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This work, in two volumes, takes the documented ancestry of Mark C. Conway from his Gateway Ancestor, Anne Couvent, to notable historical figures in medieval history. To name just a few, in these pages you will find King Henri Capet of France, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Kenneth MacAlpin, William the Conqueror, St. Margaret of Scotland, King Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the semi-legendary Viking leader Ragnar Lodbrok as well as documented Vikings such as Eric Blood Axe, Harold Fair Hair, and Rollo the Dane, with many other kings and queens of medieval Europe. The document ends with Merovech who fought Attila the Hun in 451 A.D. and with Cerdic of Wessex, the earliest documented ancestor of the English royal line.The two volumes contain 833 pages of narrative text with 3,544 unique footnotes and references. The references that I have used in most cases are the same as those used by hereditary societies to track the ancestry of their applicants. These are listed in the bibliography at the end of Volume II.