Courtney Cox's x19 Great-Grandfather Ruled England!

Courtney Cox's x19 Great-Grandfather Ruled England! | Who Do You Think You Are

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Courtney Cox visits Berkeley castle, built by her x18 great grandfather Thomas De Berkeley. It starts to get juicy when she discovers Thomas was holding the King Edward II as a prisoner!
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@JD.Knight 2 жыл бұрын

And in 700 years time someone will be finding out their 19x Grandmother was Monica in Friends.

@tonyrodd6348 2 жыл бұрын

No, we will have wiped ourselves clean off the face of the earth well before then.

@TheRowlandstone73 2 жыл бұрын

@JDKnight I KNOW!!

@ThatAllegedlyChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Yes and that 19x removed Granddaughter will no doubt be the Queen of the empire which the sun never sets. It's a never ending cycle. A little bit like Russian dolls or something

@crankcase75 2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyrodd6348 In the post apocalyptic wilderness all that remains are the cockroaches and endless reruns of Friends.

@lastdays9163 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 dead

@deniro800 2 жыл бұрын

Another part of the parchment was deciphered and it read : When Margaret Mortimer was questioned by Roger Mortimer as to why she had an affair with Thomas De Berkley,she is reported to have replied "We were on a break".

@shaund4155 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong character

@deniro800 2 жыл бұрын

@@shaund4155 Ross is Monica's brother in the programme,hence family connection.

@kathleen7849 2 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@aerialarboreal9005 Жыл бұрын

D'oh!!

@KlassyKat45 Жыл бұрын

LOL 🤣

@Evemeister12 2 жыл бұрын

So no one told her life was gonna be this way....

@Mendleson 2 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍🏻

@coreyrees840 2 жыл бұрын

Had a little cackle at that I must say lol

@juliewilson3237 2 жыл бұрын

🤣👍well put !

@commonsense571 Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@luizalbuquerque5099 2 жыл бұрын

Edward II death in prison is one of the most important plots in history. There are rumours of any kinds from both sides. From sexual preferences of the king, to the way he was killed, from the behaviour of Queen to the rule of young King as well. But we can save Courtney of dark side of her ancestors in this plot.

@shanemkeyes1 Жыл бұрын

What a wild family history to discover!!! I can't believe she's so calm about it. I would be nerding out!!!!

@watermelonlover745 3 ай бұрын

It's amazing 😍

@Steve-gc5nt 2 жыл бұрын

The one where Monica thinks she Royalty.

@harriantoncornell5405 2 жыл бұрын

True

@markmorris7123 2 жыл бұрын

Could have been

@radoslavliptak3842 2 жыл бұрын

But knowing it for sure, means that you come from well documented lineage, upper class.

@aab222 2 жыл бұрын

The moment you find out you're descended from the same people as Courteney Cox. 😂 👑

@architecturalmind 2 жыл бұрын

If you go back 18 times in any persons geneology its pretty difficult not to be related to a king

@tomfitzpatrick8303 2 жыл бұрын

Go back 800 years, you are related to just about everyone in Europe, if your family hails from Europe, 2000 years and you are related to just about everyone.

@another8125 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomfitzpatrick8303 I'd say 5000 years not 2000, indo aryan migration from caucuses is what i think you may have been referring to.

@YIIMM 2 жыл бұрын

@@another8125 Nah, literally everyone of European descent is a descendant of Charlemagne, for example (along with anyone else alive at that time with living descendants)

@paulrispin4989 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly my point

@Loostyc 2 жыл бұрын

What makes Courtney's case special is that all the records survived to this day. It's rare to find documents beyond 17th century, especially in continental Europe because of the wars, revolutions etc.

@lindalacey9671 Жыл бұрын

Can not believe they are handling documents that old with bare hands .😮

@Ali.Aideel.Ismail Жыл бұрын

They washed their hands of course 🤣

@paulmcdonough1093 Жыл бұрын

they are not originals

@aftersexhighfives Жыл бұрын

It's animal hide. It's better to not have gloves. Just clean washed hands. No alcohol.

