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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: William the Conqueror
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:12:52 -1000


Alan B. Wilson wrote:

<snip>

> Thanks for the kind words. My post was supposed to have
> been four generations (counting Henry II as generation #1).
> Here is a fifth generation.

De nada. Most helpful indeed. Thank you kindly. I realize the next prior
generation would have 64 slots, if not necessarily 64 individual
persons. You probably have only some of them. But, could you be so kind
as to post the ones you have? There is some method to my madness here.
["Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." Hamlet Act II,
Scene ii, Line 211]

Henry II "The Lion in Winter" would undoubtedly love all the attention
he gets nowadays. He certainly got little respect from his three sons.
Perhaps Rosamond Clifford, who was reportedly his lover from 1166 to her
death in 1177, [contrary to the previously expressed opinions of Walter
Lee Sheppard, Todd A. Farmerie and Stewart Baldwin] would probably glory
in it too.

--

D. Spencer Hines "Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is
fast enough." ***** Theodore Roosevelt ***** (1888)

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