What...Do You Think Your A Saint or Something??

Family Tree History And Research
Feb 19h, 2018

WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE?

"What...Do You Think Your A Saint Or Something??

As I was growing up, I remember our mom used to ask me this question when I denied doing something wrong....even though she (and everyone else) knew I did do something I wasn't supposed to....

What is a Saint?

According to this definition in Wikipedia:
A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.Depending on the context and denomination, the term also retains its original Christian meaning, as any believer who is "in Christ" and in whom Christ dwells, whether in Heaven or on Earth. In Anglican, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Oriental Orthodox doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation;official ecclesiastical recognition, and consequently veneration, is given to some saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

While I am not a "Saint" or even close to it, I have made a few family discoveries in the past few months that have my mother and myself and my siblings and their children the descendants of a few of these folks.

I cried when I discovered one of my ancestral Great Grandmother's was "grouped" in this realm of human beings.
So much so that even as I write this post, my brain is having a very difficult time grasping this find. To think that a person who is venerated by scores of people to this very day and that I share her blood, is probably one of the most profound things that I have discovered while researching my family's ancestral roots and history.

A few days ago, on another lark I decided to query some of the other saints through history and though I am still doing some pretty in depth research, I can now proudly say that I and my siblings and their children, through our mother, Marlene Grace Dietz Repinski, descend from some very neat people from history who were canonized as Saints in one of the many world faiths.

Today I would like to introduce everyone to the first of these "Saints".

Margaret Etheling Canmore

Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel

Family Tree History and Research
Sunday, Feb 4, 2018

Alice of Saluzzo, Countess of Arundel
23rd Great Grandmother
1269-1292

Another new discovery today.
And another noble ancestral Great Grandmother!
Through my mother's (Marlene Grace Dietz Repinski) family line comes a young lady who only lived for 23 years but it must have been a pretty awesome 23 years.
She comes from a very old Italian family line and married into a noble English line which would give her many descendants that would help shape the history of our world.

This line descends to my mother and my siblings and their children through her grandmother (our great grandmother), Grace Pope Dietz. From Grace's line, this branch would go back through her fathers Pope family line to my 5th great grandmother, Ruth Hammond Pope and through her mother, Sarah Holmes Hammond's line to her Clark family line and then the Strong family line (which I have not had a chance to research yet).
Eventually this line would lead back to the noble English Leigh and Strafford families to the Goushill and then finally the FitzAlan noble lines.
In this line would be knights and ladies, a Lord Mayor of London and other historic figures of English history.

Alice (or Alecia) Saluzzo FitzAlan is the 1st ancestor of Italian heritage I have discovered.


Shall we get to know this woman, who though she only lived a short 23 years, left descendants including me and my siblings and the Dukes of Norfolk, the English Queen Consorts of Henry the VIII, Winston Churchill, Princes Dianna and the current Royal Family.

Alice of Saluzzo, FitzAlan-Countess of Arundel