seven fair branches springing from one root

[angevin2]

It is apparently a continuing feature of this journal that I occasionally post illustrations of Plantagenets with foliage blossoming from their loins. Which is a sort of alarming thing to do on more than one occasion, but, whatever. Anyway, I have a weird fondness for this kind of genealogy (the old-fashioned Jesse-tree style), and the frontispiece of the 1592 edition of John Stowe's Annals of England, which I have been reading for dissertatory purposes, is a fine and shining example thereof. It's not quite as pretty as the one in Hall's Union, but it's much easier to read.

Oh, and you get a virtual cookie if you can spot the genealogical error in the tree. sinnocenti is disqualified because I told her, though I'm sure she'd recognize it anyway. ;)