Extremely Long: From Egyptians to FitzAs
Hi, all:
Debbie uennedy, who has done exhaustive genealogical work (which most have been exhausting as well) sent the following to me more than a year ago. Somehow, I overlooked it. Because of the Banquo tie-in, some will dispute this presentation, but it responds to my question to Debbie... in effect: Do you have any pre-Banquo information that would substantiate the Baquo to FitzAlan claim that is so often made?
The following, which is very long, is what Debbie so kindly sent to me in response.
It is worth studying, although I see some disparities between other published information and some quantum leaps in terms of genera Also, this "bring-down" is disclaimed quite clearly, in that it relies of information in a pedigree that Debbie suggests could not be accurate.
In any event, I think this could be useful going forward and I am grateful to Debbie for her work and for sharing it with me, and us. I know of no one else who has taken the FitzAlan line back as far.
Who ever thought of the irish as Egyptian? Not I.
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Hi Rick,
Yes I have traced the line past Banquo, back to adam and eve., If the
milicent thurnam smith pedigree book is to be believed. I had access to the
book online last year but do not now ,and all excerpts that i had saved on
my puter were lost in a crash, except those that i copied to my family tree
program. mrs smith had highly aclamed geneolgists research her lines so i
belive them to be accurate.
below i give u mrs smiths line from scotaand milesius, this comes down tho
banquo And parts of the book and a web site link that agrees with her lines.
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Milesius of Spain married Scota, the daughter of Pharoah Nectonebus of
Egypt. His brother was slain in an invasion of Ireland and he sent his son
Heremond to avenge his death. They conquered the country and his descendants
ruled Ireland for 2,000 years and they called the people Scots in honor of
Scota. Heremond married Tea Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah, (49 generations
from adam i took his linage from the bilble)last King of Judah, about 1700
B. C. The Irish were called Scots as late as 1028 A. D. The Royal Palace of
Tara was abandoned in A. D. 563 after having been the seat of government for
2,000 years, and is now celebrated in song and story, notable among them
"Gone With the Wind."
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THE STORY OF THE IRISH RACE
The Irish race of today is popularly known as the Milesian Race, because the
genuine Irish (Celtic) people were supposed to be descended from Milesius of
Spain, whose sons, say the legendary accounts, invaded and possessed
themselves of Ireland a thousand years before Christ.
The races that occupied the land when the so-called Milesians came, chiefly
the Firbolg and the Tuatha De Danann, were certainly not exterminated by the
conquering Milesians. Those two peoples formed the basis of the future
population, which was dominated and guided, and had its characteristics
moulded, by the far less numerous but more powerful Milesian aristocracy and
soldiery. All three of these races, however, were different tribes of the
great Celtic family, who, long ages before, had separated from the main
stem, and in course of later centuries blended again into one tribe of
Gaels - three derivatives of one stream, which, after winding their several
ways across Europe from the East, in Ireland turbulently met, and after
eddying, and surging tumultuously, finally blended in amity, and flowed
onward in one great Gaelic stream.
The possession of the country was wrested from the Firbolgs, and they were
forced into partial serfdom by the Tuatha De Danann (people of the goddess
Dana), who arrived later. Totally unlike the uncultured Firbolgs, the Tuatha
De Dannann were a capable and cultured, highly civilised people, so skilled
in the crafts, if not the arts, that the Firbolgs named them necromancers,
and in course of time both the Firbolgs and the later coming Milesians
created a mythology around these.
In a famed battle at Southern Moytura (on the Mayo-Galway border) it was
that the Tuatha De Danann met and overthrew the Firbolgs. The Firbolgs noted
King, Eochaid was slain in this great battle, but the De Danan King, Nuada,
had his hand cut off by a great warrior of the Firbolgs named Sreng. The
battle raged for four days. So bravely had the Firbolgs fought, and so
sorely exhausted the De Dannann, that the latter, to end the battle, gladly
left to the Firbolgs, that quarter of the Island wherein they fought, the
province now called Connaught. And the bloody contest was over.
The famous life and death struggle of two races is commemorated by a
multitude of cairns and pillars which strew the great battle plain in
Sligo - a plain which bears the name (in Irish) of "The plain of the Towers
of the Fomorians". The Danann were now the undisputed masters of the land.
So goes the honoured legend.
