18
« on: March 31, 2018, 05:26:25 PM »
she's not mortal, she's over 1,000 years old. As has been said ireland had many kings. it was why they tended to get conquored by the english-they were busy fighting among themselves to fend off a more organiazed outsider, but that's still a lot. butters the logical line would be David BUT depending on how you read the bible they all go back to Abraham. If that isn't enough he might be a levite (variation on levine) which is a line to Moses, the law giver. there are the pre Davidic kins like Saul. and joshua (a king in action if not name.)
You really don't know. a friend of my mother's is big into this and traced may maternal line. We thought it was kind of funny. Everyone wants to go back to a king or a significant slave (Cleopatra's house maid) but we always said you end up on a turnip farm in Norfolk. well no. he hit a noble line and those church records existed so you can run with it. He didn't know the history but I could fill in the blanks-a lesser son of the Duke of Brittany who settled in England during the civil war between Matilda and Stephen (the time of the Cadfael books) by where a supported of Matilda who's son was Henry II. You think the family line is ho-hum but then 42 generations back your ancestor is the uncrowned king of France and known as the Hammer of Tours. Well that puts a lot of 'royal' blood in the general population