Her Ladyship and her Royal Offspring
So it's official, your mother is heretofore to be referred to as Lady Percy, Duchess of Northumberland.
The English side
Lucille Stella Schur is a direct desecendent of the first Earle of Northumberland immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry 1V part one, Harry Percy or "Hotspur".
What is more amusing, and relevant to the kids, is that the Percy ancestral home in Northumberland Yorkshire is Alnwick Castle, the scene of Harry Potter films 1&2. This is one of the best preserved Norman Castles in England.
I would be happy to post the family tree on this blog if you all think its appropriate.
I think when the documentation arrives from the official Royal genealogists, we can post that for sure. It goes back in England to 1066, the battle Hastings and to Percy in Normandy France, before that. There is earlier speculation that they were originally Vikings, hence your blonder coloring?. (Spit in a Kleenex and we will test the DNA against Erik the Red).
Okay enough of the royal stuff. It looks more like the Pearce/Pearses were servants to the nobles. They were born, married and some buried at the lower level Pearce House at Spofforth Castle. Their occupation were "Coachman" and "Groom" versus some of the more romantic entries for Percys like "Knight of the Garter", Executed in Tower of London", or "Died in battle", like the nob side of the family.
Even if it was just a Royal Rogering, blood is blood. After all, half the royal family were bastards throughout history.
The Irish.
While we have always assumed that the Breakey's came from Ireland, and we now have the first written confirmation.
This provides an interesting piece of history.
The Percys were not only staunch Catholics, but in their well documented bloody history, many were executed for not supporting the Protestant Royals.
By the 1500s when we have direct lines to Pearse, they moved from Yorkshire to Gloucester, they used the English spelling and followed various Protestant forms.
As Charles Percy said to me in a recent e-mail from the castle, "in the 16th and early 17th centuries it was dangerous to be a Percy so it is possible that Percy family members did change the spelling of their name to hide their identity and this with and the variations in spelling due to different English accents and dialects it makes it all very complicated".
The Breakeys were original Orangemen from Eire, perhaps even Hugenots from France. (A widely held but hotly contested myth of the De Brequets). Either way, these people fought against the Catholic crown for Protestant King William of Orange and were awarded land in the most Northern Part of the Irish Republic in exchange for their military services.
So Lucille, David, Cindy and their children all have both sides of the revolutionary theme running in their blood.
The English side
Lucille Stella Schur is a direct desecendent of the first Earle of Northumberland immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry 1V part one, Harry Percy or "Hotspur".
What is more amusing, and relevant to the kids, is that the Percy ancestral home in Northumberland Yorkshire is Alnwick Castle, the scene of Harry Potter films 1&2. This is one of the best preserved Norman Castles in England.
I would be happy to post the family tree on this blog if you all think its appropriate.
I think when the documentation arrives from the official Royal genealogists, we can post that for sure. It goes back in England to 1066, the battle Hastings and to Percy in Normandy France, before that. There is earlier speculation that they were originally Vikings, hence your blonder coloring?. (Spit in a Kleenex and we will test the DNA against Erik the Red).
Okay enough of the royal stuff. It looks more like the Pearce/Pearses were servants to the nobles. They were born, married and some buried at the lower level Pearce House at Spofforth Castle. Their occupation were "Coachman" and "Groom" versus some of the more romantic entries for Percys like "Knight of the Garter", Executed in Tower of London", or "Died in battle", like the nob side of the family.
Even if it was just a Royal Rogering, blood is blood. After all, half the royal family were bastards throughout history.
The Irish.
While we have always assumed that the Breakey's came from Ireland, and we now have the first written confirmation.
This provides an interesting piece of history.
The Percys were not only staunch Catholics, but in their well documented bloody history, many were executed for not supporting the Protestant Royals.
By the 1500s when we have direct lines to Pearse, they moved from Yorkshire to Gloucester, they used the English spelling and followed various Protestant forms.
As Charles Percy said to me in a recent e-mail from the castle, "in the 16th and early 17th centuries it was dangerous to be a Percy so it is possible that Percy family members did change the spelling of their name to hide their identity and this with and the variations in spelling due to different English accents and dialects it makes it all very complicated".
The Breakeys were original Orangemen from Eire, perhaps even Hugenots from France. (A widely held but hotly contested myth of the De Brequets). Either way, these people fought against the Catholic crown for Protestant King William of Orange and were awarded land in the most Northern Part of the Irish Republic in exchange for their military services.
So Lucille, David, Cindy and their children all have both sides of the revolutionary theme running in their blood.
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