But actually, recent studies of DNA show that our closest genetic relatives are from the north of Spain in Basque Country. Aside from some spectacular castles, beautiful abbeys and impressive ports, they renamed several places: the main London-York road became Ermine Street (after the emblem of Brittany), as did a major road in the West Country; the Granta River became the Cam (Breton for Meandering), and the Barwell in Leicestershire became the Tweed (like Welsh "Twyd", meaning family, kin, clan or people).Gospatric, who was Earl of Bernicia and Northumbria early in the reign of William the Conqueror, was of mixed Cumbrian, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Irish stock, and self-identified as British.Alan Rufus, a wealthy and powerful Breton cousin of King William I, accompanied him to England: the Norman historian Wace wrote that at the Battle of Hastings "Alan and his men did the English great damage".Alan then did many surprising things: in his own lands, he abolished the Danegeld, defended and promoted local Cumbrians and Anglo-Danes, and toward the end of William the Conqueror's life persuaded the King to return to York to apologise for the harm he did.The aforesaid Earl Gospatric's family honoured Alan's memory by naming some of their sons "Alan", most notably Alan of Allerdale and Alan of Galloway.Alan was very courteous and seems to have been a favourite of the ladies, such as the Conqueror's sister Adelaide and his wife Matilda. The young King of France was deposed by his own court and also fled to England.Another group of Vikings, led by Rollo, settled in the Lower Seine, took Rouen and threatened to take Paris. Whether that is with the author of the article or the book I cannot tell without reading the book but I can see problems with it.We know there was a huge influx of people into Britain from the fifth century, the English, but these are not mentioned. A battle was fought east of Avallon in Burgundy (a town you can visit today) and after hard fighting, Riothamus ordered a retreat of his surviving soldiers. My dad was 1/2 Irish, born in Oakland, ca. There was also the leinster Regt. Geneticists seem to find it difficult to distinguish between Scots (especially in the West) and Irish. Though they called it Engleland, land of the Engles.So yes the did exist in the 5th century but England did not. If it means some Irish look like some Basques, that has more to do with what happened in Western Europe some 5,000 years ago to anything that has happened in much more recent times.We had an old family legend that could never be confirmed. A final push by the Franks under Charles the Bald to conquer all of Brittany on 22 August 851 led to a two-day open battle at Jengland in which the Armoricans systematically whittled down the Frankish army. I was born in Australia, however I have now lived in Ireland for 18 years. The scientists managed to divide the Irish population into "10 distinct geographically stratified genetic clusters; seven of 'Gaelic' Irish ancestry, and three of shared Irish-British ancestry." I decided to check my DNA profile. Gaelic-Galicia.The article kind of makes it seem that the Spanish who arrived to Ireland were not Celts, but they were. ). I'm glad I found you. It does make me laugh when they say they are Celts, they are gaelic, doesn't roll off the tongue so easily does it? The Kingdom of Dalriada c 500 AD is marked in green. I work in Mexico and I noticed that I get along especially well with people from Durango, which was populated by the Basques. My DNA Test. If you carry one of these markers then you are a true Scots-Irish (or is that Irish-Scot? The King you are thinking of may be Mil d'Espange - according to Irish legend the sons of Mil (Milesians) settled in Ireland after voyaging from Spain.You also asked about Viking connections - some vikings did settle in Ireland in the middle ages.

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