@aftersexhighfives Жыл бұрын

@@paulmcdonough1093 they are said to be originals in the video and look it.

@tinabrenner3562 Жыл бұрын

@@Ali.Aideel.Ismail idiot

@VideoDeadGaming 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair her 18x great grandfather is probably about a million other people's 18x great grandfather

@jordanleigh8119 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely is not the case😂😂

@jordanleigh8119 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't even say a 1000 people

@aab222 2 жыл бұрын

These people are all in my tree.

@michielbeekman2087 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry to disappoint Courtney and have to admit this makes for interesting tv but unfortunately the odds of her not being related to a medieval king are about zero. In other words she is no more or less related to the guy than any of us. How’s that? Let’s just for argument’s sake assume all her ‘grandpa’s’ since this nr 19 had 3 kids each on average. That means this king had 3 kids, those each had 3 which makes 9 grandkids. Those all had 3 kids which makes 27 great grandkids. And so on; multiply those numbers 19 times and the poor guy will find he has no less than 1.16 billion (!) great great etc grandchildren like Courtney. That’s 3 times the entire population of the US.

@jordanleigh8119 2 жыл бұрын

@@michielbeekman2087 you clearly have no clue what your on about. Edward 3rd will not have 1.6 billion direct decdents what horse carp are you making up. He may have 1.6 billion people that may share a little of the DNA but direct decdents is very different. I'd say Edward has around 1000/3000 DIRECT DECDENTS

@leethornton6395 2 жыл бұрын

Wait until Courtney hears about the Berkeley's neat trick with the red hot poker

@dnr2089 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@matthewburgess1061 2 жыл бұрын

They don't like it up em

@sillyoldbastard3280 2 жыл бұрын

Runs in the family as they say

@matthewbishop9342 2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahaha

@docastrov9013 2 жыл бұрын

Wait till Danny Dyer finds out her 18x grandad impaled his 18x grandad

@Grace-tc1lq Жыл бұрын

I’ve researched my family line in England back to the 1200s and unlike Courtney, all my ancestors appear to be servants, farmers and labourers of some sort….no Royalty here. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Brakdayton Жыл бұрын

@SophieG no Royalty down *that* path but I guarantee that you follow other paths to the 1200s and you’ll find royalty down one of them.

@Silver_Owl Жыл бұрын

Brakdayton is right - pretty much everyone is descended from royalty at some point, you've most likely just not traced the path it's down yet.

@AndySaenz Жыл бұрын

Wow, really? How did you trace your lineage that far back? I want to do that too!

@kaymuldoon3575 Жыл бұрын

Chances are, you’re probably related to King Charlemagne of France, as most people of European descent are.

@gigmcsweeney8566 Жыл бұрын

@@Silver_Owl Incorrect.

@veronicaallison2504 Жыл бұрын

I share a lot of ancestry with courtney and i love the tours of the locations of where our ancestors were.

@user-yf5nh5qr1b Жыл бұрын

Her ancestry is exactly mine. I have visited both Berkeley castle and Ligon estate.

@yinoveryang4246 Жыл бұрын

Most people in the 80's would've been surprised to learn that the young girl seen jigging with Bruce Springsteen in the "Dancing in the Dark" music video was actually a member of British royalty.

@chrishall7915 2 жыл бұрын

Thing is though, if you go 19 generations back, you're looking at 524,288 people in total ... Having one that was famous or powerful surely can't be that unexpected ...

@Isleofskye 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I;m related to Gulielmus Peregrinus...

@Greyscale11 2 жыл бұрын

A 19x great-grandparent is actually 21 generations back, so in terms of the number of ancestors in that generation (not cumulative), it's about 2.1 million. In my case, I found a 9x great-grandfather who was a king. 11 generations back is 2048 ancestors. Would that be an impressive find by comparison, I wonder? I know Boris Johnson was a little closer with a royal 8x great grandfather, but he does have the advantage of being born a generation earlier than myself.

