Genealogy of Guillaume de gellone

the Princes Crusade

In what has become known as the Princes' Crusade, members of the high nobility and their followers embarked in late-summer 1096 and arrived at Constantinople between November and April the following year. This was a large feudal host led by notable Western European princes: southern French forces under Raymond IV of Toulouse and Adhemar of Le Puy; men from Upper and Lower Lorraine led by Godfrey of Bouillon and his brother Baldwin of Boulogne; Italo-Norman forces led by Bohemond of Taranto and his nephew Tancred; as well as various contingents consisting of northern French and Flemish forces under Robert Curthose (Robert II of Normandy), Stephen of Blois, Hugh of Vermandois, and Robert II of Flanders. In total and including non-combatants, the forces are estimated to have numbered as many as 100,000.

These families, who were descended from Guillaume de Gellone (c. 755 – 812 or 814), the medieval William of Orange, adopted the legend of the female-dragon Melusine, who was claimed as an ancestress of the houses of Anjou, Luxembourg, Plantagenet and Lusignan. According to the research of Arthur Zuckerman, as popularized by The Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Guillaume was the son of Rabbi Makhir, or Thierry, called Aymery in the Medieval romances. Makhir ben Yehudah Zakkai of Narbonne or Makhir ben Habibai of Narbonne or Natronai ben Habibi (725 - 765 or 793 AD) was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar and later, the supposed leader of the Jewish community of Narbonne in a region which at that time was called Septimania at the end of the eighth century. Arthur Zuckerman maintains that Makhir was actually identical with Natronai ben Habibi, an exilarch deposed and exiled in a dispute between two branches of the family of Bostanai in the late eighth century. Zuckerman further identified Makhir (Natronai) with a Maghario, Count of Narbonne (actually Viscount), and in turn with an Aymeri de Narbonne, who lived in the twelfth century but whom heroic poetry makes father of Guillaume. This William was subject of at least six major epic poems composed before the era of the Crusades, including Willehalm by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a chronicler of the search of the Grail.

  • BALDWIN II OF JERUSALEM (authorized founding of TEMPLARS) + MORPHIA OF ARMENIA (SKULL OF SIDON LEGEND)

    • Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem + Fulk, King of Jerusalem

      • Baldwin III of Jerusalem

      • Amalric of Jerusalem + Agnes of Courtenay

        • Baldwin IV of Jerusalem

        • Sibylla of Jerusalem + GUY OF LUSIGNAN (see below)

      • Amalric of Jerusalem + Maria Comnena (daughter of John Doukas Komnenos, grandson of Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos. Doux (military governor) of Cyprus)

        • Isabella I of Jerusalem + Conrad of Montferrat (see above)

          • Maria of Montferrat + John of Brienne

            • Isabella II of Jerusalem + Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

              • Conrad II of Jerusalem + Elisabeth of Bavaria

                • Conradin (the last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen)

        • Isabella I of Jerusalem + Henry II, Count of Champagne

          • Alice of Champagne + Hugh I of Cyprus

            • Mary of Lusignan, Countess of Brienne

            • Isabella of Cyprus + John, Old Lord of Beirut

              • Hugh III of Cyprus

              • Margaret of Antioch-Lusignan

            • Henry I of Cyprus + Plaisance of Antioch (d. of Bohemond V of Antioch)

              • Hugh II of Cyprus + Isabella, Lady of Beirut

                • Hugh III of Cyprus + Isabella of Ibelin

                  • Amalric of Lusignan (overthrew his brother Henry with the aid of the Knights Templar)

                  • Henry II of Lusignan (In 1313, oversaw the dissolution of the Knights Templar in Cyprus and the transfer of their property to the Hospitallers. In contact with Ramon Llull) + Constance of Sicily (see below)

                  • Mary of Lusignan + JAMES II OF ARAGON (see above)

                  • Guy, Constable of Cyprus + Eschiva of Ibelin, Lady of Beirut

                    • Hugh IV of Cyprus + Alix of Ibelin

                      • John of Lusignan

                      • James I of Cyprus, + Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

                        • Janus of Cyprus + Charlotte of Bourbon

                          • John II of Cyprus + Helena Palaiologina (see genealogy of the Marquises and Dukes of Montferrat)

