OTHER LANGELIER ANCESTORS IN WORLD HISTORY Guillaume Angelier worked on the decorations that Jean Perréal designed to decorate Lyon for the entry of King Louis XII into the city in the 1500s. In Venice, between 1574 and 1597, there is a printer-bookseller named Georgio Angelieri who could be a member of our family. (Source: Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire 1900 Author : Société des amis de la Bibliothèque nationale et des grandes bibliothèques de France Published in 1900)
The Angel family - Emperors of Byzantium, despots of Epirus and officials in Serbia The Ange/Angel family was a family belonging to byzantine nobility whose rise began at the end of the 11th century and who, barely a century later, came to the throne, providing three emperors at Byzantium. Byzantium is an ancient Greek city, the capital of Thrace, located at the entrance of the Bosphorus under part of current Istanbul. The city was rebuilt by Constantine , and renamed Constantinople in 330, and it became the capital of the Roman Empire and then of the Roman Eastern Empire. The 19 year reign of the Ange/Angel family emperors (1185-1203) was characterized by a continuation of the decline that ultimately led to fall of Constantinople at the hands of the 4th Crusade in 1204. After the capture of Constantinople in 1318, a branch of the Ange/Angel family led the despotate of Epirus, one of the successor States of the Byzantine empire. During this same period, Macedonia and Thessaly were also periodically governed by the Angels. Another branch settled in Serbia. Etymology The name likely derives from the Greek word 'aggelos' meaning God's Messenger. Some rhetoricians call this family of "angelonymoi" that is "named after the angels or with the name of angels." However, it is also possible that the name derives from the district of the same name in Asia minor near Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, where the family may have originated. Ange, Byzantine emperors The founder of the family was a certain native Constantin Ange of West Philadelphia in Asia minor. Constantine was a handsome man of modest origin who married Theodora Comnenos, daughter of the Emperor Alexis Ist. This marriage brought Constantin into the power circle of the Imperial Court. The couple had three sons: sebastocrate John, Andronikos and Alexis. Alexis made a fortune in Macedonia, and in 1164, founded the Church of Saint Pantaleimon at the monastic complex of Nerezi in Macedonia, which still exists and is known for its murals. Alexis was also the first Angels to be known under the name of "Alexis Angel Comnenus", thus adopting the prestigious name of his mother, an example followed by other members of the family later. During the 12th century, several family members distinguished themselves as high ranking members of the military. The entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople marks the end of the dynasty of the angels.
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