor. Of the Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga the envoys reported there is no gladness among them; only sorrow and a great stench, and that their religion was undesirable due to its taboo against alcoholic beverages and pork; supposedly, Vladimir said on that occasion: 'Drinking is the joy of the Rus'.' Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys (who may or may not have been Khazars), and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God. Ultimately Vladimir settled on Christianity. In the churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty; but at Constantinople, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: 'We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth,' they reported, describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, 'nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it.' If Vladimir was impressed by this account of his envoys, he was yet more so by political gains of the Byzantine alliance. In 988, having taken the town of Chersonesos in Crimea, he boldly negotiated for the hand of the emperor Basil II's sister, Anna. Never had a Greek imperial princess, and one 'born-in-the-purple' at that, married a barbarian before, as matrimonial offers of French kings and German emperors had been peremptorily rejected. In short, to marry the 27-year-old princess off to a pagan Slav seemed impossible. Vladimir, however, was baptized at Cherson, taking the Christian name of Basil out of compliment to his imperial brother-in-law; the sacrament was followed by his wedding with Anna. Returning to Kiev in triumph, he destroyed pagan monuments and established many churches, starting with the splendid Church of the Tithes (989) and monasteries on Mt. Athos. Arab sources, both Muslim and Christian, present a different story of Vladimir's conversion. Yahya of Antioch, al-Rudhrawari, al-Makin, al-Dimashki, and ibn al-Athir all give essentially the same account. In 987, Bardas Sclerus and Bardas Phocas revolted against the Byzantine emperor Basil II. Both rebels briefly joined forces, but then Bardas Phocas proclaimed himself emperor on September 14, 987. Basil II turned to the Rus for assistance, even though they were considered enemies at that time. Vladimir agreed, in exchange for a marital tie; he also agreed to accept Orthodox Christianity as his religion and bring his people to the new faith. When the wedding arrangements were settled, Vladimir dispatched 6,000 troops to the Byzantine Empire and they helped to put down the revolt. He now formed a great council out of his boyars, and set his twelve sons over his subject principalities. With his neighbors he lived at peace, the incursions of the Pechenegs alone disturbing his tranquillity. After Anna's death, he married again, most likely to a granddaughter of Otto the Great. He died at Berestovo, near Kiev, while on his way to chastise the insolence of his son, Prince Yaroslav of Novgorod. The various parts of his dismembered body were distributed among his numerous sacred foundations and were venerated as relics. One of the largest Kievan cathedrals is dedicated to him. The University of Kiev was named after the man who both civilized and Christianized Kievan Rus. There is the Order of St. Vladimir in Russia and Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in the United States. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the feast day of St. Vladimir on 15 July. His memory was also kept alive by innumerable Russian folk ballads and legends, which refer to him as Krasno Solnyshko, that is, the Fair Sun. With him the Varangian period of Eastern Slavic history ceases and the Christian period begins. Until his baptism, Vladimir I of Kiev (c.958 –1015) was described by Thietmar of Merseburg as a great profligate (Latin : fornicator maximus). He had a few hundred concubines in Kiev and in the country residence of Berestovo. He also had official pagan wives, the most famous being Rogneda of Polotsk. His other wives are mentioned in the Primary Chronicle, with various children assigned to various wives in the different versions of the document. Hence, speculations abound. Norse sagas mention that, while ruling in Novgorod in his early days, Vladimir had a Varangian wife named Olava or Allogia. This unusual name is probably a feminine form of Olaf. According to Snorri Sturluson the runaway Olaf Tryggvason was sheltered by Allogia in her house; she also paid a large fine for him. Several authorities, notably Rydzevskaya ('Ancient Rus and Scandinavia in 9-14 cent.', 1978), hold that later skalds confused Vladimir's wife Olava with his grandmother and tutor Olga, with Allogia being the distorted form of Olga's name. Others postulate Olava was a real person and the mother of Vysheslav, the first of Vladimir's sons to reign in Novgorod, as behooves the eldest son and heir. On the other hand, there is no evidence that the tradition of sending the eldest son of Kievan monarch to Novgorod existed at such an early date. Those scholars who believe that this early Norse wife was not fictitious, suppose that Vladimir could have married her during his famous exile in Scandinavia in the late 970s. They usually refer an account in Ingvars saga (in a part called Eymund's saga) which tells that Eric VI of Sweden married his daughter to a 'konung of fjord lying to the East from