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ANENT JEWISH DESCENT
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from then on adhered to the family),
became ruler over the island in the
Tiber River which was situated near
the castle, and was commandant of the
papal fortress, the Engelsburg. In the
following period, which was of a trou
blous nature, this scion of Jewish de
scent was now the protector of Pope
Urban II. He received the proud title
of “Consul of the Romans’’. Pierleoni
died on June 2, 1128. His son Petrus,
under Pope Calixtus, became cardinal
priest (Kardinalpriester) of Saint Ma
ria in Treviso, the native city of his
Jewish ancestors. He became a friend
of King Roger of Sicily. In the year
1130, when the papal seat became va
cant, those cardinals who were hostile
to the emperor elected Pierleoni pope.
When Petrus Pierleoni, the grandson
of a Jew, assumed the papal office, he
was given the name Anacletus II. The
opposition faction chose as rival pope
Cardinal Gregory of St. Angelo, a
friend of the emperor, under the name
of Innocent II. In 1138 Anacletus Pier
leoni died. Innocent then became rec
onciled with the Pierleoni family, the
members of which once more became
the highest dignitaries of the papal
court.’’
This is the history of the Jewish
family which is connected with the
Hapsburgs. Ferdinand Gregorovius, in
his “Geschichte der Stadt Rom” (His
tory of the City of Rome), writes as
follows: “St. Paul was the burial place
of Pierleoni, the inscription on whose
coffin praises him as a ‘man without
equal and incomparable because of his
wealth and his children’. His descend
ants were numerous, and their good
fortune was so fabulous that one of
His sons became pope, another the* head
of the Romans, while a daughter be
came the wife of King Roger of Sicily.
Later the story was told that both the
Frangipani and the Pierleoni were de
scendants of the Amicians, and it was
related that two brothers of a certain
Pierleoni Massimo, the so-called counts
of Aventine, migrated to Germany,
where they founded the House of
Hapsburg. Even the emperors of Aus
tria felt honored at being relatives of
the Pierleoni, until they discovered
that in this event they would have to
look for their ancestors in the Ghetto.”
In contrast to this, Jewish tradition
has it that Anacletus II was the son
of Rabbi Simon Hagodol, of Mainz.
Fie is chronicled to have recorded this
curious tragedy in a work entitled
“Elchanan beni”.
Naturally enough, President Masa-
ryk’s startling declaration has precipi
tated a whole series of controversies.
On the other hand, a socialist histo
rian in Vienna recently made the as
sertion that Dame Paloma, the most
beautiful Jewess of Toledo in the days
of Hapsburg rule in Spain, be.ause
the wife of one of the Archdukes of
that family. He avers that out of this
wedlock was born Ferdinand of Ara
gon, King of Spain. Moreover, it is
claimed that from the same union
stemmed the Catholic King Ferdinand
who drove the Jews from Spam. Ham
Paloma, who was the daughter o
Abraham, Rabbi of Segob.a, is the
early matriarch of the Hapsburgs.
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