                            • Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (last of the line of Lusignan) + Louis of Cyprus

                          • ANNE OF LUSIGNAN + LOUIS, DUKE OF SAVOY (see below)

        • Isabella I of Jerusalem + AIMERY OF JERUSALEM

    • Alice of Antioch + Bohemond II of Antioch (see above)

      • Constance of Antioch + Raynald of Châtillon

        • Agnes of Antioch (associated with Pontigny Abbey) + Béla III, King of Hungary

          • Andrew II of Hungary + Gertrude of Merania

            • Béla IV + Maria Laskarina

              • Mary of Hungary + Charles II of Naples (discovered remains of Mary Madgalene at Saint-Maximin)

                • Charles Martel, Prince of Salermo

                  • Charles I of Hungary (founder of the Order of Saint George) + Elizabeth of Poland

                    • Louis I of Hungary + Margaret of Bohemia (see below)

                • Margaret + Charles, Count of Valois

                  • Philip VI of France + Joan of Burgundy (see below)

                  • Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut + William I, Count of Hainaut

                    • Philippa of Hainault + Edward III of England (see below)

                    • Joanna of Hainaut + William V, Duke of Jülich

                      • Gerhard VI of Jülich + Margaret of Ravensberg

                        • Margaret of Jülich + Adolph III, Count of Mark

                          • Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (raised by EMPEROR SIGISMUND, founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON, as duke and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1417. Reigning from Schwanenburg Castle associated in legend with the Knight of the Swan, immortalized in Wagner's Lohengrin) + Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (see below)

                      • William II, Duke of Jülich + Maria of Guelders (see below)

                  • Margaret of Valois, Countess of Blois + Guy I, Count of Blois

            • St. Elizabeth of Hungary (of the Miracle of the Roses + Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

              • Sophie of Thuringia + Henry II, Duke of Brabant

                • Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse + Adelheid of Brunswick-Lüneburg

            • Andrew of Hungary, Prince of Halych

          • Andrew II of Hungary + Yolanda of Courtenay

            • Yolanda of Courtenay + Andrew II of Hungary

              • Yolanda + James I of Aragon (raised by TEMPLARS. Son of Peter II of Aragon (killed at the Battle Muret supporting Cathars, founder of the ORDER OF SAINT GEORGE OF ALFAMA. Grandson of ALFONSO II OF ARAGON, the Troubadour (patron of Guyot of Provins, source for Wolfram von Eschenbach)

                • Violant of Aragon + ALFONSO X OF CASTILE, el Astrologo (see above)

                  • Sancho IV of Castile (had affair with Rachel the Beautiful, Jewess of Toledo) + María de Molina

                    • Ferdinand IV of Castile + Constance of Portugal (see below)

                    • Beatrice of Castile + Afonso IV of Portugal (see below)

                  • Beatrice of Castile + Afonso III of Portugal (see below)

                • Peter III of Aragon + Constance, Queen of Sicily (g-d. of FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor)

                  • JAMES II ARAGON (founder of the ORDER OF MONTESA) + Blanche of Anjou

                  • Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal (Miracle of the Roses) + DENIS I OF PORTUGAL (founder of the ORDER OF CHRIST, see below)

                  • FREDERICK III OF SICILY (hired Templar Roger de Flor) + Eleanor of Anjou (sister of CHARLES I OF HUNGARY, founder of the ORDER OF SAINT GEORGE)

                    • Constance of Sicily, Queen of Cyprus + HENRY II OF LUSIGNAN (transferred property of Templars to Hospitallers. In contact with Ramon Llull)

                    • Peter II of Sicily + Elisabeth of Carinthia (see Genealogy of Agatha of Bulgaria)

                      • Eleanor of Sicily + Peter IV of Aragon (check)

                        • John I of Aragon + Violant of Bar (check)

                          • Yolande of Aragon + Louis II of Anjou (check)

                            • Louis III of Anjou

                            • Marie of Anjou + Charles VII of France

                              • Louis XI of France + Charlotte of Savoy

                                • Charles VIII of France + Anne of Brittany

                            • RENE OF ANJOU (Grand Master of PRIORY OF SION) + Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine

