Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage:
Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Brook, Lindsay L, The Byzantine Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, The Genealogist (APSG), vol 2 no 1 (1981), p3-51. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p[0-9#]*].
  2. Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge: University Press, 1952. Reprinted with corrections 1960. Available at (part 1) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149173 and (part 2) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149602. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CMH p[0-9]*].
  3. Settipani, Christian, Phokas family. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 9/18/1999. Subject: Phokas family - from the beginning. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/aTbuX4hbS4A/m/ZTvMDdPbEpUJ. Author address: inapit at club-internet dot fr. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Christian Settipani SGM 9/18/1999].
  4. Felch, William Farrand, Ancestry of Agatha, in Notes & Queries, London: John C Francis, 1894. Eighth series, vol 5 (Jan-Jun 1894) pp 421-23, 461-2, and vol 6 (Jul-Dec 1894) pp 2-3. Available at http://archive.org/details/s8notesqueries05londuoft (p421-3 and p461-2) and http://archive.org/details/s8notesqueries06londuoft (p2-3) Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Felch Agatha p[0-9]*].
  5. Moriarty, G Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS Film#0441438. NYPL ARF-86-2555. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007905814?cat=66443. Also available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/66443. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p18],
mother:
daughter of Bardos and ___ Maleinoi [Ref: Christian Settipani SGM 9/18/1999]
Sources for death Information
date:
976 [Ref: CMH p256]
occ 976 [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p18]
Sources with Information about marriage to Maria
date:
first marriage of John [Ref: CMH p256],
names:
[Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p89]
Sources with Information about marriage to Theodora
date:
second marriage of John [Ref: CMH p256],
names:
[Ref: Felch Agatha p423]
Research Notes:
969-76: Emperor [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p18]
Emperor [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p89]

finding that he could ill spare troops to defend the Byzantine posts in Italy against the attacks of the Western emperor, released Panulf of Beneventum, after he had remained three years a prisoner at Constantinople, and by this means opened amicable communication with Otto the Great. A treaty of marriage was concluded between Otto and Theophano, the sister of the emperors Basil and Constantine (sister also of Anne of Russia, and niece of Zimiskes). The nuptials were celebrated at Rome, April 14, 972 [Ref: Felch Agatha p423]



Pedigree of John I TZIMISCES, Emperor Of Constantinople
                   /-----Ioannes KOURKOUAS
          /-----Theophilos KOURKOUAS
 /-----Theodoros KOURKOUAS
John I TZIMISCES, Emperor Of Constantinople
|                           /-----Phokas
|                  /-----Nikephoros PHOKAS, Caesar At Constantinople
|         /-----Bardos PHOKAS, Caesar At Constantinople
 \-----(Unk Dau) PHOKAINA
         |         /-----Eudokios MALEINOS
          \-----(Unk Dau) MALEINE



Descendants of John I TZIMISCES, Emperor Of Constantinople
1. John I TZIMISCES, Emperor Of Constantinople m1. Maria m2. Theodora
m. Maria father: Niketas Skleros, Patrician mother: Gregoria Of Macedonia
m. Theodora father: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus Eastern Emperor mother: Helena Lekapene