@dvchel 2 жыл бұрын

@Chris Hall 19x generations back, when you had 3-4 children, usually only 1-2 would get to the age of child rearing/bearing. So, the Math is the a bit off.

@chrishall7915 2 жыл бұрын

@@dvchel I don't think so - working backwards means I'm only looking at the parents, not the number of children. Everyone has two parents and 2^19 is 524,288.

@cambs0181 2 жыл бұрын

Plus there was a smaller population back then!

@TheBushdoctor68 Жыл бұрын

Isn't it amazing that all of our famous TV heroes have some kind of noteworthy ancestor? Yea, that's because if you go back 19 generations, just about everybody was related to everybody else. If you go that far back, chances are that the majority of us are related to some ruler or famous slave owner as well.

@drlong08 Жыл бұрын

I was directly related to the Earl of Sandwich! Or maybe it was Jelly Doughnut.... I'm not sure.

@gaynor1721 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that they mention Mortimer was the alleged lover of Queen Eleanor (wife of Edward II), but nothing about Hugh Despenser being the alleged lover of Edward II - and that's why he was being hung, drawn and quartered etc.

@padijeff5675 2 жыл бұрын

Who was Edward the Confessor then?😼

@justonecornetto80 2 жыл бұрын

@@padijeff5675 One of the last Saxon kings of England who lived around 300 years before.

@gaynor1721 2 жыл бұрын

@@padijeff5675 Don't change the subject. 😆

@annecantelo1810 2 жыл бұрын

@@padijeff5675 he was way back, before William the Conquerer so not Edward 1st.

@drcarp7377 2 жыл бұрын

It would make a great drama series, don’t you think? Sprinkle a bit of magic in and three dragons, and you have a global best seller. You can see where GRRM obtained his inspiration from. And that was the real dance for power. The real game of thrones!

@danielw5850 2 жыл бұрын

I managed to translate, from the Latin, "Do Not touch this 700 Year-old document without gloves"!

@HappyCodingZX 2 жыл бұрын

Many Historians agree that Hugh Despenser was sexually involved with Edward the second, and as punishment they cut off his Courtneys.

@SirBoycie 2 жыл бұрын

Did they leave his Cox?

@HappyCodingZX 2 жыл бұрын

@@SirBoycie well, unlike Hugh's executioners, my comment was going for the subtle approach and leaving something to the imagination.

@elainetucker532 2 жыл бұрын

jesters playing in the background:'when it hasn't; been your day, your week, your month,Or even your year''

@T0mat0S0up 2 жыл бұрын

Well then, his love life was indeed d.o.a.

@snakeplisskin2570 Жыл бұрын

19 generations is like a possible 500,000 grandparents

@lanebashford3982 Жыл бұрын

I have the same roots: the Mortimers, the de Berkeleys, and the Plantagenet line multiple times over on both sides of my family. Happy Hunting, Cousin Courtney!

@christinedaae87 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! My inner history geek just went crazy!

@starrycrown Жыл бұрын

This is leaving out a lot Edward II’s crimes against vulnerable people, with his friend Hugh. They did terrible things! I hope she studies a little more about it all.

@Psmith-ek5hq Жыл бұрын

I wonder if after appearing in this Courtney has researched further into her fascinating family tree, or at least boned up on English history of the period.

@lawlini1979 2 жыл бұрын

Well, I hope they kept that castle spotless.

@ibi1032 Жыл бұрын

James Blunt knows his stuff!

@ViraDrama Жыл бұрын

Thank You. So, she’s a royalty. I thought she’s just dancing in the dark.🎶🎼🎵

@sarahhumphreys3980 Жыл бұрын

Her ancestor held Edward the 2nd Captive. He just so happened to be Danny Dyer's ancestor 🤯🤯

@mmhthree Жыл бұрын

Courtney would probably also find Edward II and Isabella as a great-grandparents, as well. I did, and it's pretty common to find most of these in people's trees.. sometimes a couple of times.

