Book review?

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Clagett, Brice

Book review?

Legg inn av Clagett, Brice » 24 aug 2004 20:20:37

"Wjhonson" asks about the quality of a book he recently bought, _Living
Descendants of Blood Royal_, by "Count d'Angerville," volume 2,
published
in 1962.

It is outstandingly bad, even taking into account that it dates from a
period prior to a great deal of the healthy demolition that has winnowed
out bogus descents in recent decades. "D'Angerville" lists 96 immigrant
ancestors of alleged royal descent; 27 of these do not appear in RD600
and are probably bogus.

Even where the immigrant ancestor is of authentic royal descent, he/she
is frequently ascribed descendants or ancestors, or both, that are
bogus.
For example, on page 286, Nicholas Wyatt of Maryland is called son of
the Rev. Hawte Wyatt of Virginia, which is wholly unproved and most
unlikely.

My favorite, though, is at page 724, where Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of
York, who was born c. 1516, is called the great-great-great-great
grandson of Eleanor Musgrave, "b. ca. 1546," and is thereby awarded
a completely fictitious descent from Edward III.

As it happened, I had noticed this descent in "Count d'Angerville"'s
volume 1 and had written him pointing out its absurdity. He chose to
include it in volume 2 anyway. That did not speak highly to me of his
integrity. Whether he was a bona fide Count I have no idea.

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