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Leo van de Pas

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May 20, 2013, 8:29:04 PM5/20/13
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The future Emperor Romanos III Argyros in 1028 was forced by Emperor
Constantine VIII to divorce his wife so he could marry the Emperor's
daughter and so succeed to the throne.



By looking around I found his first wife was Helena and she was forced into
a convent after their divorce.



Only an unnamed daughter is mentioned who was engaged to Holy Roman Emperor
Heinrich III



Romanos Argyros lived from 968 to 1034





Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
till the present.



If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
wife Helena.



Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?



With many thanks

Leo van de Pas

Canberra, Australia

Bronwen Edwards

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May 21, 2013, 12:21:54 AM5/21/13
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Leo, this doesn't have anything to do with your question but all of the Google threads have disappeared for the past two days. I tried to use Rootsweb to get the threads, but your post was the only one that came through. I would like to know if anyone else is having this problem or if I have done something terrible to my computer somehow. Thank you, Bronwen


>________________________________
> From: Leo van de Pas <can...@netspeed.com.au>
>To: Gen-Med <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:29 PM
>Subject: Byzantine question

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Renia

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May 21, 2013, 4:48:06 AM5/21/13
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On 21/05/2013 05:21, Bronwen Edwards wrote:
> Leo, this doesn't have anything to do with your question but all of
> the Google threads have disappeared for the past two days. I tried to
> use Rootsweb to get the threads, but your post was the only one that
> came through. I would like to know if anyone else is having this
> problem or if I have done something terrible to my computer somehow.
> Thank you, Bronwen

I'm in the UK so the dates and times of threads are different.

The only threads and posts so far today that I can see are:

Byzantine Question (Leo) 01:29
Byzantine Question (Bronwen) 05:21

Elizabeth Cobham (Doug) 01:48
Elizabeth Cobham (Jan) 03:32
ElizabethCobham (John Watson) 05:25

Yesterday, 20th May

Jane Empson's birth year (Will) 03:08
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (Kelsey) 10:01
Origins of the Despenser (poohroo) 14:09
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (JohnnyBrananas) 14:40
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (JohnnyBrananas) 16:28
Elizabeth Cobham (Doug) 21:13

And for 19th May:

Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (Johnny) 00:57
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (Matt) 00:54
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (Kelsey) 00:57
Hender of Botreaux Castle (Jim Baker) 03:51
Hender of Botreaux Castle (Will) 06:17
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (Kelsey) 10:46
Hender of Botreaux Castle (Jim Baker) 10:00
Jane Empson's birth year (Will) 13:59
Elizabeth Empson (Will) 18:06
Elizabeth Empson (Will) 18:12
Any Scots royal lines for John Borland (JohnnyBrananas) 18:59

Sjostrom

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May 21, 2013, 6:57:56 AM5/21/13
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Leo,

Precisely as I have posted to you on 2 November 2009 and on 22 January 2013
and in some messages also between those dates,
I think (and my sources report) that

1) king Bagrat IV's son and successor, king Giorgi II, was born of his
second wife Borena. Present-day Bagrationi progeny derives via Giorgi II,
so they consequently seem not to be descendants of Argyros.
As I recall, I am not aware of any longer-term descendancy from Bagrat IV's
other wives.


2) Genealogics person id nr I00512512,
Bagrat IV, King of Abkhazia and Kartvelians
(bc 1018; d 24 nov 1072; buried at Chkondidi monastery)
had two wives. His second wife (married bef c1040) was:
Borena of Alaunia (born in est 1020s; d aft 1072)
herself SISTER of:

Dorgholel of Ossetia, king of Alauns

Don Stone

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May 21, 2013, 1:31:16 PM5/21/13
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On 5/20/2013 6:29 PM, Leo van de Pas wrote:
> The future Emperor Romanos III Argyros in 1028 was forced by Emperor
> Constantine VIII to divorce his wife so he could marry the Emperor's
> daughter and so succeed to the throne.
>
> By looking around I found his first wife was Helena and she was forced into
> a convent after their divorce.
>
> Only an unnamed daughter is mentioned who was engaged to Holy Roman Emperor
> Heinrich III
>
> Romanos Argyros lived from 968 to 1034
>
> Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
> daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
> till the present.
>
> If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
> which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
> wife Helena.
>
> Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?
>
>
> With many thanks
>
> Leo van de Pas

