Bedtime story by the fire š„ š
Last year I had a dream that my grandfather told me the holy grail was never a cup ā it was always a bell š and to look for my ancestors before 1700. So naturally, I went looking. I found out that both sides of my family were French Huguenots, fleeing the violence of the Roman Catholic Church, who arrived here between 1699 (dadās side) and 1713 (momās side).
But before 1700 is where it gets wild.
My dadās ancestors were nobility, descended from one of the daughters of King Robert the Pious, son of Hugues Capet, father of the Capetian Dynasty and grandson of Charlemagne. Our correct name-spelling is Chasteigner, which in French would have sounded a lot like Chasteen. Funny side note: I have cousins who use the spelling Chastain, but my grandfather before he passed always told me āit has two Eās - donāt let anyone tell you different!ā And sure enough the original does have two Eās, just not together. š
From what I can tell, we branched away from the Catholic Church in the high Middle Ages during the Crusades in favor of newly emerging Protestant ideas, but we remained in the protection of our cousins the French kings until after FranƧois 1, but not too long after! š
Speaking of Francis the First, this is where we run into my momās ancestors. So get this: my dadās ancestral cousin King Francis, hired my momās ancestors, the three Brothers Caldwell ā to sail with Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa as a protective detail, since by that time the old chivalric orders had been disbanded by Francisās predecessors, most notably Philip the Fair who betrayed the Knights Templar 200 years prior, which coincidentally was exactly when the Caldwell family migrated from Albi, France to Scotland where they were granted lands neighboring another French guy you might have heard of: Hugh de Payens. š
Even though the Caldwells fled France as religious refugees in the 1300s (we were Albigensian Cathars, and I still canāt find our original name spelling but it might have been the Occitanian āCailhavelā), we frequently sailed out of the port of Toulon, where we met Francis and Barbarossa in the 1500s. Of course, that was Toulon before Napoleon made it into an open air prison for a hundred years. Itās even said the King of England gave a silver cup engraved with the mountains of Toulon to our family before we left for America, so if anyone has seen that particular grail please do let me know.
Anyway thatās my ancestral version of āHow I met your motherā š¤£ hope you enjoyed.
If you want more deets, I have a whole playlist: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTc7pSV/
#ancestry #ancestors #history #storytime
garden_variety_jess / Jessica Chasteen
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"content": "Bedtime story by the fire š„ š \n\nLast year I had a dream that my grandfather told me the holy grail was never a cup ā it was always a bell š and to look for my ancestors before 1700. So naturally, I went looking. I found out that both sides of my family were French Huguenots, fleeing the violence of the Roman Catholic Church, who arrived here between 1699 (dadās side) and 1713 (momās side). \n\nBut before 1700 is where it gets wild. \n\nMy dadās ancestors were nobility, descended from one of the daughters of King Robert the Pious, son of Hugues Capet, father of the Capetian Dynasty and grandson of Charlemagne. Our correct name-spelling is Chasteigner, which in French would have sounded a lot like Chasteen. Funny side note: I have cousins who use the spelling Chastain, but my grandfather before he passed always told me āit has two Eās - donāt let anyone tell you different!ā And sure enough the original does have two Eās, just not together. š \n\nFrom what I can tell, we branched away from the Catholic Church in the high Middle Ages during the Crusades in favor of newly emerging Protestant ideas, but we remained in the protection of our cousins the French kings until after FranƧois 1, but not too long after! š
\n\nSpeaking of Francis the First, this is where we run into my momās ancestors. So get this: my dadās ancestral cousin King Francis, hired my momās ancestors, the three Brothers Caldwell ā to sail with Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa as a protective detail, since by that time the old chivalric orders had been disbanded by Francisās predecessors, most notably Philip the Fair who betrayed the Knights Templar 200 years prior, which coincidentally was exactly when the Caldwell family migrated from Albi, France to Scotland where they were granted lands neighboring another French guy you might have heard of: Hugh de Payens. š \n\nEven though the Caldwells fled France as religious refugees in the 1300s (we were Albigensian Cathars, and I still canāt find our original name spelling but it might have been the Occitanian āCailhavelā), we frequently sailed out of the port of Toulon, where we met Francis and Barbarossa in the 1500s. Of course, that was Toulon before Napoleon made it into an open air prison for a hundred years. Itās even said the King of England gave a silver cup engraved with the mountains of Toulon to our family before we left for America, so if anyone has seen that particular grail please do let me know.\n\nAnyway thatās my ancestral version of āHow I met your motherā š¤£ hope you enjoyed. \n\nIf you want more deets, I have a whole playlist: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTc7pSV/ \n\n#ancestry #ancestors #history #storytime",
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