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From: John Carmi Parsons< >
Subject: Re: Margaret Puleston's Descent From Edward I
Date: 28 Nov 1998 12:25:20 -0800


On 28 Nov 1998, Gee Gee Hughes wrote:

> Here is what I found on WFT CD # 11. While the CD is used only for hints
> because they are often very wrong, this looks like it might be correct. It
> will need to be verified as there are no sources listed.

> Henry III, king of England x Eleanor of Provence
> \
> Edward I, king of England x Eleanor of Castille
> \
> Eleanor of Eng. b. 1264 d. 1297 x Henri, Count of Bar d. 1302.
> \
> Eleanor of Bar x Llwelyn ap Owen Lord of South Wales

>From this point on the descent given here is worthless. Eleanor of England,
countess of Bar, did not have a daughter Eleanor. Her only daughter was Joan,
the childless wife of the last de Warrenne earl of Surrey. This fabricated
descent through a non-existent daughter also leads to the Tudors, and was
evidently originally concocted to give that family a drop of Plantagenet blood
of their own even before Edmund Tudor married Margaret Beaufort.

John Parsons

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