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After discovering she had royal blood, Courtney Cox is now delighted to find out her x26 great-grandfather is none other than William The Conquerer!
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The star of long-running sitcoms Friends and Cougar Town is first up in Season 9 and she traces her maternal line back to ambitious and ruthless relatives who murdered their way to power in medieval times, but she's also shocked by an ancestor who's one of European history's most famous characters. Along the way, she visits Gloucestershire and London to put the pieces together in her journey of discovery.
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@tndrunning3328 Год назад

Imagine telling William the Conqueror on the eve of the Battle of Hastings that he really needs to win because the best American sitcom just wouldn’t be the same without his x26 granddaughter

@markharmon7598 Год назад

I do genealogy my direct descendant was William the Conquerors 1st cousin he fought at the Battle of Hastings. He was awarded Nottingham. My descendant changed his name to Herve then sudtone which eventually changed to Sutton who also married into the Despencencer family. My family is in the Doomsday book which was commissioned by William the Conquerer. I have my family tree traced back to 1032 France where William the Conquerer lived . My descendant and William the Conquerer had the same grandmother just different mothers. My line is DNA verified.

@tndrunning3328 Год назад

@@markharmon7598 Yeah I don’t doubt that. I live in the south of England as did generations of my family going back hundreds of years so it’s quite likely old William was my relative too. The apples don’t fall far from the tree

@AmandaFromWisconsin 10 месяцев назад

Imagine telling Robert the Bruce that his descendant is Hilary Duff.

@markharmon7598 10 месяцев назад

@@tndrunning3328 my descendant married into the Dudley family from the Dudley Castle lore. They are also in the Doomsday Book.

@janiehill4557 7 месяцев назад

So would you and Courtney share DNA ?? This is all so fascinating.

@vinnyvasquez 3 года назад

Courtney Cox and Danny Dyer need to do a sitcom together where they plan to take the throne

@susannamarker2582 Год назад

Would she understand him ?

@gregbramwell7666 Год назад

Alex Armstrong too

@maudeboggins9834 Год назад

Cindy Crawford is related to Charlemagne.

@aftersexhighfives Год назад

I need this!

@paigegee5921 Год назад

Yes!!! I'm so here for that!!! Lol

@b-playzyt9929 2 года назад

This means she is also related to the Viking Rollo, as he was the 3x great grandfather of William the Conqueror

@Bersztipflag Год назад

Rollon le Marchant, Yes! Gånge-Rolf...

@MultiKswift Год назад

I just recently learned that I was descended from William the Conqueror and the Viking Rollo. I was way more excited to learn I was descended from Rollo than I was to find out that I was descended from William.

@Bersztipflag Год назад

@@MultiKswift Perhaps you suddenly felt as if you were 2 metres long (european measure) ?

@binkyxz3 Год назад

Another great honor, she is related to Robert E. Lee and Colonial War hero "Light-horse Harry" Lee.

@areiaaphrodite Год назад

Rollo is my ancestor as well, through William the Conqueror and Edward Longshanks

@keithcaldwell7673 3 года назад

Poor thing means she's related to Danny dyer as well

@loyalrammy Год назад

This is the dream of every genealogist, being directly related to someone famous or/and important. Almost all of us get blocked in the 1500’s because history rarely records the little people before this century.

@grahamskilling2147 Год назад

Practically everyone is related to royalty and famous people if there are enough generations involved ….not just Danny and Courtney and its no great shakes

@loyalrammy Год назад

@@grahamskilling2147 That’s theoretical and probably true, but it’s fun finding any new ancestors to add to one’s family tree, but there is some spice added when the ancestor is famous or significant in history.

@areiaaphrodite Год назад

@graham skilling It matters to OP and others, so just respect it and move on

@grahamskilling2147 Год назад

@@areiaaphrodite Thanks sister ** times removed

@RandomStranger246 Год назад

More than 60% of people with European ancestry are related to royalty within 30 generations back. King John is my 26th g-grandfather. I painstakingly traced my ancestry to the 1600s and then it started to get very easy.... because they were substantial land holders going back to King John and money meant there were records of them. Now I'm just a lowly peasant.

@milksips3876 3 года назад

Courtney Cox looks stunning here, she also so interested, her calm narrative makes me feel she’d do a great documentary series. She was so gracious. The chap showing her was brilliant!

@dazlad926 2 года назад

It's actually not that bad of plastic surgery. Some horrendous stuff out there for sure.

@sweiland75 Год назад

@@dazlad926 At least she knew when to stop.

@pmccoy8924 Год назад

She is 60. She looks absolutely incredible here.

