“ALL THAT” BEFORE 1066
LONDON. The King’s ancestry has been traced back a couple of hundred years farther. Until the new edition of Burke's Peerage due out this month, the royal pedigree began with William the Conqueror. Now the line is taken back to Egbert, King of Wessex, a ruler of Britain who died in 839. . “It was the custom to begin with the Norman Conquest in 1066,” said editor Leslie Pine, “but I couldn't see why.” Asked why he stopped at Egbert. Pine added: “It becomes more difficult the further you get back, but the ancestry of our Royal House goes back into the dim ages of Norse mythology. . "After the English invasion of Britain each of the rulers claimed descent from the god Woden.” Pine doubted whether more than 10 English families could claim pre-Con-.quest descent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22931, 27 April 1949, Page 8
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