Happy Confessor Day!

[TheConfessor]

October 13th was always one of the highlights of the year at my house when I was a kid, so I hope you're all feeling the excitement. I want to wish one and all a very happy Feast of St. Edward the Confessor. I see that he is the patron saint of difficult marriages, so if you're interested in having a difficult marriage, spill your guts to St. Edward and he'll fix you up. He was married to Edith for 21 years and they never got it on, so I guess that's what makes him qualified.


http://www.culturalcatholic.com/sainted ... fessor.htm
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronolo ... ne1066.htm
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/article/35061
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=223

[Bob Juch]

He's my 25th great-grand uncle. I'm descended from his sister Goda or Godgifu.

[TheConfessor]

He's my 25th great-grand uncle. I'm descended from his sister Goda or Godgifu.

Only 25 generations in 1000 years seems kind of low. You must come from a long line of late bloomers.

[Bob Juch]

He's my 25th great-grand uncle. I'm descended from his sister Goda or Godgifu.

Only 25 generations in 1000 years seems kind of low. You must come from a long line of late bloomers.

Actually that's 28 and is the shortest. I have 98 lines of descent from Æthelred II "The Unready", and most of them are 35 generations.

[Bob Juch]

He's my 25th great-grand uncle. I'm descended from his sister Goda or Godgifu.

Only 25 generations in 1000 years seems kind of low. You must come from a long line of late bloomers.

Actually that's 28 and is the shortest. I have 98 lines of descent from Æthelred II "The Unready", and most of them are 35 generations.

Here's one example line:

Æthelred II "The Unready" King of England-11078 b.967 Ælgifu (Elgiva) -39076 b.997
Lucia of Mercia-36911 b.1040
Lucy de Taillebois-36914 b.1074
Alice de Meschines-1562 b.1094
Roger de Clare Earl of Hertford-1463 b.1116
Richard de Clare 4th Earl of Hertford-8679 b.1153
Gilbert de Clare 5th Earl of Hertford, 1st Earl of Gloucester-8672 b.1180
Richard de Clare 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Gloucester-8654 b.1222
Isabel de Clare-8656 b.1240
William VI de Braose Baron of Braose-57642 b.1255
Aline de Braose-57641 b.1286
John de Mowbray 3rd Baron Mowbray-8736 b.1310
John de Mowbray 4th Baron Mowbray-8725 b.1340
Thomas de Mowbray 1DoN6BM7BSEoN-57637 b.1366
Margaret de Mowbray-57610 b.1388
Katherine Howard-57636 b.1425
Margaret Nevill-57626 b.1455
Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham-57625 b.1467
Elizabeth Brooke-57648 b.1505
Sir Thomas Wyatt-36738 b.1520
Sir George Wyatt-36708 b.1550
Isabel Wyatt-36629 b.1595
Elizabeth Page-36627 b.1625
Catherine Digges-36625 b.1656
Edward Herndon-36601 b.1678
John Herndon-36703 b.1700
Elizabeth Herndon-36637 b.1732
Ann Graves-5483 b.1748
Thomas Yancey-1813 b.1769
Tryon Milton Yancey-3334 b.1794
Joseph Trotter Yancey-3333 b.1823
Louisa Yancey-2873 b.1866
Stanley St. Clair Juch-2877 b.1896
Lt. Cdr. Stanley Robert Juch-1090 b.1917
Robert Erwin William Juch-1 b.1950

[ne1410s]

My Daddy would have been 103 today...