@theDanwall87 3 года назад

Courtney cox is related to Danny dyer!!! 😆

@beebee9815 3 года назад

I laughed until I realised that I'm related to them both! 😩

@lilmonkey9919 3 года назад

That's right 🤣

@danmacalpinbruce2555 3 года назад

Yes looks like i am also

@Simonmc78 3 года назад

Rosanna Davison also

@golightly123456 2 года назад

My first thought when I saw this vid 😂

@jewellui 3 года назад

Wow, I wish I could trace my family tree. Europeans are lucky to have such good records.

@Bellg 3 года назад

Not all europeans tho. Only the nobility have lines that stretch back that far. Most other Europeans would not be able to trace their line back all the way to 1000AD or earlier. Perhaps the 17th century or the time of Napoleon is where most european people's recorded line end.

@ds1868 3 года назад

@@Bellg you just need a gateway ancestor. Many millions of people are descended from the Plantagenet dynasty and ultimately William I. Nearly all western European people are descended from Charlemagne. I am descended from Edward I and his second wife Margaret of France. It's no big deal.

@Bellg 3 года назад

@@ds1868 Yes I know. I never said it was.

@Joker-yw9hl 3 года назад

I'm European (British) and there are no real records for my ancestors because they were dirt poor farmers, peasants and servants. I've taken a DNA test with 23andme and by far most of my ancestry is Irish. I share the same paternal line with Niall of the Nine Hostages (an Old Irish King and all-round horrible bloke), as do about 3 million other people, but I also have some Slavic blood from my grandfather who emigrated here after the war and married a Welsh woman (but the DNA test seemed to indicate the Welsh line also traces back to Ireland). So while I am apparently related to the Cheddar Man (as are so many millions of people), by and large I don't share many common ancestors with Brits let alone Europeans (at least not recent ancestry). Europeans related to the likes of English Nobility or Charlemagne etc do not include me!

@jewellui 3 года назад

Well I’m not expecting 10+ generations for all Europeans, I’m Chinese originally but born in the UK, I don’t think I can really get details great great grandparents so I’m always envious watching this programme haha. Just general record keeping in a lot of countries was not as common or as well preserved also DNA testing has less data.

@matthewbailey7421 3 года назад

All hail, Courtney the Conqueror!!!

@seanraines5871 Месяц назад

She conquered my heart years ago

@hendersonbrown684 Год назад

I love this show. You are getting history and biography all in one.

@michaeldamiani3436 Год назад

Courtney's past is even more interesting as he 29th Great grandfather was a character named Rollo, a Viking who was granted the province of Normandy by the French king Louis at the time. To protect the French coast from other Vikings.

@MrGksarathy Год назад

She's also technically related to the Kings of Wessex because Wiliam the Conqueror only invaded because he was Edward the Confessor's nephew.

@roberthughes9856 Год назад

Further back still, William is the ninth great Grandson of Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor.

@lisanevins3605 Год назад

He comes up in my family tree

@MarkHewitt Год назад

Going forward from Henry I, you have Henry I's daughter, the Empress Matilda who should have been England's first Queen , but was denied by her uncle, Stephen. Then you had Matilda's son, Henry II. Another famous king whose Angevin Empire was massive. Famous for the death of Thomas A Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral. Then you had Henry II's youngest son, King John, a weak king of Robin Hood and Magna Carta fame. Lost most of his father's empire to the French. Followed by John's son Henry III who was the father of Edward I.

@AndySaenz Год назад

Valerie Bertinelli is also related to King Edward I! A lot of celebrities have a royal ancestor, that’s amazing!

@Willem2761 Год назад

This William the Conquerer is my ancestor also so I gues i m related to her

@areiaaphrodite Год назад

And presidents too. A lot of them are descendants of Rollo through King John the Bad of England

@pchilds80 Год назад

You probably do aswell

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

That's showbiz! Got have the right credentials to get a gig. Brooke Shields related to King Louise of France. If your not in the upper eschalons of society it is because you haven't got the bloodlines. 36 Presidents of The United States are related to Robert The Bruce of Scotland. The list goes on.

@davedavids57 Год назад

That's because if you go back 20 generations on average that person would have 2 million living ancestors. That will double every generation. So 21 generations that is 4 million, so 26 generation would be 120 million ancestors. This is increased by the fact that the richer people back then had more children who were more likely to live. The vast majority of people with British ancestry will be related to Kind Edward 1. Have a read of "Strangers are just relatives you haven't met yet" - Nature magazine.

@martinpettersson4828 Год назад

The handwriting is just incredible beautiful

@wandertree Год назад

I am a direct descendent of the Viking kings in the 800s who were William the Conquerors ancestors as well. I'm not directly descended from WtC though, but my ancestor was his brother or cousin and came over to England with him from France. Her lot became kings - mine were knights and landowners who eventually made their way to America in the 1600s. Pretty cool!

