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Unrelated to the genealogy; but at what point does it become ridiculous to claim yourself a prince? With over a century of no power for the family and no obvious way back to it as the kingdom is well dissolved, it feels like dress-up to style yourself a prince.
If the average age of giving birth is 25, Mark Antony would be about 80 generations ago. With each generation back doubling the number of ancestors (2 parents, 4 grandparents, …), this person has a theoretical 2^80 ancestors - somewhat more than the number of people that have ever lived. So clearly that logic is flawed, and the family tree must in fact be a family web - but potentially a very, very wide one. I wouldn…
This is the correct answer. The entire population of Europe is about as descended from Mark Antony as that Georgian noble house. Only the Y-chromosome is lineally passed across such long time spans
Brave? I'm sure that the grunts in his army where much, much more likely to die than him (they were in a riskier position, he had better armour, weapons, training etc)
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I still want someone to explain how Firenze got rendered as Florence.
Well or Londra? The Romans called it Londinium, so you might expect the modern Italian to be ..(I'm no expert on how Italian has modified endings).. 'Londinia' or 'Londino' or something. It's Londres in French which seems related, I wonder where they came from though.
For this particular story none at all. Nothing.
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Maybe for the same reason the names of famous cities (especially if already famous in the past) are translated into foreign languages. Examples. Roma is Rome in English and Milano is Milan. London is Londra in Italian but Manchester is Manchester and Liverpool is Liverpool. Livorno (a small Italian town where English poets liked to spend their time) is Leghorn. Aachen (a German city that used to be the residence of C…
How about the German city of Stuttgart rendered as Stoccarda(FR) or Estugarda(PT) but not in other languages... no idea why.
When you know that the French name is Anvers it makes a little more sense.
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Maybe for the same reason the names of famous cities (especially if already famous in the past) are translated into foreign languages. Examples. Roma is Rome in English and Milano is Milan. London is Londra in Italian but Manchester is Manchester and Liverpool is Liverpool. Livorno (a small Italian town where English poets liked to spend their time) is Leghorn. Aachen (a German city that used to be the residence of C…
I still want someone to explain how Firenze got rendered as Florence.
This would mean that a 2% infidelity rate would have a more than 50% chance of breaking this chain, although there would likely be other undocumented ones.