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@salisburythefox8324

3 жыл бұрын

oh oof. Didn't kno he as in that house. Also 100? Nice

@UsefulCharts

3 жыл бұрын

@@salisburythefox8324 99. Two months short of 100 :(

@salisburythefox8324

3 жыл бұрын

@@UsefulCharts OH my apogolies

@adamlen3513

3 жыл бұрын

@@UsefulCharts I thought that Jadwiga, King of Poland's sister, Mary was also crowned King of Hungary, (later co-ruler with Sigismund). Wouldn't that be worth mentioning? If you excluded this info on purpose or didn't think important to mention please just ignore my comment. Nevertheless great video. Thanks for the work you put in them. :)

@UsefulCharts

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamlen3513 Definitely worth noting. I'll add it.

I love these videos. It's a complete perspective shift for how we usually look at royal dynasties. I also love how strict you are with defining who belongs to a matrilineal dynasty and who doesn't. It really highlights how arbitrary our system of patrilineal houses is.

@KassandraTheCleric

2 жыл бұрын

So true. ANd these were remarkable women in their own right. You have to wonder how much influence these women had behind the throne. Things are very different with the following of salic law, but in other ways they are very much the same. I'm always a bit blown away at how interconnected all the royal houses are and have been. There is that picture taken right before the first word war with the King of Englan, King of Prussia and the Czar of Russia and they all look exactly alike. When you look at this poster and see a connection at some point with all the houses it just kind of blows your mind.

6:59 Mentioning that Charles became King of Sicily after saying how his siblings both became saints makes it sound like it was a consolation prize lol. Like "Sorry for not being a made a saint, here's Sicily."

Omg, I'm sooo fascinated that we still have records of all those names!

@jenniferdevlin2805

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing I can say is that with Royalty their births and deaths are recorded not always accurately but they are recorded.

@dorderre

3 жыл бұрын

yeah it's a shame that female lines tend to be neglected by historians. Male lines can be traced for centuries, even millennia (for example the japanese line of Tennos, the german house of Welf and the french house of Capet with its various branches), but female ancestry rarely gets any attention. So thanks to Matt they finally get a glimpse of the attention they deserve =)

@l2516

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about your heritage but you should definitely try to build your own family tree. I am not even descended from royalty but was able to trace my own family tree back to the 13th Century:)) including their names

@mycroftwatson6441

3 жыл бұрын

@@l2516 most people can't trace back their lineages that far because millions of records were destroyed throughout the centuries or countless family members weren't recorded at all. I could trace back mine to the 16th century thanks to former nobility, but so many members are missing, no birth or death records in sight...

@evearcana2392

2 жыл бұрын

@@mycroftwatson6441 can you share what you used to research your family tree back that far?

I love those matrilineal charts, because there is a biological correlate: the mitochondria are given to the next generation only though the mothers. So in effect a mother gives some of her Mitochondria to her children via her egg. And her daughter gives a copy of that inherited mitochondria to her children. And so on though the ages. So Madeleine has copies of mitochondria of Gesenda in her body

@hispanicyoutubeperson6100

2 жыл бұрын

I already knew about that, but it is really interesting! The Y-Chromosome only passes from father to son and so on, and though the Mitochondrial DNA can pass from mother to son, a son can’t pass it on and only through matrilineal descent it passes on (from mother to daughter and so on).

@MarinaMontserrat

4 ай бұрын

♀️Matrilineal = mitochondrial DNA ♂️Patrilineal = Y chromosoma DNA +family name

@cloverisfan818

3 ай бұрын

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

@peachy_talisman

2 ай бұрын

@@cloverisfan818 yes it is 💪

@stephenforrest9301

15 күн бұрын

This was literally the reason why they approached Prince Philip to identify the body of Czarina Alexandrina of Russia, because he was a known matrilineal relative.

Might I suggest that you look into a woman called Beatrice of Savoy, she was a progenitor for several queen regnants like Mary Queen of Scots and Lady Jane Grey!!!