ROYAL DESCENT OF THE BALDWIN FAMILY OF ENGLAND
AND AMERICA
THROUGH
AGNES DORMER, WIFE OF WILLIAM BALDWIN OF AILESBURY,
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND.
1. Milesius of Spain married Scota, the daughter of Pharoah of Egypt. His
brother was slain in an invasion of Ireland and he sent his son
2. Heremond to avenge his death. They conquered the country and his
descendants ruled Ireland for 2,000 years and they called the people Scots
in honor of Scota. Heremond married Tea Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah, last
King of Judah, about 1700 B. C. The Irish were called Scots as late as 1028
A. D. The Royal Palace of Tara was abandoned in A. D. 563 after having been
the seat of government for 2,000 years, and is now celebrated in song and
story, notable among them "Gone With the Wind." Descended from Hereford
years later was
46. Conn Ked Cathach, called Conn, of a 1000 battles, who was King of all
Ireland about 150 A. D. In 240 A. D., Cormac Cas, grandson of Conn,
conquered Scotland and then called it Alba. Descended from Conn years later
was
62. Fergus, the first Christian King of Scotland, 513 A. D. Descended from
him was
74. Alpine, King of Scotland 858. (Thus Alpine was 74th from Milesius. The
other generations between them are in your descent in another report giving
the line from Adam through the Irish and Scottish Kings. So they are left
out here as it would be repetition of what you have had before. E. E. W.)
75. Kenneth Mac (son) Alpine, King of the Scots, 862 A. D.
76. Constantine, King of the Scots, 876 A. D.
77. Donald, King of the Scots, 900 A. D.
78. Malcolm I, King of the Scots, 953 A. D.
79. Kenneth II, King of the Scots, 995 A. D.
80. Malcolm II, King of the Scots, 1034 A. D. He had three daughters:
Beatrix (who married Crinan, and was mother of Duncan I, whose son was
Malcolm III, who married Margaret, last of the Saxon line, and their
daughter Maud or Matilda married Henry I, King of England, from whom you
descend in many ways.) Alice, who married Sigert, and another whose name is
unknown,
81. ....., daughter of Malcolm II, married Banquo, Thane of Lochabar, 1053.
Shakespeare introduced into his greatest drama, Macbeth, this Banquo, who in
all probability is the founder of the family known to English History by the
Norman name of FitzAlan. The history of this family is important, inasmuch
as from this branch of it descend the Stewart-Stuart Kings of England, and
the Duke of Norfolk, Premiere Duke of England. Shakespeare knew a legend and
in his hands it became a matter of world-wide fame, for in his Macbeth King
Duncan was slain by Macbeth, and Banquo was one of the party with him when
it was done, and Scotch legends, supported by Welsh accounts, relate that
Banquo was slain by Macbeth's jealousy, probably at the close of his reign,
about 1053. His son,
82. Flaad or Fleance, after his father's death, sought protection of
Griffith ap Llewllyn, Prince of North Wales, and abused his confidence by
winning the affections of his daughter, the Princess Gwenta, who, after a
private marriage, though history fails to record one, gave birth to a son,
whom all legends agree in naming Alan, but she and her lover were put to
death by her irate father. Her mother was Agatha or Alditha, daughter of the
Earl of Mercia, and widow of Harold, King of England, who was killed at the
Battle of Hastings 1066. So Gwenta was not born until after 1066. Their son,
83. Alan Fitz Flaad, who was sometimes called Fitz Harold, because his
grandmother was widow of Harold. He is first mentioned as a witness at the
Court of Henry I at Windsor September 3, 1101. About 1109 Alan Fitz Flaad
gave the Manor of Eaton to Norwich Priory. He married Adeliza, daughter of
Warine, Sheriff of Shropshire, and had in her right the Barony of Warine.
Her mother was Ameria, daughter of Roger Montgomery. Alan obtained by gift
the Castle of Oswaldestre, with the territory adjoining, which had belonged
to Meredith, Prince of Powis ap Bleddyn, King of Powis. Alan and Adeliza had
two sons, Walter, Seneschal or Stewart of Scotland, from whom descends
Walter, High Stewart of Scotland, who married the daughter, Marjorie Bruce,
daughter of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, and were parents of Robert II,
King of Scotland. The other son was 84. William Fitz Alan, who in the
contest between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, being then Governor of
Shrewsbury and Sheriff of Salop, held the Castle for the Empress (daughter
of Henry I, King of England and widow of the Emperor of Germany. She married
2nd Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and their son Henry II was first
King of the House of Plantagenet) until it was taken by assault. He was also
with the Empress at the seige of Winchester Castle in the 6th of King
Stephen (1140) when she and her whole party were put to flight. Afterwards,
continuing to adhere stoutly to the same cause, he was reconstituted Sheriff
of Salop so soon as Henry II obtained the crown. He married Isabel, daughter
of Helias de Day, Lady of Clun, niece of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and
dying before 1160 his son,
85. William Fitz Alan, succeeded him. In the 12th of Henry II (1166), upon
his assessment, in aid of marrying the King's daughter certified to his
knight fees to be thirty-two. He died 1210. Married a daughter of Hugh Lacy.
86. John Fitz Alan, Lord of Clun and Oswestry, County Salop, became Earl of
Arundel by marrying Isabel, daughter of William d'Albini, Earl of Arundel,
and sister and co-heir of Hugh d'Albini, last Earl of Arundel of that
family. He took arms with the other barons temp. of King John, but upon the
accession of Henry III, having had letters of safe conduct to come in and
make his peace, he had livery of his lands of his inheritance upon paying a
fine of 10,000 marks. He died 1239/40.
(Isabel d'Albini was granddaughter of William d'Albini and Adeliza, daughter
of Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine, Count of Brabant and Lovaine, widow of Henry
I, King of England, and she had the Castle of Arundel in dowry from the
deceased monarch in 1138/9, and thus her new Lord became its feudal Earl.
Henry II, by a grant undated, but supposed to have been in 1155, the year
after his succession, confirmed to him as William d'Albini, Earl of Arundel,
the Castle of Arundel with all its appurtenances, and by the same instrument
confirmed to him the Earldom of Sussex. Arundel Castle was built by Alfred
the Great and is mentioned in his will. From him all the later Earls of
Arundel are descended. Castle Arundel is the present seat of the Earl of
Norfolk, the premiere Duke of Great Britain. Many of the Earls are buried in
Fitz Alan Chapel. The original Keep of the Castle remains and it is 100 feet
high and is situated in a beautiful park.)
87. John Fitz Alan was born in the month of May, 1223. In his father's
lifetime, when he must have been under 16 years of age, he married Matilda
or Maud, daughter of Theobald le Botelar or Butler and Rohese de Verdun. In
the partition of the estate of his mother's brother, Hugh d'Albini, Arundel
Castle fell to John Fitz Alan, and it was given into his hands by patent
dated 1244. He died 1267 and his will, still preserved, is dated at Wroxeter
October, 1267. He was 5th Earl of Arundel, and in consideration of a fine of
100 pounds he had livery of his own Castles of Clun, Blancminster and
Schrawurthen. In 42nd of Henry III (1258) his lordship was made
Captain-General of all the forces designed for guarding the Welsh Marches,
and in the baronial war he appears to have first sided with the barons and
afterward with King John. Their son,
88. John FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, married Isabel, daughter of Roger
Mortimer, when under 14 years of age and died March 18, 1272, leaving an
only son,
89. Richard FitzAlan, who was aged about 5 years at his father's death in
1272. He was in the Welsh wars of 1288, in Gascony in 1295, in Scotland wars
1298-1300. He married before 1285, when but 18, Alasia, daughter of Tomasso,
Marquis of Saluzza, by Luisa, daughter of Giorgio, Marquis of Ceva in Italy.
She died September 25, 1292, and he died March 9, 1301/2.
