Recent content by Anne Frances Spackman

Dear Venko and Almanza, I have been researching, and I do not think that Enrique 3rd Earl of Torrefiel was Alfonso XII's biological father. Going back to the line of Henri IV, I now do believe that there was more than one false paternity event in his line: I believe from my research that Marie...

Well, I was mainly looking for more information about 4 families from whom I descend: De Correia, Pacheco, De Medrano, and de Toledo de Alba, but also others. Wikipedia only offers a little information about these families in general. Both of my parents have ancestors from these four families...

Thank you, Almanza! That's very interesting about your g-gf! I would love to know where to find any Spanish noblility ancestry books in English, if possible. Venko showed me a link also up above. I bought a copy of Almanach de Gotha in English as well.

Thank you!!

Dear Venko, thank you for the link! Are there any other available affordable European peerage books in English as well that would help us in this that you know of? I would be willing to acquire one. Europäische Stammtafeln looks great, but is there a translated version in English? I studied...

Very interesting! I couldn't find much information about Enrique Puigmoltó y Mayáns the 3 Earl of Torrefiel, and what I did find was in Spanish. I started reading about Carlos IV, Duke Francisco, Alfonso II, and Alfonso III. The latter's mother descended from Phillippe Bourbon, son of Louis...

Very interesting, Venko. Here is a link that I found: https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/haplogroups-of-european-kings-and-queens.25236/ It shows a little more also about royal haplogroups. I saw and confirmed the first two lines that you have listed. However, in the case of Empress Maria...

Yes, of course. I know it was Louis VIII not Louis XIII who was the Lion, but I made a typo mistake. Sorry! I was tired this morning I guess, having rheumatoid arthritis and on methotrexate makes me anemic and tired until I take plenty of iron! And, my sister was talking to me while I was trying...

Hi, Venko! Yes, after Henry VIII and the Protestant Reformation of course, marriages among the royals changed. Occasionally, there might be a Catholic Queen to a Protestant King, of course, but the heir to the British throne must be an Anglican after the Act of Settlement in 1701. The most...

Yes, I had read about the descendants of Charles II and James II, including Bonnie Prince Charlie many years ago; Charles II had at least 14 illegitimate children who all descend from Henri IV as Charles I' wife was Henrietta Maria Bourbon, daughter of Henri IV Bourbon. I am most likely related...

That is very interesting about Bourbon-Busset y-dna and worth pursuing for someone into genetic testing of the ancient royal y-lines. Perhaps it would be R1b. I also wonder about the G2 of the presumed head of Henri IV. I saw on a site that there was a genetic test done on a living member of...

Thanks, Venko! Sorry, didn't mean to copy the post. It was an accident. Very interesting. I found a recent descendant: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baden-120 and this about the last Grand Duke of Baden: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Zähringen-39 There don't seem to be many males of this house...

Yes, I had also read about possible false paternity events in the Plantagenets/Angevins, as I am descended from Catherine Carey, daughter of Mary Boleyn, and she had an affair with Henry VIII. Washington Lawrence Barnett was my 3 X great-grandfather, and his ancestor John West Colonial Governor...

So now, in order to corroborate the above findings, could Ernst Brinkmann and Jean-Jacques Cassiman also officially release the y-dna of Louis XVII's heart that they had to have ascertained when they studied it; there is no way that they didn't determine it with dna analysis at the same time as...

Very nice reply. And I think that the Capetian pretenders of today have the strongest claim, legal and sentimental, to the throne of France if it ever returns to being a monarchy, regardless of whether or not there was a false paternity event in the Senior line of Bourbons before it came to an...