[Tax-chick]

my relationship to the deRoet family

Cool! I'm related to Black Jack Pershing.

I read all the historical novels about the queens by Victoria Holt and the Anya Seton ones, when I was a girl, but I haven't picked up many of the more recent biographies.

However, a recent book about Anne Boleyn gave the impression that there's little more fact to the "nonfiction" books than the fiction, because the sources are so limited.

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Weir’s book makes that same point about the dearth of information. It all occurred during the great plague outbreaks in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.

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The Gaunt in John of Gaunt actually referred to Gent, Belgium. The deRoet’s came from that area. Today, here, the name is Roets.