@jedheart8059 Год назад

That interesting. Not sure how you exactly got that far into the tree. I have my Swedish patriarch to 1700. But he seems to have a Finnish surname which is famous in Sweden. However, my great grandfather, born in Territory of Minnesota, took his oath to become a US Citizen after North and South Dakota became States, his name is Albian King Paris, first names. My Swedish great grandfather married my Mayflower Descendant great grandmother. So, I have an extended family of genealogists who tracked everything. I wanted to verify things I heard since I was a child. So, I track what I can and let others do their fair share. It's all interesting. A woman Sweden read my tree and gave me some edits. One family surname was on the wrong lineage. She read the Swedish records in Sweden and gave me the corrected names to add. So, I know it's not easy to get beyond the tax records of lungs before our American Revolution. Poor people were listed as if property if they were worth anything at all to the tax collectors.

@davedavids57 Год назад

Given that someone who is your 26 great grandfather (like William the conqueror would be) would have on average 120 million living relatives today. That's not that impressive. Given that number doubles every generation and the time your talking about is 200 years prior to William. Which is conservatively 6 generations at least. That means that viking king has 720 million living ancestors today (probably more).

@kmdn1 Год назад

Hey I have almost the exact same lineage you described and then noticed your RU-vid name is onceuponalake... Any chance your ancestors that came over to the Americas in the 1600’s were Hannah or Margaret Lake?

@marykopydlowski4654 Год назад

Courtney is so lucky to find her roots in 1006 conquer Edward. Amazing. My mom's family was from England. Dad's grandmother was from Dublin Ireland. They came due to potatoes blight. This grandfather paid over a dozen workers to come to America with his family. He took his friends away from Ireland so they won't starve

@aldozilli1293 Год назад

If your descendent was from Dublin they wouldn't have been starving from potato blight that affected the West of Ireland.

@janice506 Год назад

I’m quite sure it impacted the whole island .

@jemmajames6719 29 дней назад

There’s a chance that if you can trace your roots back to the UK, you have a chance of being related to Royalty,if you have Scottish ancestry then you will be related to Robert the Bruce. You will be related to Charlemagne, and males will have a high chance of being able to have DNA results showing them to be related to Genghis Khan. Don’t forget as you go back in history the population diminishes drastically.

@miasspirtconnections3140 2 года назад

Courtney Cox my favourite on friends and now a long lost realitive 💜

@steveriggan8944 Год назад

Mine too. My mother is a descendant of Thomas Ligon going back to the Berkeleys and Edward I as well. We knew about our Ligon ancestry many years ago but a lot of Americans are not in touch with this kind of history unfortunately.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

She has an aura of nobility about her too. Great reactions to the discoveries.👍

@alwantamalus3709 Год назад

Actually Cox is a french word/name, Caux (Pays de Caux) Land of Caux is in Normandy and Caux means Wheat lands in french

@papalazarou7880 3 года назад

Amazing! Love Courtney she’s a legend and well happy for her. This is a great channel as well!

@Celticcross688 3 года назад

I am related to all Kings of the UK >Francs, Dutch, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Irish O'Neils Scottish Bruce, Stewarts, English Dukes of Bedford, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard. Thomas Rogers Mayflower Compact, Presidents Jackson, Grover Cleverland, President Lincoln, John Adams, Ronald Reagan, Poets and Artists.

@JimmyJ-zf6it Год назад

I know exactly how exciting this is. I just completed genealogy on two sides of my family and found where I am related to a Mayflower pilgrim and William The conqueror is also my 25th great grandfather

@leolare 3 года назад

My Mother is English but my Father was born in 'Braunau am Inn' in Austria. I'm not to sure it would be a good idea to look at my family history!!!

@maitreyakanitkar8742 2 года назад

Lol take a look though, your ancestors might have been good friends with the man himself

@rockerjim8045 2 года назад

Was your grandfather the customs official by any chance? PS if so i’ve visited his grave

@leokorn1629 3 года назад

I like this man, perfect english gentleman. It is great to see she is royal and related to Danny Dyer.

@Just2BeWithHer 3 года назад

100%

@Mad5am 3 года назад

Thousands of people are.

@leokorn1629 3 года назад

@@Mad5am I bet you are right. Unfortunately i only have found farmers in my heritage tree.

@leokorn1629 3 года назад

@@amandabroad6139 2 very different types of human beings. congrats

@raydawson2767 3 года назад

She’s descended from royalty,if she doesn’t have a royal title,she just a descendant.

@jenniferwright 2 года назад

Everyone in the UK is related to William the Conqueror if you go far enough back, this includes Danny Dyer the actor.