@aceofspades8634

2 жыл бұрын

It’s so interesting reading your comment now, because for the past few months, I’ve actually been working on her matrilineal dynasty! It is so interesting and definitely worth looking into. I’m not even close to being finished but there are already more queens than in the Eleanor of Aquitaine matrilineal dynasty!

@rightingtheirwrongs1422

2 жыл бұрын

@@aceofspades8634 Cost.

@skinnyway

Ай бұрын

@@aceofspades8634 did you finish it?

@aceofspades8634

Ай бұрын

@@skinnyway I stopped on the project when my computer broke, but I had finished everything except completing the portraits by that point! 🥳

Actually king Jadwiga wasn’t a mother of Casimir. He was a son of her husband and later king of Poland - Władysław Jagiello. He had another wife that gave him sons. Jadwiga died in her teens along her only child. Don’t take it as an assault, I just think its important to correct. Great video!

@UsefulCharts

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, someone else pointed that out too. Fortunately, I have time to change it before printing the poster version. Thanks.

@RexOlafusVidulusMagnus

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, Jadwiga was in her mid-twenties, not teens

@jitaamesuluma9730

3 жыл бұрын

thank you for correcting this , though god knows i got so many lines to learn , not sure quite how i will keep it all straight in my mind

@Mia3301

3 жыл бұрын

@@UsefulCharts also, she was a king, not a queen, consort or regnant. Her official title was "king" because she was the heir to the throne. She outranked Jagiello, he only became king when she died because of lack of better options, I think :D Look how progressive Poland was back in the 1300s! A woman on the throne? No problem! Take that, 16th c. England!

@matthewcastleton2263

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mia3301 no, Jadwiga did not outrank Jagiello. She was Co-monarch of Poland with her husband who became Władysław II upon his conversion to Catholicism. The law at that time was that a man became the legal possessor of his wife's lands upon getting married. This is called jure uxoris, which means "by right of his wife." Think of it similarly to how modern property law works in most cases. If a man or woman dies, their spouse usually manages their house/estate for the rest of their lives, at which point the children of said couple inherit the estate. Unless they had no children to begin with, and then the spouse of said deceased person becomes the owner of the estate. This is the same in monarchies, as the eldest son of the deceased monarch usually inherits his father's/mother's crown/estate, but if their other parent is still living, on occasion said parent will continue to run the monarchy, especially if they are male and the eldest child is too young to rule/manage affairs (a Regent). Many women in Medieval Europe were legally ineligible to own property unless they were married, and this was the case with Jadwiga. Her husband became the legal possessor of her estate upon her death, and beings that they had no living children, he remained as sole monarch for another 30+ years after her death. Plus he was already a monarch anyway as Grand Duke of Lithuania, and under Casimir IV, Władysław II's son with his second wife, Lithuania and Poland were officially united into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. However, later monarchs of Poland were actually descended from the Piast dynasty through female lines, as Casimir IV married and had children with Elizabeth of Austria, who was a descendant of Casimir III of Poland through his daughter Elisabeth, Duchess of Pomerania. That marriage likely happened so the royal Piast blood would continue to be present in future Polish monarchs, similarly to the reason behind why Henry I of England married Matilda of Scotland (because she was descended from the Anglo-Saxon Kings to the lay person).

I love the matrilineal lines as it is such an unknow area of royal history and it's amazing to learn it RIP HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

The roman empire is actually really interesting to look at from a matrilineal perspective, many of the empresses descend from Julia, Augustus's only child. There was also a series of emperors who only had daughters who were then married to the chosen heir

I love this. As a child I learned that Arab horse breeders kept track of the mares' pedigree. They found it more reliable. The English did not keep up the practice as they recorded their "thoroughbred" horses. I love this.

It's gonna be a good day when Useful Charts posts a new video.

@Lucas-vp7jh

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly not today because prince Phillip died but I still loved his video

@locutusest

3 жыл бұрын

Always!

Thank you @UsefulCharts for releasing this video on this very sad sad day. R.I.P. H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

I believe Eleanor's line continued for one more generation through Latin Empress Berengaria of Leon. Her and Latin Emperor John de Brienne's daughter Marie de Brienne also became a Latin Empress.

