Who here is a decendant of King William the Conquer

Question

Who here is a descendant of King William the Conquer? And what's your decent line to him? I'm a descendant of him my self, if you are I would highly appreciate it if you could tell me how you are a descendant of him.

Answer 1

Hi. I am a 28th great-grandson of William the Conquer through his son, Henry I.  That far back, there must be many thousands of people alive today who are a direct descendent of his.

Best regards, Mark Fitzgerald. (Fitzgerald-5688)

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Exactly there probably are thousands and I'm trying to find as many of them as possible.

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Could you say how your a decendants of William so i can add you as a connection

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Hi Joshua.

Go to "Relationship Finder" on the pull-down menu. Enter "Fitzgerald-5688" in one profile and "Normandie-32" in the other.  The first time it runs, it will say something like "no relationship found".  This happens because the default is to only go back 8 generations. But it will give you the option to rerun going back 30 generations.  Press that you you will get the generation-by-generation breakdown.  For me, William is right at the 30-generation limit on what Relationship Finder will do.   To work around that, you can run it using ancestors from earlier generations, like grandparents.

Often when you are looking back many hundreds of years, there can more than one path that can trace a person's ancestry back to a single person. But the Relationship Finder just takes the first path it finds.  Going back 30 generations, a person will have 536,870,912  28th-great-grandfathers if there are no duplicates.  Given that there were only about 350,000,000 people on the planet in 1100, the chances of many multiple paths back to the same ancestor is almost a certainty.

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Thank you very much Mark! I will get to add you straight away. Also if you know anyone else how id a descendant from William, please let me Know.

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Totally spot on. I have a 28th great grandfather in Ragemer of Normandy, Knight from his birth year of 1036.

The formulae is = x¹ + x² ... xⁿ

where n=generations and x=children

The 3 variables one needs to do the maths is

1. How many generations
2. Years per generation (average age when siring/birthing)
3. Average number of children (evened out for loads years ago to not so many now)

An example is 30 generations, 24 years per generation with average number of children being 4. 

The answer is 1,537,228,672,809,129,200 grandchildren however, most will have passed away so are not included in population counts as population is only measured by those living at the time of the record being created.

A ready reckoner is here http://familyrecordfinder.com/descendants.html

If the answer you get does not make sense then use the 'generations' slider to reduce the generations then slide it back up and work out the power by the following example

1e+21 is a number 1 with 21 zeros after it 

or 

1x10 to the power of 21

Answer 2

The answer to that is open ended, a bit like ‘how long is a piece of string?’

There are direct descendants, descendants through marriage and those who believe they are but have yet to prove it. The only way to know for sure is to do the research and document it with actual sources. This can be a long journey, but so worth it!

Answer 3

Mathematically, many millions of people are his descendants, mostly through Henry I (who had twenty-some-odd illegitimate children) and Adela. See The Henry Project's excellently researched article for details: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/willi001.htm