Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "UsefulCharts" channel.

After the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II, her son Charles becomes King Charles III of Great Britain and his reign will be know as the Carolean period, similar to his ancestor Charlemage. Who according to your research, Charles III is his most senior living descendant. How absolutely fascinating, that after all these centuries the fruit hasn't fallen far from the tree.
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@frank-ko6de Charlemagne was not German ?????? I'm talking about King Charles III family tree. Which goes back to Charlemagne King of the Frank's who later became the French. However, Charlemagne was born in Leige in modern day Belgium, so not that far away and not Germany.
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@frank-ko6de All our ancestors go back through millions of people through many centuries but they still lead directly to their descendants.
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@pyropulseIXXI Our direct ancestors double each generation, meaning in 500 years we will have more than a million. However the further anyone traces their ancestry back the less individual ancestors they have. This is because more of your ancestors are related to each other. In fact 80% of historical marriages were to 2nd cousins or closer. In Royal circles this is even more true as they only married into other royal dynasties.
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@HB-tw8wq Charles is actually already reigning now as we speak ! Also I don't think he is as unpopular as you think and even those who have reservations about him are prepared to give him a chance.
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 @thisasiankidistrashfordram374 Charles I was beheaded by the orders of Oliver Cromwell the Lord Protector. Cromwell wasn't a noble he was a Norfolk farmer.
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It's very interesting that they made a big fuss about him being Irish on his mothers side. Yet conveniently never mentioned the fact that he is actually of direct English descent on her side.
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@mira460 Anglo Saxons were not German, they were Germanic, which is different. The Germanic peoples originated in Scandanavia and spread from there to parts of Europe as well as to Britain where they mixed with the native Brits and became the English.. Their DNA is virtually indistinguishable from that of modern day Denmark, as is the Norman's who also originated there. When the Germanic people moved to northern Europe they too mixed with the people already there and formed the Deutsch of Deutschland as well as the very similar Dutch people of the Netherlands. Only English speakers call the Deutch the all encompassing term Germans.
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@carlalussini The Monarchy has no power, but they are the personification of the British nation, steeped in our historical past and traditions. "If you forget your past, you have no future"
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@goofygrandlouis6296 There'll always be an England, and full of English too and if you dont like us you can just bugger off too ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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@jonathanwilliams1065 No, he is the heir to Charlemagne but his domain stretches much further than Europe. King Charles is the head of state of 15 countries all around the globe and just one of them Australia, is as big as Europe.
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@HB-tw8wq As soon as the Queen died he became King, the coronation is just a formality. I don't need the media to inform me, though I see you get all of your 'knowledge' from there.🤣🤣🤣
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The Norman's invaded England not the French. The Norman's (Northman) were Vikings who were related to the Anglo Saxons thats why they had a claim to the throne.
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Yes indeed, and there is a video here on YouTube by the Historian and Archeologist Francis Pryor that comes to the same conclusion. If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a look.
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So, if being Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion, how can someone decide to become Jewish and change both their religion and their ethnicity ???? That doesn't make sense, no one can change their ethnicity.
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@masterdeetectiv9520 Then being Jewish cannot be an ethnicity as claimed, it's a religion. Anyone can become Jewish, but they can't change their ethnicity.
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@masterdeetectiv9520 What about the 'ethnic' Jews in Palestine, who became Muslims so they didn't pay as much taxes after the Islamic conquest?
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@masterdeetectiv9520 Why are the Jews stealing their land and murdering them then ? Are they all just ruthless criminals ?
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@azx43 Nothing yo do with racism???? Why do people these days find racism everywhere? The Normans were Vikings it's a fact, they were descended from Rollo of Denmark and often fought the French. I am my self descended from them, my ancestors came to England with the Norman invasion in 1066. Also the Germanic peoples originated in Scandinavia before spreading to place like er....... France, named after the Frank's, even though the local population of Romano Gauls spoke Latin after their previous occupation by the Roman's. The Anglos (from modern day Denmark) and the Saxons modern day Northern Germany. The Norman's were also related to the Anglo Saxons that why they had a claim to the throne. Edward the Confessor even had a Norman wife. However, the plantagenets were related to both the Norman William the Conqueror, and the Anglo Saxon Alfred the Great. The Bretons of course in Brittany came from Briton itself, in fact it was originally known as Little Britain. All historic facts nothing to with 'racism' ffs ??????
