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An African trumpeter, John Blanke served King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. Blanke is depicted on Westminster tournament roll in 1511, is said to have arrived in England with Catherine of Aragon in 1501, although a document from June 1488, lists a person named John Blank, a footman already in service of Henry VII.
The Institute of Hungarian Research determinated the whole genome data of King Béla III of Hungary, which was published in 2020, analyzed on 7 July through the royal remains from the Royal Basilica of Székesfehérvár, along with eight other royal bodies (eight men, two women), [3] [4] and King Saint Ladislaus of Hungary which was published in 2023. [5]
This research showed that the skeleton is of a young adult female, aged 18–23 years. Her height was calculated using regression analysis of her limb-bone length to be approximately 152–160 cm. Significantly, this research also used FORDISC to identified the Ivory Bangle Lady as having North African ancestry.
Women carried out a range of duties in a household, with tasks changing through the seasons due to climate and weather constraints. [1] [clarification needed] [page needed] Records exist of women as cheese-makers, [4] dairy-maids, [1] and bakers. [5] Female slaves were corn-grinders, serving maids, wet-nurses, weavers, and seamstresses. [5]
The 1991 UK census was the first to include a question on ethnicity.As of the 2011 UK Census, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) allow people in England and Wales and Northern Ireland who self-identify as "Black" to select "Black African", "Black Caribbean" or "Any other Black/African/Caribbean background" tick boxes. [2]
Lady Anne was born on 30 January 1590 in Skipton Castle, and was baptised the following 22 February in Holy Trinity Church in Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [4] She was the only surviving child and sole heiress of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558–1605) of Appleby Castle in Westmorland and of Skipton Castle, by his wife, Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis ...
A glossary published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health with the intention of stimulating debate about the development of better and more internationally applicable terms to describe ethnicity and race, suggests a definition of Afro-Caribbean/African Caribbean as, "A person of African ancestral origins whose family settled in the Caribbean before emigrating and who self ...
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.