User:Maed

Recently I have been occupied in studying the advertised claims of certain deposed Balkan royal families that they descend from medieval monarchs of their countries, despite a gap of several centuries in continuity due to Osmanic yoke. I just was not able to leave those claims appear in sources and also in various Wikipedia articles without trying to find out what precise substantiation those claims have and what not. Let me say that some genealogies presented in (possibly monarchist) sources were less than thoroughly researched. But there was grains of truth anyway. Some results:

• Byzantine ancestry of Greek Royal Family

• Nemanjic pedigree of the Royal House of Yugoslavia

• Bulgarian ancestry of royals of Bulgaria

• Russian roots of Catherine the Great

• Greek pedigree of Empress Sisi

• Medieval Albanian pedigree of Leka Zogu

• Vlach ancestry of royals of Romania