Well maybe at some point some lost information will come to light on who was what. I do not know if DNA testing of any descendants of Nicholas Crispo would help or not in solving the issue - I am thinking of the "Family Finder" test that Family Tree DNA offers. Darrel Hockley From: Peter Stewart via <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com> To: gen-medieval@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Nicholas Crispo (1392 to 1450) On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 5:37:41 AM UTC+10, Darrel Hockley via wrote: > I originally sent the below to Dr. Williams' email address, but it > "bounced back" to me, so now I have posted it to the List. > Darrel Hockley > >      > ----- Forwarded Message ----- >  From: Darrel Hockley <ddh_regina@yahoo.ca> >  To: Dr. Kelsey Jackson Williams <kelsey@scotsgenealogist.com> >  Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 1:32 PM >  Subject: Nicholas Crispo (1392 to 1450) >    > Hello Dr. Williams, > I have been reading about Caterino Zeno, Patrician of Venice and > Diplomat of the Venetian Republic and am thinking there may be a > connexion to the House of Komnenos in his case. > > In the Wilki article on Nicholas Crispo, Lord of Syros and Patrician > of Venice (1392 to 1450), it states he married in 1413 Eudokia > (Valenza) Komnena. This appears to be an error - according to Michel Kuršanskis we don't know if Valenza was the first wife of Niccolò, a Genoese lady who died shortly after 1418, or his second wife who may have been a Komnene from Trebizond given an Italian name, perhaps a daughter of Alexis IV or possibly of Manuel III (see 'Une alliance problématique au XVe siècle: le mariage de Valenza Comnena, fille d’un empereur de Trébizonde, à Niccolò Crispo, seigneur de Santorin', in *Archeion Pontou* 30 (1970–1971) 94-106). Peter Stewart ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-MEDIEVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message