Comments on: Cousins of the Queen http://olelarsonsfolks.net/Blog/2010/01/10/cousins-of-the-queen/ by George Mon, 07 May 2012 23:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lois Larson Hall http://olelarsonsfolks.net/Blog/2010/01/10/cousins-of-the-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Lois Larson Hall Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:40:52 +0000 http://olelarsonsfolks.net/Blog/?p=1770#comment-382 George! I am a little over half-way through a book Steve loaned to me, "1066: THE HIDDEN HISTORY IN THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY," by Andrew Bridgeford. It's a scholarly and sometimes complex account explaining in detail who's who and the meaning of the images in the Bayeux tapestry. It describes events leading up to the Norman invasion of England and the 1066 Battle of Hastings. Well, guess what. On page 181 here's what it says about a Count Eustace II of Boulogne (one of the un-named embroidered images but someone who is known to be represented through written research and documentation of the story told in this ancient piece of embroidery.) "Count Eustace's father, too could trace his ancestry to Charlemagne, through the ninth-century union of Judith, the emperor's great-granddaughter, with Count Baldwin I of Flanders." I just KNEW when I started reading this book last week that I would find somewhere in there a connection to an obscure distant relative and was prepared to compare the pedigree charts at the beginning of the book with the on-line chart when I get to the end of the book. Then--yesterday--there was the connection, right in front of me on page 181, just two short days after reading your post about our 33rd grandmother Judith! Now--I think I will join Bonnie in having a cup of tea while continuing on to read the rest of the story. George! I am a little over half-way through a book Steve loaned to me, “1066: THE HIDDEN HISTORY IN THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY,” by Andrew Bridgeford. It’s a scholarly and sometimes complex account explaining in detail who’s who and the meaning of the images in the Bayeux tapestry. It describes events leading up to the Norman invasion of England and the 1066 Battle of Hastings.

Well, guess what. On page 181 here’s what it says about a Count Eustace II of Boulogne (one of the un-named embroidered images but someone who is known to be represented through written research and documentation of the story told in this ancient piece of embroidery.)

“Count Eustace’s father, too could trace his ancestry to Charlemagne, through the ninth-century union of Judith, the emperor’s great-granddaughter, with Count Baldwin I of Flanders.”

I just KNEW when I started reading this book last week that I would find somewhere in there a connection to an obscure distant relative and was prepared to compare the pedigree charts at the beginning of the book with the on-line chart when I get to the end of the book. Then–yesterday–there was the connection, right in front of me on page 181, just two short days after reading your post about our 33rd grandmother Judith!

Now–I think I will join Bonnie in having a cup of tea while continuing on to read the rest of the story.

]]> By: Bonnie http://olelarsonsfolks.net/Blog/2010/01/10/cousins-of-the-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Bonnie Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:20:34 +0000 http://olelarsonsfolks.net/Blog/?p=1770#comment-381 Great tale, well told. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go fix myself a spot of tea. Great tale, well told. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go fix myself a spot of tea.

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