Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[The Minsky Moment]

Anne of Kiev may have been an unusual marriage, but it had a pretty big impact on the naming of Capetian kings for the rest of Middle Ages.

How so?

6 Phillips starting with her son and heir.

[Queequeg]

 
I thought there was some French noble name of Russian origin that I wasn't familiar with. 

[The Minsky Moment]

I thought there was some French noble name of Russian origin that I wasn't familiar with.

That stuff is all Greek to me.   

[Valmy]

I was about to say, I am pretty sure Philip is a Greek name.  Or at least was the name of the Apostle the Greeks like.

[jimmy olsen]

I thought things had improved a bit during and after the Carolingian period, apparently not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Kiev

The new queen consort was not instantly attracted to her new realm. She wrote to her father that Francia was "a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly and the customs revolting." Anna of Kiev could write and read five languages, including Greek and Latin, while her husband and his entire court could not write and read, and signed themselves with a cross.

[Queequeg]

I've used that fact several times on Languish as proof that Russia wasn't always a relative backwater.  You don't remember it?

[Valmy]

I thought things had improved a bit during and after the Carolingian period, apparently not.

Well this was following a period of war and political fragmentation.

[Queequeg]

Also; if you believe Mormon genealogy (don't) I'm a Rurikid through Anne of Kiev. 

[Valmy]

Also; if you believe Mormon genealogy (don't) I'm a Rurikid through Anne of Kiev. 

I am pretty sure a huge percentage of all people of European descent are.

[Queequeg]

Yeah, probably, it's so far up the core Capet line that all Bourbons and Valois descendants are.  Not just the main lines, obviously, but the thousands upon thousands that broke off, and all the bastard children produced by all the princes and Kings in all subsequent European monarchies by inter-marriage with a Capet line.

[jimmy olsen]

I thought things had improved a bit during and after the Carolingian period, apparently not.

Well this was following a period of war and political fragmentation.

No excuses, Mr. French Apologist! 

[jimmy olsen]

It's really annoying when someone assassinates a family member and you can't arrest him without upsetting the vassals.

[Solmyr]

I was about to say, I am pretty sure Philip is a Greek name.  Or at least was the name of the Apostle the Greeks like.

IIRC Anna named her son after Philip of Macedon.

[Razgovory]

I thought things had improved a bit during and after the Carolingian period, apparently not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Kiev

The new queen consort was not instantly attracted to her new realm. She wrote to her father that Francia was "a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly and the customs revolting." Anna of Kiev could write and read five languages, including Greek and Latin, while her husband and his entire court could not write and read, and signed themselves with a cross.

I find that extremely questionable.  The court would include churchmen who almost certainly could read.  Henry's dad wrote poetry.

[The Brain]

I was about to say, I am pretty sure Philip is a Greek name.  Or at least was the name of the Apostle the Greeks like.

IIRC Anna named her son after Philip of Macedon.

It can hardly have been before.