I used to live in northern Italy as a teenager, and near Verona is the Castello di Capuletti, "Juliet's Castle." It used to have one of the best restaurants in the area, but I don't know if it still does. The castle was in ruins, by the way. In the city of Verona, there is a lovely stone balcony that is romantically referred to as Juliet's Balcony. We were told that the families Montecchi and Capuletti, were real. I do not know if my spelling of the Italian names is correct, but the phonetic sound is right. Christine Czarnecki My understand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Jay Becker" <chrisjaybecker@yahoo.com> To: <PLANTAGENET-DESCENDANTS-PROJECT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:09 AM Subject: Re: [PDP] Romeo & Juliet: Are they real? > > Romeo was supposed to be a Montague, which, in English history, is the same name as Montacute which was a noble family which intermarried a bit amongst the Plantagenets. The Montacute/Montague > family were the Earls of Salisbury, and the intermarried with the Hollands (many of whom who were descendants of Edward I Longshanks) the last Montacute Earl of Salisbury left no male heir and his Earldom passed to his daughter Alice who married Richard Neville who then became Salisbury. THIS Salisbury's son was Richard Neville, Earl Warwick, AKA 'Warwick the Kingmaker' who "made" both Edward VI and Edward IV and whose ambitions were a major cause of the Wars of The Roses. If you are like me, you no doubt have not just Plantagenet blood in your veins, but plenty of Neville, Percy, Beaufort, > Beauchamp, and, yes, Montacute/Montague. > > On the other hand, weren't Romeo and Juliet supposed to be Italian? > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237