Re: emphasis on Norman history

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Sinclair
----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Grigsby <jgrigsby@bcni.net>
To: <sinclair@mids.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: emphasis on Norman history


> Bravo!
> Jean
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Spirit One Email <laurel@spiritone.com>
> To: <sinclair@zilker.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 8:44 AM
> Subject: emphasis on Norman history
>
>
> >
> >Dear Cousins,
> >    I confess to being the instigator of so many questions concerning the
> >Norman years and transition (titles) into Scotland.  The reason for this
> >emphasis is that I'm trying to gather every piece of significant history
to
> >help piece together this foundation of ALL our ancestry that is being
> >presented in a 4 part series in the Yours Aye.  I wanted to keep these in
> >chronological order to help people see the continuity and flow of
history.
> >I know it is making some of you anxious about getting facts about another
> >period that concerns or interests you more.  Please bear with me and we
> will
> >get through this together.  More contemporary articles will appear next
> >year.
> >
> > I have had to revise the last article 3 or 4 times as more comes in and
> >what I thought was true, needs to be changed completely.  I don't fool
> >myself into thinking that what will be in print and on the Clan website
> will
> >be the last word.  I think it will be the duty of all to report any new
or
> >old research that comes along that provides new insight or new facts so
> that
> >we can update the website.  We don't want to  keep adding layer after
layer
> >of misinformation if we can find the facts.  There will be times that I
> will
> >give you 2 or more versions of a story so that you can see where we are
in
> >our knowledge. In this case.  I will not, from this distance of history,
> >make a judgement about what is fact or fiction.
> >
> >    I feel that there is a goodly chunk that is missing or that someone
> >hasn't sent me yet.  It concerns the interaction of the St. Clairs with
the
> >Capets.  I have just little pieces of sentences that hint at intrigues
and
> >wonderful stories that would explain the actions of the St Clairs, maybe.
> >
> >    Once years ago, I read that Edward the Exile's son was born in
Hungary.
> >That was all there was in the book.  I just couldn't understand how an
> >Englishman got to Hungary?  Many of you know that story (sort of) and see
> >that behind a few words is a list of relationships that are entangled in
> the
> >story, Queen Emma (St. Clair). Battle of Hastings, William the Seemly,
> >Malcolm Canmore, etc., so too, with Hugh Capet the Great probably
beginning
> >with his father's generation.
> >
> >I do agree with you that it feels like we are belaboring the subject
right
> >now.  It is really very possible that we don't descend from Rollo or some
> of
> >his descendants at all.  Since there were few women around and many men,
> who
> >can say who the father really was any more than one can really prove
today
> >that every male in their line was really their ancestor.  But these
> >offspring were recognized by the community and raised with the rights and
> >titles as if they really were the sons of the Dukes thus they are a
product
> >of their environment and contributed heavily to the historical records of
> >those times.  So how much we can rely on our BLOOD being so great and
> mighty
> >is a debateable subject.  (My opinion)  I don't think that Blood makes a
> >person great.  It is how on we conduct ourselves and the moral choices
that
> >we make that produces either commendable citizens or warts on society.
> >Laurel
> >
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