Love Songs To The Ancestors

Love Songs To The Ancestors

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Love Songs To The Ancestors episodes

  • Nostalgia
    By Rachel Lawson

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    3 min
  • Roger Mortimer The Man Who Died For Love

    Song of a queen who loved too fiercely

    and a baron who rose too high. By one of their descendants, Rachel Lawson, via their other marriage.

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    4 min
  • Family Is Love
    A song by Rachel Lawson

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    3 min
  • The White Ship Disaster v3

    2 of my ancestors left this ship before it's sailed into disaster, Robert, the Earl of Gloucester, the illegitimate son of King Henry the 1st and King Stephen of England, so it was a close call for me being here. and the Anarchy which they lead. As retold by author Rachel Lawson



    White Ship


    Main article: White Ship



    The White Ship Disaster


    In the wreck of the White Ship, the evening of 25 November 1120, William of Malmesbury noted the fate of the countess:


    "the water having washed some of the crew overboard and entering the chinks drowned others, the boat was launched, and the young prince getting into it might certainly have been saved by reaching the shore, had not his illegitimate sister, the countess of Perche, now struggling with death in the larger vessel, implored her brother's assistance, shrieking out that he should not abandon her so barbarously. Touched with pity, he ordered the boat to return to the ship, that he might rescue his sister; and thus the unhappy youth met his death through excess of affection; for the skiff, overcharged by the multitude who leaped into it, sank, and buried all indiscriminately in the deep." Thus William Adelin perished trying to save his sister Maud." Quote from wikipedia.

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    4 min
  • The Ship Of Fools orThe White Ship Disaster 2

    2 of my ancestors left this ship before it's sailed into disaster, Robert, the Earl of Gloucester, the illegitimate son of King Henry the 1st and King Stephen of England, so it was a close call for me being here. and the Anarchy which they lead. As retold by author Rachel Lawson



    White Ship


    Main article: White Ship



    The White Ship Disaster


    In the wreck of the White Ship, the evening of 25 November 1120, William of Malmesbury noted the fate of the countess:


    "the water having washed some of the crew overboard and entering the chinks drowned others, the boat was launched, and the young prince getting into it might certainly have been saved by reaching the shore, had not his illegitimate sister, the countess of Perche, now struggling with death in the larger vessel, implored her brother's assistance, shrieking out that he should not abandon her so barbarously. Touched with pity, he ordered the boat to return to the ship, that he might rescue his sister; and thus the unhappy youth met his death through excess of affection; for the skiff, overcharged by the multitude who leaped into it, sank, and buried all indiscriminately in the deep." Thus William Adelin perished trying to save his sister Maud." Quote from wikipedia.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2 min

About Love Songs To The Ancestors

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Songs dedicated to the ancestors of author and poet Rachel Lawson and the ancestors of us all.


Some songs are about the regent and knight William Marshal, Rollo, and…