RE: 'average' medieval generations
- From: David Teague <davteague@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:17:44 +0000
John (et al.),
Just for purposes of comparison: I have 2 descents from Egbert of Wessex (b.. 775, acc. to AR7, line 1), through Alice Freeman (my GARD -- she was the 27th generation after Egbert). I am the 13th gen. after Alice Freeman in one line; in the other, I'm the 14th gen. (The line forks in the 6th gen. after Alice; I descend from the brothers Reuben and Abel Shields of Del. and N.C., who were of that 6th gen. after Alice Freeman).
Total number of years between Egbert's birth in 775 and mine in 1961: 1186.
Total number of generations between Egbert of Wessex and myself: 40 and 41
Average generation length for 40-generation line: 29.65 years
Average generation length for 41-generation line: 28.93 years
Total number of years between Egbert's birth (775) and Alice Freeman's: (by 1605, acc. to genealogics.org): 830 at most
Average generation length from Egbert to Alice Freeman: 30.74 years (for 27 gen. -- as stated above) / 17 gens. male; 10 gens. female -- incl. 4 out of the last 5
Total number of years between Alice Freeman's birth (say, 1605) and mine (1961): 356
Average generation length from Alice Freeman to myself (40-gen. line from Egbert; 13 gens. from A.F. to me): 27.39 years / 5 gens. male; 8 gens. female -- incl. the first 5 gens.
Average generation length from Alice Freeman to myself (41-gen. line from Egbert; 14 gens. from A.F. to me): 25.43 years / 5 gens. male; 9 gens. female -- incl. the first 5 gens.
I know it's not a thorough analysis of "one or more descents to detemine a range of generational spans," but it is illustrative of an extended pair of linked descents, and as such, is (I suppose) fairly average.
David Teague
From: therav3@xxxxxxx
Subject: 'average' medieval generations
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:09:51 -0700
To: gen-medieval@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Graham, Martin, Doug(s), et al.,
Attention should certainly be paid to chronology when dealing
with genealogy (medieval or otherwise), but there are some interesting
"exceptions to the rule". On the 'short' side, there were 3
generations from Edward III of England to his great-granddaughter
Elizabeth Mortimer - an average of 19.7 years (1312 to 1371). In the
other direction, the 6 generations from Henry I of England to Edmund
of Woodstock took 233 years, an average span of 38.8 years (1068 to
1301).
It would be interesting to thoroughly analyse one or more
descents to detemine a range of generational spans. Whether this
would prove to be more interesting than helpful, well, that's another
matter.
Cheers,
John
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