Found another link to my family past.

[dennilfloss]

Found out from an official document dated 31-10-1571 where my earliest confirmed ancestors got married, in the royal city of Orléans during the autumn of 1476, at a time when the French king was under siege there by the Burgundy forces (perennial allies of the English, even though this was after the Hundred Years War). The church still exists today and the actual building was the third one, built after its predecessor was destroyed during another siege of the city in 1428 (time of Joan of Arc). This ancestor is mentioned to have been a blacksmith for the King's army.

So here's the actual building where they got married. They subsequently moved to Paris in 1483-1484 and my direct patrilineal filiation takes off from there.

L'église Saint-Euverte.()

 

[tcsenter]

Nice! Were they also attention whores? I kid (sorta)!

 

[OverVolt]

Blacksmith eh? I'd have loved to be one

 

[Soundmanred]

Nice! Were they also attention whores? I kid (sorta)!

Thankfully they didn't have the intenet back then. It was much harder to pretend to kill someone in those days.

 

[CPA]

Wait, so you're French?

 

[1sikbITCH]

Wait, so you're French?

He's a french model! Bonjour!

 

[NoCreativity]

In keeping with his French heritage, OP has retreated from the thread.

 

[jumpncrash]

In keeping with his French heritage, OP has retreated from the thread.

mouahahaha +1 internets for you

 

[FelixDeCat]

I would love to go to that church.

 

[OutHouse]

nice find. I know and can prove that my ancestors arrived in America around 1630. proving anything past this is pretty difficult, the only thing i do know is that we came from Holland then Kent then to the new world.

 

[dennilfloss]

Wait, so you're French?

I thought it was common knowledge here that I'm French Canadian.

 

[dennilfloss]

I would love to go to that church.

Me too. I probably has much 'presence' in the air inside.

 

[dennilfloss]

In keeping with his French heritage, OP has retreated from the thread.

OP generally sleeps while the dreaded daystar is up.:sneaky:

 

[brianmanahan]

I thought it was common knowledge here that I'm French Canadian.

well that explains everything :awe:

my 22nd great grandfather is Robert the Bruce, king of scotland till 1329

but the scottish government wouldnt give me a cut of the royal inheritance when i explained this to them

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's awesome, always cool to find out details that far back, and it's even more cool that the building is still there.