How many others would be your ancestor in the 28th generation besides Charlemagne and Hildegarde.
1. 1 Prince George
2. 2 Prince William
3. 4 Prince Charles
4. 8 Prince Philip
5. 16 Prince Andrew
6. 32 King George I of Greece
7. 64 King Christian IX of Denmark
8. 128 etc (I could list it all the way out to Charlemagne, but none of us have all night!!)
9. 256
10. 512
11. 1024
12. 2048
13. 4096
14. 8192
15. 16384
16. 32768
17. 65536
18. 131072
19. 262144
20. 524288
21. 1,048,576
22. 2,097,152
23. 4,194,304
24. 8,388,608
25. 16,777,216
26. 33,554,432
27. 67,108,864
28. 134,217,728
generation 40 or 41 = Charlemagne & Hildagarde The number of progenitors in this generation is in the billions.
Since the whole of the world does not claim that many, you are arguably a descendant of anyone who was alive at that time who blood line continues today.
Thus the argument that anyone with European ancestery can rightly claim kinship to anyone they please.
I state these convoluted thoughts for a couple of reasons.
I was curious as to how far I could trace Prince George's ancestory using only Wikipedia. So far, I have him descending for Charlemagne at least 10 times, Alfred the Great at least 5, Peter the Great once, all of the Scottish kings through the Spencers, but the most surprising to me was Harold II Godwinson. I didn't think he had any traceable descendants, but apparently two of his children fled to Denmark and from there married into the Kiev aristoracy. This line comes through Prince Philip's Russian Grandmother. The most interesting people have been in Philip's lines so far. I have only scratched the surface so far.
I knew there was a lot of intermarriage, but my word, I am surprised they haven't all sprouted two heads by now. The further back you go, the more often the same people appear.
I also use these generational ancestral numbers to show, that if you go far enough back, no one is pure anything. If we could trace every ancestor, we will find every race, creed, religion, etc.
Happy New Year All!!!!
Ana
PS Did I mention that Prince George is also a descendant of a sister of Ana Von Cleves?????