@darahill928 Год назад

Yes you are correct

@paccel2285 Год назад

Yeah, and isn't every monarch after William the Conqueror a descendant of his? It might be interesting if anyone could establish a direct patrilineal link, or a matrilineal link to a granddaughter,since his legitimate male line ended centuries ago with his own grandson. Otherwise, the interesting facts come from more recent ancestry -- which branch of the royal family, how many generations till your ancestral line breaks from the royal one.

@davedavids57 Год назад

Yes william would have about 120 million 26th times great grand children.

@scott2452 Год назад

That’s assuming always marrying someone who isn’t related…nobility is rather famous for marrying among themselves

@seancrowe3353 Год назад

I don't get it. William was the only person in England having children? Doesn't make sense

@svennielsen633 2 года назад

This is where you have to do mathematics. 2 uplifted in 26 is 33.554.432. So, next to William there are 33 million equally old ancestors. Or to put it in a different way: less than one drop of your blood is inherited from him!

@rridderbusch518 Год назад

Math is one thing, but genetics is another. Our individual ancestors around 7 to 8 generations back "fall off" of our genes, so Courtney Cox has zero William the Conquerer in her at all.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

Sven it doesn't work like that. Ancestry doesn't compound like interest. It actually declines over time from direct lines.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

@@rridderbusch518 I heard it was 14 generation's.The jury is still out on that one.

@victoriahouse9969 3 года назад

My Great Great uncle was 25th Generation down from King Edward 1st.

@richardmannion2779 Год назад

i think the key is having british ancestry that includes any aristocrat. From there mathematically i think there is a high probability of finding a branch that goes back to William the Conquerer. Going back that many generations leads to numbers of potential 26th great grandfathers that are unbelievably high 2 to the power of 27 is 134 million). Clearly millions of duplicates in there; but easy to see how getting any geneological connection to the british aristocracy is going to give a lot of potential shots at William the Conquerer being your ancestor.

@BritishHistory 3 года назад

Great book - ‘A Brief History of Everyone who ever lived’ by Adam Rutherford demonstrates that this really isn’t such a big deal. Very interesting and I’d recommend to anyone interested in their family history.

@fishyc150 3 года назад

We all know we are related to everyone (and every living organism ever) it's that theirs can be traced makes it special.

@sah8923 2 года назад

@@fishyc150 also, in this case, Cox is directly descended from many royals.. this is different to just being somehow related, I would say

@MrGksarathy Год назад

@@sah8923 Even then, a lot of people with English ancestry probably are related to royalty in some way or another because just by sheer numbers alone, there aren't enough people to be unrelated to them. When you go back far enough, there are a lot of people related to royalty.

@terri.schenk Год назад

I’m going to find that book. Thank you. I’ve just started studying my genealogy for the first time and discovered that I have exactly the same people in my lineage. I thought it was a big scam at first but it’s starting to sink in.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

@@MrGksarathy Not true. Many people are not of Royal descent. Surnames are a give away. Ever heard of King Smith?

@f104G 3 года назад

Everyone of British and French ancestry is related to William I, it's just that not everyone can find the link that demonstrates it.

@Simonmc78 3 года назад

Not directly descended.

@vacheriedevacherie1959 3 года назад

No, not at all. My ancestors were never conquered by the English, French 💯, plus some native once this side of the ocean.

@f104G 3 года назад

@@vacheriedevacherie1959 I think you'd be surprised. Europeans only have to go back 800 years or so for our ancestors to be common to us all.

@vacheriedevacherie1959 3 года назад

@@f104G I traced my ancestors all the way to 11th century, not one trace of English blood.

@f104G 3 года назад

@@vacheriedevacherie1959 What, every line back from each one of your grandparents, all the way to the 11th century?

@nadw Год назад

Erm, not to rain on the parade, but if you go back 26 generations, your family tree will be so widespread with so many branches that you will be able to find a connection to at least one important person in history at that time. At the 26th generation, you will have 268,435, 456 direct ancestors - in Medieval Europe in 1100, that means you will technically be related to almost everyone.

@charlessoutherton8946 3 года назад

who'd of thought it someone from the hit TV show "friends" is a direct relation of royalty wow, amazing what history can do to your family heritage. but of all people William the conquerer is a relative. if only time machines were possible

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

Time machines are possible. I have one. It tells the time.⏰😄

@LBGirl1988 Год назад

I am descended from all of these individuals as well through the Courtney family as well as others. How did we get to the USA? Fascinating!

@barbarabavier675 10 месяцев назад

According to Season 4,Episode 6, Valerie Bertinelli is also related to William the Conqueror, through Edward IV and Edward I. So Valerie Bertinelli and Courteney Cox are related! Talk about six degrees of separation, lol! But get this: Valerie’s bloodline apparently goes farther; in fact, all the way through Adam and Eve to God! Although that’s speculative because it could have been the powers that be trying to connect kings to The Divine.