@paulmcdonough1093 Жыл бұрын

and had a stay behind in the queen vic

@soothingsounds6352 2 жыл бұрын

amazing all these celeb versions are distant royalty

@OldLady-um9kt Жыл бұрын

OMG, You're talking about four of my 19th great-greats and one of my 20th great-greats. How fascinating. Thank you for the video. I guess this means Courtney Cox and I are cousins. How cool is that. 🙂

@angieflynn5354 Жыл бұрын

Wow what Unbelievable information you must be thrilled to find this out

@exploranaut Жыл бұрын

How calmly he said "well they chuck the bits in the fire once they cut them off or cut them out" then Courtney's face LMAO

@jeffreybresnahan 2 жыл бұрын

My great grandmother "Eleanor Stockdale," family line can be traced back to the 5th century AD; aligned with the first Northumbria Anglo Saxon King's.

@janty68 2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@Steve-gc5nt 2 жыл бұрын

Yea, but were you in Friends?

@TheDoleBludgerBogan Жыл бұрын

King Aelle?

@NiX_aKi Жыл бұрын

Amazing and scary at the same time..

@Phuck_Yew Жыл бұрын

🎵 Inside me I have the blood of Kings (yeah-yeah!) I have no rival No man can be my equal Send me to the future of you all 🎵

@bluebagel8084 2 жыл бұрын

She looks like the mother of the girl in Bruce Springsteen's song Dancing in the Dark!

@EdekLay 2 жыл бұрын

How can you look like someone from a song?

@carltanner9065 2 жыл бұрын

@@EdekLay That's because they're one and the same person.

@TheDonna200 2 жыл бұрын

It’s lovely to see Berkeley and the Castle, because that’s where I was born!! Some of this I never knew…mind you, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been back there, a few years at best; embarrassing enough, I went out into the Butterfly Garden and my daughter managed to fall down on some of them…Oops! 😳

@Asa...S Жыл бұрын

Why did your mom give birth in the castle?

@royalblue_22 Жыл бұрын

The painter is amazing, they knew who was good & who was bad, look at the everyone's eyes in the painting 👀👀👀 lmaoo they were all in on it

@nickmail7604 Жыл бұрын

He might have given her the good news about her 19 times grandfather once Edward 3rd claimed his throne on his 16th birthday. Mummy was sent to a convent for the rest of her life and Courtney Cox's 19 times great grandfather met with a somewhat ignoble end.

@sandyca1106 2 жыл бұрын

WHAT?!!! You're touching the original documents on parchment with your bare hands where the acids and oils can transfer causing it to decay. Wow, these 'professionals' should know better. Loving the story so far.

@Tom-uv7ry 2 жыл бұрын

Yes and they're the professionals and wearing gloves can cause as much damage to old documents as not wearing them know what you're talking about before you comment or you'll look silly

@royw-g3120 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tom-uv7ry think he said it was parchment which is much more robust than paper.

@stephanieweddle5032 2 жыл бұрын

You can see it's taped to a bigger piece of paper, relax!

@davew4998 Жыл бұрын

@C C Yes, as Philomena Cunk found out, much to her chargrin.

@xxXCHELLEXXx1 2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to find out about my history that far back but Templeton has a lot of holes in it, yeah there's the woods but I can't link my paternal name to that area.

@moorek1967 Жыл бұрын

So do a lot of other people. It isn't that special, it just means that king had a lot of fun.

@PC-lu3zf Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@charlesvigneron565 Жыл бұрын

LtCol Thomas Ligon descends from 3 children of King Edward I: Joan of Acre, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan & Thomas of Brotherton. My maternal grandfather is also a Ligon descendant.

@warrensmith3070 2 жыл бұрын

There's much presumption in tracing family descent...we must grasp that for one in every seven children, all through history, the man they thought was their father (and recorded as such) was not their biological father due to constant infidelity...

