Re: [tied] Re: personal names

From: guto rhys
Message: 14691
Date: 2002-08-28

 

Thanks again:


> 1)AS ruling families having married into the native dynasty
to 'legitimize' a weak claim to the throne (cf Henry VII for example)
and maintaining a family name.

Ceadwalla's claim was weak, but again I don't think a Welsh marriage
would have strengthened it.  The royal family was very much defined
through the male line, and primogeniture seems to have existed only
in so far as it was rare for brothers to squabble over the crown,
unlike the Roman example.  I could more easily believe an alliance
with a Welsh prince - I think Ceadwalla's father was briefly king in
Wessex.

The point, which I failed to explain clearly, was dual. HVII not only marrying into the previous dynasty, but also calling his eldest son, and heir to the throne, Arthur. I was wondering if this could be a possible explanation. Did Cadwalla have 'Brythonic' or Welsh blood?

H VIIPhoeniciansparticularlyExactly


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