Foundations - Vol. 2, No. 6 - Contents & Abstracts
Abstracts:
This Seymour family became renowned in the person of Jane Seymour, who died twelve days after the birth of Edward, the only legitimate son of Henry VIII to survive infancy. It is not surprising that the origins of this family came under the focus of the earliest English historians and genealogists, including Camden, Dugdale and Vincent. Brydges and others later attempted fuller accounts in their works on the peerage, but the paucity of surviving records has allowed errant conclusions and fictions to persist in the most widely available modern accounts. The purpose of this article is to present a fresh analysis of what survives and bring the subject up to current standards of scholarship.
This article is an attempt to survey briefly some of the projects that are making digital versions of published works available through the Internet.
This note supplements the author's article in the previous issue (Vol.2, No.5, pp.350-357), with additional evidence for a Robert Whitney, son of Robert, Lord of Whitney.
A brief addition to the Robert Whitney article (see above) suggesting a maternity for at least one of Robert's children (Ellen).
The focus of this paper is to examine the life and ancestry of Olaf Cuaran, and to distinguish him from his cousin Olaf Guthfrithsson. The author refers particularly to the Northumbrian Chronicle, Irish Annals and several pre-fourteenth century English histories with attention to the dating and origins of each source, as well as debunking myths that have grown around Olaf and his mother. |