You missed Marie of Brienne and her son Philip of Courtney as Latin Empress (consort) and Latin Emperor respectively, and Eleanor of Portugal (Junior Queen consort of Denmark) for the “House of Eleanor”. As for Euphrosyne, there is a lot: Joan of Taranto, Marie of Korikos and Theodora Syrgiannaina (Queens consorts of Armenia), Anna of Macsó (Empress consort of Bulgaria), Constance of Hungary and Yuri I of Galicia (Queen consort and King of Rus’), Maria of Bytom (Queen consort of Hungary and Croatia), Andrew of Hungary (King consort of Naples), possibly Anna von Schweidnitz (HRE, Germany, Bohemia, Italy) and her son Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia? (Bohemia, Germany), Anne of Bavaria (Queen consort of Germany and Bohemia), Christina of Saxony and her son Christian II of Denmark (Queen consort and King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (yes that Prince Albert, Consort of the British monarch), Frederick VII of Denmark (King of Denmark), Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Prince consort of the Netherlands), Marie of Prussia and her sons Ludwig II and Otto of Bavaria (Queen consort and Kings of Bavaria), Frederika of Hesse-Darmstadt and her son Frederick-William III of Prussia (Queen consort and King of Prussia) and her daughter Wilhelmine of Prussia and Wilhelmine’s son William II of the Netherlands (Queen consort and King of the Netherlands), Caroline of Baden (Queen consort of Bavaria) and her daughters Elisabeth of Bavaria (Prussia) and Amalie-Auguste of Bavaria and Maria-Anna of Bavaria (both Saxony), Albert and George of Saxony (both Kings there), Margherita of Savoy and her son Victor-Emmanuel III of Italy (Queen and King of Italy), Franz-Joseph Karl I of Austria (Emperor of Austria), his brother Maximilian I of Mexico (Emperor of Mexico), and his wife Empress Elisabeth "Sisi" of Austria, Maria-Sophie Amalie of Bavaria (Queen consort of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies), Augusta-Victoria of Hohenzollern (Queen consort of Portugal in exile), Louise (Elizabeth Alexeievna) of Baden (Empress of Russia), Frederica of Baden (Queen consort of Sweden), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Queen consort of Denmark and Iceland) and her son Frederick IX of Denmark (just Denmark this time), Marie (Maria Alexandrovna) of Hesse and her son Alexander III of Russia (Empress and Emperor of Russia), Marie of Edinburgh and her son Carol II of Romania (Queen and King of Romania), Elisabeth of Romania (Queen consort of the Hellenes), Maria of Romania and her son Peter II of Yugoslavia (Queen consort and King of Yugoslavia), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover), Sophie-Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and her son Frederick V of Denmark (Queen consort and King of Denmark), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and her sons George IV, William IV (all UK and Hanover), Ernest-Augustus (just Hanover) and daughter Charlotte (Queen consort of Württemberg). There’s also Caroline of Ansbach (Great Britain and Ireland), Amalia of Oldenburg (Queen consort of Greece), Maria-Theresa of Austria-Este (Queen consort of Bavaria), Maria-Christina of Austria and her son Alfonso XIII of Spain (Queen consort and King of Spain), Marie-Henriette of Austria (Queen consort of the Belgians), Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (Queen consort of Hanover), Olga of Russia and her son Constantine I of Greece (Queen consort and King of the Hellenes), Pauline-Therese of Württemberg and her son Charles I of Württemberg and grandson William II of Württemberg (Queen consort and Kings of Württemberg), Louise of Great Britain and her son Christian VII of Denmark (Denmark and Norway) and her daughter Sophia-Magdalena of Denmark and her son Gustav-Adolf IV of Sweden (Sweden), Marie of Hesse-Kassel (Queen consort of Denmark and Norway), and lastly, Christian IX of Denmark (King of Denmark). Basically what I’m saying is you forgot Beatrice of Sicily’s daughter Anna of the Palatinate’s matrilineal descendants… and yes they are still around.