Holmgard'. This prince may have been Vladimir the Great. Rogneda of Polotsk is the best known of Vladimir's pagan wives, although her ancestry has fuelled the drollest speculations. The Primary Chronicle mentions three of Rogneda's sons - Izyaslav of Polotsk (+1001), Vsevolod of Volhynia (+ca 995), and Yaroslav the Wise. Following an old Yngling tradition, Izyaslav inherited the lands of his maternal grandfather, i.e., Polotsk. According to the Kievan succession law, his progeny forfeited their rights to the Kievan throne, because their forefather had never ruled in Kiev supreme. They, however, retained the principality of Polotsk and formed a dynasty of local rulers, of which Vseslav the Sorcerer was the most notable. During his unruly youth, Vladimir begot his eldest son, Sviatopolk, relations with whom would cloud his declining years. His mother was a Greek nun captured by Svyatoslav I in Bulgaria and married to his lawful heir Yaropolk I. Russian historian Vasily Tatischev, invariably erring in the matters of onomastics, gives her the fanciful Roman name of Julia. When Yaropolk was murdered by Vladimir's agents, the new sovereign raped his wife and she soon (some would say, too soon) gave birth to a child. Thus, Sviatopolk was probably the eldest of Vladimir's sons, although the issue of his parentage has been questioned and he has been known in the family as 'the son of two fathers'. Vladimir apparently had a Czech wife, whose name is given by Vasily Tatishchev as Malfrida. Historians have gone to extremes in order to provide a political rationale behind such an alliance, as the Czech princes are assumed to have backed up Vladimir's brother Yaropolk rather than Vladimir. His children by these marriage were probably Svyatoslav of Smolensk, killed during the 1015 internecine war, and Mstislav of Chernigov. Some chronicles, however, report that Rogneda was Mstislav's mother. Another wife was a Bulgarian lady, whose name is given by Tatishchev as Adela. Historians have disagreed as to whether she came from Volga Bulgaria or from Bulgaria on the Danube. According to the Primary Chronicle, both Boris and Gleb were her children. This tradition, however, is viewed by most scholars as a product of later hagiographical tendency to merge the identity of both saints. Actually, they were of different age and their names point to different cultural traditions. Judging by his Oriental name, Boris could have been Adela's only offspring. Anna Porphyrogeneta, daughter of Emperor Romanos II and Theophano, was the only princess of the Makedones, to have been married to a foreigner. The Byzantine emperors regarded the Franks and Russians as barbarians, refusing Hugues Capet's proposals to marry Anna to his son Robert I, so the Baptism of Kievan Rus was a prerequisite for this marriage. Following the wedding, Vladimir is said to have divorced all his pagan wives, although this claim is disputed. Regarded by later Russians as a saint, Anna was interred with her husband in the Church of the Tithes. Anna is not known to have had any children. Either her possible barrenness or the Byzantine house rule could account for this. If she had any progeny, the prestigious and much sought for imperial parentage would have certainly been advertised by her descendants. The hagiographic sources, contrary to the Primary Chronicle, posit Boris and Gleb as her offspring, on understanding that holy brothers should have had a holy mother. Anna is known to have predeceased Vladimir by four years. Thietmar of Merseburg, writing from contemporary accounts, mentions that Boleslaw I of Poland captured Vladimir's widow during his raid on Kiev in 1018. The historians long had no clue as to identity of this wife. The emigre historian Nicholas Baumgarten, however, pointed to the controversial record of the 'Genealogia Welforum' and the 'Historia Welforum Weingartensis' that one daughter of Count Kuno von Oenningen (future Duke Konrad of Swabia) by 'filia Ottonis Magni imperatoris' (Otto the Great's daughter; possibly Rechlinda Otona [Regelindis], claimed by some as illegitimate daughter and by others legitimate, born from his first marriage with Edith of Wessex) married 'rex Rugorum' (king of Russia). He interpreted this evidence as pertaining to Vladimir's last wife. It is believed that the only child of this alliance was Dobronega, or Maria, who married Casimir I of Poland between 1038 and 1042. As her father Vladimir died about 25 years before that marriage and she was still young enough to bear at least five children, including two future Polish dukes (Boleslaw II of Poland, who later became a king, and Wladyslaw Herman), it is thought probable that she was Vladimir's daughter by the last marriage. Some sources claimed Agatha, the wife of Edward the Exile of England, was another daughter of this marriage and full-sister of Dobronegra. Their marriage took place by the same time of Dobronegra's wedding (the date of birth of her first child support this) and this maybe because was double wedding of both sisters. This can resolve the question about the conection between Agatha and the Holy Roman Empire claimed by several medieval sources. There is also a case for Yaroslav's descent from Anna. According to this theory, Nestor the Chronicler deliberately represented Yaroslav as Rogneda's son, because he systematically removed all information