Leo,

Cyril Toumanoff's _Les dynasties de la Caucasie chr�tienne_ (1990), p.
134 (Table 22), says that Bagrat III/IV (1018-1072) of Georgia married
first in 1032/3 H�l�ne, daughter of Basil Argyros and niece of Emperor
Romanos III Argyros.

-- Don Stone

Kay Allen

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May 21, 2013, 3:41:20 PM5/21/13
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Bronwen,

I haven't seen some of these that Renia mentions either.

I am also in California. Are you on At&T?

K




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From: Renia <re...@otenet.gr>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: Byzantine question and "missing threads"

Don Stone

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May 21, 2013, 7:29:21 PM5/21/13
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On 5/21/2013 11:31 AM, Don Stone wrote:
> On 5/20/2013 6:29 PM, Leo van de Pas wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
>> daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
>> till the present.
>>
>> If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
>> which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
>> wife Helena.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?
> Cyril Toumanoff's _Les dynasties de la Caucasie chr�tienne_ (1990), p.
> 134 (Table 22), says that Bagrat III/IV (1018-1072) of Georgia married
> first in 1032/3 H�l�ne, daughter of Basil Argyros and niece of Emperor
> Romanos III Argyros.
It appears that the marriage of Basil Argyros' daughter Helena to Bagrat
IV was part of a peace deal negotiated in 1032. See /John Skylitzes: A
Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811--1057/, translation and notes by John
Wortley (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010), p. 357.

-- Don

Wjhonson

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May 21, 2013, 7:44:38 PM5/21/13
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Modern books are generally all available for sale on Amazon *with* the addition that you can "Look Inside", which you generally cannot do for resale books.

http://www.amazon.com/John-Skylitzes-Synopsis-Byzantine-Translation/dp/1107404746

Click to Look Inside
Type 1032 as your search term
and it will take you right to page 157








-----Original Message-----
From: Don Stone <d...@donstonetech.com>
To: gen-medieval <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tue, May 21, 2013 4:34 pm
Subject: Re: Byzantine question


On 5/21/2013 11:31 AM, Don Stone wrote:
> On 5/20/2013 6:29 PM, Leo van de Pas wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
>> daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
>> till the present.
>>
>> If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
>> which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
>> wife Helena.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?
> Cyril Toumanoff's _Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne_ (1990), p.
> 134 (Table 22), says that Bagrat III/IV (1018-1072) of Georgia married
> first in 1032/3 Hélène, daughter of Basil Argyros and niece of Emperor
> Romanos III Argyros.
It appears that the marriage of Basil Argyros' daughter Helena to Bagrat
IV was part of a peace deal negotiated in 1032. See /John Skylitzes: A
Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811--1057/, translation and notes by John
Wortley (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010), p. 357.

-- Don

Wjhonson

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May 21, 2013, 7:45:07 PM5/21/13
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recte page 357 is where it will take you

Renia

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May 21, 2013, 9:16:31 PM5/21/13
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On 21/05/2013 20:41, Kay Allen wrote:
> Bronwen,
>
> I haven't seen some of these that Renia mentions either.
>
> I am also in California. Are you on At&T?


At&T ?? What's that?

Bronwen Edwards

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May 22, 2013, 1:10:29 AM5/22/13
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On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:41:20 PM UTC-7, Kay Allen wrote:
> Bronwen,
>
>
>
> I haven't seen some of these that Renia mentions either.
>
>
>
> I am also in California. Are you on At&T?
>
>
>
> K
>
>
Today I re-loaded all of my Google stuff and the posts reappeared. I am not on AT&T. I think something happened in Google and it had to be re-started. On the other hand, I resubscribed on Rootsweb and nothing has come up at all from them.
Bronwen

Renia

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May 22, 2013, 4:44:54 AM5/22/13
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What is AT&T?
Message has been deleted

Adrian Ballard

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May 22, 2013, 11:20:15 AM5/22/13
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Hi

Can any body please help me ! - I recently found a link online to a
publication that only contains an index.

