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Cyril Le o He raclius, Prince T oumanof f (Russian: ; 13 October 1913 - 4 February 1997) was a Russian-born American historian and genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval , , and the . His works have significantly influenced the Western scholarship of the medieval .

Fami ly Cyril Toumanoff was born in into a family of the military officer of the Russian army. His father came of the princely family of from Georgia, whose ancestors had emigrated from their original homeland in Cilician Armenia in the 15th century. This family is on the list of the Georgian princes that was attached to the concluded between the Georgian king Erekle II and the Russian empress Catherine II in 1783. On December 6, 1850, the Tumanishvili were officially enrolled on the 's list of Georgian princely families as knyaz Tumanov. Toumanoff's mother, Elizabeth Zhdanova, was a descendant of a number of Russian noble families, with genealogical ties with the Western European nobility.

Care e r Toumanoff's parents fled the in St. Petersburg in 1917. His father joined the White Russian forces during the , while his mother was put to death by the . Cyril Toumanoff was initially sheltered by his maternal grandparents in . In 1928, Toumanoff's father was able to escape to the United States, bringing his son with him. Cyril Toumanoff attended the Lennox School which he graduated from in 1931 and went to Harvard. His educators John Coddington and Robert P. Blake helped him secure funding for travel to to study Armenology under Nicholas Adontz and then to , where he studied Georgian under Michael Tsereteli. During these years, Toumanoff converted to Roman Catholicism. A breach with his Orthodox Christian father ensued and was only terminated when the two reconciled at the latter's deathbed in 1943.

Toumanoff earned a doctorate from the in 1943 and soon accepted a position there which he held until his retirement as a professor emeritus of history in 1970. Thereafter he moved to . A recognized authority on nobiliary and dynastic questions, Prince Toumanoff was also a Professed Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, High Historical Consultant, Grand Magistry, and the Grand Prior of Bohemia. Having taken religious orders he became known as Fra Cyril.

Cyril Toumanoff died in 1997 in Rome at the age of 83. He is buried at the chapel of the Knights of Malta at Campo Verano, Rome.

Bi bli o graphy "On the Relationship between the Founder of the Empire of Trebizond and the Georgian Queen Thamar", Speculum 15 (1940). "Medieval Georgian Historical Literature (VIIth-XVth Centuries)", Traditio 1 (1943). "The Old Manuscript of the Georgian Annals: The Queen Anne Codex (QA) 1479-1495", Traditio 5 (1947) "The Early Bagratids. remarks in connexion with some recent publications", Le Museon 62 (1949).

"The Fifteenth-Century Bagratids and the institution of Collegial Sovereignty in Georgia", Traditio 7 (1949-1951) "Christian Caucasia between Byzantium and Iran. New light from Old Sources", Traditio 10 (1954). (in French) "La noblesse géorgienne sa genèse et sa structure", Rivista Araldica, Sett (1956). "Chronology of the Kings of Abasgia and Other Problems", Le Museon 69 (1956) "Caucasia and Byzantine Studies", Traditio 12 (1956) "The Bagratids of Iberia from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century", Le Museon 74 (1961) "The dates of the Pseudo-Moses of Chorence", Handes Amsorya 75 (1961) Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Georgetown University Press, 1963).

"Armenia and Georgia", in The Cambridge Medieval History IV (1966). "Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia", Traditio 25 (1969).

The Order of Malta and the Russian Empire (Rome, 1969) with Olgerd de Sherbowitz-Wetzor.

"The Mamikonids and the Liparitids", Armeniaca Venise (1969).

"The Third-Century Armenian Arsacids: A chronological and Genealogical Commentary", Revue des Études Arméniennes 6 (1969): 233-281.

"Caucasia and Byzantium", Traditio 27 (1971) (in French) "L'Ordre de Malte dans l'Empire de Russie : Grand-Prieuré Catholique de Russie", Rivista Araldica (maggio-giugno 1973) (in French) Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour l'histoire de la Caucasie chrétienne (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie) (Rome: Aquila, 1976). (in French) "Aransahikides ou Haykides? Derniers rois de Siounie", Handes Amsorya (1976) (in French) Catalogue de la Noblesse titrée de l'Empire de Russie (Rome, 1982). (in French) Les Maisons Princières Géorgiennes de l'Empire de Russie (Rome, 1983). "The Albanian Royal Succession", Le Museon 97 (1984).

The Social Myth: Introduction to Byzantinism (Rome: Viella, 1984).

"Heraclids and the Arsacids", Revue des Études Arméniennes 19 (1985).

"Problems of Aransahikid Genealogy", Le Museon 98 (1985). (in French) Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle ; Tables généalogiques et chronologiques, *Rome, 1990).

Re f e re nc e s

1. ^ a b c d e f g h ii Robert H. Hewsen. "In Memoriam: Cyril T oumanoff." Journal of the Society for . Vol. 8, 1995, 5-7.

2. ^ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early T exts And Eurasian Contexts, p. 16. Peeters Bvba, ISBN 90-429-1318-5. For the present investigation no single scholar's body of work has had a greater impact than that of Cyril Toumanoff (1913 -1997). Born in St. Peterburg of an old Armeno-Georgian noble house (Tumanian, Tumanishvili), Toumanoff emigrated to the United States in 1928. He went on to earn his doctorate  This afrrtoicmle uGseos rmgaetteoriwal nfr Uomni vtheer sWitikyip iend 1ia9 p4a3g ea navdailable here. It is released uimndmere tdhiea Cterelyat aivcec Ceopmtmedo nas pAottsriibtuiotino nt-hSehraere, -hAolilkdei nLigc eitnse 3.0. until his retirement in 1970

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4. ^ McHugh, Rosita (1996), T he Knights of Malta: 900 years of care, p. xix. Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, ISBN 0-9525810-0-0.

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