90. Edmund FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, was born in the Castle of Marlborough
May 1, 1285. He was summoned to Parliament November 9, 1306, as Earl of
Arundel and took part in the Scottish wars of that period. In 1323 he was
Chief Justiciar of North and South Wales. He married 1305 Alice de Warren,
only daughter of William de Warren, Earl of Warren and Surrey. He was
beheaded without trial November 17, 1326, and his castle and honour given to
Edmund, Earl of Kent. He was knighted with Edward, Knight of the Bath, the
King's son, with many others May 22, 1306. After the fall of Edward II into
the hands of his enemies, Lord Arundel, who was implacably hated by the
Queen and her paramour, Roger Mortimer, suffered death by decapitation at
Hereford in 1326. He married Alice Plantagenet de Warren, sister and sole
heir of John, last Earl of Warren and Surrey, and was succeeded by his son,
91. Richard Fitz Alan, born 1306. He was in 1330/1, in the 4th year of
Edward III, fully restored in blood and honours, and in December of that
year obtained restitution of the Castle and Honour of Arundel. He was
Justiciar of North Wales for life 1334, Governor of Carnarvon Castle 1339,
Sheriff of Salop for life 1345. He took distinguished part in the wars with
France. On June 30, 1347, he succeeded to the vast estates of the family of
Warren by the death of his mother's brother, John, Earl of Warren and
Surrey. He assumed the title Earl of Surrey and in 1366 settled the Warren
estates upon his issue. He married first Isabel de Spenser and obtained a
papal mandate for annulment for this marriage December 4, 1344. He then
married February 5, 1345, Eleanor Plantagenet, great granddaughter of King
Henry III. She died January 11, 1372, and he died January 24, 1375/6, in his
70th year and both are buried in the Lewes Priory.
92. John de Arundel, younger son of Richard Fitz Alan, by his 2nd wife,
Eleanor Plantagenet. The family of Fitz Alan, otherwise Arundel, affords an
instance of the name of the dignity being adopted as a family name. He
married February 17, 1358/9, Eleanor Maltravers or Mautravers, second and
youngest daughter of Sir John Mautravers, by Gwenthlian, his wife, which
Eleanor was found to be granddaughter and co-heir (eventually sole heir) of
Sir John Mautravers on February 16, 1364/5, at which date she was aged
nineteen. In consequence, probably of such marriage, he was summoned to
Parilament 1377/1379 by writs directed to Johanni de Arundel. He was
Marshall of England in 1377/8. Being in command of a naval expedition in aid
of the Duke of Britany, he defeated the French off the coast of Cornwall,
but was later, December 15 or 16, 1379, wrecked and drowned in the Irish
Sea. He appears to have been one of the fops of the period for he had on
board ship 52 suits of clothes. He was buried in the Lewes Priory. His
widow, who married 2nd Reynolds, Lord Cobham, died January 10, 1404/5, and
requested to be buried at Lewes Priory with "mon tres nonorable seigeur,
John Arundel." The brilliant career of the Earl and his great victories over
the French, together with the catastrophe in which he lost his life, would
fill worthily a volume, he was undoubtedly one of England's greatest
generals. They had two sons, John, on whom devolved the title of Lord
Maltravers, was second cousin of the deceased Earl. He was not, however, as
it would seem, the eldest son of Lord Maltravers, that place having been
occupied by
93. William Fitz Alan de Arundel, Knight of the Garter. He died August 1,
1400 and left issue by his wife, Christian ....., an only son,
94. Ralph Arundel, married Julian, and their daughter and heir,
95. Alice Arundel, married Bartholomew Collingridge, called Coleridge, whose
original descent was out of Lincolnshire, had lands in Toursey, in County
Bucks, by marriage with the said Alice. In the "Authentic Book of Pedigrees"
in the office of the College of Arms, marked on the cover with two cinque
foils gules, there is mention of the above three generations. Upon the
monument in the Toursey Church these arms of Arundel with those of
Collingridge: sc. argent three fleurs-de-lis bl., are depicted with this
inscription: Pray for the soules of William and Christian-- Ralph Arundel
and Julian--Barth. Coleridge and Alice, his wife, and William, their son. It
is a very interesting fact that the representation of one branch of the
House of Fitz Alan devolved upon one of the family of Coleridge, a family
little known to the genealogist. It is a curious fact that Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, the Poet, son of an eminent Greek scholar, was in doubt about the
name of his grandfather, and he seems never to have troubled himself to
search back into their history. It should be noted that representation of
the Fitz Alan remained, but a short time in the Coleridge family.
Bartholomew Coleridge, who lived at Hughenden, County Bucks, died 9th of
Edward IV, 1470, leaving issue only a daughter,
96. Ursula Collingsridge or Coleridge married Geoffrey Dormer of West
Wycomb, County Bucks. Their son,
97. William Dormer of West Wycomb, County Bucks, died 1506, married Agnes,
daughter of Sir John Launcelin, a French knight. His will, dated 1506,
mentions his daughter,
98. Agnes Dormer, married William Baldwin, and their four children, William,
John, Alice and Richard, are mentioned in William Dormer's will. (See Dormer
family and Baldwin.)
