Doug, I wouldn't call it vast but this may interest the list. It was sent to me by a [ Phillips ] uncle who copied it unashamedly from an old book about British aristocracy. My uncle has been dead for 20 years himself so I hope it breaks no-one's copyright. There is no significance in the spelling of Phillips/Philipps/ so far back. Bryan Phillips (born in Wales but now in Brighton - England) *********** ""Perhaps in the whole of the peerage there is no more fascinating study than that of the Philipps family, the representative of which is Viscount St. Davids. Their authentic pedigree goes back to the time of the Norman conquest but the descent is not traced from anything so common as a Norman invader. The ancestry is Welsh and even in the tenth century the family had a tradition that they were descended from the hapless King of Kent, Vortigern, who is suppposed to have invited the Saxons, Hengist and Horsa, into England with their followers. Vortigern's name occurs in the legend of King Arthur and his Knights , but the Philipps have not been content with even this early ancestry for they went on to trace descent, or at least to assert it, from Maximus the Roman General who set up a separate state in Britain in the 4th century and made himself for a while master of the Channel by controlling the Roman fleet. Although this descent from Maximus and Vortigern no longer appears in peerage books, it is a fact that the Philipps family do trace their ancestry to a period which ante-dates nearly all the other noble families in the peerage."" ******************** ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 12 October 2006 12:37 Subject: Re: [PHILLIPS] false information about Phillips FamilyofWestVirginia > We are very busy, but would welcome your vast knowledge of clan, and your > participation. > > Doug > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >