THE LAST DAYS OF RICHARD III

On a different note, I have just read THE LAST DAYS OF RICHARD III, the
newest from John Ashdown-Hill
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Days-Richard-III/dp/0752454048/ref=sr_1_2?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278604104&sr=1-2>

It begins with the last illness and death of Anne Neville and continues
from there, with a good many facts that haven't come my way before.

Of special interest, to me is that the author traced a direct female
line of descent from Anne Plantagenet, Richard's sister, and the
20th-century descendent very kindly provided a DNA sample for Oxford
Ancestors to sequence, so we now know with a reasonable degree of
certainty what the mtDNA profile was of Anne Plantagenet, her brothers
Richard, George, and Edward, and her sisters including Margaret of
Burgundy. They inherited this profile from their mother Cecily Neville,
she from her mother Joan Beaufort, her grandmother Katherine Swynford,
and her great-grandmother, the unknown, but probably Hainault, Mme De
Roet.

The group is "J" nicknamed "the clan of Jasmine"

and is the second largest of the seven European clans (after Helena) and
is the only one to have its origins outside Europe. Jasmine and her
descendants, who now make up 12% of Europeans, were among the first
farmers and brought the agricultural revolution to Europe from the
Middle East around 8,500 years ago.
http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55/


Y-chromosome direct-line MALE Plantagenet would logically come from a
male-line kinsman of the current Duke of Beaufort. The Duke had
declined to give a sample as of the time the book was published . . . .

Recommended reading (though if he has published most of the material as
articles in the RICARDIAN or elsewhere, you may have seen it there).

L.P.H.,

Ann

Ann Sharp wrote:
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> On a different note, I have just read THE LAST DAYS OF RICHARD III, the newest from John Ashdown-Hill
><snip>
> Of special interest, to me is that the author traced a direct female line of descent from Anne Plantagenet, Richard's sister, and the 20th-century descendent very kindly provided a DNA sample for Oxford Ancestors to sequence, so we now know with a reasonable degree of certainty what the mtDNA profile was of Anne Plantagenet, her brothers Richard, George, and Edward, and her sisters including Margaret of Burgundy. <snip>

Here's a link to that same information on John Ashdown-Hill's website:

http://www.freewebs.com/plantagenetdna/richardiiisdna.htm

Unfortunately, the page contains two typos: "lead" for "led" and "importation" for "important" which I hope didn't appear in the published book!

Carol, who has not yet explored all the links on the website

I found this article so interesting that I never saw the two typos you
pointed out, Carol. You might want to email Ashdown-Hill or whoever
maintains the site as to these typos.

Joan
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--- In , "justcarol67"
<justcarol67@...> wrote:
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> Ann Sharp wrote:
> >
> >
> > On a different note, I have just read THE LAST DAYS OF RICHARD III,
the newest from John Ashdown-Hill
> ><snip>
> > Of special interest, to me is that the author traced a direct female
line of descent from Anne Plantagenet, Richard's sister, and the
20th-century descendent very kindly provided a DNA sample for Oxford
Ancestors to sequence, so we now know with a reasonable degree of
certainty what the mtDNA profile was of Anne Plantagenet, her brothers
Richard, George, and Edward, and her sisters including Margaret of
Burgundy. <snip>
>
> Here's a link to that same information on John Ashdown-Hill's website:
>
> http://www.freewebs.com/plantagenetdna/richardiiisdna.htm
>
> Unfortunately, the page contains two typos: "lead" for "led" and
"importation" for "important" which I hope didn't appear in the
published book!
>
> Carol, who has not yet explored all the links on the website
>