"Genealogist Dumitru Năstase proposes that the Petrescus were in fact only attached to the village of Comeni, a name later corrupted into "Comneni", then "Comnen".The "bewildering" Byzantine pedigree was also ridiculed by the left-wing satirist Petre Pandrea, who noted that, beyond his "princely obsession", Comnen was a "fundamentally decent man."