[Part of a series of posts and pages dedicated to Sancha de Ayala]
The convent’s ’sala capitular’ (chapter, or meeting room) was once a formal room of the palace with an elaborate stone carved frieze, with an inscription, running around the upper crown molding and framing the elaborate Mudejar arches. The room was subsequently renovated […]
[Part of a series of posts and pages dedicated to Sancha de Ayala]
The palace of Diego Gómez, one of the magnificent Mudejar-Gothic palaces in the old heart of the city of Toledo, has recently (2005) become a “convent-museum” with increased public access. His daughter Sancha de Ayala has a certain genealogical cachet as a […]
I recently noticed a fresh hereditary society here in the United States, whose membership requirement is proof of descent from Merovech, the legendary founder of the Frankish royal dynasty, who would have lived in the mid fifth century if he were real: the Order of the Merovingian Dynasty.
The website states that it was “conceived of […]
I’ve known for a long time about the many duplications in my grandfather’s Gloucester ancestry. With the forthcoming publication of an article on the probable English origins of Thomas Riggs of Gloucester (d. 1722), I looked back at my database and realized that in nine different lines my grandfather descends from five (!!!!!) of […]