Or more precisely, I mean your ancestral home. It is in La Mancha, in Normandy, France and it is called either Briquebec or Bricquebec Castle.
Our research and development leads to the estimation that
quite possibly one in six people alive today have ancestral pathways,
that lead to the person who built the castle.
Today, those descendants of Baron Anslech Turstain of Briquebec have the opportunity to actually stay in their ancestral castle.
The Family Forest® can show maps of the generation-by-generation lines of descent from the Baron leading to a long list of many well-known people It also shows those lines of descent leading to surnames ranging from Adams and Davis and Jones and Smith, to Achegma and Poniatowski and Schoff and Zirngiebel.
Briquebec/Bricquebec Castle is now high on my list of places
I must visit. Until recently, I had no idea that any of my ancestors lived in
castles, and I’ll bet that most of the Baron’s descendants who have toured the
castle in the last century had no idea that they were actually visiting one of their own ancestral homes.
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June 24, 2007 at 9:55 am
[...] According to the ancestral history already digitally mapped out in the Family Forest®, Richard Pace is one of the 11th great-grandfathers of Britney Spears (Britney is another distant cousin of mine, through our Briquebec Castle ancestor). [...]
September 15, 2007 at 7:05 pm
[...] Channel program about some famous castles in England and Scotland. Ever since I discovered that I have ancestors who lived in castles I’ve been captivated by the spellbinding magic of the type of stories and dramatic videography [...]
October 18, 2007 at 10:43 pm
[...] Second Lady Lynne Cheney does not mention that she is also a distant cousin of presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and that one of their common ancestors built and lived in a castle. This information can be seen by following the links in Probably Your Castle. [...]
November 20, 2007 at 9:02 pm
[...] list (or four, if Paris Hilton is counted twice, as she is on the list) to the builder/owner of Briquebec Castle, as well as to each other. The other two Briquebec Descendants are Bill Gates and Dick [...]
August 27, 2008 at 5:21 am
[...] http://familyforest.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/probably-your-castle/ [...]
December 6, 2008 at 12:29 am
[...] at the wide-ranging large list of some of the better-known people who are descendants of just one French castle. Or better yet, as soon as Google Books can successfully deliver it online, explore what we believe [...]
January 7, 2009 at 7:13 pm
[...] generation-by-generation to countless ancestral homes from many centuries ago, including some very prominent ones within the Gates family’s summer vacation destination, [...]