1. The Greek and the Biblical chronology

7.5. Frederic II of Sicily as the “ancient” Romulus?

According to a number of “ancient” sources, the first Roman king was Romulus Quirin, or Romulus the Divine, the founder of Rome in the alleged year 753 b.c. and the mastermind behind the rape of the Sabine women. If we discover the “share-out of wives and daughters” to have happened in 1311 a.d., one should rightly expect the mediaeval original of Romulus Quirin to surface nearby, which he promptly does.

We learn the following of the XIV century events in Greece: “the mercenaries realized that they would not be able to keep their trophies without the assistance of some powerful monarch, and so they were forced to resume contact with the house of Aragon and seek the protection of Frederick II of Sicily, despite having headed eastwards to escape serving him originally… the envoys of the Catalans headed to Messina from Athens to offer him the vast lands of the Greek kingdom that they conquered, which he was to reign over as if it were an overseas colony” ([195], page 213).

Although the events in question are supposed to take place in Greece (or the Italian Greater Greece), the new state founded by the Catalans and the Franks cannot escape the name of Rome, which is perfectly natural, considering Livy’s “ancient” version of the city’s and the state’s foundation. “They [the Catalans – A. F.] had still called themselves the fortunate Frankish army in Romania [! - A. F.], or the Duchy of Athens; the Sicilian king [Frederick II – A. F.] called them the same” ([195], page 214).

Friedrich = Frederick II had reigned for roughly 35 years, qv below. Romulus Quirin, his phantom reflection, had reigned for 37 years, according to Titus Livy. We see a very acceptable concurrence of reign durations. It would be interesting to trace this parallelism further, which is something we haven’t managed to do as of yet.

8. The mediaeval Charles of Naples as the “ancient” king Cambyses

If we are to follow the further correspondences between the “ancient” and mediaeval history of Greece with the 1810-year shift taken into account, we shall discover that apart from the pair of characters that we have already identified as the same historical personality (the “ancient” Persian king Cyrus and the mediaeval Charles of Anjou), we also get a convincing mutual superimposition of their successors – the “ancient” Cambyses, son of Cyrus, and the mediaeval Charles II of Naples.

40a. Charles II of Naples in the XIII century a.d. Charles II of Naples is the successor of Charles of Anjou who had reigned for 4 years in 1285-1289 a.d. ([195], page 379). He had lost power in 1289, and spent the remaining part of his life in a futile struggle for the throne.

40b. “Ancient” Greece. The Persian king Cambyses. Cambyses, King of Persia, was the son and the heir of king Cyrus. His reign duration equals 8 years (the alleged years 530-522 b.c., qv in [72], page 193).

Commentary. A shift of 1810 years forward places the reign of Cambyses right in the epoch of 1280-1288 a.d. We see that 1289, or the last reign year of Charles II of Naples, coincides with the end of Cambyses’ reign in 1288 a.d., which gives us a very good concurrence indeed, despite the difference in reign durations (4 and 8 years, respectively).

It would be apropos to dwell on the list of the mediaeval Achaean princes of 1205-1460 a.d. ([195], page 379). Two rulers from this list – namely, Charles of Anjou, the Neapolitan king, and Charles II of Naples, have already been identified as the two famous “ancient” Persian (P-Russian?) heroes – the kings Cyrus and Cambyses. It is possible that other mediaeval Achaean princes became reflected as phantoms in the “ancient past”. It is up to the reader to carry on with the study of this particular subject.

It is remarkable that the second and the third princes from the Achaean list, namely, Gottfried de Villehardouin (1210-1218 a.d.) and Gottfried II (1218-1245 a.d.) should bear the name Gottfried, which may me a combination of the words Goth and TRD (TRT) – possibly “Tartar”, which would make the name Gottfried translate as “Tartar Goth” – this makes perfect sense, since it was the Goths and the Tartars who fought in the war of the XIII century a.d. (see a more detailed description in Chron5).

Let us also point the name “Tarent” in the name of Philipp II von Tarent (1307-1313 a.d.) - once again an obvious association with the “ancient” TRN (Trojans, Troy, Franks, Tarquins etc). We only encounter this name once in the entire Achaean list, and it isn’t in a random place, either, but rather just where we expect it to be – in the immediate temporal vicinity of the XIII century a.d. Let us now resume the biographical comparison of Charles II and Cambyses.

41a. The Archons of Athens in the XII-XIII century a.d. We find out that the institution of the Athenian Archons did in fact exist and flourish in mediaeval Greece of the XII-XIII century a.d. ([195], pages 157 and 188(5). In particular, the cities of Thebes and Athens would “keep taking care of the issues of their communities ruled by the Frankish Archons” ([195], page 157).

41b. “Ancient” Greece. The Archons of Athens. Under Cambyses the Persian, in the alleged year 528 b.c., the institution of the “ancient” Athenian Archons comes to existence in “ancient” Greece, and it covers the period until the alleged year 293 b.c. ([72], pages 204-205, table VII). Thus, we get a mutual superimposition of two well-known institutions after an 1810-year shift – that of the “ancient” Athenian Archons and the mediaeval Frankish Archons of Athens.

42a. The “second king of Naples” in the XIII century a.d. Charles II of Naples is also the ruler of the Latin kingdom ([195]).

42b. “Ancient” Greece. Cambyses the Persian as the “second king”. The “ancient” name of Cambyses can be regarded as the sum of the words “Cam” and “Bys”, the former being a possible version of the word Khan. As for the latter – “Bys” may be a variant of the Frankish “bis” (“repetition”, or “the second”), which is obviously the title of Charles II of Naples. Since Cambyses is an “ancient” Persian (PRS), or a mediaeval Frenchman, Frank or P-Russian, the French translation of “Bys” (“bis”) as “the second” as we suggest it is quite in order. The Latin meaning of “bis” is just the same, by the way.