@jdeboer8678 3 года назад

Would that not make her a descendant of Rollo the Viking?

@markmorris7123 3 года назад

Probably. I think

@justonecornetto80 3 года назад

Yes. Rollo was William's great great great grandfather.

@antoinemozart243 3 года назад

It's not proven !

@thoso1973 3 года назад

When Cortney watches Vikings, she can say 'Hey, that's my 29th-ish great grandfather there with the big beard, trying to take Paris."

@keiths81ca 3 года назад

Yes

@stephfoxwell4620 3 месяца назад

In Britain we are all related to William the Conqueror.

@BookZealots Год назад

I'm currently reading a book about these people/time period in The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. So to come across this and know what was happening, historically, is fascinating.

@kmdn1 Год назад

How did you like the book? I have Plantagenets ancestors as well and they were apparently really wild

@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 Месяц назад

William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England was the grandson of Rollo, the most legendary Viking warrior, who married the granddaughter of none other than Emperor Charlemagne, King of the Franks & that of the Holy Roman Empire, this makes her a very, very, very distant cousins with some of the royals of Europe,

@Readiculous21 Год назад

I am descended from William I at least twice..... so fun to discover new lines.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

A bit of consanguinity there old boy 🧐

@Ned88Man 2 года назад

If you are descended from Edward I you are descended from William, not sure why they had to research that..

@laurenohare3836 Год назад

Well, *they* - the historians - would have known the connection, but Courteney wouldn't have. It's spelled out step by step for her, and the audience's, benefit.

@portsmouth1781 Год назад

Yeah they tried to do a "great reveal" twice but only worked for the mentally feable.

@alstar70 Год назад

Nearly every person with British ancestors will be related to William the conqueror - its not that big of a deal.

@carolstringfellow3888 Год назад

Great to know you cousin. I too descend from The Conquerer 🤴🏽🤴🏽

@FloatingOnAZephyr Год назад

A significant number of people commenting on this are also descended from William the Conqueror. 26 generations creates a HUGE number of offspring. If any of your ancestors has any link to any of the 26 generations of this family, you join this tree. Literally tens or even hundreds of millions of people. Genealogists know this, but it makes for a good show. Let’s say each generation of WtC’s family has 2 children (which is extremely conservative before the last 50 years or so), that’s 2^26 people, or 67,108,864 offspring today. If they averaged 4 children, it’s 4,503,599,627,370,496 offspring today, or 560,000 times as many people as live on earth. How is this possible? Because so many of the offspring will have met each other and cancelled out along the way. 26 generations is a lot of people.

@markorollo. Год назад

Ive so far only got back to my Great Great Grandparents, born in the 1860s, id love to be able to go as far back as Courtney did.

@andrewd7586 3 года назад

Big whoop! If we can all go back far enough, we’re ALL bloody related!🤪😂 My family lineage also goes back to William The Conqueror, well Bertram 1 de Verdun. I’m in Australia & 3 of my late uncles bore the name Verdun as second names in honour of Bertram.

@lennycook206 3 года назад

You're likely related to Mrs Mangle mush

@grahamskilling2147 Год назад

@@lennycook206 aren’t we all, brother!

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

I'm related to Ned Kelly.📮Such is life.

@andrewd7586 Год назад

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 My late mother was a Kelly, & yes apparently we’re related too!🤪🤪👍🏻

@JohnSmith-bx8zb 3 года назад

We know she is related to Danny Dyer, does Cortney or did the keep that from her???? Can just see her pulling pints at the Queen Vic, truly that would be a Royal Performance!!!!

@purrdiggle1470 6 месяцев назад

Her and around a billion other people. British royals have never had any qualms about marrying and mating with non-nobles, especially the ones who were not next in line for the throne.

@tommydowling9 2 года назад

She is so beautiful. Never understood why she wasn't the "hot one" on friends. Perfection.

@margaretliebsch5494 Год назад

I just realized when I saw the name Mortimer, I freaked out regarding Danny Dyer! Wild!!!

@maxmoore3472 3 года назад

I'm not surprised, to find out she is a descendant, from William the conqueror. She has a presence on screen .

@marshagoodwin1314 5 месяцев назад

At the 1:12 mark, it lists Hugh Despenser Junior....this is also Princess Diana's ancestry :)

@deniseguy5089 8 месяцев назад

Amazing family tree. As a British history buff i am so jealous

@stuartsinclair6269 Год назад

I am too, my bloodline of William the Conqueror who’s second name was a Sinclair or St Clair at the time….

