Royal Blood?
I said something about two weeks ago on twitter about how I always had thought that my husband was the only one with royal ancestors, but that I had recently (actually it was about three years ago now that I think about it) found out that I too am related to royalty through my dad’s side of the family.
To set the record straight though, I haven’t proven any of this… from Joe’s side of the family, or mine.
I’ve only thoroughly researching one side of my family (my maternal great-grandmother’s). For the rest of my lines, which would include the one that supposedly has royalty in it, and for Joe’s, I have only personally traced them back to the early/mid 1800’s. For people and events before that time (except for one or two lines) I’m only going by what I’ve found on the internet, and as we all know, you can’t trust everything you read, especially when it comes to stuff on the internet.
The two people that supposedly link Joe to royalty are Andrew Pierce Lee, his g-g-g grandfather on his father’s side, and Rachel Funderburg, his g-g-g-grandmother on his mother’s side. The person that supposedly links me to royalty is Christopher Wells, my g-g-g-grandfather on my father’s side.
Supposedly if you trace Andrew Pierce Lee’s ancestry, one of his ancestors is Geoffrey Plantagenet. Andrew is also, supposedly, a distant cousin of Robert The Bruce (remember the guy who fought with William Wallace in Braveheart?)
Supposedly if you trace Rachel Funderburg’s ancestry, one of her ancestors is Philipp Wilhelm.
And if you trace Christopher Well’s ancestry, supposedly one of his ancestors was King Henry II, who coincidently is the son of the same Geoffrey Plantagenet that my husband is supposed to be descended from.
It will take a lot of time and work to figure out if this info is right, so who knows if I ever will. If it’s not true though, it’s no big deal, we still have people in our family trees that I find very interesting, even if they aren’t royalty.