99. Richard or perhaps William Baldwin was the father of
100. Richard Baldwin of Dundridge, will 1552, married Ellen Apuke.
101. Henry Baldwin married Alice King.
102. John Baldwin married Hannah .....
103. John Baldwin came to America, married Hannah Burchard.
104. Hannah Baldwin married Benjamin Abell.
105. Lydia Abell married Daniel Williams.
106. Daniel Williams married Elizabeth Toogood.
107. Lydia Williams married Eliphalet Abell.
108. Simon Abell married Rachael Farnsworth.
109. Eliphalet Abell married Belinda Poole.
110. Fanny Belinda Abell married Manson Jesse Woodward.
111. Cecelia Marion Woodward married John William Thurman.
112. Mellcene Thurman married Edward T. Smith.
References:
Yeatman's House of Arundel, pp. 324, 339, 285, 337, etc.
Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 2 and 200.
Rixford's Families Descended From All Royal Fam. of Europe, p. 54.
Cokayne's Complete Peerage of England, Vol. 1, pp. 233-237, 253-259.
Collectanea and Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 6, p. 334.
Lewis' Manuscripts, pp. 32, 131, 179, 285, 296.
F. G. Lee's History of Thame, p. 504.
Misc. Genealogica and Heraldica New Series, Vol. 4, pp. 97 etc.
The most ancient surname we have is Neil, in the first generation, McNeil in
the second, and O'Neil in the third; the prefix Mac meaning son of, and O,
grand son of. This name carries its derivation far into the past, as it is
seen to be the name of the second son of Fenius Farsa, King of Scythia, who
was the ancestor of Milesius, King of Spain, whose sons and nephew colonized
Ireland. Gallamn
was the Scythian name of Milesius, Mileag Espaine or Hispania, shortened
into Milesius (the Spanish soldier), is the Latin name and the common name
used by his posterity and historians for that gallant soldier and great
General.
Next we have another Nial, one of the ancestors of The Hy Nial tribe
figuring in the descent on Ireland, made by the sons of Milesius. This Nial
was one of the princes with Heremon the eighth son of Milesius, who landed
on the north east coast of Ireland. As the expedition was approaching land,
the proclamation was made, that whoever first reached or touched the shore
should possess it. As he stood by the bulwark of the vessel, his left hand
resting thereon, his battle-axe in his right, he suddenly raised the latter
and severed his left hand from the arm, dropping the battle-axe, he seized
the sinister hand with his dexter and cast it ashore, claiming the reward
offered in the proclamation. His descendants afterwards exercised
sovereignty over the north of Ireland, and the northern Eoganachts were
introduced into the south about A. D. 550. These were a branch of the Hy
Nial Tribe being the descendants of Eogan son of Nial Noy Giollach or Nial
of the nine Hostages, who was King of Ireland A. D. 379, and from whose time
the name Niel was a permanent patronymic. The same fortitude and devotion to
the interests of their people, and bravery has in latter generations been
displayed in an eminent degree by the descendants of the hero of the bloody
hand. Memorably by the celebrated Hugh O'Neil who defended his country
against the english usurpers for such a long period.
The ancient banner of the Tribe also preserved the tradition of the bloody
sinister hand. It is emblazoned as argent or white, a sinister hand gules
which hand is seen in the banner of many of the provincial princes of the
Milesian race.
A curious thing was, that it was given as an augmentation of the arms of
those Baronets who received the latter rank to encourage the English
invasion of Ireland and their establishment there, in order to perpetuate
that foreign yoke.
The celebrated Con Kead, Caha or Con of the 100 Battles, whose blood runs in
the veins of many Irish families and who was king of Ireland A. D. 148, was
one of the principal founders of many families in this tribe
It is supposed that St. Patrick when a youth was captured in one of the
raids made into Scotland under the conduct of Nial. The families of this
tribe can be seen in the table, showing the Hy Nials. In this table will be
noticed the present name and the ancient. The table also shows when a family
is an off-shoot of some other of a still older Patronymic.