@brandonmiller2450 Год назад

Wow. It appears that Courtney and I share the same 20th great grandfather! Amazing

@davedavids57 Год назад

At 20th generation there are about 2 million ancestors.

@difcymru 3 года назад

Me to, he's my 29x great grandfather

@sayakchakraborty4206 Год назад

Going back 26 generations, mathematically, she has 67108864 grandparents. William I the Conqueror is only 1/67108864.

@rachelbirchall4630 2 года назад

Related to a lot of British people including actor Danny Dyer & news reporter Frank Gardner.

@steveriggan8944 Год назад

Correct! Courtney and I both share ancestor Thomas Ligon who goes back to the Berkeleys and on to Edward I,etc. Danny Dyer is also a connection to me as the Tollemache family are relatives of another ancestor of mine, William Farrar, who went to Virginia in 1618. Princess Diana was descended from the English Lygon/Ligon family so shares ancestry with us as well.

@katrin896 Год назад

William's father, Rollo the Ruler, the first Earl of Normandy, is my 31st great-grandfather. This is a powerful line.

@Calucifer13 Год назад

mine too

@areiaaphrodite Год назад

William's father wasn't Rollo. Rollo would be a much further ancestor of William's since Rollo's Christian name was Richard. William's father was Robert I, Duke of Normandy (or Robert the Magnificent). Robert's father was Richard II, Duke of Normandy. The original Rollo (portrayed on "Vikings" is Rollo/Richard, Count of Rouen. He's also my ancestor as well

@katrin896 Год назад

@@areiaaphrodite my mistake, I was mistaking William the Conquerer for Rollo's son William Longsword. William the Conquerer was Rollo's great-great-great grandson.

@areiaaphrodite Год назад

@@katrin896 no problem, happy to help!

@davedavids57 Год назад

You can't really go back that far. If you go back 31 generations on average that ancestors will have 2 billion direct descendants (although many of them will probably be people who are related to him in many different ways - so probably less than 2 billion physical people). So it would be pretty impossible to live in the British Island or France and not be related to him. At 20 generations it's normally around 2 million descendants and it doubles every time after that.

@nancyhuffman5802 Год назад

My husband's family is descended from Rollo! His grandfather had their genealogy done while he was alive.

@helenknight2796 Месяц назад

Does this mean she’s related to Queen Elizabeth II? Like distant cousins? In friends she loved the Queen. So cool she’s of royal blood.

@robharris8844U Год назад

Yes, you who say "whoopeee!!!!- I'm related to William the Conquer!" Need to remember he was actually William the Bast ard! He changed it when he took over England. Because it was affecting his image and he claimed to know who his father was.😉

@Gutenmorgenside Год назад

I met a drunk guy on a train to Santa Barbara once who was related to Robert the Bruce AND William Wallace. Only in America !

@AndySaenz924 7 месяцев назад

In the thumbnail, you can really see the resemblance between Courteney Cox and William the Conqueror! That’s unbelievable that they were able to trace her ancestry that far back!

@Iceland874 Год назад

100% of West Europeans descend from Charlemagne and most of those from William the Conqueror. Both my parents descend from him. That’s so many generations that it’s not that rare or exciting.

@sstitt0440 Год назад

This is totally dramatized. Anyone with English blood probably has a link to a king or upper aristocrat. Not that unlikely to be honest.

@vassabatielos4740 Год назад

She also has 33,554,431 other relatives on that genealogical line

@clontstable1 Год назад

Many thousands of us are directly related to Edward I, William the Conqueror etc..very very common.

@MahinderSG1952 2 года назад

So she is Royalty!

@Oceanlinerenthusiast 2 года назад

Kinda she’s descended from royalty but She’s not exactly royalty in the sense that she’s going to end up one day ruling the country every royal family has a Dynasty after Queen Elizabeth the first died because she didn’t have any children it ended the Tudor Dynasty our current royal family is the Windsor Dynasty if members stop bearing children by the time the last member dies there will be a new Dynasty that’s how it works in every royal family so chances of her claiming the throne any time soon it’s highly unlikely

@kmdn1 Год назад

I share some of the same amcestors. Joan of Acres, she mentioned but going bsck in a different direction to some of the King Henry's snd a Queen Matilda

@terri.schenk Год назад

I’ve just started looking into my genealogy for the first time. I’m stunned to find what I’m seeing and at first didn’t think it was real. If I’m counting properly because I have no idea what I’m doing, Edward l is my 29 times grandfather, Henry lll, Henry l is my 34 times grandfather, and William the Conqueror is my 35 times grandfather.

@goldfish2379 3 года назад

me too!