@binkyxz3 Жыл бұрын

Where are you getting the "one in every seven ..." from ?

@chrisnewton9081 Жыл бұрын

I am related to Roger Mortimer..he was my uncle way way back. She should read the book the greatest traitor.

@chrisnewton9081 Жыл бұрын

Who? What address?

@robcowell1477 Жыл бұрын

Has anyone else noticed that only celebrities seem to be linked to an important, notable figure in history such as King or Queen etc?

@mmhthree Жыл бұрын

There's mainly a bunch of commons in America related to them actually. Some say everyone alive today in England is a grandchild of Edward III.

@quieneselpatron790 Жыл бұрын

6:38 she wasn't expecting that part

@chrishunt9931 Жыл бұрын

Most people with at least one European ancestor can trace their family tree to a king.

@colette6984 Жыл бұрын

Wowsers!

@EdekLay 2 жыл бұрын

The question is not "Who do you think you are"? The question is: would you, still?... Definitely

@badgerboy4448 2 жыл бұрын

That guy is definitely related to James Blunt.

@gjmob Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking

@lydiameyer4938 Жыл бұрын

Thanks to Ancestry DNA and combing through MANY records, I found out that Edward the Exile & his wife Agatha Von Brunswick are my 34th great grandparents 🤯❤

@kernowalbion4142 2 жыл бұрын

If you go back 21 generations you have more than 2 million ancestors statistical projection: :2,4,8,16......2097152 19x great-grandparents. I have a Berkley ancestor. Maybe me and Courtney are cousins? i expect I am related to pretty much everyone in Tudor England through some route back through ancestry.

@gaynor1721 2 жыл бұрын

Everyone has 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents and that figure doubles with each passing generation, but that would suggest there were more people alive in the past than there is now and that simply isn't true. Despite the fact that the UK is a small island, not everyone on it is related. Due to the fact that the British Royal Family and the aristocracy married their cousins for generations and centuries, very few people have titles and very few people are related to them. In 1911, a genealogist called Ruvigny estimated that the living descendants of Edward III amounted to between 80,000 and 100,000 people. At the time of the 1911 Census, the UK had a population of 45 million. There's a reason why commoners are called such - because there's more of us as there was in the past.

@kernowalbion4142 2 жыл бұрын

@@gaynor1721 Good rebuttal. But queerly Courtney Cox, I find, is for sure an nth degree cousin of mine.. My 10x great grandparents were Sir H. Berkley and his wife Margaret Lygon. Don't know how far back Courtney and I share the common ancestor(s), but it looks a certainty that we do.

@leehargreaves7473 2 жыл бұрын

It's proving it that's the problem. We all have a a common ancestor, but not the paper-trail.

@miceforlent 2 жыл бұрын

@@leehargreaves7473 I agree, by the time we get back that far most people with a European ancestor will be able to say they are a descendant of royalty. Proving it is another matter- I've a fairly extensively researched family tree and I can only prove it once, although other lines seem to point that way too. Just the information beyond 300 years ago is difficult to be sure off.

@carltanner9065 2 жыл бұрын

@@miceforlent When you get back beyond 1537, you need to start looking at manorial records, court records, fines and other official documents, early church records, wills, etc. It's long, hard work, but it can be done. Once you do find anyone of historical note in your tree, like a prominent knight or other lord, it can be fairly easy to go from there. Or, find yourself related to a prominent family, the family's own records will enlighten you on the search.

@linzee3655 2 жыл бұрын

If you go back this far, you're not even classed as related 🤣

@mikespencer4922 2 жыл бұрын

Unless you are claiming Maori racial status i New Zealand..😀😃😄😄😄

@gigmcsweeney8566 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong.

@danh555 Жыл бұрын

Bit like Biden then? 😂

@freeholdtacticalmed Жыл бұрын

I’d love to see her meet the current Royals and discuss the story! Oh to be a fly on the wall!

