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Today is now October 41st or Kislev 3rd.
I have not yet heard back from Konan.
I was doing some reading on wikipedia on various things which eventually brought me through articles in a few different languages and I saw a name I was sure I recognized in one of them so I went to my family tree and ran a quick search and lo and behold, there he was : Hughes IX de Lusignan (Count of la Marche), just one in a mob of crusading crusaders (oy vavoy!) from whom which I was eventually issued... Which got me working a little more on that particular twig since I hadn't developed it as fully as possible, yet (at least now I've reached two, possibly four, termini and none of them include the title "god of" :-) small miracles...). Anyway, this totally explains my emotional reaction to Acre, etc.
I seem to have cultivated a recognition of the sense of familiar....
Getting back to the point, I'm not going to spend the time (good lord, look at the time!) to show the whole progression from them to me (maybe later? it's nearly 1000 years of genealogy to transcribe here if I do...), but there was an interesting situation I wanted to share.
Previously in Explorations of Genealogy I shared the case of a kidnapped woman intended for marriage with someone else en route. Well, I'VE FOUND ANOTHER ONE!
Allow me to introduce, Almodis, who was kidnapped by, impregnated by, wedded by, temporarily excommunicated with, and eventually murdered by her stepson through a Mr. Ramon Berenguer I (Count of Barcelona).
That impregnation thing, btw, reveals another wtf : the resulting issue were male twins. One was called Ramon Berenguer II, the other Berenguer Ramon II. I'm not even kidding. And to sweeten the pot, one was accused and widely believed to have murdered the other one and ran away to Jerusalem on pilgrimage or crusade--where he promptly died. You can't make this stuff up, ppl. All I can say is that these two are only half-siblings to me, mmkay.
( Crap, I actually did it... (facepalm) but only sortof )
Moral of the story : wimmenz was often kidnapped to make babiez in the old country. Those babiez was often conflicted and caused a raucous which often either upset or bolstered the contemporary hegemony. Angry babiez is to be ph33rd.
Time for bed!
Today is now October 41st or Kislev 3rd.
I have not yet heard back from Konan.
I was doing some reading on wikipedia on various things which eventually brought me through articles in a few different languages and I saw a name I was sure I recognized in one of them so I went to my family tree and ran a quick search and lo and behold, there he was : Hughes IX de Lusignan (Count of la Marche), just one in a mob of crusading crusaders (oy vavoy!) from whom which I was eventually issued... Which got me working a little more on that particular twig since I hadn't developed it as fully as possible, yet (at least now I've reached two, possibly four, termini and none of them include the title "god of" :-) small miracles...). Anyway, this totally explains my emotional reaction to Acre, etc.
I seem to have cultivated a recognition of the sense of familiar....
Getting back to the point, I'm not going to spend the time (good lord, look at the time!) to show the whole progression from them to me (maybe later? it's nearly 1000 years of genealogy to transcribe here if I do...), but there was an interesting situation I wanted to share.
Previously in Explorations of Genealogy I shared the case of a kidnapped woman intended for marriage with someone else en route. Well, I'VE FOUND ANOTHER ONE!
Allow me to introduce, Almodis, who was kidnapped by, impregnated by, wedded by, temporarily excommunicated with, and eventually murdered by her stepson through a Mr. Ramon Berenguer I (Count of Barcelona).
That impregnation thing, btw, reveals another wtf : the resulting issue were male twins. One was called Ramon Berenguer II, the other Berenguer Ramon II. I'm not even kidding. And to sweeten the pot, one was accused and widely believed to have murdered the other one and ran away to Jerusalem on pilgrimage or crusade--where he promptly died. You can't make this stuff up, ppl. All I can say is that these two are only half-siblings to me, mmkay.
( Crap, I actually did it... (facepalm) but only sortof )
Moral of the story : wimmenz was often kidnapped to make babiez in the old country. Those babiez was often conflicted and caused a raucous which often either upset or bolstered the contemporary hegemony. Angry babiez is to be ph33rd.
Time for bed!
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