At first, of course, all the Tribe were known by the name of Nial or Niel,
at some time one of these Neils received the name of Sionagh, or The Fox
from his wisdom or cunning, in the third generation, the name becomes a
Patronymic as O'Sionagh. This shows the custom of the Milesians, when any
one distinguished himself, his descendants used his name with the prefix,
Mac in the second generation, and with the prefix O in the third, meaning
grandson of. The McSweeneys were
After the landing of the Milesians in Ireland, there was a law or regulation
made that none but the descendants of Heber, Heremon and Ir, the sons and
Ith, the son of Breogan, uncle of Milesius, should inherit any of the
principalities, lordships or provincial thrones, or that of the Ard Righ or
Chief Monarch of that country. This regulation was the cause of the
institution of an office called Ollam, (pronounced Ollave and meaning
antiquary or herald), whose duty it was to keep a record of genealogies of
families and the gallant acts of all heroes.
Riffloir made Milesius his General-in-chief and Prime Minister, and gave him
his daughter Seaug to wife, by whom he had two sons, Doun and Aireach. His
wife dying soon afterwards, he conducted his followers into Egypt, where
Pharaoh Nectonebus, recognizing the ability ofthe great general and warrior,
gave him the chief command of his army, Pharaoh being then engaged in war
with the CEthiopians. He carried the war to a successful end, and as a
reward was given Scota, Pharaoh's daughter, as his wife; two sons were born
to him in Egypt, Heber Fionn and Amhergin. He now determined to return to
his kingdom and colony in Spain, and set out, first however, having twelve
of his young followers instructed in all the learning of the Egyptians, that
they in turn might teach their countrymen in Spain.
He remained for seven years in Egypt, and on his way to Spain landed at
Irene, in Greece, where his son Ir was born. On the voyage from there to
Spain, another son, Colpa, was born, and in Spain two more, Aranann and
Heremon.
After some thirty years' reign in Spain, in profound peace, a continuous
drought caused a great famine, and Milesius called an assembly of all his
chiefs and princes at Braganza, to deliberate on what was to be done. They
met accordingly and determined to abandon their settlement, in Spain and
journey further.
In this they were encouraged by Caicer, their Druid, who told them that they
should travel until they discovered the most western island, where they
should settle and flourish for ages.
Ith the uncle of Milesius, was entrusted with the command of the expedition,
which was prepared to set out on this voyage of discovery. He set sail with
his son Lugadh, and after coasting along the shores of Spain and France,
they discovered the Island of Innisfail, or Isle of Destiny, sometimes
called Ennis Ealga.
Here Ith landed, and with one hundred of his soldiers as an escort, marched
to Oileag Nead, now Innis Owen, where he was honorably received, and had
referred to him some diflerences as to the succession to the throne which
was claimed by three sons of the deceased monarch of the country. Having
satisfactorily adjusted these disputes, he set out on his return when he was
treacherously attacked by an overwhelming force, under the command of the
princes of the country, the Tuatha de Danains, who were alarmed at his
congratulations on its beauty and the mildness of the climate.
He fought long and bravely against a force that far outnumbered his
followers who succeeded in re-embarking, but bearing Ith with them fatally
wounded. He died on the return voyage to Spain. On their arrival in Spain,
they found their nation mourning the death of Milesius, who had passed away
peacefully after a reign of thirty-six years, and Lugadh added to that
sorrow by exhibiting the dead body of his father Ith.
He made them an eloquent speech, reminding them of the insult to their
nation, and the treachery and violation of hospitality of the people of
Innisfail, and exhorted them up and arm, and drawing the sword, to throw
away the scabbard, and never to cease warring until they should conquer the
island for themselves and their descendants.
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IRELAND IN THE LORE OF THE ANCIENTS
SCOTIA (A name transferred to Alba about ten centuries after Christ) was one
of the earliest names of Ireland - so named, it was said, from Scota, the
daughter of Pharaoh, one of the ancient female ancestors of the Milesians -
and the people were commonly called Scotti or Scots - both terms being
frequently used by early Latin historians and poets. One of its ancient
titles was Hibernia (used by Caesar) which some trace from Ivernia, the
name, it is said, of a people located in the south of the Island. But most
trace it from Eber or Heber, ther first Milesian king of the southern half,
just as the much later name, Ireland, is by some traced from Ir, whose
family were in the northeastern corner of the island. Though it seems much
more likely that this latter name was derived from the most common title
given to the Island by its own inhabitants, Eire - hence Eireland, -
Ireland. It was first Northmen and then the Saxons, who, in the ninth and
tenth century began calling it Ir-land, or Ir-landa - Ireland.