@user-yf5nh5qr1b Жыл бұрын

The families, Berkeley and Ligon, are still close with the royals. Margaret and Elizabeth were to escPe to the Ligon estate, Madresfield, with the bombing of London WWII, followed by king and queen then escaping to Canada.

@davidgold7322 2 жыл бұрын

Is that chap related to James Blunt by any chance haha

@bitzannbobz 2 жыл бұрын

WELL SPOTTED MATE

@darrenjones3181 2 жыл бұрын

King blunt

@gjmob Жыл бұрын

At the end of the day he sings to get rid of the tourists

@Chad-Giga. 8 ай бұрын

My family is also related to William the conqueror

@lauradascalu3544 Жыл бұрын

That's how a 700 year old paper/letter/document looks like 😅 and that is how needs to be handled 🤣

@lkjh861 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to ruin this with math, but x19 means 21 generations back (remember to add parents and non-great grand parents) ==> that's a grand total of 2^21 = 2,097,152 ancestors that far back ==> which is equivalent to most of the population of the UK at the time ==> "your genes come from the British Isles" ☝🤓

@caezar55 2 жыл бұрын

You need to take into account inbreeding. Most people married their cousins from the same village.

@aerialarboreal9005 Жыл бұрын

Is that how Monica got that rent controlled apartment? lol

@lindaross783 Жыл бұрын

I sent to Berkeley. It was depressing how they treated him, whether they liked him or not.

@mrvolcada5355 2 жыл бұрын

This all assumes that one's male forebears were not firing blanks and everyone's maternal ancestors did not get up to any naughty's. Fun anyway.

@AtheAetheling 2 жыл бұрын

It's a safe assumption. Despite what tv shows for the sake of juicyness, people back then, especially nobles, were hardly ever alone. Having secret affairs was supremely difficult.

@rob-123 2 жыл бұрын

There was a reason they stopped teaching about and doing blood test in the UK high schools. They were finding 1 in 3 children dads was a postman.

@deliusmyth5063 2 жыл бұрын

@@rob-123 Pop It In Pete.

@motelghost477 2 жыл бұрын

He shouldv'e told her what happened to Mortimer once the rightful King took power in 1330.

@chrisnewton9081 Жыл бұрын

We need a Tyburn these days with tge sickos we got in society lurking around the good people.

@G-OVL 2 жыл бұрын

In another WDYTYA Danny Dyer is also related to these people, and the same picture was in his show too. He was also related to William the Conqueror... So Danny and Courtney are related too?

@chelseaoliver5404 Жыл бұрын

Danny was related to the king that Courtney's ancestor imprisoned

@marnfulda1758 2 жыл бұрын

Most people in Britain are related to various Kings and Queens if you go back far enough.

@Oldie699 2 жыл бұрын

@@doommonger7784 I'm on a Facebook tudor group I think everyone is related to Anne Bolyen 😝

@marnfulda1758 2 жыл бұрын

@@doommonger7784 alas for you, do your research properly old fruit, most geneticists will tell you it is a FACT. You can call me King Tom if you like 👍

@jeremyhodge6216 Жыл бұрын

This was interesting 🤔

@jayargonauts7428 2 жыл бұрын

I am also descended from Thomas Berkeley, however I come through his son John via his second marriage.

@lovedaybebe5881 2 жыл бұрын

Wow incredible

@carltanner9065 2 жыл бұрын

Hi cuz :) (well "half" cuz). I descend via Maurice, his eldest from Margaret Mortimer.

@jayargonauts7428 2 жыл бұрын

@@carltanner9065 greetings cousin😊👋

@sophiee.h 10 ай бұрын

17 May 2018

@speckofdust272 Жыл бұрын

Wow .... Who'd have guessed Monica was Royalty .... Joey would never have believed it ....🤣😂🤣😂

@kristi1189 Жыл бұрын

That was king and queen of “braveheart” Edward I, Edward II and Isabella. Also, hugh the younger suspected was Edward II lover. (Edward II was first Prince of Wales from Edward I hammer the welsh. :) (Edward I nickname was “hammer the scots”) (i have aphasia. I apologize in advance for my bad grammar)

@joshuadaltilia8480 2 жыл бұрын

I've had a crush on Courtney Cox for a while

@danielsullivan9271 Жыл бұрын

World Without End Ken Follet. This book and film tells you so much about the time period. You can also research it as well.