@susanjackett9268 3 года назад

Fabulous , the one thing that's true regarding unearthing such a dynasty is one does take note regarding history. Courtney and I share Willy Conk's mum , Herleva .

@sethm3856 Год назад

Edward the conqueror is my 29th GG. I wonder where our family lines diverge... all the Plantagenet kinds are my Great Grandparents

@XL-5117 11 месяцев назад

Everyone is related to William the Conqueror or another King or Queen, it’s a 10 degrees of separation thing and a lot of Americans came from the UK.

@inesnaglic472 2 года назад

So, those pretty eyes runs in the family for hundreds of years

@timdavis7845 11 месяцев назад

I'm also related to King Edward I (he's my 23 great-grandpa) and William the Conqueror (my 27th great-grandpa). His Majesty, King Charles III, is my 15th cousin, once removed. 👑 I guess that makes Courtney Cox my distant cousin as well.

@annekalunn8339 11 месяцев назад

Same

@swecheekypanda 2 года назад

I like the girl in the comments that said she was related to every European king and like 10 presidents of to US. Like girl no that is not possible. Like yes every human is related to one another but you can’t say your related to every king in Europe EVER. Then I can just say I’m related to the emperor of Japan because we’re all related. Get out.

@swecheekypanda 2 года назад

Like the Swedish royal family is descended from a peasant officer in Napoleons army.

@CharityS-Minnesota Год назад

I am descended from William the conqueror as well. Pretty cool.

@cmick69 Год назад

William the Conquerer is also my 26th great-grandfather.

@davedavids57 Год назад

You and literally 120 million other people.

@Noone-pu4gp Год назад

There is literally millions who are related to William the Conqueror!

@Matt-cz6ti 3 года назад

Oh everyone's descended from William the Conqueror. And everyone's also descended from Whitgar the peasant farmer. Everyone with European ancestry alive today is likely descended from everyone alive in Europe 1000 years ago who has living descendants. It's not a big deal

@colinharbinson8284 3 года назад

I don't think they are.

@susanjackett9268 3 года назад

@@liamloxley1222 true , approx 25% of Brits and Yanks descend from Conk

@johnandrews8155 Год назад

Whats more interesting, is that the De Berkeley, originated from North Africa, during Roman times and were part of the Maurii/Numidian calvery.

@mcgee227 Год назад

William's first cousin is my 26th great grandfather.

@LatinMusicFansUK 3 года назад

I'm also a direct descendant of William the Conqueror. Does this mean I'm related to Courteney?

@peteramaranth85 3 года назад

Yes

@keiths81ca 3 года назад

Yes

@karlaj.4056 2 года назад

How can You know that he is your ancestor?

@LatinMusicFansUK 2 года назад

@@karlaj.4056 My aunt has traced our family tree all the way back to William the Conqueror. 💕

@carltanner9065 2 года назад

@@karlaj.4056 Very easy. Lots of research, sweat and tears. And, not too considerable an amount of money, at times!!!

@areiaaphrodite Год назад

Edward I "Longshanks" is my direct ancestor as well, making Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and Rollo my ancestors as well

@operatic9537 2 года назад

The thing I wish this would explain better is that the amazing thing here isn't her being related to William the Conqueror, there's a good chance many of us commenting here are, what's really special here is being able to trace the line back that far. For most of us someone in the royal line would have had a kid with a mistress and they would be forgotten about long before civil registration began and over many generations you finally get to us, but Courtney Cox, Danny Dyer, Alexander Armstrong and others have the paper trail. Maybe less sensational but I think it could be even more inspirational to tell that side of the story because finding a royal line myself is how I got into genealogy in the first place and I'm sure it will be the case for others.

@Aspett0 Год назад

3:20 Yep, Guillaume le Conquérant is indeed the reason why England has been France's dominion since 1066.

@euphoriafire5203 2 года назад

Wow I’m related to Courtney Cox !!! We are both descendants of William the Conqueror

@davidrahnis7341 Год назад

That's it. I've seen enough. Courtney should be our leader.

@janetstonerook4552 Год назад

Courtney and I share a common ancestor, Joann of Acre, Daughter of Edward the First.

@terri.schenk Год назад

I’ve just begun searching my genealogy and found Edward l etc, but I am also related to Joann of Acre. I’d never heard of her before. At first I thought it may be a typo and they meant Joan of Arc, 😉 who is my hero.

@janetstonerook4552 Год назад

@@terri.schenk My lineage too. Edward I took his family with him to the Holy Land when he was in the Crusades. Joan was born while they were residing there in Acre.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

What part did you get of the share?🦵🦶👂✋🖐️💪🧠💀

@RictorIAG Год назад

We're gonna need to see a duel between Hillary Duff (21x great grandfather was King of Scotland) and Courtney Cox (20x great grandfather was King of England) and they squared off against each other.

