OT: Bourbons of India, so-called


"The article said "

Yes, it said, and that is a thing in the past tense.
Wikipedia articles may have errors. This one did. It
had an error I specifically mentioned a few posts ago.

Currently the Wikipedia article appears to have
improved somewhat.
It seems to say now:

"There has been considerable speculation that some or
all of Isabella's children were not fathered by
Francis, along with rumours that he was homosexual or
had physical impediments. Other DNA tests than Y
chromosome test would possibly solve nothing, as
Francis and his wife were first cousins both through
their fathers (who were brothers) and their mothers
(who were sisters). (However, general DNA tests may
show doses of genes neither in Isabella's nor in
Francis' DNA, and if such are immense enough, a
presumption would exist that such come from other men
than Francis.) Since a mother cannot transmit Y
chromosome (females do not have it), the Y chromosome
DNA in male-line descendants of Alfonso XII could be
compared with Y chromosome of male line descendants
of, for example, Francis' brother infante Enrique,
Duke of Sevilla, and the result in that regard would
probably tell volumes about Alfonso XII's paternity
(if Enrique was not actually his biological father,
which as itself is not totally impossible). Daughters
do not have Y chromosome, thus testing of them is
subject to the probable result of said
inconclusiveness. For example, matrilineally inherited
mitochondrial DNA would solve nothing, because it came
from Isabella in any case, her male mates, whoever
they were, having no role as source of it."


What we learned? Wikipedia is a fluctuating thing...




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