                              • Margaret of Anjou + Henry VI of England

                                • Edward, Prince of Wales + Anne Neville

                        • Martin of Aragon (decided to merge the ORDER OF SAINT GEORGE OF ALFAMA with the ORDER OF MONTESA)

                        • Eleanor, Queen of Castile + John I of Castile (check)

                          • Ferdinand I of Aragon (founded ORDER OF THE JAR) + Eleanor of Alburquerque

                            • Alfonso V of Aragon (ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Maria of Castile

                              • Ferdinand I of Naples (ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Isabella of Clermont

                              • Beatrice of Naples + Vladislaus II of Hungary (no issue)

                            • John II of Aragon + Blanche I of Navarre

                              • Charles IV of Navarre + Agnes of Cleves

                              • Eleanor of Navarre + Gaston IV, Count of Foix

                                • Francis II, Duke of Brittany + Margaret of Foix

                                  • Anne of Brittany + Louis XII of France

                            • John II of Aragon + Juana Enríquez

                              • Ferdinand II of Aragon + Isabella I of Castile (Catholic Monarchs)

                              • Joanna of Aragon + Ferdinand I of Naples

                            • Eleanor of Aragon + Edward I of Portugal (see below)

                • James II of Majorca (student of Raymond Llull) + Esclaramunda of Foix (her grandfather was a cousin of Raymond-Roger Trencavel, identified with Perceval)

                • Isabella of Aragon + Philip III of France (see above)

                  • Philip IV “le Bel” of France (ordered arrest of TEMPLARS) + Joan I of Navarre

                    • Isabella of France + Edward II of England

                      • Edward III of England (founder of the ORDER OF THE GARTER) + Philippa of Hainault (see above)

                        • Edward the Black Prince + Joan of Kent

                          • Richard II of England (posthumous reputation has been shaped to a large extent by William Shakespeare, whose play Richard II portrayed Richard's misrule and his deposition as responsible for the 15th-century Wars of the Roses) + Anne of Bohemia (see above)

                      • Isabella, Countess of Bedford + Enguerrand VII de Coucy (possible author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

                        • Marie I de Coucy, Countess of Soissons + Henry of Bar (see below)

                      • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster + Blanche of Lancaster

                        • Philippa of Lancaster + John I of Portugal

                          • EDWARD I OF PORTUGAL + Eleanor of Aragon (see above)

                            • Afonso V of Portugal (ORDER OF THE GARTER. Employed Isaac Abarbanel as his treasurer)

                              • John II of Portugal + Eleanor of Viseu

                                • Afonso, Prince of Portugal + Isabella of Aragon (no issue)

                            • Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu + Beatrice of Portugal (d. John, Constable of Portugal)

                              • MANUEL I OF PORTUGAL (ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE and Grand Master of the ODER OF CHRIST) + Maria of Aragon (see above)

                                • John III of Portugal + Catherine of Austria (see below)

                                • Isabella of Portugal + CHARLES V, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (see below)

                                • Beatrice of Portugal + Charles III, Duke of Savoy

                                • Catarina of Portugal + Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza

                                  • John IV of Portugal + Luisa de Guzmán (from the ducal house of Medina-Sidonia of allegedly crypto-Jewish background)

                                    • Catherine of Braganza + Charles II of England

                            • Eleanor of Portugal + FREDERICK III, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (son of Ernest, Duke of Austria, member of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON)

                              • MAXIMILIAN I, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (ORDER OF GARTER) + Mary, Duchess of Burgundy (see below)

                          • PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR (Grand Master of the Order of Christ)

                          • Isabella of Portugal + PHILIP THE GOOD (see below)

                        • Henry IV of England + Mary de Bohun

                          • Henry V of England (ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Catherine of Valois (see below)

                          • Philippa of England + Eric of Pomerania (ORDER OF THE DRAGON)

                      • Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York + Isabella of Castile (see below)

                  • Charles, Count of Valois + Catherine

                  • Charles, Count of Valois + Margaret

                    • Philip VI of France + Joan of Burgundy (see above)

