![]() The three legitimate daughters of Henry II, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joan, all have many traceable descendants at the present. The youngest legitimate son of King Henry II, King John (1166-1216) has many descendants to the present. Arthur Duke of Brittany (1187-1203) was probably killed age 16 and thus has no known descendants. Eleonore (1184?-1241) was imprisoned and childless. The next son Geoffrey (1158-1186) married the Duchess of Brittany and had children. Richard also had an illegitimate son, Philip of Cognac, who might possibly have descendants to the present. Richard was married but had no legitimate children. The next son Richard I (1157-1199) was king of England from 1189-1199. Henry the young king's only known child was William, who died aged 3 days in 1177. The next son Henry (1155-1183) was crowned co king of England in 1170. Henry II's oldest son William (1153-1156) died age 3 without any children. King Henry II of England (1133-1189) had eight legitimate children plus some illegitimate children, and has many thousands, perhaps millions, of traceable descendants today. So it turns out that King Martin I of Sicily was not such a good example since he does still have living descendants. And by her first marriage she seems to have descendants down to the present, her present Heir being Leoncio Alonso Gonzalez de Gregorio, 22nd Duke of Medina Sidonia. King Martin I of Sicily was survived by illegitimate children who had no claim to the throne. So when King Martin I of Aragon & II of Sicily died he had no living legitimate descendants, and his cousin inherited Aragon and Sicily. ![]() But only his son Martin I (c.1374/76-1409) King of Sicily, had any legitimate children children, and they all died before their father King Martin I of Sicily, who in turned died before his father King Martin I of Aragon, who thus inherited Sicily and became King Martin II of Sicily. King Martin I of Aragon (1356-1410) had four children. ![]() Timothy Lincoln Beckwith, born 1968, is possibly, but probably not, a son of Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. I think that I read that the critical number of generations is about ten, so if someone's descendants survive and multimply for at least ten generations they are likely to continue "forever", more or less.Ībraham Lincoln is probably an example of a person in this category since it is believed that Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904-1985) was his last surviving descendant. There are people who had at least one child but their descendants all died out within a few generations. Julia Drusila (middle of 39-24 January 41) seems to certainly be a member of this category since she was killed age one shortly after her father, the emperor nicknamed "Caligula", was assassinated. Imperator Caesar Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus Augustus (208-218) is very probably a member of that category since he was killed age nine. There are people who never had any children and so don't have any descendants. When it comes to descendants, there are several different categories of persons. I do suggest one possible explanation for Sophie Neveu being the only descendant of Jesus at the end of my answer. I don't know how to calculate those odds but my guess is that they would be extremely small. The odds wold be quite high that someone living 2,000 years ago would have millions and millions of descendants today.īut i suspect that the odds that someone living 2,000 years ago would have one, and only one, descendant living today would be extremely tiny. The odds would be quite high that someone living 2,000 years ago would not have any descendants living today. ![]() Having one, and only one, single living descendant 2,000 years later would be balancing on the knife's edge between having one's descendants die out totally and having more than one descendant at the time. It is very probable that someone living 2,000 years ago would have either no living descendants at all, or else millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and probably even billions, of living descendants at the present. Statistically, it is very improbable that Jesus Christ, or any other person who lived 2,000 years and at least fifty generations ago, would have one and only one living descendant at the time of the movie The Da Vinci Code (2006). ![]()
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