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The Patricianz: Pericles Acamantis (495 - 429 BC) - Athenian Army General, Statesman, One of the Founding Fathers of Democracy, Founding Father of The Parthenon - Author's 77th Great Grandfather

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Greek history is replete with Alcmaeonidae's influence in civic and military affairs, pretty much from the time of recorded history until the end of the last Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. I have reason to believe the clan's roots in the region, however, can be traced further back in time to Ancient Persia of Zoroaster and before.

Pericles may not have been the founder of Athenian democracy, his mother's uncle Cleisthenes takes credit for that, but he certainly was the first to implement the system of government on a widespread basis throughout Athens. As a result, the nation/state flourished, both economically and as a culture, for many centuries thereafter. Historians generally regard him as the father of the Golden Age of Athens.

Athen's newfound wealth gave Pericles the latitude to commence ambitious building projects, the most historically auspicious of which was The Parthenon. Most of the major temples of the Acropolis were constructed under his supervision, as well.

His father Xanthippus (530 - 475 BC) led the combined Greek forces to a decisive victory over the Persians at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC. The victory brought an end to the Persian invasion campaigns of Greece as well as turned the tide of the Greco-Persian War in favor of the Greeks.

Pericles' Alcmaeonidae lineage traces back to Argonaut Nestor and the builders of Delphi of ancient Greek history. At least from the perspective of the mythical traditions (as well as actual genealogical evidence), this is an entirely separate genus of the human species, whose primary direct descent remains well apart from either the nobility of Judeo-Trojan lineages until much later after the Trojan War. Macedonian Alexander the Great and his direct descendant Antiochus III Seleucid were both direct descendants of the Argonaut forebears. Byzas (fl. 660 BC), the founder and eponym of Byzantium, was one of their forebears whose descendants mated with descendants of Trojan nobility.

The separate genus of Trojan and Argonaut lineages created the mortal clash between their respective hubris that ultimately led to the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy. Moreover, the very thought of the prospect of Greek goddess Helen mating with Trojan Paris must have been abhorrent enough to stir the entire Greek populace to demand her immediate repatriation and destruction of Troy thereafter. Of course, Menelaus couldn't have agreed more.

Descendants of Trojan-Greek nobility later returned to Byzantium during the 1st Crusade. A contingent of Crusader knights traveled to Constantinople to enlist the support of Emperor Alexius Komnenus. His daughter was so smitten by the presence of one of them upon their arrival, she wrote a detailed description of her first encounter with Bohemond I of Antioch. Her great-great-grand niece later married his great-great-nephew (see relationship below).

General (Strategos) Pericles Acamantis
Born in c. 495 BC Cholargos
Died in 429 BC Athens

77th great-grandfather MELITEOS-MARATHONIUS-PETRONII PROBI-PHILAGRIUS-FERREOLUS-PLANTAGENET-FITZALAN-MOWBRAY-HOWARD-WOOD
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/46588...

77th great-grandfather MELITEOS-HAGNOUSIOS-MELITIOS-MARATHONIUS-GENS ANICIA-RUSTICUS-MEROVING-CAROLMAN-VERE-WARREN-HOLLAND-SIMMON-COLLINS
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/46588...

2nd cousin 8x removed of wife of 74th great grandfather
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

2nd cousin 17x removed of husband of 55th great grandmother
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

2nd cousin 18x removed of husband of 55th great grand aunt
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

2nd cousin 2x removed of wife of 16th great grandfather of husband of 55th great grandmother
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE
http://fabpedigree.com/s012/f099777.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles

Byzas, Eponym and Founder of Byzantium
Birth fl. 660 BC in Greece
Death in Byzantine Empire (present-day Turkey)
5th cousin 77x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
4th cousin 82x removed HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
5th cousin 87x removed ROHAN-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

Princess Anna Komnene Of Byzantium
Birth 1 December 1083
Porphyra Chamber, Great Palace of Constantinople, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
Death 1153 (aged 70)
Monastery of Kecharitomene, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
1st great grand aunt of wife of 10th cousin 24x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
6th great grand aunt of husband of 19th cousin 19x removed DEMAREST-OUTWATER
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

Bohemond I of Antioch
Birth 1057 in Antioch, Syria
Death 03 Mar 1111 Apulia, Italy
2nd cousin 27x removed SINCLAIR-TRIPP
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
9th cousin 29x removed DEMAREST
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

Princess Irene Angela Komnene of Byzantium
Birth 1181 Byzantium
Death 21 Jun 1208 in murdered, Otto, Wittelsbach, Bramburg
5th cousin 25x removed ROHAN-CYR
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
7th cousin 22x removed SINCLAIR-TRIPP
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
wife of 10th cousin 24x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...
14th cousin 24x removed DEMAREST-OUTWATER
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...