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« on: February 12, 2004, 06:03:40 AM »
Saw this on MSN and thought it was kinda cool,  Bush and Colin Powel are both decendents of King Edwards I "Longshanks".

http://msn.ancestry.com/landing/msn/strange/bush3/tree.htm

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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2004, 10:34:11 AM »
*digs through history notes*

I can't remember- was he famous for much?

How interesting, in a "completely irrelevant" sort of way.  I wonder how many politicians can trace their family back that far?
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2004, 10:52:19 AM »
Who ISN'T decended from an English king?
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2004, 11:02:48 AM »
Yeah, but would you have guessed that a prominent African-American is?
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2004, 11:51:35 AM »
Guessed? Probably not. Surprised? Not at all. Think about how slave women were treated.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2004, 05:27:26 PM »
Edward the 1st was the king in the braveheart story.
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2004, 06:29:51 PM »
THAT Edward?  The one who was actually king of Scotland, only his mother tried to kill Queen Elizabeth, and so Elizabeth had her executed, and named James her successor?

(I found my history notes)
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2004, 08:13:57 PM »
Holy cow no! *slaps fuzzy*

That was James the first of England and the sixth of Scotland, the one who formed the united country.

Edward "longshanks", aka "Hammer of the scots" was the guy who decided to annex scotland while fighting a war in france, and among other things shelled edinburgh castle after it surrendered with trebuchets, spent 3 days massacreing and raping the entire population of Berwick (one of the richest cities in the UK at the time). It is said he only stopped it after he saw a English soldier hacking a woman apart as she was giving birth.

Not one of my favourite kings you may have guessed.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2004, 10:17:10 PM »
Well I never watched Braveheart.
Maybe that explains Bush's foreign policy.


And whose idea is it having TWO "James I" ?  How are we ignorant Americans expected to keep these things straight?  At least our two John Adams-es had can be distinguished with a middle name or something.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2004, 10:41:23 PM »
Not that most of us DO remember which John Adams is which. Though we do know Samuel Adams. Because he made that beer. And the only reason whe know who killed Alexander Hamilton is because of that Got Milk? commercial.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2004, 10:50:35 PM »
Dude, that commercial rocked.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2004, 05:37:47 AM »
Well, he became king of england which had never had a James before. Just check which country the james is kind of.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2004, 07:29:05 AM »
that would imply enough interest in the answer to do research.

Which I guess fuzzy had, since she looked SOMETHING up. oh well, I'll just shut up.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2004, 11:06:36 AM »
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Who ISN'T decended from an English king?


See, eric said he was an english king and I got confused.
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Re: odd relatives
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2004, 11:20:48 AM »
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As a side note, Fell and I are 26 generations removed from our dear old great great...great great grandpa Prince John Lackland, of Robin Hood fame.
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