Paragraph on Richard III at Eupedia
Paragraph on Richard III at Eupedia
2014-12-12 20:39:07
I meant to include this paragraph in an earlier post (actually, I quoted part of it but the message never posted, so I'll try again here:
"On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_of_Richard_III_of_England). The skeleton's DNA matched exactly the mitochondiral haplogroup (J1c2c) of modern matrilineal descendants of Anne of York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_York,_Duchess_of_Exeter, Richard's elder sister, confirming the identity of the medieval king. Further tests published http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141202/ncomms6631/full/ncomms6631.html in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). This however did not match the Y-DNA of three modern relatives (who were all R1b-U152 xL2) descended from Edward III, Richard III's great-great-grand-father. Richard descends from the House of York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_York, while the modern relatives descend from the House of Lancaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lancaster via John of Gaunt. Therefore it cannot be determined at present when the non-paternity event occured in the Plantagenet lineage, and whether most of the Plantagenets monarchs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Plantagenet belonged to haplogroup G2 or R1b-U152. Both haplogroups are considerably more common in France than in Britain, however, which is consistent with the French roots of the House of Plantagenets. [All typos in the original, which I copied and pasted]"
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_G2a_Y-DNA.shtml#famous_people
Carol, with apologies if the other post materializes and this quotation posts twice
"On 12 September 2012, archeologists from the University of Leicester announced that they had discovered what they believed were the remains of King Richard III of England http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England (1452-1485) within the former Greyfriars Friary Church in the city of Leicester (see Exhumation of Richard III http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_of_Richard_III_of_England). The skeleton's DNA matched exactly the mitochondiral haplogroup (J1c2c) of modern matrilineal descendants of Anne of York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_York,_Duchess_of_Exeter, Richard's elder sister, confirming the identity of the medieval king. Further tests published http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141202/ncomms6631/full/ncomms6631.html in December 2014 revealed that his Y-chromosomal haplogroup was G2 (not tested for downstream mutations, but statistically very likely to be G2a3 as a northern European). This however did not match the Y-DNA of three modern relatives (who were all R1b-U152 xL2) descended from Edward III, Richard III's great-great-grand-father. Richard descends from the House of York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_York, while the modern relatives descend from the House of Lancaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lancaster via John of Gaunt. Therefore it cannot be determined at present when the non-paternity event occured in the Plantagenet lineage, and whether most of the Plantagenets monarchs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Plantagenet belonged to haplogroup G2 or R1b-U152. Both haplogroups are considerably more common in France than in Britain, however, which is consistent with the French roots of the House of Plantagenets. [All typos in the original, which I copied and pasted]"
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_G2a_Y-DNA.shtml#famous_people
Carol, with apologies if the other post materializes and this quotation posts twice
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