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From: "steven perkins" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Famous DNA - the Plantagenet Y-DNA project
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:03:31 -0400
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John and John:


On 8/3/07, JOHN PLUMMER <> wrote:
> Dr. Plant,
>
> I was impressed by your mentioning Somerset, Warren, and Cornwell as three families with possible male line descents from the Plantagenets. For these are the very three families mentioned by Sir Anthony Wagner, FASG, Garter King of Arms, etc., in English Genealogy, third edition, pages 36-37. His most recent citation in that section was to a letter by Professor David H. Kelley. Kelley and Moriarty were sometime collaborators and were both also FASG's,
>
> There is not one even tentative male line descent from the Merovingians - well, not by a reputable genealogist anyway.
>
> Similarly, there is not one male line descent from Charlemagne; and not one male line descent from a Roman Emperor. Recently, Dutch scholar Vermaat has even cast doubt on the female line descent from Emperor Magnus Maximus claiming that Eudaf [Octavius] Hen did not marry Maximus' daughter but the widow of another Emperor. The Constantines in the Welsh pedigrees going down to the present were probably named after Emperor Constantine, but were not themselves emperors.
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Not sure if you mean the Constantine families of Constantine in Wales
(and Ireland then England). This family is descended from the
COSTANTINE family from Normandy and were sometime Senechals of
Normandy.

The best online source for male and female descendants of various
medieval continental and English/British families is Leo van de Pas
website: http://www.genealogics.org/ Find the person of interest and
select male or female descendants to find out if there are current
descendants.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins

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