ITALIAN
ANCESTORS OF EUROPEAN NOBILITY
As a part of a wide project whose purpose is the
reconstruction of Emperor Charles V’s Ahnentafeln and a statistical
study of their correlations (degree of inbreeding) and geographic distribution,
we present here the available information concerning the contribution of
Italian families, which amounts to identifying all known ancestors of Viridis
Visconti (1352-1414), wife of Lepold III duke of Austria, and the only Italian
among the 32 fifth generation ancestors of Charles V.
Our information is taken from (scholarly) secondary sources:
most of them are not Web sources, since unfortunately genealogical
information on the Web is usually unreliable. In a few cases we followed the
indications included in the interesting site “Genealogie delle dinastie
italiane” http://www.sardimpex.com/
We are deeply indebted with Mr Angelo Boschetti for many
informations and references, especially
concerning families from the Northeastern part of Italy.
(to be completed)