Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — PERSONS OF ROYAL DESCENT [ARTICLE]

PERSONS OF ROYAL DESCENT

in Natural Course, Millions Might Lay Claim, to Blood of WillianT the Conqueror. . There are more claims of descent from William the Conqueror than from any monarch in the world, and in most cases a descendant of this king comes down a line of 15 or 20 other royal personages, although sometimes the descent from monarch to plain, untitled yeoman seems to have been accomplished in two or three generations. There is practically no limit to his descendants today and one genealogist says this fact is accounted for by the statement that, according to the regular proportion of increase in each generation since his time, the descendants of William the Conqueror would now number more than twice the present population of the British isles. So, of course, it is very easy to see how many of them came over to the United States. ~~ ~