From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51277
Date: 2008-01-15
----- Original Message -----From: Patrick RyanSent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:30 PMSubject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re: Re: [tied] Etruscans
----- Original Message -----From: fournet.arnaudSent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:04 AMSubject: Re: Re: Re: [tied] Etruscans
----- Original Message -----From: Patrick RyanSent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:24 AMSubject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re: [tied] Etruscans
The article targeted below announces only that there is a _weak _ link between the ancient Etruscans (their nobility) and present day Tuscans. This is precisely what we should expect.The upper classes of almost every country today will be found to have weak links genetically with the peasantry or poorer classes.Patrick======That kind of prejudice is definitely wrong.Although not at all noble in any way,I have Hughes Capet, Charlemagne and Rollon II of Danemark(among others) as forbears.Most daughters from noble families could not find a partner in nobilityand had to marry with ordinary people.It is highly probably that about all French people (outside Chinese and Magreb immigrants) have Hughes Capet among their forbears at least one timeand most probably more than once.but in most cases, they cannot prove it because papers were lost.Arnaud***While it is certainly true that noble fathers left many bastards, the idea that daughters of the nobility could not find suitable noble mates, and were forced to marry into the lower classes, is simply ridiculous.Patrick===========What do you know about that ?More often that not, as men usually die young and marry at the older age than women, there were not enough "males" for all "females" of the same generation.It is just an obvious demographic problem.Arnaud***
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