Just for fun:


         Teodor Paleologo (251) of Montferrat has a claim on the Byzantine Empire

         Giovanna d'Anjou (NPC 445), the heiress (although Salic Law prohibited her from actually inheriting) to Robert of Anjou (231), has a claim on the same throne, as heiress to the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, a distinction shared with some cousins who are not in play. The male line of the Counts of Anjou can be traced back to Geoffrey II of Chateau-Landon, Count of Gatinais who married Ermengarde, the heiress of Anjou around the first quarter of the 11th Century. Geoffrey and Ermengarde's grandson, Count Fulk V, resigned Anjou and Maine (the latter acquired thru his first marriage) to his eldest son Geoffrey and went off to the Crusades. Geoffrey, the son who stayed at home to rule Anjou and Maine acquired the nickname Plantagenet from the sprig of broom which he jauntily wore in his cap. It was he who married Henry I's daughter the Empress Matilda and became the ancestor of the Planatagenet Kings (via the famous son, Henry II.) However the name was not used by Geoffrey's descendants until around 1448 when Richard, Duke of York, revived the name to emphasize the superiority of his claim against the house of Lancaster. So the Plantagenets and d'Anjou's are of the same family. All the others since the 11th century who have broken off from this family are all are related thru various ways.

         Leon d'Anjou (170) is technically King of Armenia and Cyprus.

         There is also a titular King of Jerusalem running around.


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