If you come from a family with English ancestors with a probably Norman surname (such as Foster or Forster or Darrell), then with work and luck and using Geni online, there’s a good chance that you can trace your ancestors back to a family of landowners for centuries, with an occasional knight or sheriff or mayor, and perhaps with a manor house somewhere. If you can, you may well find that a few of them married into noble families (some of them mentioned in Shakespeare’s history plays). If so, you may find that one or more of these noble families married into the British Royal Family. These aren’t your lineal ancestors, but they ARE your collateral ancestors. If that happened, then with hours of interesting work you will find that pretty much ALL of the British and Scottish kings and queens are your ancestors. Through William the Conqueror, you are related to Rollo Duke of Normandy, featured in “Vikings.” Also to King Alfred the Great and King Canute of Denmark, and through Cnut, to Ragnar Lothbrok through two of his sons.
Is this really a five star book? No. But it’s readable and interesting, and it’s the only book I know on the topic. Most of the information can be found on Wikipedia, but this is much more convenient.
If you have an English king as a collateral descendent, then you are also related to most of the kings in this book: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, the Viking Tsars of Kievan Rus, the Counts of Flanders. They are all in here (except for some very early ones who are sometimes considered only legendary. The later Tsars of Russia are also collateral relatives, and kings of France and many other places, but those are not discussed much in this book.
A book worth reading if it’s about your family, as it is mine.
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