Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-018-0609-7 The Hungarian king Bela III has been tested to be R1a - maybe Z280 or M458?
Trying to extend the lines of known descendant of Charlemagne in my own genealogy, I realized one of them had a mt-descendant who tested and she has royalties on her mt-line (which is not mine, unfortunately).
Her name is Catherine Couvent, she married Philippe Amiot in Épieds around 1625.
At FTDNA's French Heritage DNA Project, her mt-descendant was given plain H* for haplogroup and their HVR1+2 mutations are:
HVR1: A16129G, T16187C, C16189T, T16223C, G16230A, T16278C, C16311T
HVR2: G73A, C146T, C152T, C195T, A247G, 522.1A, 522.2C, 315.1C
(...)
Although still quite speculative, it could be of interest to this thread.
Uncommon.Very curious the Z1a MtDNA. ¿How common it really is between Swedish people and other Scandinavians?
House of Wittelsbach may be I1, according to an interview with Bulgarian geneticist Evgeni Delev. Link is only in Bulgarian: http://www.desant.net/show-news/25122/
In the answer to the fourth question, Mr. Delev says that a man named Nikola Tsvyatkov from a village called Fakiya in the Strandzha Mountains turned out to be I1. This is an unusual haplogroup for Bulgaria, so further tests were done and apparently it was decided that this person could very well be patrilineally descended from a King of Sweden from the House of Wittelsbach, perhaps through an illegitimate son.
However, I have no idea who else was tested to prove this connection. In any case, it is true that three Swedish Kings belonged to that illustrious dynasty.
Nikola Tsvyatkov is in fact I2a2b-L38, presumably from the East European BY25359 branch. There are already a few Bulgarians and Macedonians found with it, so not unusual for Bulgaria. His claim to royalty was ridiculously based on the fact that Charles XII stopped at his village sometimes when fled to Turkey. It is considered also that Charles XII was gay, so he would be more interested in the young Janissaries who guarded him.
This thread has been viewed 614016 times.