Thank you so much to everyone who has responded to my query!!!

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:37 PM, CE WOOD <wood...@msn.com> wrote:

> The tradition of naming sons of kings "FitzRoy was a combination of the
> Welsh and French Norman - "fitz" = "son of in Welsh; "roi" = "king" in
> French. It was used by kings and the surname was "FitzRoy" = "son of the
> king". It was the way the king acknowledged that the son was his. Earlier,
> a child was acknowledged by the king only if he physically took the newborn
> when he was presented to him. Without that acknowledgement, the child had
> no claim to inheritance. Having a son, illegitimate or not, was essential
> in medieval times when most infants and children died, to say nothing of
> the ones who did survive only to die in battle.
>
>
> Henry I of England, son of William the Conqueror. was a prolific father,
> with many Welsh mistresses.Among them were:
>
>
>
> Robert FitzRoy, Baron of Okehampton (~1098 to 5/31/1172) by his mistress
> Edith ferch (Welsh for "daughter of") Forne.
>
>
> Reginald/Reynold FitzRoy de Dustanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall (~1110 -
> 7/1/1175) by an unknown mistress.
>
>
> Richard FitzRoy, Lord of Chilham, (~1186-~6/24/1246) was son of John I of
> England by nis mistress Suzanne de Warrenne.
>
>
> The tradition continued, one of the most famous being Henry FitzRoy, Duke
> of Richmond, (1519-1536), Henry VIII's only acknowledged and healthy son by
> Elizabeth Blount.
>
>
> Wikipedia is helpful when correct, but it is very flawed and certainly
> never a trustworthy source.
>
>
>
> CE
>
>
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> *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on
> behalf of Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:53 PM
> *To:* legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] How best to record less common name formats
> into my Legacy program
>
> On 10-Aug-17 09:42 PM, CE WOOD wrote:
> > Fitz Alan meant he was the son of Alan. It had nothing whatsoever to do
> > with legitimacy!
> >
> >
>  From Wikipedia:  "From the Stuart era (1603–1714) and later, a
> pseudo-Anglo-Norman usage of Fitz was adopted for younger sons of the
> British royal family who lacked a legal surname, AND PARTICULARLY FOR
> illegitimate children of kings, princes, or general upper class men,..."
>
> (The capitalisation is mine, for emphasis.)
>
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