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    Hey (rare) genealogy lovers on here!

    Have y'all found any interesting events or people in your family?

    Any cool stories to share?

    Here's one of my favorites (that I had already shared in a thread that has now disappeared).


    Les Cornes d'Urfé



    In 1418 Jean d'Urfé, my ancestor, was his uncle's only heir and had gathered a large amount of money in order to purchase a neighboring village.

    His servants had heard about the project and schemed against their masters.

    They waited for the night until everybody fell asleep and massacred the family before stealing the treasure.

    As they were about to leave they found Jean's baby, Antoine, in his crib. As the leader of the thieves came closer to the crib, the baby smiled at him which made the murderer have regrets about what they had done.

    He apparantly said:

    "What is the point of killing this child? He will not tell on us"

    His associates disagreed, arguing that the kid would denounce them when he would be older.

    The leader then saw a cup filled with fruits on the table and grabbed an apple. He took out a golden coin from the stolen treasure and declared:

    "If the kid chooses the golden coin he is all yours, but if he chooses the apple we will let him live".

    The man offered the apple and the coin to Antoine who reached for the fruit. The thieves spared his life.

    Of course the murder had not gone unnoticed and one of Jean's relatives, the Lord of Albon, undertook to find the murderers and bring justice.

    He quickly realized that the amount of money stolen was massive and that the killers had to be well-informed. Not only did they know about the fortune, but they were also able to get out of the family's castle.

    He launched an investigation within the servants of the family and the culprits quickly confessed their crimes.

    Their sentence had to be exemplary and they were condemend to death with a breaking wheel.

    Antoine later devoted his life to God.



    The second part of the story with the apple and the coin are more legendary than rooted in actual truth.

    What we do know for sure about the events is that Jean, his wife Eléonore and his uncle Guichard, were murdered by their servants in 1418.

    The couple had at least 5 children so they were all spared (the two eldest boys were away at the court of France)

    Antoine did enter the orders.

    What about you guys? Any interesting stories? Drama?

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    MY GREAT GRANDPA STABBED AND KILLED A GUY WITH A FORK DURING A POKER GAME BECAUSE HE WAS "CHEATING"

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    Story from my great-grandma who I was lucky enough to meet and get to know for many years.

    Great-grandpa was a bridge maker and one time he came to her village to build a stone bridge. He saw my grandma, took her by the hand to her father and they got married.

    Great fucking times.

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    My great-grandparents escaped the Soviet Union, they could have died if they were there during the WWII, my great-great-grandad fought WWI in the Russian side and lost a leg :/
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    One of my paternal great-grandmother's brothers was in the Arditi (Italian crack troops) in World War I; he reached the rank of Lieutenant before dying of tuberculosis in the 30s. Another brother was a magistrate in a large southern Italian city in the 1920s.

    Edit: Their father (my great-great grandfather) moved to Milan during the early 1900s to start a shoemaking business that ended up employing 400 people at its peak; I have a letter he wrote to his children while away on a business trip dated from 1913. The rest of the family eventually joined him up there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kriptcov View Post
    My great-grandparents escaped the Soviet Union, they could have died if they were there during the WWII, my great-great-grandad fought WWI in the Russian side and lost a leg :/
    My great great grandfather fought in WWI too (on the French side) and died in Verdun in 1916.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valmont View Post
    My great great grandfather fought in WWI too (on the French side) and died in Verdun in 1916.
    my condolences
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    One that always comes to mind very readily is of my paternal great-great grandfather. He was a canal barge worker and prize fighter/pugilist working/competing between London and Hertford. Anyway, one day a young boy falls into the canal between two barges that are coming together. So my g-g-grandfather jumps in and manages to rescue the boy, but unfortunately is injured in the process (either by being hit with a barge-pole, or by being caught between the two barges, i'm not 100% sure which). Anyway, apparently his health was seriously injured (and so he couldn't fight or work as normal), and unfortunately he turned to drink to cope with life afterwards, which i believe had negative effects on his family. Anyway, my great-grandfather was pretty much tee-total as a result and my grandfather and father were/are light drinkers at most.

    Sounds like a good man, but unfortunate. Probably not an uncommon story i'd imagine, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valmont View Post
    My great great grandfather fought in WWI too (on the French side) and died in Verdun in 1916.
    Same here. But for the austro-hungarian empire. But he left Hungary after the war and died as a crazy man in Brazil. According to my grandfather he was very catholic and killed to many people in the WWI to be okay with it.

    Also the family of my hungarian great grandmother left Hungary due to harassment (never said why thought) but they were very wealthy people in Budapest. My great great grandfather spoke 6 languages and had a brewery with his wife. They did leave everything because of some harassment, also they got so mad with that they lied to brazilians autorithies about being from Bjelovar and not from Budapest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobi View Post
    Same here. But for the austro-hungarian empire. But he left Hungary after the war and died as a crazy man in Brazil. According to my grandfather he was very catholic and killed to many people in the WWI to be okay with it.
    its not totally unheard of, i heard cases of people developing dementia after WWII
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