Little is known about Giuseppe d’Armenia except that he was a judge, and married 4 times.
He is my 7 x great-grandfather.
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Little is known about Gio Leonardo d’Armenia except that he was an Ambassador in 1541.
Paolo Darmenia worked with the British Forces at their arsenal in Malta. Valletta-born, he lived in St Julians and Sliema.
Anthony Darmenia, known and remembered as Nannu Twanny, was a Maltese pharmacist.
Ranulf I was a Duke of Aquitaine. Little is known about him except that he died from battle wounds fighting Vikings.
We know little of Ranulf II except that he was a Duke of Aquitaine.
William V, known as the Great, was a Duke of Aquitaine. He memorably refused the crown of a united Italy after realising the political situation on the peninsula was a mess.
William VIII was instrumental in one of the first military campaigns organised by the Pope against the Muslims in Spain. This was a precursor to the Crusades.
Raymond of Poitiers was a Prince of Antioch during the first Crusade. He gained control by working with the bishop to con his future mother-in-law.
People called Bohemond “the Stammerer” because of a pronounced speech impediment he had. He ascended the throne when Antiochene nobility dethroned his mother.
He is one of my maternal 21 x great-grandfathers.