PandaBaby is True Fiction.

Welcome to my Pandababy Blog. A panda bear is an unlikely animal - a bear that eats bamboo - a contradiction in every aspect. This blog is true fiction, also a contradiction in its essence. Yet both are real, both exist - the bear and the blog. Both can only be described by contradictory terms, such as true fiction. Please be pleased to enjoy these stories of our ancestors. They are True Fiction. Every person in my blog lived in the time and place indicated. They are my ancestors and relatives, and their friends.

Monday, August 15, 2022

DO YOU Have a Magna Carta Surety Baron in YOUR Tree?

My jaw dropped as I read the potent words on the screen, I squinted my eyes and leaned towards the screen. There it was in black and white: my ancestor, Sir Saher de Quincy, who was one of twenty-five barons standing as Surety for the Magna Carta.

Here is a link to the Gateway Ancestors List at WikiTree.  People who were early Colonial immigrants to America and who are also descendants of a Magna Carta Baron are known as Gateway Ancestors. If you have one in your family tree, you can find a path to 1215 and your honored baron ancestor.

Also at Runnymede: Sir William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke, my 23x great-grandfather. Not a Magna Carta Surety Baron, Sir William was Marshall of England and stood, as he always had, with King John. Marshall's son John Marshall was one of the Magna Carta Barons.

 Do you know the fabulous story of Magna Carta, and of King John at Runnymede? You can find answers at WikiTree. 


By James William Edmund Doyle - Doyle, James William Edmund (1864) "John" in A Chronicle of England: B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, pp. p. 226 Retrieved on 12 November 2010., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12046373

 

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