tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post1658495054903006084..comments2024-03-14T05:56:44.390+00:00Comments on Edward II: Yolande de Dreux, Queen of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Montfort (c. 1263-1322)Kathryn Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-81143466673025529742015-05-29T20:11:56.599+01:002015-05-29T20:11:56.599+01:00Chris, it wasn't any better in later centuries...Chris, it wasn't any better in later centuries. I've just tried to sort out some geneaological messes of the Welfen of Braunschweig and Hannover, and their intermarrying between the various branches is a hopeless tangle. Add the branches of House Sachsen (Coburg, Altenburg, Gotha, Hildburghausen, etc.) who intermarried among themselves and with the Welfen more times than you can count, and it turns out there is more German blood in the English royal house than in my own family, lol. The difference is that I can figure out a few generations of ancestors without tying my brain into a knot. ;-)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-83815508275458249082015-05-28T20:24:10.422+01:002015-05-28T20:24:10.422+01:00Once again, stunning amount of information. Thanks...Once again, stunning amount of information. Thanks.Sami Parkkonennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-74908276005710316872015-05-28T12:38:40.808+01:002015-05-28T12:38:40.808+01:00I never cease to be astonished at how inbred the E...I never cease to be astonished at how inbred the European aristocracy was in this period. But, I suppose there were so few of them to begin with, and they kept killing each other.chris yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07556240635442613879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-65192885462980722532015-05-27T06:15:58.274+01:002015-05-27T06:15:58.274+01:00Thanks, Anerje! Yeah, these family trees are madly...Thanks, Anerje! Yeah, these family trees are madly complicated :D Yolande and Edward were only distantly related by blood - I think fourth cousins or so - but much more closely by marriage.Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-17229295512990892352015-05-26T21:46:32.773+01:002015-05-26T21:46:32.773+01:00Glad you are feeling better. Yolande seems to ha...Glad you are feeling better. Yolande seems to have led a bit of a marital complicated life to me - trying to work out her relationship with Edward II:)Anerjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16305237339979790391noreply@blogger.com