Author Description

This is the 4th Edition of "Royalty for Commoners," substantially longer than the 3rd Edition, with vastly improved indexes and a host of essential new material. "Royalty for Commoners" is the first book ever to document the complete known genealogy of John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III and Queen Philippa. The importance of this documentation is that any commoner who can connect his or her own family lineage to that of John of Gaunt can now be shown to share the same basic royal heritage as the most noble knight--the complete heritage, not just the Plantagenet ascent. This is the usual lineage through which a commoner can enter the domain of European royalty, though one might enter the lineage at any number of points. Typically, the American descendant has several colonial ancestors, one or more of whom can be traced to European beginnings. Using over 2,000 published sources, as well as the spectacular resources of the Internet, Mr. Stuart here offers the researcher a multitude of possibilities, pointing the reader to numerous descents of which he may be completely unaware. This new 4th Edition offers significant improvements over the previous edition by adding crucial new data and expanding its two indexes and cross-reference system.