Royal Family TreesWritten by Trevor Dumbleton
If you are interested in genealogy or history, royal family trees are excellent illustrations of strange, convoluted, and always interesting tales of kings, queens and nobility. Take a look at a few them and you will be able to find most remarkable tales with every line.Thanks to both adequate resources and bookkeeping available to nobility, royal family trees are among most complete, most accurate, and longest kept family trees in world. The nobility is often very interested in genealogy of its members, as it is important to figure out just who is noble and who is not. Once upon a time, it was assumed that those with royal blood were superior to those without, so a precise role of all members of nobility was necessary to ensure that nothing was spoiled by mixing with those of inferior birth. However, one of problems with that was fact that there was a very limited number of noble persons available. Thus, intermixing was a severe problem in gene pool. So, when you look at a royal family tree, there will be lines that diverge, then suddenly meet up again a few generations down road, when two distantly related, or sometimes not so distantly related people joined together and started creating new nobility. Thus, generations started having that many more congenital problems, simply because they were receiving several genes that weren't quite formed right and were being passed down with every generation, instead of being diluted by spreading them out amongst general populace.
| | Coat of ArmsWritten by Trevor Dumbleton
One of most enduring and beautiful pieces of family history is coat of arms. These stunning pieces of artwork recall days of chivalry and heraldry while they hearken back to ties to Old Country. For families who possess a coat of arms, it can take a place of pride in home. Designed to be displayed for one and for all, these shield-shaped testaments to family history are often adorned with beasts of field and fanciful creatures about their perimeter. They are truly crowning touch to any family name.The coat of arms was originally used in days of knights, kings, and wars fought on horseback. Each knight would display a particular design, image, or pattern on his shield to identify himself amidst anonymity of armor. Intended to inspire troops, strike fear in hearts of foes, and further name of bearer, coat of arms could tell world which knight performed which feat of arms amidst din of battle. Then, upon their return to halls of their lord, they could hang their shield by door to inform all within which knights assembled at any given time. However, as old forms of warfare gave way to musket, rifle, and cannon, coat of arms was not as necessary. Warfare became a method of regiments, not men. Thus, coat of arms had become obsolete in many ways. However, knighthood was still an honor conferred by various crowns of Europe, just as it is in Britain today. Thus, coat of arms became simply a way of showing that a family was possessed of honored members.
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