@UsefulCharts

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. That's a lot. I'll check them all out.

@noahberlitz5553

3 жыл бұрын

@@UsefulCharts Wow! Sempai noticed me! Very lovely video btw, your Garsenda video got me super fascinated in matrilineal dynasties and so I started researching them on my own, and Euphrosyne was just one of like 5 names that I kept coming across! So again, thank you for inspiring me to research this topic! :)

My heart before Useful Charts uploaded: 💔 My heart after Useful Charts uploaded: ❤️

@tulip_rose765

3 жыл бұрын

@Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt Hi Cleopatra! How are you?

@tulip_rose765

3 жыл бұрын

@Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt Yeah, you too :) I’m glad you’re doing well

@simich1601

3 жыл бұрын

@@tulip_rose765 shut up Elizabeth I is better than u >:(

@tulip_rose765

3 жыл бұрын

@@simich1601 Okay. Like I haven’t been told that before 🙄

@simich1601

3 жыл бұрын

@@tulip_rose765 Elizabeth THE BEST >:((((((((

This should be a documentary named “mothers of Europe” love it

Rest In Peace Prince Philip!

@daddyleon

3 жыл бұрын

And rest in peace the countless of people who we will never hear or but also died at the same moment.

@ki2319

3 жыл бұрын

Rest in piss Philip 🙏

15:15 No she wasn't, unfortunately. It was Władysław II Jagiełło's fourth wife who bore him Władysław III & Kazimierz IV.

@UsefulCharts

3 жыл бұрын

Good catch. I still have time to fix that before printing.

@hispanicyoutubeperson6100

2 жыл бұрын

You know you’re cool when UsefulCharts compliments you.

Always interesting to look at the royal family tree from the matrilineal perspective. It highlights just as many connections as the patrilineal. I wish our ancestors kept better records of the matrilineal sides of families and royal houses. I always enjoy the eye-opening videos!

I cannot WAIT for more matrilineal charts!

@revinhatol

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

I love this! Especially since Eleanor of Aquitaine is my 27th great grandmother through one branch and Garsenda is my 26th great grandmother through another.

I love your matrilineal videos! Your first one last year was the reason I found your channel & subscribed. So fascinating. I love hidden history!

Amazing video, as always. Thank you so much. How about some charts on the rulers and kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England?

Will definitely keep an eye out for the chart when it's ready!

I have many of your laminated charts. Thank you for your extremely important work. Hope all is well for you & your loved ones.

Thank you for highlighting the women and their lineages. Women have often been overlooked by historians.

These videos are truly amazing

Eleanor was the mother of three kings. Henry the Young King was co-ruler with his father, until his death a few years before his father.

@hispanicyoutubeperson6100

2 жыл бұрын

No, he was crowned king so that when Henry II died there would be no succession crisis, just like the civil war (the Anarchy c. 1139-1148) that waged between his mother, former Empress Matilda, and her cross cousin, king Stephen of Blois. Also, he was not a co-ruler, or even had power, which is why his brothers and him (except young John) rebelled in 1173.

Loved this video; very eagerly looking forward to the rest of the matrilineal dynasties & to getting the the chart, eventually!

Fascinating. Thanks so much for this!

OH MY GOSH! I LOVE THIS! I WANT THE CHART!

Very well done Matt!!

2:17 why you didn't add her mother: Aénor of Chatellreault, grandmother: Dangereuse of Bouchardisland, Gerberge de Blaison

Great to see another matrilineal family chart!

I'm definitely looking forward to Matrilineal Dynasties Part 3!

I loved the Garsenda video! Looking forward to this one.

Another excellent lineage video !! Thank you!

I'm really enjoying these matrilineal dynasties.

Jadwiga - King of Poland was not the mother of Casimir IV. His mother was last wife of Jogaila called Sophia of Halshany.

Love the royal family videos. Keep up the good work

I posted on the first one of these, I am happy to see this! Thank you!

If you follow Garsenda’s maternal line on the internet, her earliest known maternal ancestor was someone named Alba (Autun) Châlons.

