Talk:Royal descent

message: OK, the stub tag has been replaced with an importance tag, asking for discussion.  There is evidence that a reasonable number of people are, were or might be concurrently interested in the subject of royal descent (eg. it is at least well-known in a community).  It is often discussed by genealogists, for example on soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.genealogy.britain, and alt.talk.royalty.  It is also of interest to geneticists and sociologists because royal descent is the easiest exemplar of the concept of the most recent common ancestor because of the strength of the historical record for royal families and their descendants (see, for example, the widely quoted discussion by Prof Steve Jones in In the Blood:  God, Genes and Destiny (1996) suggesting that 25% of Britons have a royal descent).  There are numerous books about particular royal descents, but more encyclopedic are the many references by historians to the concept of widespread royal descents and to its implications for our understanding of the development of society:  for example, in the works of Sir Anthony Wagner, including Pedigree and Progress (1975) and English Genealogy (1983).Chelseaboy 12:05, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance

message: Myself and two other editors cleaned up the article to make it more neat and have it sound more like an Encyclopedic article.  We also added in some extra information that seemed to be missing from the first version of the article. RosePlantagenet 14:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaned up the article

message: Yeah it does.  A majority of people who came to Virginia were English but there were a few settlers from other countries like France and Spain.  The Settlers in France settled in the Canada.  The Spain settled in areas like South America.  The Virginia Colonist were definitly descended from the Plantagents and some of England's royalty.  I am living prove of that many of them were my ancestors and all my sources state that.  The few from other countries I am not sure.  I am in the process of finding more information about the settlers in France who came to Quebec to see if they came from any Frence royalty.
:Right then. So the best thing to do is to find sources regarding other immigration - I would imagine French immigrants to be predominantly descended from French royalty **[rather than English royalty]**, for example, but it needs to be sourced.
:Of course, since Plantagenet descendants would also have the descent of those families who married into the Plantagenets (e.g. Capetians, Castilians), these families would also be in the ancestry of the colonists. Michaelsanders 18:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Or, more precisely, because the most recent royal ancestor was a Plantagenet. Michaelsanders 19:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Yes

message: I stopped in to see how this page was doing after it's recent AN/I stuff, and I realized, this page is absurdly Eurocentric, and beyond that, Anglo-Centric. Please expand the article to include other nations of Europe, as well as Asian Royalty, African royalty, and heck, anywhere else royalty can be found. ThuranX 14:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Er...I did say exactly that above. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything appropriate thus far on other cultures. Michaelsanders 14:43, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridiculously Eurocentric 

message: It says 27 of 42 presidents have royal lineage (supposidly). There are 48 Presidents currently. Could someone check the source? YeshuaDavid (talk) 21:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: US Presidents

message: I have removed the reference to the insignificant Society.  If it can achieve a few thousand Googs then maybe.  But at the moment, we are serving to drive most of their traffic and we can't have that.Wjhonson (talk) 00:44, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
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message: Is It True That People Who Descent From The Wentworth Of England And Whom Have Owned/Own Wentworth Castle In Barnsley Yorkshire England United Kingdom Could Be Actively Related To The Windsor Of England But Distances Relationship Of Being Ancestrally To Of Being Vital Of Whom Of Royal Family Of Buckingham And Windsor Castle? LORJE SALAMONSKI (talk) 00:44, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Descendents Of Wentworth And Windsor 

message: " At the same time, however, waves of post-colonial immigrants from other countries decreased the percentage who have royal descent."
This sounds like complete nonsense. If anything, "waves" of immigrants from other European countries (that are not England) would likely increase the percentage of Americans descended from European royals. It'd be interesting to learn how many Americans descend from a king of Italy or France (there are a number of Americans descended from Napoleon's family), but I suspect the number would be so large as to be meaningless. Whoever wrote this section seems to think it's a big deal to descend from Medieval kings when it's totally not. They estimate as many as a billion living descendants of Charlemagne which would include essentially everyone of Western European descent -if you have ancestry from Western Europe, you are likely descended from Charlemagne and are thus of "royal descent". I've personally traced my ancestry to Charlemagne and all it taught me was how common and insignificant this is. Jonathan f1 (talk) 13:34, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  US section