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Captain_Raamsley on scored.co
1 year ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
It's important to be grounded and rooted in life. Know your history, even if its 1/10,000th of it.
Other stories of my ancestors include their murder by Catholics for being Calvinist, their loss of their north french fiefdom because of the continuous 100 years war, their participation in settlement of the new world (north and south), and participation in the crusades etc.
Edit: Also allegedly I have the mythological King Alaric the first king of Sweden in there somewhere, but there's so many branches I dont know if I can find it again. The oldest documented ancestor I could find was allegedly born in 303 A.D.
Obviously these people certainly existed even if they were deified or mythologized. We wuz godz n sheeeeiiiiit!
After about 1500 AD (in Europe) the records are sketchy at best. The reason is simple: A lot of kings and nobles would doctor their family history to claim ties that probably weren't there. But from the 1500s on, we have baptismal and marriage data from old churches that seems to be pretty reliable. (There isn't much reason to lie about local peasants being born or married.)
Since we don't know what is true or not, we'll just write down what people said and let people see the source data for themselves.
Other stories of my ancestors include their murder by Catholics for being Calvinist, their loss of their north french fiefdom because of the continuous 100 years war, their participation in settlement of the new world (north and south), and participation in the crusades etc.
Edit: Also allegedly I have the mythological King Alaric the first king of Sweden in there somewhere, but there's so many branches I dont know if I can find it again. The oldest documented ancestor I could find was allegedly born in 303 A.D.
Obviously these people certainly existed even if they were deified or mythologized. We wuz godz n sheeeeiiiiit!
Since we don't know what is true or not, we'll just write down what people said and let people see the source data for themselves.