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Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "The Genetic (DNA) History of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland" video.
@Joanna-il2ur I'm not your 'son' I'm actually older than you are, as if that makes any difference. I just assumed from your rather aggressive and vulgar attitude that you were only a naive uncouth youth. However, you seem to have avoided a courteous and well mannered upbringing. Nevertheless, I don't get my information from Wikipedia I leave that to you. In Britain Gravelkind was only practised in Kent and Wales, in the rest of England inheritance was by primogeniture. I didnt come here for an argument like you obviously did, so I wont respond to you any further.
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@Joanna-il2ur Kent is actually name after the Celti tribe the Canti and so Cati-bury was their capital city. They also practised a different type of inheritance law that was only practised by the Welsh and the Frisians.
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@Joanna-il2ur Well the Cantii were a Brythonic speaking people and were very close to their neighbours in Gaul. In fact Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 BC because they had been supporting their cousins in Gaul after the Roman's attacked them. Caesar noticed the similarities between them and also commented that the Cantii were a maritime people and very civilised.
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@Joanna-il2ur Being born in Kent doesn't make you an expert on the origins of it's people, so a bit of humility on your part wouldn't go amiss. I have probably lived in Kent longer than you have been alive, but I don't boast about it. The people from Kent were known as the Cantii or Cantiaci and their capital city was known to the Roman's as: Durovernum Caticurum meaning the stronghold of the Cantii which is of course modern day Canterbury. The later people who settled in Kent were called the Jutes by Bede, however they were more probably Gothi and known in northern literature as the Æscings. Their inheritance laws of gravelkind are very similar to those used in Wales and it is assumed that they intermarried with the original Cantii people of Kent. Hence the retention of the name Cantii later currupted to Kent. And the fact that the skulls and bone collection in St Leonard's Hythe seem to contain people of Celtic descent. Alfred the Greats mother was a descendant of the Gothi and he also had Celtic forebears as the founding kings of Wessex, Cerdric and his son Cyndric were both Celts.
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