----- Original Message ----- From: "captbrian" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [PHILLIPS] Early origins > 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 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >