This video looks at the genealogical tree of the mathematician and inventor John Napier, and his so-called "father" Archibald and his so-called "son", also named Archibald.
I believe they were all the same individual and simply aliases of the bard. The polymath known as James Crichton (or "The Admirable Crichton") is so closely related to the Napier trio that I believe both he and his so-called father Sir Robert Crichton were also the same.
I believe the bard used this tactic frequently to confuse his peers possibly when things got too hot for him to handle.
I believe that Thomas Egerton, "Lord Ellesmere" and the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England was also the same as his so-called son John Egerton, the 1st Earl of Bridgewater. His daughter Penelope Egerton married into the same Napier family, as shown in the genealogy. This of course paints a picture of history completely different to the one we have been led to believe, going well beyond the simple question of who Shakespeare really was.
The list of "bard" aliases mentioned or briefly shown in this video is not at all exhaustive. The Chart shown (Z17) is just one, of more than 100 similar charts, documenting multiple merged family trees from the period.
Mary Napier (the sister of Sir Robert Napier and Dr. Richard Napier) was married to "Thomas Middleton" of Chirk Castle whose mother was Hester Saltonstall, whose father, Richard Saltonstall was Lord Mayor of London.
Dr. Richard Napier's medical casebook is held by the University of Cambridge as the manuscript "MS Ashmole 413" (link below).
CORRECTION: In the video - as first released (12th May 2024), I incorrectly suggest Ben Jonson (rather than Christopher Marlowe) had his life cut short in a pub brawl. Ben Jonson did die "prematurely" it is (allegedly) true, at least according to the prevailing narrative - if indeed he ever existed in the first place! That small erroneous section has now been cut from the video.
LINK TO VIEW JORIS HOEFNAGEL BOOK: "Mira calligraphiae monumenta"
tools.getty.edu/iiifviewer/?m...
LINK TO MANUSCRIPT of RICHARD NAPIER (medical treatment casebook)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-AS...