                      • John II of France + Bonne of Luxembourg

                        • Charles V of France + Joanna of Bourbon

                          • Charles VI of France + Isabeau of Bavaria

                            • Charles VII of France + Marie of Anjou (see below)

                          • Louis I, Duke of Orléans + Valentina Visconti (see below)

                        • Louis I of Anjou + Marie of Blois, Duchess of Anjou (see above)

                          • Louis II of Anjou + Yolande of Aragon

                        • JOHN, DUKE OF BERRY (requested that Jean d’Arras write the Roman de Mélusine or the Chronique de Melusine part of Le Noble Hystoire de Lusignan) + Joanna of Armagnac

                          • Bonne of Berry + Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (see below)

                        • PHILIP THE BOLD + Margaret III, Countess of Flanders

                          • John the Fearless + Margaret of Bavaria

                            • PHILIP THE GOOD (founder of the ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE) + Isabella of Portugal (see above)

                              • Charles the Bold + Isabella of Bourbon (see below)

                            • Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves + Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (see above)

                              • Catherine of Cleves (commissioned Hours of Catherine of Cleves) + Arnold, Duke of Guelders (see below)

                            • Anne of Burgundy + John, Duke of Bedford

                            • Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon + Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (see above)

                              • Isabella of Bourbon + Charles the Bold (see above)

                                • Mary, Duchess of Burgundy + Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (see below)

                                  • Philip I of Castile + Joanna of Castile (see above)

                                    • Eleanor, Queen of France and Portugal + Manuel I of Portugal

                                    • CHARLES V, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE) + Isabella of Portugal (see above)

                                      • PHILIP II OF SPAIN + Mary I of England (see above)

                                      • PHILIP II OF SPAIN + Anna of Austria (see below)

                                      • Maria of Austria + MAXIMILIAN II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (see below)

                                      • Joanna of Austria + João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (see below)

                                    • Isabella, Queen of Denmark + Christian II of Denmark

                                      • Christina of Denmark + Francis I, Duke of Lorraine

                                        • Charles III, Duke of Lorraine + Claude of Valois (d. Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici)

                                    • Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor + Anna Jagellonica (see Genealogy of the Order of the Dragon)

                                      • MAXIMILIAN II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR + Maria of Austria (see above)

                                        • Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (Order of the Garter, Order of the Golden Fleece, sponsor of John Dee)

                                    • Mary, Queen of Hungary + Louis II of Hungary

                                    • Catherine of Austria + John III of Portugal (see above)

                                      • João Manuel, Prince of Portugal + Joanna of Austria

                                        • Sebastian of Portugal (his disappearance in the battle of Alcácer Quibir became basis of Sebastianism, associated with Fifth Empire)

                          • Mary of Burgundy + Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (see below)

                        • Joan, Queen of Navarre + Charles II of Navarre

                        • MARIE OF VALOIS, Duchess of Bar + Robert, Duke of Bar (grandson of Edward I, Count of Bar, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                          • Yolande of Bar + John I of Aragon (s. of Peter IV of Aragon + Eleanor of Sicily)

                            • Yolande of Aragon + Louis II of Anjou (see above)

                              • Louis III of Anjou

                              • Marie of Anjou + Charles VII of France (see below)

                              • RENE OF ANJOU (Grand Master of PRIORY OF SION) + Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine

                                • Margaret of Anjou + Henry VI of England (succeeded by Edward IV, s. of Richard Duke of York)

                                • YOLANDE OF BAR (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION, inherited the Duchy of Lorraine in 1473 after the death without a male heir of Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine) + Ferri de Vaudemont (Order of the Crescent, with FRANCESO I SFORZA)

                        • ISABELLE OF VALOIS + Gian Galeazzo Visconti (father of FILIPPO MARIA VISCONTI, who commissioned Visconti-Sforza Tarot with FRANCESCO I SFORZA, member of the Order of the Cresent founded by RENE OF ANJOU)

                          • Valentina Visconti + Louis I, Duke of Orléans (see above)

                            • Charles, Duke of Orléans + Marie of Cleves

                              • Louis XII of France + Anne, Duchess of Brittany

                                • Claude of France + Francis I of France (Order of the Golden Fleece, sponsor of Guillaume Postel and Leonardo da Vinci)

