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Originally Posted by SkyViking
I'm using Ancestry.com which I find very good. I'm only using the free features as they are more than enough for me. Managed to trace the family back to 1500's, though all links are not with 100% certainty. Another branch allegedly goes back to Louis XIV of France (another family member researched this) - who knows, maybe the Palace of Versailles is the old family estate...  I will let the French keep it though, the light pollution from nearby Paris would ruin my observing!  |
If that's the case, you're related to Brooke Shields
Your mutual Great Grandfather is Henry IV
Henry's 10th great grandfather was Louis IX, or Louis the Pious (St Louis). His grandmother was Leonora Plantagenet....Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine's eldest daughter. So, you will have Plantagenet blood and you will also be a great grandson of William the Conqueror
Through William's wife, Matilda Aethling, you are a direct descendant of Kenneth McAlpin, who in about 800AD united Scotland into one (rather feuding) nation. You're also related to King Duncan I, of "that" Scottish play
You will also be related to Byzantine emperors, through Phillipe IV's mother...Isabella de Aragon. This is only the start
Providing your connection to Louis XIV is accurate and verifiable.