concerning Kievan ties with Byzantium, spawning pro-Varangian bias (see Normanist theory for details). Proponents allege that Yaroslav's true age was falsified by Nestor, who attempted to represent him as 10 years older than he actually had been, in order to justify Yaroslav's seizure of the throne at the expense of his older brothers. The Primary Chronicle, for instance, says that Yaroslav died in 1054 at the age of 76, thus putting his birth at 978, whereas Vladimir's encounter and marriage to Yaroslav's purported mother Rogneda is dated to 980. Elsewhere, speaking about Yaroslav's rule in Novgorod (1016), Nestor says that Yaroslav was 28, thus putting his birth at 988. The forensic analysis of Yaroslav's skeleton seems to have confirmed these suspicions, estimating Yaroslav's birth at ca. 988-990, i.e., after the Baptism of Kievan Rus and Vladimir's divorce with Rogneda. Consequently, it is assumed that either Yaroslav was Vladimir's natural son born after the latter's baptism, or he was his son by Anna. Of course, if Yaroslav really had an imperial Byzantine descent, he wouldn't have missed the chance to publicize it. Some have seen the willingness of European kings to marry Yaroslav's daughters as an indication of this. Subsequent Polish chroniclers and historians, in particular, were eager to view Yaroslav as Anna's son. Recent proponents envoke onomastic arguments, which have often proved decisive in the matters of medieval prosopography. It is curious that Yaroslav named his elder son Vladimir (after his own father) and his eldest daughter Anna (as if after his own mother). Also, there is a certain pattern in his sons having Slavic names (as Vladimir), and his daughters having Greek names only (as Anna). However, in the absence of better sources, Anna's maternity remains a pure speculation. Vladimir had several children whose maternity cannot be established with certainty. These include two sons, Stanislav of Smolensk and Sudislav of Pskov, the latter outliving all of his siblings. There is also one daughter, named Predslava, who was captured by Boleslaw I in Kiev and taken with him to Poland as a concubine. Another daughter, Premyslava, is attested in numerous (though rather late) Hungarian sources as the wife of Duke Ladislaus, one of the early Arpadians. |
| Birth | He was born about 958.2,1 |
| His father Sviatoslaw I Unknown died in March 972. | |
| His son Yaroslav I Unknown was born about 978. | |
| Marriage | Vladimir I the Great Unknown and Rogneda Unknown were married about 980.2,1 |
| His mother Malusha Unknown died about 1000. | |
| His wife Rogneda Unknown died in 1002. | |
| Death | He died on 15 July 1015, at age ~57.2,1 |
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Jone (or Jane) Bostock1
F, #11788, Deceased
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Parents
| Father | Sir Adam Bostock (b. 22 February 1412, d. 30 April 1475) |
Family: Robert Bostocke, of Holt, (b. 1442)
| Son | Robert Bostocke+ (b. 1460, d. after 1490) |
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| Also Known As | Jone (or Jane) Bostock was also known as Jane Bostocke. |
| Marriage | Jone (or Jane) Bostock and Robert Bostocke, of Holt, were married. |
| Residence | She resided in Bostocke or Churton. |
| BirthIlleg | She; She was the base daughter of the last Adam Lord of Bostock. |
| User Reference Number | She; 5078 |
| Her son Robert Bostocke was born in 1460 in Churton, Cheshire, England. | |
| Her father Sir Adam Bostock died on 30 April 1475. |
Citations
- [S1267] Harleian MSS Bostock of Churton
Giselbert Unknown1
M, #11795, Deceased, b. 830, d. 892
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Family: Ermengarde Unknown (b. about 826, d. 849)
| Son | Regnier I Unknown+ (d. 25 August 915) |
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| User Reference Number | Giselbert Unknown; 18674 |
| Birth | He was born in 830.1 |
| Marriage | Giselbert Unknown and Ermengarde Unknown were married in 846.1 |
| His wife Ermengarde Unknown died in 849. | |
| Death | He died in 892, at age ~62.1 |
Citations
- [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
May Hunt
F, #11796, Deceased, b. 22 May 1913, d. 24 April 2013
| Consanguinity | 2nd cousin 1 time removed of Adrian John Snelson |
Parents
| Father | Peter Hunt (d. 1941) |
| Mother | Mary Edwardson (b. 1869, d. 1915) |
| Person References | Alice Lawton c1750 - Ellen Burtch Ellen Woods c 1755 - George Critchley c1716 - 1756 Hannah Clitheroe c 1782 - Margaret Wellesbey c1750 - Thomas Mollyneux |
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| User Reference Number | May Hunt; 23803 |
| Birth | She was born on 22 May 1913 in Widnes, Lancashire, England. |
| Her mother Mary Edwardson died in 1915. | |
| Her father Peter Hunt died in 1941 in Widnes, Lancashire, England. | |
| Death | May Hunt died on 24 April 2013, at age 99, in Widnes, Lancashire, England. |
William Saunders
M, #11797, Deceased, b. 1456
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| Daughter | Margery Saunders+ (b. 1486) |
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| User Reference Number | William Saunders; 4912 |
| Birth | He was born in 1456. |
| His daughter Margery Saunders was born in 1486. | |
| Residence | He resided about 1500 We think that he was alive.1 |
Citations
- [S522] Date estimated on 25 year generations