[Ansteorra] Odd question reguarding persona development

[Susan Hill]

Susan,

My understanding is that we are not supposed to be anyone that really 
existed in history, but you can certainly have some fun while figuring out 
who you are and where you are from.

While researching my name, I knew that I wanted Grey in the last name and 
decided to research the name de Grey. My personna is late 12th century Anglo 
Saxon/Norman. I found documentation for my name in Walter de Grey who was 
Archbishop of York in the early 13th century. I decided to do a little 
further research on the de Grey family and was amazed at the connections and 
impressive resumes of some of the family members. My 'cousins' were very 
highly placed in many cases, both within the nobility and the church.  The 
also got into a bit of mischief along the way. I can also account among my 
distant 'cousins', one William, also called the Conquerer or the Bastard, 
depending on which point of view you choose to take. I haven't attempted to 
actually insert my immediate 'family' into the de Grai/de Grey/de Gray 
family tree, but I know approximately where it fits in. All of the members 
of my nuclear family are made up, as are the next ring of relations, however 
one of my brothers has had the sponsorship of a relative in the church in 
taking holy vows, himself.

If you can't or aren't interested in finding a family to 'fit into,' have 
fun making up your own. No one is going to check your geneology. There were 
enough offspring on both sides of the sheets in nobility that you can kind 
of create a relationship and not be too far from the tree sometimes.

If you prefer, make up somebody completely. It's up to you. Just have fun 
doing it.

Lyneya de Grey


----Original Message Follows----
From: Susan <catmafia at hughes.net>
Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: [Ansteorra] Odd question reguarding persona development
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:25:37 -0500

I was pondering persona earlier and wondering just how close one's
persona is to be to historic people?  In that manner that we are
presumed to be of the gentry (I can't remember the exact on this), this
was a limited population in period-some times and places more so that
others..  Where is the line on presumptions of our relationships of the
actual people who lived in period?  This has always confused me, it is
one of those paradoxes that I have never really been able to work out to
a degree I am comfortable with.

Looking forward to hearing thoughts about this topic and how different
people have worked these things out for themselves,
Susan the Curious
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