Thank you for another great tree! I LOVE family trees and their history and am fascinated by the effects they have had on history. I created some for my novels’ Royal and noble trees. They are simpler than real life trees (and only cover about 250 years) but more elaborate than a royal tree I created as a pre-teen.

This is so fascinating 😊

Rest in peace Prince Philip

R. I. P. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh he is one of the last of the greatest generation who served in the Second World War. When he married Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II he was told the history of Windsor Castle he had to cut the courtier short as his own Mother was born a Great Grand Daughter of Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle xx.

Wow this is amazing!!

Appreciate this so much. My grandmother is European royalty and the family trees go back 2000 years, all male lines. It's so frustrating. This is HUGE. Thank you SO MUCH.

@honorsilverthorne7227

Жыл бұрын

How does your grandmother tie into European royalty?

I need to start buying your posters!

I have a 20yr old book by David Icke that held the point that he matrilineal line was always the most important to conspiracy theorists

Wait, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh died? I didn't know... Rest in Peace! Fly High 🕊

@DarkSwan01

3 жыл бұрын

He died today. When, I wouldn't know due to the time zone difference.

@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkSwan01 oh that's so sad, condolences to the royals 🕊

@YT911YT

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431 At least he lived a long life

@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431

3 жыл бұрын

@@YT911YT Yeah, at least he has enjoy his life, may God grant him enternal life in heaven ☹🕊

@YT911YT

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431 Yeah RIP he is in heaven

I am preatty sure that Jadwiga died during childbirth and had no descendants. Casimir IV was son of Zofia Holszańska.

@kaelthas9970

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Jadwiga only had a daughter that did not survive a year.

Great video! I also did some research after your first video and stumbled upon Euphrosyne, and I think her line can be traced to our day. I should search my file again

It's so cool that you found these houses/family lines.

These dynasties are actually very exiting to learn about.

So brilliant, can’t even describe how interesting these hidden lines are

Really interesting chart!

Fascinating lineage research. You mention Isabel Barcelona.She’s my direct ancestor more than twice via her descendant Dinis 6th Count Lemos whose grandson Hernando Fernandez Castro my direct ancestor settled in Monterrey Nuevo León ( Mexico) in the 1550 era

Thanks. It is great informatio Both fascinating and entertaining.

Thank you, I really enjoy hearing about historical female figures.

Awesome. Very sad these dynasties end :( I have hope the house of Garsenda continues

That's an interesting chart!

This is some...interesting timing regarding current-day monarchies.

Wow! Awesome!!!!

What a wonderful take on dynasties

It would be cool if you could cover the Fujiwara Clan from the Heian Period of Japan.

This is great, I clicked on this video as I had visited Eleanor's grave in France along with Richard the Lionheart and Henry II

I see a new chart for the collection in my future. Pretty please Matt!! Haha

@UsefulCharts

3 жыл бұрын

It's almost ready!

@nicko5945

3 жыл бұрын

@@UsefulCharts hooray!! I just saw the end of the video and was so happy to hear that it was indeed going to be a poster. My office is covered in your posters and with all the video conferencing I do for work, I am always asked about them. I always point them to your site.

Hey Matt,i actually found a new matrilinial dynasty. It is the dynasty of Elizabeth the cunman and oh boy it produced a lot of queens and empresses,i think you should check it out too,in just 4 generations it had 12 consorts,i say consorts because I included empresses too.

@honorsilverthorne7227

Жыл бұрын

The cunman?

Matt, you should totally make a video on the descendants of Barbara of Cilli’s matrilineal descendants! It’s quite extensive. Edit: Wait! I see Barbara peeping out at the bottom. You’re one step ahead of me. I hadn’t finished this video when I made this comment 😜

I need that poster ! Can't wait to June !

Nice content.

Very interesting! Ties into my own ancestry so it’s really nice to have someone recognize those matrineal lines!

@honorsilverthorne7227

Жыл бұрын

How do you tie in with these matrilineal lines?

Hello Matt! Please do Dark's genealogical tree 🙏🏼 it’s a messy one!

