The Imperial Connection of Said...

The other day I was bored and so decided to browse through the internet, and for the fun of it Googled my name..... apart from university mentionings, and a couple of blog postings mine and other people's blogs mentioning my name..... I also came across something way more interesting...... my family tree.

I finally found one of my routes...... My Grandmother (Father's Mother) surname is SAID
(pronounced Sayd) before she married into DEMANUELE. I came across the SAID family tree which happens to be one of the Maltese Titles created by Sovereigns outside of Malta. The Said surname, "A small though familiar Maltese surname established on the Maltese Isles since the 16th century" (previously known as Sayd) comes from The House of Osmani, the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Thus the ancestors of Osmani Sayds......

Incredible..... Thus my great great great great x 100 Grandfather was Osmani Sayd one of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire....... This is cool!!!

I always somehow thought that my surname Demanuele, seemed more noble than the other surnames Mallia and Said which fall under my family tree.

I am thus directly related to Principi Simone Sayd (1650) who was a landowner and married into a prominent Maltese family (Malta Nobile Marie Vassallo Donazione (1703).

I am thus the 6.3.2.1.1.2.6.2.1.1 descendent of Principi Simone Sayd.

There is also a note about my Great Uncle, my grandmother's brother (who is now 87 yrs old), who is a Priest, met most of the past 4 or 5 Popes and lectured Theology at the Vatican.

'6.3.2.1.1.2.6.1. Father Mark Said (Dominican)(b.1918-) (see website http://www.maltamigration.com/ Said, Mark P.(5.4.1918) The only Maltese who features in The International Register of Profiles (Cambridge, 1981) '

More about the Sayds:

"A family of Imperial blood, that played importances in Europe as the heirs of the Ottoman Empire. Sultan Djem Osman...... took the reins of the Empire. His eldest brother and heir were furious and left his governing province for the Empire’s capital to inherit what he had assumed his rightful legacy. Battle took place, brother against brother, though Djem failed to secure his believed rights of the Ottoman Empire. Djem fled first to Egypt, under the protection of the Sultan of Egypt, then to Rhodes Islands. The orders of St John were Masters of the Isles and had hoped to gain help to rescue his claim age. Djem stay on the Rhodes Islands was interesting as his union with an Italian Noblewomen produced several descendants. After several years, ......the Pope had acknowledged Djem’s sons as Princes of Royal and Imperial blood, with the title of “Prince de Sayd” in 1492.........."

This is really cool!!!!! My great great great great x100 Grandfather was an Ottoman Sultan....... my blood is thus a good mix of Turkish, Italian and Maltese.....

Here, now you all know a little bit more about me.......

This is making me want to find out more about my other Surnames..... who knows, I might be double nobility! ;)