I believe this to be in 3 volumes this one being Vol. lll - An Index -
Although very useful it would be good

to find Vol. l & ll - so I can glean the information I am interested in -
The details of the book are below with
the references I seek.

As anybody access to these are can any body look them up for me.

Best Wishes
Adrian Ballard



THE HISTORY OF
Totnes Priory & Medieval Town
DEVONSHIRE
BY
HUGH R. WATKIN 1917
GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUMES I AND II

Ballard :
Rogerus, 35.
Thoma, vicar of Rattrwe, 87 (283)
Willelmus, son of Thoma, 88 {298), 218, 228, 231.
Ricardus, no (i), 114 (4), 123 (2), 166 (4), 206.
Walterus, 216.
Ballonde :
Ricardus, [1342] 1076, 278 (7),

Ratdone. See Raddon. Rattery, Rattre, Rattriu, Rattru
Thoma Ballard, 87 {283) ; admitted to guild, 916.

Kallard ;
Walterus, 218, 218.
Ricardus, 218.

Martinus Adhelard, 82 {176).

Adelard, Athelard, Adtelard, Adhulard :
Elena, daughter of Ydonia and Martinus, and wife of Willelmus Casse, 85
(244).
Luka, 207. ?
Martini, 66 (186).
Martinus, 71 (30) ;
Martinus, filius, 72 (100), succeeded by
Rogerus de Lolles- forde, 82 (176).
Ydenia, wife of Martinus, daughter of Adam Stranga, 85 (243) (244).
Martinus, 85 (244).

Alardus : 67 (246).
Ricardus filius, 64 (84).
the Sheriff, 1045.

Alanus : family of Fitz, 19.
son of Count Stephanus, 18 ;
Count, 1013.
filius Fraaldi or Flaeld, 19, 21.
fitz Ronald, 19.
Ran., 64 (72) ;
Radulf Alan, 107.
Alanni: Ricardus, 63 (14b).


http://ia600303.us.archive.org/32/items/cu31924091781348/cu31924091781348.pdf




Wjhonson

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A phone company in the US






-----Original Message-----
From: Renia <re...@otenet.gr>
To: gen-medieval <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wed, May 22, 2013 1:52 am
Subject: Re: Byzantine question and "missing threads"


Wjhonson

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May 22, 2013, 11:52:21 AM5/22/13
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You can get the ebook for 10 bucks

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?tn=History+Totnes+Priory+Medieval+Town,+Devonshire









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From: Adrian Ballard <balla...@hotmail.com>
To: gen-medieval <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>

John Higgins

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May 22, 2013, 12:15:38 PM5/22/13
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On May 22, 8:52 am, Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote:
> You can get the ebook for 10 bucks
>
> http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?tn=History+Totnes+Prior...
> http://ia600303.us.archive.org/32/items/cu31924091781348/cu3192409178...
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How can you tell WHICH volumes are being offered for sale at this
website?

Volume I is available - for free - via the Internet Archive.
http://archive.org/details/cu31924091781322

Also volume III - but not volume II:
http://archive.org/details/cu31924091781348

From the table of contents, it appears that the genealogical
information is in volume II, alas.

Wjhonson

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May 22, 2013, 12:30:52 PM5/22/13
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It is a three volume set. They are offering for ten bucks for the ebook, all three volumes, as one download
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-MEDIEV...@rootsweb.com

John Higgins

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May 22, 2013, 12:38:10 PM5/22/13
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> Volume I is available - for free - via the Internet Archive.http://archive.org/details/cu31924091781322
>
> Also volume III - but not volume II:http://archive.org/details/cu31924091781348
>
> >From the table of contents, it appears that the genealogical
> information is in volume II, alas.
>
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Ummm....how exactly do you know that? It's certainly not clear from
the description on the seller's website.
Message has been deleted

