Are there any surviving members alive today of the houses of Tudor and Plantagenet?
2007-07-09 10:30:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
There surely are a lot of poor bastards
2007-07-11 17:15:11 · answer #1 · answered by Der weiße Hexenmeister 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are descendents of Tudor and Plantagenet monarchs but no direct descendents with the names as only females and bastards continued the lines. The last of the Plantagenets in direct line to the throne were executed by Henry VIII as they were possible challenges to his legitimacy after his father took the throne from Richard III.
2007-07-09 13:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if you are doing genealogy to prove you may be 'better' than someone (ie vanity). In some ways, I think of genealogy as a game, where the purpose of the game is a challenge to find as many GOOD records as I can, or find/ prove a connection that other persons think is 'unfindable'. Like a crossword puzzle, only the entries are persons, and it is something that is never finished. As already mentioned.. royal lineages are usually well researched and already out there. No challenge in that. I don't know of any benefit to finding royal ancestry. Solving puzzles is a real challenge, and has the benefit of meeting tons of persons. Something you cannot buy in any store.
2016-05-21 22:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds Long time. But nice. House of tudor can i go live there for free? Government pay, tax payer happy to pay, i happy to go.
2007-07-09 10:39:01 · answer #4 · answered by Maroon H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between 1903 and 1911, the Marquis de Ruvigny attempted to name all the living descendants of the Plantagenet King Edward III (1312-1377), who sired nine children who lived to adulthood. He gave up after compiling a list of 40,000 living people. Authorities estimate that anywhere from 25 to 80 percent of all people of English and Scottish descent in the United Kingdom* and the United States can claim a direct ancestral link to Edward III, including myself, at least according to Ancestry.com.
P. S. Think about it--anyone who fathered twelve children, nine of whom survive, has lots of descendants:
------Isabella
------Joan
------Lional (Duke of Clarence)
------John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster)
------Edmund (Duke of York)
------Mary
------Margaret
------Thomas (Duke of Gloucester)
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*Notice the reference to the United Kingdom instead of England. In case you're wondering, I trace both my paternal and maternal ancestry back to Edward III by way of John of Gaunt through his great grandson, James II of Scotland.
2007-07-09 17:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There probably is some illegitimate Tudors because we know that Henry VIII wasn't the most faithful of husbands and we also know that he had a son illegitimately.
2007-07-09 13:59:08 · answer #6 · answered by Ten Commandments 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Almost certainly descendants of them, born "the wrong side of the blanket" but it would need quite a bit of DNA testing to find them.
2007-07-09 10:42:16 · answer #7 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither
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2007-07-09 10:49:07 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so...but you never know...
With Love...x
2007-07-09 10:38:44 · answer #9 · answered by LadyM S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there,
There still must be, but who we will never know.............
2007-07-09 10:43:13 · answer #10 · answered by cornishmaid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