Great-granny was a byblow of a certain Duke of Somerset and the Beauforts agreed to never try to claim the throne when the first of the their line was ennobled by his father, one Edward Longshanks Esq.
So not only do I have the ignominy of being from a bastard line of a bastard line of William the Bastard, I also need to find my backpack.
Not if it was your great granny. The Seymours got made Dukes of Somerset by Edward VI, while the Beaufort line died out in 1471 after the Battle of Tewkesbury.
Sorry hon, but your great-granny was a byblow of arrivistes (and I remember that fab story about your father being mistaken for the current Duke...)
Not Longshanks, Richard II, in 1397. John Beaufort, 1st duke of Somerset and his siblings were the children of Edward III's third son, John of Gaunt, by Katherine Swynford.
Great-granny was a byblow of a certain Duke of Somerset and the Beauforts agreed to never try to claim the throne when the first of the their line was ennobled by his father, one Edward Longshanks Esq.
So not only do I have the ignominy of being from a bastard line of a bastard line of William the Bastard, I also need to find my backpack.
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If so, I'm up for that. If it was good enough for my great^n grandfather, it's good enough for me.
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Sorry hon, but your great-granny was a byblow of arrivistes (and I remember that fab story about your father being mistaken for the current Duke...)
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That's a trait that seems to have stuck.
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