Joe

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May 22, 2013, 12:45:40 PM5/22/13
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All three are available at HathiTrust

http://tinyurl.com/q87a724

Wjhonson

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http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1334697947&searchurl=tn%3DHistory%2BTotnes%2BPriory%2BMedieval%2BTown%252C%2BDevonshire

Original volumes, $275 US







-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wed, May 22, 2013 8:52 am
Subject: Re: THE HISTORY OF Totnes Priory & Medieval Town


You can get the ebook for 10 bucks

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?tn=History+Totnes+Priory+Medieval+Town,+Devonshire
http://ia600303.us.archive.org/32/items/cu31924091781348/cu31924091781348.pdf





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Renia

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On 22/05/2013 11:39, Johnny Brananas wrote:
> > What is AT&T?
>
> American Telephone & Telegraph. Try it ... you might like it!

Don't I have to live in America to try it?

Bronwen Edwards

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May 23, 2013, 12:21:37 AM5/23/13
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Yes. Don't know why anyone would suggest it to someone living elsewhere.
Message has been deleted

Renia

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On 23/05/2013 12:54, Johnny Brananas wrote:
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>>>> American Telephone & Telegraph. Try it ... you might like it!
>>
>>> Don't I have to live in America to try it?
>>
>> Yes. Don't know why anyone would suggest it to someone living elsewhere.
>
> The point is ... why would you pester a genealogy newsgroup with
> questions about it when you have Google at your fingertips?

No, that wasn't the point. The point is you assume everyone on the
newsgroup is American. You made a wrong assumption, now you're covering
your tracks. You didn't actually have to reply in the first place.
Message has been deleted

Bronwen Edwards

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On Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:23:32 AM UTC-7, Johnny Brananas wrote:
> > No, that wasn't the point. The point is you assume everyone on the
>
> > newsgroup is American. You made a wrong assumption, now you're covering
>
> > your tracks. You didn't actually have to reply in the first place.
>
>
>
> What a laughable buffoon you are, Renia.

And when you resort to name-calling, it is an admission of being wrong. You have no more to say.

Adrian Ballard

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May 23, 2013, 4:49:45 PM5/23/13
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A "Big Thanks" to those that were able to help my last request.

I have another favor to ask.

I am trying to find the details of the following entries below from the following publication. - Can anybody help
is there an online source I can access.

Regards Adrian Ballard.




Visitations by the Heralds in Wales
Michael Powell Siddons
Harleian Society, 1996

page. 187. Gules, a horse's head erased Agent, bridled & reined Or, Sir David Ballard, Knight
page. 189, Sir David Ballard, Jane Ballard.
page 168, Richard Ballard.
v.xv, 1-2 William Ballard March King of Arms

page 224 pedigree (Ballard)



Adrian Ballard

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May 24, 2013, 10:34:11 AM5/24/13
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THE HISTORY OF Totnes Priory & Medieval Town

I checked with Abe Books purchase what they had shown and they do not have
Volume 2.

If anybody has any Ideas how to get a copy or the data I need inside I wound
appreciate it!

Regards,
Adrian Ballard

I Already have - Vol.1 & Vol.3 now ;-) thanks jim.


Joe

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Are you unable to read the copy at HathiTrust?

http://tinyurl.com/q87a724

Adrian Ballard

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May 24, 2013, 4:33:42 PM5/24/13
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Hi Joe - No I cant, am I doing something wrong - can you ?



Limited (search only)v.2
This item is not available online ( Limited - search only) due to copyright restrictions. Learn More »

Regards Adrian

Joe

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May 24, 2013, 5:02:35 PM5/24/13
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Yes I can, I was also able to download the entire book as a pdf. If
you don't need too many pages, I can email them too you. I would send
you the entire pdf but it is 48 mb.

Joe

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May 24, 2013, 6:30:29 PM5/24/13
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On May 24, 1:33 pm, "Adrian Ballard" <ballard...@hotmail.com> wrote:
It turns out it was easy to split the book into 3 parts of about 15MB
each. I uploaded them here: http://tinyurl.com/pyuf5b9 They are at
the bottom of the page with the names Totnes v2a_1, Totnes v2a_2 and
Totnes v2a_3.