@boondocks8002 Жыл бұрын

Yes I have those dvds ..and pillars of the earth as well. Pillars of the earth is a better story and series I think. Blessings

@dghdavies Жыл бұрын

She's lucky to have James Blunt as host.

@JackSmith-kp2vs Жыл бұрын

@David Davies I got that James blunt vibe as well

@gjmob Жыл бұрын

@@JackSmith-kp2vs Me too

@StormChaserMaci. Жыл бұрын

Omg she needs to tell the royal family!😂 btw I'm also partially related to the royal family. I had no idea until last year.

@The_Other_Ghost 9 ай бұрын

A lot of us are. The Wright brothers were too.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge Жыл бұрын

Hugh "Cash Despenser"...

@patriciapalmer4215 Жыл бұрын

The Mortimer's. Wow. What a pedigree. I'm descended from a line of terrific horse thieves and madmen.

@chrisnewton9081 Жыл бұрын

Vikings if your linked to de mortimer

@j.mcgyver5541 Жыл бұрын

They touch those old papers with bare hands?! 😱

@difcymru 2 жыл бұрын

i'm a decendant of both Edward III (22x Great Grandfather) and Hugh Le Despencer the younger (23x Great Grandfather)

@Steve-gc5nt 2 жыл бұрын

My liege 🙇‍♂️

@glennoc8585 2 жыл бұрын

Luckily he procreated before losing his bits.

@darrenjones3181 2 жыл бұрын

But who was related 2 biguz dicuz?

@TheNathanNS 2 жыл бұрын

Same here, but I'm also a direct descendant of Roger Mortimer too lmao

@Asa...S Жыл бұрын

Your great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandma: "Good thing no one ever found out I slept with that stable boy... My husband will think this child is his, and the descendants in the future will think they're descendants of King Edward III"...😁

@jimmywrangles Жыл бұрын

I always thought she looked like a princess.

@reubination Жыл бұрын

My 32 Great Grandfather was Björn (Ironside) Ragnarsson. Which is the lineage of Eric the Red and Leif Erickson. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@weekendwarriorprospecting817 2 жыл бұрын

Proud decent of EDWARD TEECH .....AKA BLACKBEARD. Born and bred in Bristol England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@josephpadula2283 Жыл бұрын

I just did my family tree and found out I was related to Very important historical figures, considered one of the First families of the Realm. . Adam and Eve…..

@The_Other_Ghost 9 ай бұрын

I did my family tree and discovered I was related to multiple fictitious people too.

@jimwest7107 Жыл бұрын

My 20th Great Grandmother was Queen of England

@pinkpanther7030 2 жыл бұрын

And I descend from Bodicea.🤫

@mspicer3262 2 жыл бұрын

My mother was the family genealogist, and traced our family into an established genealogy... for the House of Plantagenet, among my ancestors is King Edward III, one of the Plantagenet kings of England and #3 (I think) on the list of Longest Serving English Monarchs. He ruled England for a half-century.

@redddraggon 2 жыл бұрын

Most people in the UK are descended from Edward III - he's my 22nd great grandfather for example.

@carltanner9065 2 жыл бұрын

@@redddraggon They are, but it's one thing to be related, it's entirely another to prove it. Unfortunately, for many, the family documents which can prove such a link are lost or may have never existed. Many families just don't trace back far enough or have that gateway ancestor in their trees at the right time. You're one of the lucky ones.

@Asa...S Жыл бұрын

@stephanieweddle5032 2 жыл бұрын

Same guy who popped up in Danny Dyer's family.

