We visited the Old Palace many years ago and I think we must have gone on a guided tour. It is part of Hatfield Park and near Hatfield House, all in Hertfordshire.

What I remember particularly is the comments of the guide about the Pedigree Roll for Elizabeth I. I have attempted to find out more about the roll and its contents but have been unable to find very much about it. The two images below are from a paper by Sara Trevison, which is as much as I have been able to find online.

The Roll, which is 90 feet long, gives what we would think of as a Family Tree going back from Queen Eliabeth I, who lived at the Palace for a time, going back to Adam and Eve.  My recollection of the guide’s comments was along the lines that the Pedigree had been produced to show how important Elizabeth that she was descended from Adam and Eve.

Undoubtedly the Pedigree of Elizabeth I will show many famous ancestors but at the time I did not point out, as I might have done, that the Bible tells us that every person is descended from Adam and Eve.

More recently I have wondered about the line of Elizabeth.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles all contain a line back to The Flood, but Elizabeth was not of English decent. She was of the House of Tudor and they were Welsh.

The Welsh chronicles also survive, in large numbers but seem to be difficult to access. They apparently largely agree with the accounts of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which is more readily available.

The idea that human history goes back hundreds of thousands of years has been held by some groups in the past but the modern idea was invented by Charles Darwin, among others, and that has been found to lack substantial evidence. In contrast historic records, passed down through generations in Western Europe at least, are consisted with the Chronology found in the Bible.

I should point out that the House of Tudor were also descended from the Kings of France via Catherine of Valois.

Visited - a long time ago, when we lived in Watford I think.