I feel really stupid

[gwynhefar]

How did I not know the Tudors were originally Welsh?

I'm tracing back the Tudor line on my dad's side and I start getting all these Welsh names and Tudor begins to be spelled Tewdwr. Well, duh! So now I've got my biological father's line going back to (mythologically speaking) Odin, and my dad's line going back to Beli and Dôn. I've promised my mother I'll give her a call as soon as I find a royal and/or divine ancestor in her tree *g*

I am realising, as I go through all this stuff, just how very lacking my knowledge of British history is, however. I blame a strong American bias in my secondary history education, but I suppose I have no excuse for not learning more on my own. Must start doing that.

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[e-scapism101.livejournal.com]

I always forget too. The book I'm reading right now mentions that Arthur, Henry VIII older brother, was the first Prince of Wales in a long while to actually have much Welsh ancestry.

I'm tempted to get myself a subscription to Ancestry.com when I start working again, even though I'm reasonably sure I'm not descended from anyone interesting.

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

You might be surprised. I think when you get down to it, everyone's descended from someone interesting somewhere. I mean, really . . . if I ended up with royal lines in two out of the three pedigrees I'm investigating it can't be that rare. Neither my dad nor my biological father or their families were in any way aware of their exalted lineage. And it's fun!