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@adventussaxonum448 The population at the time were pre British. But It's now thought that the Anglo saxons were here much earlier during the Roman period, so when the Roman's left they just continued as before. These Anglo saxons took native Britons as wives and together became not just the English, but the southern Welsh and Scots as well. This is confirmed by DNA where most Brits have only 10% Anglo Saxon DNA only rising to 38% in the east of England in Anglia. Even the British Empire in India left their language, laws and customs too, but very little DNA, so it's nothing unusual.
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@adventussaxonum448 India claims to be the 2nd largest English speaking country in the world with 125million English speakers and let's not forget English law. Therefore, a society can adopt a foreign culture and language without being wiped out and replaced. The Roman's never left their language because they didn't take local wives they were a ruling class, that lived separately to the native Britons. The Roman's also left no dna for this same reason. DNA results seems to confirm this and that's why the integration rather than conquest theory is gaining ground. If any evidence is discovered in the future that challenges this, perhaps it will change opinions. However, at the moment it only confirms it.
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@irtnyc Sorry Isacc my statement is based on the facts. You said Irish Catholic were surfs, now your saying everyone who wasnt a Norman was a Serf, including the English, which is completely different. I have done extensive genealogical research in Ireland and it is also a fact it's very difficult to get much beyond 1800. Due to the records being destroyed in the massive IRA explosion in the Four Courts Dublin in 1922 during the Irish Civil war. Any one who has done even an small Irish family tree knows this. Yes the Catholic church has records but even these are not complete and many older ones were also destroyed or damaged. It's fine to have a different opinion but it should always be based on facts.
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It's a shame it was so quick as it made it difficult to read and take in before it moved on.
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@Azaghal1988 Charlemagne was an Emperor and his Empire stretched all over western Europe. His capital city if Aachen was not in Germany, it was in Fancia. What is now Germany didn't exist untill 1871.
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@latetotheparty4785 Thankyou for stating the obvious, but what was your point ?
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@Baller474 The Frank's were a Germanic tribe, they were not German. The germanic peoples originated in Scandanavia.
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@Baller474 Germany didn't exist until 1871 and the people that lived in that area didn't even consider themselves as one people.
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@TTSSYF23 Yes of course, the term Scandinavia didnt exist back in time and neither did Germany. In fact the inhabitants of what we now call Germany were originally Celts. They were displaced by the Germanic peoples who migrated down from what we now call Scandinavia and in medieval times they were known as Norsemen.
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@TTSSYF23 All the peoples of what is now Germany are descended from Indo Europeans including the Celts and the Northern germanic tribes. The Celts originated in the area around Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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@TTSSYF23 Yes, and that's because the Germanic peoples evolved in Scandanavia from the same indo Europeans as the Celts did, before spreading down into northern Germany and into Holland, France and Italy etc. The largest north germanic languages are still spoken in Scandanavia today.
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@Rotebuehl1 At the time of the so called Anglosaxons there was no place called Germany. In fact Alfred the Great didn't refer to himself as Anglosaxon but Gewisse. Gewisse is considered to be a Brythonic word meaning hillfort. Also the house of Wessex was founded by Cynric another Brythonic name, so Alfred was most likely of at least part Brythonic descent. It was Bede who started referring to the Anglisch as Anglo saxons but this was hundreds of years later. The Germanic peoples originated in Scandinavia and the Angles came from modern day Denmark and the Saxons were from the nearby coastal region and were named after the knife they carried, they were an early Viking type of coastal raiders.
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@AceticTWO You are getting confused, Germanic is not the same as German.
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Was it Enid Blyton ? 🤭
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Your Genealogy charts are always very interesting. However, Queen Victoria might not be as German as we might think. Her father is supposed to be the Kings younger brother, Edward Augustus the Duke of Kent. Yet many believed at the time that the Duke was far to old to have fathered Victoria. Instead many believed that Sir John Ponsonby- Conroy, her mothers private secretary was Victoria's father. This suspicion even originated in the Royal family itself and HRH the Duke of Clarence even referred to them as the Conroyal family. Victoria herself at aged 10 surprised her mother and Sir John engaged in what was referred to as "some familiarities". And when Victoria became Queen one of her first duties was to dismiss Sir John. If this paternity claim is true, it would make the royals even more British .
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