I will interested to know if this works for sharing books with those
who cannot see them outside the US.

Adrian Ballard

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May 24, 2013, 6:50:04 PM5/24/13
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LOL... Joe that works fine - thanks for doing that - seems we in the uk cant
access a lot of the content

your pages look impressive - will have a nose around went I have time
later...

SO

I noticed you did not have a copy of the following - can you get it the same
way - its in google books
But allas limited acces to me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Visitations by the Heralds in Wales
Michael Powell Siddons
Harleian Society, 1996


Regards Adrian Ballard




--------------------------------------------------
From: "Adrian Ballard" <balla...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:33 PM
To: <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
Subject: Re: THE HISTORY OF Totnes Priory & Medieval Town

> Hi Joe - No I cant, am I doing something wrong - can you ?
>
>
>
> Limited (search only)v.2
> This item is not available online ( Limited - search only) due to
> copyright restrictions. Learn More �
>
> Regards Adrian
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 24, 7:34 am, "Adrian Ballard" <ballard...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> THE HISTORY OF Totnes Priory & Medieval Town
>>
>> I checked with Abe Books purchase what they had shown and they do not
>> have
>> Volume 2.
>>
>> If anybody has any Ideas how to get a copy or the data I need inside I
>> wound
>> appreciate it!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrian Ballard
>>
>> I Already have - Vol.1 & Vol.3 now ;-) thanks jim.
>
> Are you unable to read the copy at HathiTrust?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/q87a724
>
>
>
>
>

Renia

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May 24, 2013, 7:40:00 PM5/24/13
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On 24/05/2013 23:50, Adrian Ballard wrote:
>
> LOL... Joe that works fine - thanks for doing that - seems we in the uk
> cant access a lot of the content


I'm guessing that we in the UK can't access a lot of Googlebook stuff
because over here, we have different copyright laws.

John H

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Hi Joe,
I was able to finally read them from your tinyurl contribution and I am not
in USA.
Thanks
John H


"Joe" <coc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:eff6bced-8e91-4dfb...@li6g2000pbb.googlegroups.com...

Cristopher Nash

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May 25, 2013, 2:20:55 PM5/25/13
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It's true, Renia. And Joe <coc...@gmail.com> wrote on 24 May 2013 —

> It turns out it was easy to split the book into 3 parts of about 15MB
> each. I uploaded them here: http://tinyurl.com/pyuf5b9 They are at
> the bottom of the page with the names Totnes v2a_1, Totnes v2a_2 and
> Totnes v2a_3.
>
> I will interested to know if this works for sharing books with those
> who cannot see them outside the US.

Many thanks, Joe, for this thoughtful & helpful contribution. It works invaluably for me, currently deep & paradoxically at it — in Devon(!). 'Paradoxically' also because I've until recently spent 2 years ransacking the archives in search of Watkins' legendary ms for the Vol. 2 sequel to his magisterial Dartmouth—Vol. I.—Pre-Reformation. (For others interested in that one, the news is not so good.)

Cris

Wjhonson

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I just want to point out that Bagrat was not
born in 1018 and he did not die in 1072
as the below might lead one to suppose.

Rather he was a hostage to Basil in 1019
and then called "boy" and this is his first
appearance in the record.

Similarly he was "living" in 1072.
His birth year and death year are unknown.








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From: Don Stone <d...@donstonetech.com>
To: gen-medieval <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tue, May 21, 2013 10:34 am
Subject: Re: Byzantine question


On 5/20/2013 6:29 PM, Leo van de Pas wrote:
> The future Emperor Romanos III Argyros in 1028 was forced by Emperor
> Constantine VIII to divorce his wife so he could marry the Emperor's
> daughter and so succeed to the throne.
>
> By looking around I found his first wife was Helena and she was forced into
> a convent after their divorce.
>
> Only an unnamed daughter is mentioned who was engaged to Holy Roman Emperor
> Heinrich III
>
> Romanos Argyros lived from 968 to 1034
>
> Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
> daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
> till the present.
>
> If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
> which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
> wife Helena.
>
> Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?
>
>
> With many thanks
>
> Leo van de Pas

Leo,

Cyril Toumanoff's _Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne_ (1990), p.
134 (Table 22), says that Bagrat III/IV (1018-1072) of Georgia married
first in 1032/3 Hélène, daughter of Basil Argyros and niece of Emperor
Romanos III Argyros.

