History Trivia Thread Reducks

[Lettow77]

 I knew about Almagro, even his name. But then, im sort of taking latin american history this semester..

(By the way, the class has left me with a very favourable opinion of Argentin)

[Valdemar]

(By the way, the class has left me with a very favourable opinion of Argentin)

Can you get anymore stereotype?

V

[Lettow77]

 Secessionists like Argentina now? Or is it that I mispelled it? Either way, the mold I am conforming to is a mystery to me.

[Pat]

Easy one:

It is perhaps the oldest noble family in Europe and when Napoleon asked if it was true that they stemmed from a famous person in antiquity, one of it's members is said to have replied "I don't know, but it has been a tradition in the family for thirteen or fourteen hundred years".

What's the name of the family and who does it stem from?

Bonus question: Who did this famous person in antiquity, in turn, stem from, according to legend?

[Caliga]

Merovingians, from Clovis, who is supposedly a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

[Pat]

Nope, this one is older

(the origin is older than "thirteen or fourteen hundred years")

[Valdemar]

The Swedes for some reason believed they stemmed from a biblical figure, can't recall which one.

V

[Valdemar]

Secessionists like Argentina now? Or is it that I mispelled it? Either way, the mold I am conforming to is a mystery to me.

If memory serves me correctly Argentina, with its white ranchowners and later extensive German influence, would be a country very much after the idolised model of the south you seem to prescribe to

V

[Pat]

 

The Swedes for some reason believed they stemmed from a biblical figure, can't recall which one.

V

Well, from Noah Just as the British royal house claims to stem from Odin, I believe. But that's not it.

[Alatriste]

IIRC some Italian noble family claimed to descend from good ol' Gaius Iulius Caesar himself (and hence, from the goddess Venus) but I can't remember which...

[Alexandru H.]

Ok, I'm going here with a hunch. The family is Italian and it claims that the founder was an important Roman figure.

[Pat]

Well yes, it's an Italian family and but it's not Caesar (think of another dictator)

[Valdemar]

The Swedes for some reason believed they stemmed from a biblical figure, can't recall which one.

V

Well, from Noah Just as the British royal house claims to stem from Odin, I believe. But that's not it.

If you belive the bible we all stem from Noah, or his inlaws... they were the soul survivors


The British cannot stem from Odin.... he didn't have any human sons or daughters, only dieities :p

V

[Caliga]

The Borgia, who claim descent from Tarquinius?

[Pat]

Borgias are not the ones I was thinking of (but would be of about the same age if their claim is true)

The Swedes for some reason believed they stemmed from a biblical figure, can't recall which one.

V

Well, from Noah Just as the British royal house claims to stem from Odin, I believe. But that's not it.

If you belive the bible we all stem from Noah, or his inlaws... they were the soul survivors

Yeah I know. The point was the geneology tracing back to him.