@thatamerican3187 Жыл бұрын

That time someone forgot to tell Edward 11 that he ruled at the pleasure of the Nobility and woe unto anyone who continually pissed them off.

@theprinceofbabylonia 2 жыл бұрын

She's still beautiful

@Lil.black.dress84 Жыл бұрын

King David of Scotland is my 19th g grandfather and Macbeth is also in my bloodline. That same bloodline includes William Faulkner & Lady Bird Johnson. That same line includes Aud The Deep Minded who took Christianity to Iceland. 🩵🧡🩵

@mikesharukan5040 Жыл бұрын

Does anybody see the problem with numbers? 18th grandfather is like 20 generations from Mrs Cox. On average 1 women generation should be around 25 years and 1 man's generation should be close to 30 years. So, 20 generations ago is somewhere between 500 and 600 years ago. That means Roger's birth year should be between 1370 and 1470. But we clearly are talking about evens that happened during early 1300's. So, we are should be missing like 4 generations.

@keneonfire 2 жыл бұрын

most are connect I have researched my tree for years going as far as paying for stuff and I can say I connect to many of the kings of england as well as lords,knighrs and earls and i'm just a normal person now.

@markmorris7123 2 жыл бұрын

Actually most of us are related to pessents.

@mark240862 2 жыл бұрын

I excitedly found out the other week that my Grt x 20 Grandfather was the Sheriff of Cornwall and a Lord and there is a painting of his wife.. a Baroness.. alive and kicking around the place in the 1300's. All rather cool I thought until I worked out how many Grt x 20 Grandparents I actually have... 1,048,576 to be exact....as we all do. Add to this the fact that the population of Britain in the 1300's was around 6 million, then its likely that one in 6 people at the time will be an ancestor of mine... So the chances are Courtney is my long lost cuz....haha.

@markfox1545 2 жыл бұрын

You clearly don't understand how maths works in relation to genealogy. Go back 19 generations and EVERYONE has got royalty as ancestors. Ffs....

@markfox1545 2 жыл бұрын

@@mark240862 - exactly. You understand. 👍

@lindenmanmax Жыл бұрын

Being descended from Edward I is impressive. Being descended from Edward III -- well, shucks, who ISN'T?

@mickimicki Жыл бұрын

Wasn't Hugh Despenser an ancestor of a certain Lady Diana Spencer? Or do the names just sound similar?

@Psmith-ek5hq 10 ай бұрын

Wasn't he the inventor of a receptacle in which soap could easily be obtained?

@LindaJackson-qu2bz Жыл бұрын

Does this mean that Courtney is related to William and Harry through the Spencer (Despeancer) line also

@zbr76 Жыл бұрын

Yes and no. Princess Diana's line can go back to Despencer, but not through a purely male-line connection. A patrilineal link from Althorp's Spencers and the Despencers has yet to be proven.

@1050speed Жыл бұрын

This now means that Courtney cox is a distant cousin of mine I must pop in for a visit

@paulrispin4989 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting but if you do the maths (assuming an average of 2 children per generation) he would have had around a quarter of a million people who would be his 18x great grand children. So the link is a little tenuous.

@carltanner9065 2 жыл бұрын

Having a theoretically possible 250K cousins doesn't make her link to Thomas, or anyone else for that matter, tenuous. The link is there, period. And, whether it's a male line, female line or mixed descent, she is a direct descendant of Thomas de Berkeley and Margaret Mortimer. Same as myself, although my cousin has a 2 generation jump on me. Want something even more remarkable, have a look at the descendants of Cheddar Man. He left a specific set of genetic markers in people alive today that can only be found in a person if that person is a direct descendant of him. In other words, since he was last alive around 9100 years ago, he IS (give or take a few generations) the 364th Great Grandfather of people living in Wales and some other parts of the UK. The only thing tenuous about that case is, unfortunately, we have no written records going back that far.

@gigmcsweeney8566 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong.