Harald Goodwinson
Harold was half Danish, though.
I mean, I don't think it matters, but if "fluent in German" disqualifies you from being "fully English", that would.
Harald Goodwinson
true macbeth mac findlaech????Harold was half Danish, though.
I mean, I don't think it matters, but if "fluent in German" disqualifies you from being "fully English", that would.
true macbeth mac findlaech????
Even the House of Wessex were if you go back enough migrants from Germany who claimed fucking Odin in their family tree. So not sure why OP is picking on the Hannovers over this.
Nah his mom was Danish and since aharold itself is a Norse name so by ops standards he won’t count.Harald Goodwinson
Maybe, if talking Scots?true macbeth mac findlaech????
Huh really? I like to think I know a bit about the Anglo Saxons and have never heard of that theory before.There's some historians who think they might actually have been native Britons, though.
Harald Goodwinson
Huh really? I like to think I know a bit about the Anglo Saxons and have never heard of that theory before.
So was Charles I's...Nah his mom was Danish
Let’s just agree and say Chad Vortigern was the first, last and only true King of the land of Albion.So was Charles I's...
I suppose but still it strikes me as a bit of a leap.I think Charles Oman suggested it, because the name "Cerdic" bears a suspicious resemblance to Caradoc or Coroticus.
Alfred Duggan used the idea in his novel Conscience of the King.
Still, he was more English than that Norman who replaced him. At least he lived in the country.Nah his mom was Danish and since aharold itself is a Norse name so by ops standards he won’t count.
I think Charles Oman suggested it, because the name "Cerdic" bears a suspicious resemblance to Caradoc or Coroticus.
Alfred Duggan used the idea in his novel Conscience of the King.
Yeah of course but it seems to let Harold off easy as authentically English when apparently Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t by the standards of OP’s first post.Still, he was more English than that Norman who replaced him. At least he lived in the country.
Hmm interesting. Though I still think if there was anything to do with this we would have a source or too on something like this? Certainly a connection to the old Celtic/Roman Aristocracy would have been a useful tool for Legitimisation and considering how much of a skilled propagandist Alfred was and his(moderately absurd)pretensions to being the King of all the Christians in Britain, I can’t see him passing up the opportunity to trump up the connection.That and also the other names that don't seem Germanic or are outright Celtic (Ceawlin, Cædwalla) that occasionally pop up amongst the early Wessex kings.
Think you mean Henry VIII. Henry VII only had one wife.Henry VII
Thank you for this! As someone who only knew Purcell and then Handel and Mozart, your post has given me great list of composers I need to start listening to.Why was Handel so successful when the native composers were not? Not because of royal patronage, but because he was a good businessman. He wrote what sold. And he sued people for copyright infringement in an era before copyrights existed. Most of all, he advertised. His famous line to a tenor threatening to jump on his harpsichord: "tell me when and where, sir, and I will advertise. I assure you, more people will come to see me play than to see you jump!"
*Avison tried to pass off some Handel concertos as his own and got blackballed for it