@youngwolfskoll3118 Год назад

Robert the Bruce was king of Scots, not Scotland (one is king of the people the other is king of the land), and he never actually faced longshanks in battle because he died just prior to the Battle of Bannockburn. Instead, he faced his son (Edward the Second).

@KishaAmenio06x Год назад

I am a decendent of queen elizabeth😂😂😂🎉🎉

@annamo9354 2 года назад

Well, I can't boast any royalty in my ancestral line, but on my father's side if you go 6 generations back we are related to a family named "Mozert" or "Mozart" from Augsburg...so there...

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

Mozart was born in Salzburg in Austria,not Germany.

@annamo9354 Год назад

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 *sigh* Leopold Mozart, Wolfgangs father, was born in Augsburg on Nov. 14th 1719, and he's had an uncle named Franz Mozart who was a master mason and lived in Augsburg all his life...

@johnnymays4203 Год назад

Her ancestors where so crazy it's surprising she was ever Born

@gillianmilne8364 Год назад

Apparently, my ancestor, was William the Conqueror's right hand man in battle.

@warrenwills3251 10 месяцев назад

About half the world has dna from these old kings, of course for her it is soooo special.

@jevinday Год назад

When she found out about William the Conqueror she said "you're welcome" to the guy.... because he's british. Holy hell that was funny

@tombull2993 3 года назад

They should do one of these with the Queen lmao

@rushofblood994 3 года назад

You should look up "Who Does One Think One Is" by Harry Enfield and David Walliams on RU-vid. It's brilliant 😂

@phildurling7185 2 года назад

I believe that Williams line goes back further to one of the old Viking Kings.

@georgeharrison5362 Год назад

Yes, King Rollo who was a viking king..he invaded Normandy from where William the bustard took power.

@ProgMannen Год назад

Rollo of france was never a king. He was probalby a chief from denmark or sweden. During his time there were several kings in denmark and sweden. Rollo became a Duke as a token for protecting Paris from invading viking raids. And was given the land that now is called Normandie.

@moshehim1000 3 года назад

Isn't Edward I the guy who conquered Wales, nearly conquered Scotland - he sure did his best - and also expelled all the Jews of England after his predecessors bled them dry of any and all money - and therefore all usefulness in their eyes? Really a great king to be descended from.

@iankirkpatrick1037 2 года назад

Nearly conquered Scotland, ? He did

@Bella-fz9fy 2 года назад

The Normans dominated England and then moved on to the neighbours!

@ilkkll5210 2 года назад

He certainly wasn't a great king for Wales . On the positive side we've now got a load of castles.

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

@@ilkkll5210 Great for tourism those Castles.🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰

@ilkkll5210 Год назад

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 very true but Welsh tourist board are useless. Look at the story of Merlin old Welsh tales. Not one consideration on playing on it.

@DanieGirl-tt9xc Год назад

William the Conqueror was also my direct ancestor! Haskins, Paine, Corrington, Warburton, Stanley and de beaumont are just a few of the names i sorted through in the official family tree. Henry III then popped up and i was pretty surprised!

@gandolfthorstefn1780 Год назад

Sounds like William conquered more than just England. Your about the third person in this chat whose related to old Guillaume. Every is stealing Courtney's Thunder here. I'm descended from a Russian Cossack.

@DanieGirl-tt9xc Год назад

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 the furthest i can trace maternal tree is Olga of Kiev.....which is fantastic in my view! on the paternal line Attila (yes, that Attila) is my oldest listed ancestor. He and the Magyar lady he married are one line i descend directly from. so neat to think of all the different people , countries, ethnicities and even religions that came together to make me. wild to think about really! there was a LOT of inbreeding on the English side of the family before they came to the American Colonies. i recommend working with the LDS church (i am not a fan of them but they have crazy good records) professional genealogist and a possible DNA test. Y DNA and Mtdna can help if a paper trail goes cold.

@davedavids57 Год назад

Statistically William the conqueror would have about 2 billions decedents (probably less in practice as people will be related multiple different ways to him). It's not worth really going back past 20 generations as that is the 2,000,000 ancestor mark.

@annekalunn8339 11 месяцев назад

Same

@RolanTheBrave Год назад

William the Conquerer would have a lot of descendants. He was born approx 1000 years ago (1028AD). Conservatively that's 40+ generations. 2 to the power of 40 is more than 1 trillion. I should think that would mean a large proportion of the western world's population is related to him, several times over (a trillion doesn't go into 8 billion, so the family branches would have crossed back and forth many times over the millennia). A lot of the generation would also have many more than 2 offspring, so the number is probably several trillion. Mind blowing really.