                                  • Henry II of France + Catherine de Medici (practitioner of the Black Mass)

                                    • Elisabeth, Queen of Spain + Philip II of Spain (Order of the Golden Fleece)

                                  • Margaret II, Duchess of Berry + Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (called upon Nostradamus for an heir)

                                    • Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (prophesied by Nostradamus)

                                • Renée of France + Ercole II d'Este

                      • Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Blanche of Valois

                        • Margaret of Bohemia + Louis I of Hungary (see above)

                      • Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Elizabeth of Pomerania

                        • SIGISMUND, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (founder of the ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Barbara of Cilli

                        • Anne of Bohemia + Richard II of England (see below)

                    • Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut + William I, Count of Hainaut (see below)

                    • Margaret of Valois, Countess of Blois + Guy I, Count of Blois

                  • Charles, Count of Valois + Mahaut of Châtillon

                    • Marie of Valois, Duchess of Calabria + Charles, Duke of Calabria

                    • Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon + Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (see above)

                      • Louis II, Duke of Bourbon + Anne of Auvergne

                        • John I, Duke of Bourbon + Marie, Duchess of Auvergne

                          • Charles I, Duke of Bourbon + Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon (see below)

                      • Joanna of Bourbon + Charles V of France (see above)

                        • Charles VI of France + Isabeau of Bavaria

                          • Charles VII of France + Marie of Anjou (see above)

                            • Louis XI of France + Charlotte of Savoy (see above)

                              • Charles VIII of France + Anne of Brittany

                        • Louis I, Duke of Orléans + Valentina Visconti (see below)

                      • Bonne of Bourbon + Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy

                        • Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy + Bonne of Berry (see above)

                          • Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (Antipope Felix V, elevated Duke of Savoy by Sigismund of Luxembourg, founder of the Order of the Dragon) + Mary of Burgundy (see above)

                            • Louis, Duke of Savoy + Anne of Lusignan (see above)

                              • Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy + Yolande of Valois, (d of king Charles VII of France)

                                • Charles I, Duke of Savoy (first titular king of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia)

                                  • Yolande Louise of Savoy + Philibert II (see below)

                              • Louis of Cyprus + Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus

                              • Philip II, Duke of Savoy (King of Jerusalem) + Margaret of Bourbon

                                • Philibert II (King of Jerusalem, Order of the Golden Fleece) + Yolande Louise of Savoy (see above)

                                • Louise + Charles, Count of Angoulême (Order of the Golden Fleece, grandson of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, a younger son of Charles V of France)

                                  • FRANCIS I OF FRANCE (Order of the Garter, Order of the Golden Fleece) + Claude, Duchess of Brittany (see below)

                                  • Margaret of Angoulême + Henry II of Navarre (see above)

                                    • Jeanne III of Navarre + Antoine of Navarre (see below)

                              • Philip II, Duke of Savoy (King of Jerusalem) + Claudine de Brosse of Brittany

                                • Charles III, Duke of Savoy (King of Jerusalem) + Beatrice of Portugal (d. Manuel I of Portugal, Grand Master of the Order of Christ) + Maria of Aragon)

                                  • Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (King of Jerusalem, Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of the Garter) + Margaret of Valois (see above. Consulted Nostradamus to help produce an heir)

                                • Philip II, Duke of Savoy (King of Jerusalem) + Libera Portoneri

                                  • René of Savoy + Anne Lascaris

                                    • Madeleine of Savoy + Anne de Montmorency

                                      • Henri I de Montmorency + Louise de Budos

                                        • Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency + Henri II, Prince of Condé (see below)

                                        • Armand, Prince of Conti + Anne Marie Martinozzi (aunt of Mary of Modena)

                              • Margaret of Savoy, Countess of Saint-Pol + Peter II of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and Soissons

                                • Marie of Luxembourg + Francis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme

                                  • Charles, Duke of Vendôme + Françoise d'Alençon (see below)

                              • Charlotte of Savoy + Louis XI of France

                              • Bona + Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan

                                • Gian Galeazzo Sforza + Isabella of Naples (see above)

                                  • Bona Sforza + Sigismund I the Old (Order of the Golden Fleece) (see below)

                                • Bianca Maria Sforza