
Heritage 1066 - Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, USA & Britain
My edits and grammar page
The dotted fork beneath Godmund is precisely where the First Edition should maintain its intellectual openness. It allows, without asserting, a framework in which the Lega–Guest–Midlands familia population and Sussex/Guestling population are collateral downstream manifestations of an earlier single South East Ebngland, pre-Conquest parent stock (Kent/Susses). I would keep Benwoldus Gest visually close to the center of this figure, as he is now too significant to be merely a marginal footnote: chronologically, he is the nearest documented Gest individual found after the Saeric–Godmund horizon, yet his exact biological status remains intriguingly—and usefully—unresolved as is Gilbert the Stranger. I would refer to this as the “Apex Guest Familia and Two-Unrecovered Document Tree,” while clearly indicating that it conceptual and not a definitive lineage for England’s Guests during the gap period from John Guest senior of Handsworth to Saeric. I believe this conceptual framework is sufficiently reliable and accurate for to utilise in their research, having emerged from my own investigations.
It would be remiss of me not to investigate the Siwards - Siwrad of Grossus, ? Siwqrd fitzSiward and Siward of Kent for any further expert diplomatic and / or legal reading whic could yield an adavance to familia connections during their life spans to a major advance. The key verbs, estate in land, tenure, consideration, reservation, remainders and witness clause may reveal whether for example Siward Grossus on the borderland of Shropshire tip over to connect to Saeric and /or Eilric / Airic or Aric as Aldred and also Alan de Dunstanvill lands or land transactions or another form of conveyance or familia tie. Perhaps a bridge is waiting to be tested or discovered through actual land succession rather than biolgical continuity alone??