-- Don Stone

Wjhonson

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May 27, 2013, 9:27:28 PM5/27/13
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That she was his neice, not daughter

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-----Original Message-----
From: Leo van de Pas <can...@netspeed.com.au>
To: Gen-Med <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Mon, May 20, 2013 5:29 pm
Subject: Byzantine question


The future Emperor Romanos III Argyros in 1028 was forced by Emperor
Constantine VIII to divorce his wife so he could marry the Emperor's
daughter and so succeed to the throne.



By looking around I found his first wife was Helena and she was forced into
a convent after their divorce.



Only an unnamed daughter is mentioned who was engaged to Holy Roman Emperor
Heinrich III



Romanos Argyros lived from 968 to 1034





Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
till the present.



If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
wife Helena.



Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?



With many thanks

Leo van de Pas

Canberra, Australia

Don Stone

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May 27, 2013, 10:00:00 PM5/27/13
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Toumanoff (1990, p. 134) says that Bagrat was born in 1018 (no month or
day supplied), so this may be a generally accepted approximation.
However, he says that Bagrat died 14 November 1072. Wikipedia says
Bagrat died on 24 November 1072, referencing David M. Lang's _The
Georgians_ (1966), p. 111. So I have _some_ confidence in 1072 as the
year of death; if I had to know for sure, I would see what Lang says and
perhaps look at other sources.

-- Don Stone


On 5/27/2013 6:53 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
> I just want to point out that Bagrat was not
> born in 1018 and he did not die in 1072
> as the below might lead one to suppose.
>
> Rather he was a hostage to Basil in 1019
> and then called "boy" and this is his first
> appearance in the record.
>
> Similarly he was "living" in 1072.
> His birth year and death year are unknown.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Stone <d...@donstonetech.com>
> To: gen-medieval <gen-me...@rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Tue, May 21, 2013 10:34 am
> Subject: Re: Byzantine question
>
> On 5/20/2013 6:29 PM, Leo van de Pas wrote:
> > The future Emperor Romanos III Argyros in 1028 was forced by Emperor
> > Constantine VIII to divorce his wife so he could marry the Emperor's
> > daughter and so succeed to the throne.
> >
> > By looking around I found his first wife was Helena and she was forced into
> > a convent after their divorce.
> >
> > Only an unnamed daughter is mentioned who was engaged to Holy Roman Emperor
> > Heinrich III
> >
> > Romanos Argyros lived from 968 to 1034
> >
> > Bagrat IV of Georgia lived from 1018 to 1072 married as a first wife Helena
> > daughter of Romanos Argyros, and from this marriage there are descendants
> > till the present.
> >
> > If Bagrat's wife was younger, she would have been born between 1018 and 1028
> > which could make her a daughter of Emperor Romanos III Argyros and his first
> > wife Helena.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm (or deny) this?
> >
> >
> > With many thanks
> >
> > Leo van de Pas
>
> Leo,
>
> Cyril Toumanoff's _Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne_ (1990), p.
> 134 (Table 22), says that Bagrat III/IV (1018-1072) of Georgia married
> first in 1032/3 Hélène, daughter of Basil Argyros and niece of Emperor
> Romanos III Argyros.
>
> -- Don Stone
>
>
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Wjhonson

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May 28, 2013, 10:36:56 AM5/28/13
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There is some dicussion on this birthyear question
in Medlands where he points out (obtusely) that
part of the issue is determining exactly when the father
died as the son is said to be "nine" at that time.

So it's a dependent year, one based on the other
chicken and egg.
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