A lot of people post on how they cannot understand why they are not 100% Italian. I am lucky enough to be able to trace one of my paternal great grandmothers back over 1400 years to various places in Europe. Here’s just one example how you get to Italian from French.
Alberich Alsace’s relation to you: Direct ancestor (36 generations)
Here’s how:
Note: Piromallo is originally from Spain. The Italian branch began in Calabria in the 1500’s.
1. Nicholas Victor Sorrentino is your father
2. Maria Luigia Piromallo is the mother of Nicholas Victor Sorrentino
3. Maria Emilia Caracciolo is the mother of Maria Luigia Piromallo
4. Filippo Caracciolo is the father of Maria Emilia Caracciolo
5. Prince Luigi Caracciolo is the father of Filippo Caracciolo
6. Prince Ambrogio II Caracciolo is the father of Prince Luigi Caracciolo
7. Prince Luigi Caracciolo is the father of Prince Ambrogio II Caracciolo
8. Ambrogio Caracciolo is the father of Prince Luigi Caracciolo
9. Prince Marino III Caracciolo is the father of Ambrogio Caracciolo
10. Prince Francesco Marino Caracciolo is the father of Prince Marino III Caracciolo
11. Francesca D’AVOLOS is the mother of Prince Francesco Marino Caracciolo
12. Innico III D’Avalos is the father of Francesca D’AVOLOS
13. Lucrezia Del Tufo is the mother of Innico III D’Avalos
14. Margaret Palaiologos is the mother of Lucrezia Del Tufo
15. Anne Alencon is the mother of Margaret Palaiologos
16. Renè Valois is the father of Anne Alencon
17. Jean II Alencon is the father of Renè Valois
18. Jean 1 le Sage Alencon is the father of Jean II Alencon
19. Pierre II Alencon is the father of Jean 1 le Sage Alencon
20. Charles II Alencon is the father of Pierre II Alencon
21. Charles IV Alencon is the father of Charles II Alencon
22. Isabella Aragon is the mother of Charles IV Alencon
23. James I Aragon is the father of Isabella Aragon
24. Peter II Aragon is the father of James I Aragon
25. Sanchia Castile is the mother of Peter II Aragon
26. Alfonso VII Castile is the father of Sanchia Castile
27. Raymond Burgundy is the father of Alfonso VII Castile
28. Etiennette Stephanie Longwy is the mother of Raymond Burgundy
29. Adalbert De Longwy is the father of Etiennette Stephanie Longwy
30. Gerhard II Vogt von Remiremont Comte Metz is the father of Adalbert De Longwy
31. Adalbert Metz is the father of Gerhard II Vogt von Remiremont Comte Metz
32. Eberhard IV Nordgau is the father of Adalbert Metz
33. Hugo III Alsace is the father of Eberhard IV Nordgau
34. Eberhard Count Nordgau is the father of Hugo III Alsace
35. Eberhard Nordgau is the father of Eberhard Count Nordgau
36. Alberich Alsace is the father of Eberhard Nordgau
Raymond of Burgundy(c. 1070 – 24 May 1107) was the ruler of Galiciafrom about 1090 until his death. He was the fourth son of Count William I of Burgundyand Stephanie. He married Urraca, future queen of León, and was the father of the future emperor Alfonso VII.
When Raymond and his cousin, Henry of Burgundy, first arrived in Iberia is uncertain, but it probably was with the army of Duke Odo I of Burgundyin 1086. In April 1087, the army abandoned the siege of Tudela. While most of the army returned home, Odo and his retinue went west. By 21 July 1087 they were probably at Burgos, at the court of King Alfonso VI of León and Castile, and by 5 August he was in the capital city of León. There Odo most likely arranged Raymond’s marriage to Alfonso’s heiress, Urraca. All surviving charters which seem to place Raymond in Spain before 1087 are either mis-dated or interpolated.[1]
By his marriage Raymond received as dowry the government of the Kingdom of Galicia(which included the County of Portugaland the County of Coimbra),[2]although shortly after, in 1095, Alfonso VI gave the County of Portugal and the County of Coimbra to Henry of Burgundy, father of the first Portuguese King Afonso Henriques of Portugal, basing it in Bracara Augusta(nowadays Braga). During his government he was titled Count, Dominus, Prince, Emperorand Consulof Galicia or of the Galicians, exercising near absolute power in his domains (“in urbe Gallecia regnante Comite Raymundus”): “serenissimus totius Gallecie comes”, “totius Gallecie Senior et Dominus”, “totius Gallecie Consul”, “totius Gallecie Princeps”, “totius Gallecie Imperator”.[3]
He was father of Alfonso VII of León and Castile(1104/1105–1157), already crowned king of Galicia in 1111, while his brother later became Pope Callixtus II.
Sancha of Castile(21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of Castileby his second wife, Richeza of Poland.[1]On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragonat Zaragoza;[2]they had at least eight childrenwho survived into adulthood.
A patroness of troubadours such as Giraud de Calanson and Peire Raymond, the queen became involved in a legal dispute with her husband concerning properties which formed part of her dower estates. In 1177 she entered the county of Ribagorzaand took forcible possession of various castles and fortresses which had belonged to the crown there.
After her husband died at Perpignan in 1196, Sancha was relegated to the background of political affairs by her son Peter II. She retired from court, withdrawing to the Hospitaller convent for noble ladies, the Monastery of Santa María de Sigena, at Sigena, which she had founded.[3]There she assumed the cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalemwhich she wore until the end of her life. The queen mother entertained her widowed daughter Constanceat Sigena prior to her leaving Aragon to marry Emperor Frederick IIin 1208. She died soon afterwards, aged fifty-four, and was interred in front of the high altar of her foundation at the Monastery of Santa María de Sigena; her tomb is still there to be seen.
John I of Alençon, called the Sage(1385 – 25 October 1415), was a French nobleman, killed at the Battle of Agincourt.
John was born in Château d’Essay, the son of Peter II of Alençonand Marie de Chamaillard. In 1404, he succeeded his father as Count of Alençonand Perche. He was made Duke of Alençonin 1414.
He commanded the second division of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt. When the English broke through the first division, he led a countercharge. He is sometimes credited with killing Edward, Duke of York, wounding Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and cutting an ornament from the crown of Henry V of England; but he was then overpowered by the King’s bodyguard, and slain by the Welsh nobleman Dafydd Gambefore he could yield himself.
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