On 5/05/2016 11:23 PM, taf via wrote: > On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 2:01:14 AM UTC-7, Peter Stewart wrote: >> The actual genealogy of the Sternberg family bears very little resemblance >> to this fantasy. > I reached the same conclusion after looking at a number of German sources tracing the family back to Diwisch of Diwischau, whom I think was turned into this 'Diwisch II'. > It certainly looks that way, and this in itself is enough to dismiss the whole scheme - Diwisch of Diwischau had NOTHING to do with Sternberg, a territorial designation taken from a castle built by his son Zdeslaus I (died by 1267) on devastated land between Olomouc and Troppau that was granted in reward for defending against the Cumans in 1253. Zdeslaus I's father Diwisch of Diwischau occurs from 1218 and was dead by 1240. Peter Stewart