Very interesting again.

Great video.

Rest In Peace royal highness Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh.

First! I love your videos!

Great videos

Actually the matrilineal line of Euphrosyne produced 3 more direct line queens and King Frederick IX of Denmark through Beatrice of Sicily. I think this is the second oldest matrilineal dynasty.

I like these, is their a part 3? Maybe Japans Fujiwara clan.

That's a chart I will be very interested to purchase!

The House of Eleanor contains not two saints, but *three* - Fernando III of Castile is also known as San Fernando Rey.

Hey Matt,i found a new matrilinial dynasty of countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken ,her descendants contain interesting members such as empress Elisabeth 'sisi' of Austria.

You found it! I was looking at all this. Thank you for verifying this. Eudocia Ingerina was my Great Grandmother. I also found Irene also found some more Hidden Ancestry Through Eleanor William X to Gisella of Fruili and back to Leo VII and Anastasia Porphyrogenita. Anna of Kiev is my Grandmother through Vladimir the Great but more from the Byzantine Empire as well. Eleanor of England or Jr. is also my Great Grandmother. Blanche of Castille wife of Louie 8th Adela of Champagne Louie IX are my Great Grandparents. There is so much hidden and to discover and my ancestry has a very entailed view. It endless. Thank You

@toast697

Жыл бұрын

Anna of Kiev is you grandmother? She was born in 1024

@emilybarclay8831

10 ай бұрын

@@toast697 these people pay money to websites who tell them that they’re totally descended from X and Y and Z royal lol

Hey Matt, could you please reupload the video you once did about the male line ancestors of Prince Charles? I'd like to refresh my knwoledge about Prince Philips ancestry. :-P

Interesting!

I fnd it interestig tha civ 6 hhad Eleanor and no that you uploaded, I as ondering here she as and all that.

I would love to get a poster of matrilineal royal lines in the future! There is 1 mistake in this chart and video though. Casimir IV of Poland wasn't the son of Jadwiga, King of Poland. He was born 28 years after her death. He was the son of Jadwiga's husband Wladyslaw Jagiello, but not by her (Władysław's 1st wife), but by Władyslaw's 4th wife - Sofia of Halshany. Jadwiga didn't have any children surviving infancy.

Eleanor of Aquitaine is my favorite of the Middle Ages queens 🧡

Wonderful, Eleanor was the one I started my European monarchy tree with to sort out her many children now this tree has some 25.000 people in it... And I just saw, that I need to add some links, I missed - thank you. - I thought Urraca of Portugal had a daughter Eleonor that was Queen of Denmark by her marriage with Waldemar III ere she died in childbirth. 2 years are only a short glory but still...

It’s very cool that both of these ladies are in my family tree!

I am dying to show you my family tree. I’m glad someone has shown the matrilineal dynasties bc every bit of research I have covers mainly patrilineal. The funny thing is there are huge names and they intermarry within the same big names.

Jadwiga of Poland (daughter of Louis I) didn't have any sons only one daughter. Kasimir IV was a son of Wladislaw Jagielo, the husband of Jadwiga, who was allowed to continue to rule Poland after her death in 1399. But Kasimir's wife is a decendant of Kasimir III by his eldest daughter, who, along with her children, where skipt over in favour of Louis I.

Queen Jadwiga of Poland was also Canonized in 8 June 1997 in Kraków by Pope John Paul II. So she was King, Queen, and Saint

Can you post a video about the valkyries or the Amazon

Nice❤❤❤

I need a part 3 like NOW

Can you do a family tree of the german house of Welf? It's one of the oldest living royal families in Europe and produced at least an HRE and, well, the hannoverian kings of Britain. And while we're at it: the house of Wettin as well. Also a very old dynasty, mostly centered around Saxony, where they became prince electors of the HRE and kings of Saxony and Poland (Albertian line) as well as quite a number of other european royal houses including Belgium and the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas / Windsors in Great Britain (Ernestine line).

Fascinating. Did Eleanor, Euphrosyne, and Garsenda have any common ancestors?