Joachim spoused Anne...
which had a sister named Hismeria.
And Hismeria had two daughters, named Elizabeth, and Eliud.
Elizabeth was mother to John Baptist.
And Eliud engendered [voortbrengen] Eminen.
And of Eminen came Saint Servatius, whose body lieth in Maestricht, upon the river of the Meuse, in the bishopric of Liège.
And Anne had three husbands:
Joachim, Cleophas, and Salome.
And of the first she had a daughter named Mary, the Mother of God...
who was given to Joseph in marriage...
and she childed our Lord Jesu Christ.
And when Joachim was dead...
she took Cleophas, the brother of Joseph, and had by him another daughter named Mary Cleophas, and she was married to Alpheus. And Alpheus her husband had by her four sons, that was Joseph the Just (Barsabee), Simon and Jude, and James the Less.
Then the second husband being dead...
Anne married the third named Salome, and had by him another daughter which yet was called Mary Salome, and she was married to Zebedee. And this Mary had of Zebedee two sons, that is to wit, James the More, and John the Evangelist.
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