Sinners and Saints is a different
kind of book and may well be the
first of a kind.
It is a collection of small
biographies and they all have in common that all are about
ancestors of HRH Princess Michael of Kent, but several are also
ancestors of Brice Clagett, Chico Doria, Ian Fettes, Peter de Loriol,
John Ravilious, William Addams Reitwiesner, Gilbert von Studnitz,
Nathaniel Taylor and Kelsey Williams.
The biographies appear in time
order and by each biography is recorded how many times that person is
an ancestor of Princess Michael of Kent and after each biography is a
basic genealogical line displayed to another ancestor with a biography
and so all lines end with HRH Princess Michael of Kent.
Ther ancestry of Princess
Michael of Kent has been ignored for too long, especially as she has
such interesting ancestors. For instance at the last count 188 Knights
of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 47 Knights and Ladies of the Garter
as well as from the following Magna Carta Sureties : Hugh Bigod, 3rd
Earl of Norfolk; Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk; Henry de Bohun, 1st
Earl of Hereford; Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford; Richard de
Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford; John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln; Saher
de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester and Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of
Oxford.
Charlemagne and William the
Conquerer, of course, but also the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens and
explorer Hernando Cortes, but also ancestors were in Peru when the
Spanish settled there.
Of these 1175 ancestors, 1037
were born before the year 1600. The bibliography covers 12 pages and
the index 47.
Amongst the ancestors two popes
can be found. What seems surprising is that her French ancestors seem
to be the second largest group. Also a reference can be found to the
possible descent from early Chinese Emperors.
This book is available through
Heraldry Today in England and they will also inform about the cost for
this book of 732 pages. Heraldry@Heraldrytoday.co.uk
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