...or many of the other people in the family trees above. We drew a line at about 1200 when researching the family trees which descended from the Gascon Dukes, as Ken tried to connect up the original Volume One material with the hints in the introduction. So I know what happened to Gersinde & it seems only fair to share this with you. There is otherwise, no pressing need to read from here to the end of this volume! Since the period Ken reviewed covered about 600 years, about 22 generations to be conservative, if each generation only replaced itself, one would be looking at 4,000,000 people but Fortunately (sorry!), these people married into a small social & political circle & the criss-crossing of cousin marriages simplify matters considerably. Indeed, when he came to add Sancho Mitarra to the search, all his descendants he could trace married back into material he already had. Let us hope some of these were love matches & not just political or financial deals. Absolutely no apology is offered for the multiplicity of languages used! This section starts early and moves forward again.

Some of the people are coloured red, indicating that they were Delaforce ancestors & should, therefore, be in the main body of the book. These were discovered subsequent to the Edition One text being assembled & it was intended to absorb them into the correct chapters but this proved a bridge too far. They do appear in the comprehensive pre-Bernard de Fourcès family tree on this link.