User:Doug Weller/Ancestry of the kings of Britain
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The Ancestry of the Kings of Anglo-Saxon England has long attracted interest because the kings and Queens of Britain trace their lineage from some of the ancient "Houses" of England.[1][2] The migrations and integration of British and Imperial Roman dynasties are widely accepted in ancestral studies.[3]
The study of English ancestry has long been a fixation of historians. Fascination with the ancestry of ancient dynasties is called "progonoplexia" and is not a recent phenomenon, often associated with an inclination towards entitlement. Horsa and Hengest were two semi-legendary chieftans suggested to have led a fifth century Anglo-Saxon conquest of England that Thomas Jefferson proposed placing on the Great Seal of the United States (pictured). It has been made popular in more recent times by the television series Who Do You Think You Are?" along with numerous websites and computer programs to build family trees. [4]