Aubrey de Vere, I, Sheriff of Berkshire - Descendants of Melusine

Greetings cousins!
Kamakapualani Pahinui is your 17th cousin
Kuʻuipo Dillard ❤️ is your 9th cousin's wife
;)

Aloha Jacqueli ❤️🌈 Blessings!

I wonder if her and I have more connections too. On the Hawaiian side. I need to focus more on my Hawaiian genealogy. Hawaiians were constantly trading babies too so itʻs hard to tell sometimes if the relationship is blood, adoption or in-law. I even called my Dadʻs actual brother Dad sometimes too.

~ Iʻm fascinated by the Descendants of Melusine because in Hawaiʻi we have the same type of ancestors, Dragons or Moʻo. We believe they are real 100% and not metaphor.

Aloha Cousin! I believe there are many more and closer ties - they probably not show on here as it is a mess and inaccurrate. I miss Hawaii and my friends/cousins there. Give Her my love ...
Have a Blessed Holiday Season and always explore the possibilities Cousin! ❤️

i find it quite interesting that the de vere line
comes down thru the DRURY LINE

Aubrey de Vere, I, Sheriff of Berkshire is your 25th great grandfather.
You
→ Lyn aka Lynda Mae Handy - Schwenger
your mother → Viola Mae Drury - Handy
her mother → Dr. George Walker Herbert Drury or Dr. George W.H. Drury
her father → Charles Alfred Drury
his father → Richard Drury
his father → Joseph E. Drury aka J.E.D. of Kenilworth Farm
his father → Joseph Drury
his father → Joseph Drury
his father → John Drury
his father → Joseph Drury
his father → Sir John Drury
his father → Robert Drury, of Docking
his father → John Drury, of Godwick
his father → John Drury, Jr., Esq
his father → John Drury, Esq., of Rougham
his father → Thomas Drury, Esq., of Rougham
his father → Sir William Drury, of Rougham
his father → Margaret de Vere de Nauton - Drury
his mother → Thomas de Vere De Naunton
her father → Ellen De Vere
his mother → Robert de Vere, 6th Earl Oxford
her father → Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford
his father → Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford
his father → Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford, Surety of the Magna Carta
his father → Aubrey III de Vere aka Albert Sanglier
his father → Lord Alberic de Vere, II
his father → Aubrey de Vere, I, Sheriff of Berkshire
his father

Private User I am just now seeing this post. I never check the threads here. But, since you mentioned it on my FB page, I Google the name and it brought me to your thread. LOL

Anyway, I don't know what Mesuline is. I'll look that up.

Mélusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a lamia or a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both.

Her legends are especially connected with the northern and western areas of France, Luxembourg, and the Low Countries.

The Limburg-Luxemburg dynasty (which ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1308 to 1437 as well as Bohemia and Hungary),

...the House of Anjou and their descendants the House of Plantagenet (kings of England),

...and the French House of Lusignan (kings of Cyprus from 1205–1472, and for shorter periods over Cilician Armenia and Jerusalem)

...are said in folk tales and medieval literature to be descended from Melusine.

The story combines several major legendary themes, such as the water nymph or mermaid, the earth being (terroir), the genius loci or guardian spirit of a location, the succubus who comes from the diabolical world to unite carnally with a man, or the banshee or harbinger of death.

In France
Melusine legends are especially connected with the northern areas of France, Poitou and the Low Countries, as well as Cyprus, where the French Lusignan royal house that ruled the island from 1192 to 1489 claimed to be descended from Melusine [i.e. "fairies" or nonhuman entities].

In Luxembourg
The Counts of Luxembourg also claimed descent from Melusine through their ancestor Siegfried.

When in 963 A.D. Count Siegfried of the Ardennes (Sigefroi in French; Sigfrid in Luxembourgish) bought the feudal rights to the territory on which he founded his capital city of Luxembourg, his name became connected with the local version of Melusine.

This Melusina had essentially the same magic gifts as the ancestress of the Lusignans. The morning after their wedding, she magically created the Castle of Luxembourg on the Bock rock (the historical center point of Luxembourg City).

On her terms of marriage, she too required one day of absolute privacy each week. Eventually Sigfrid was tempted by curiosity and entered her apartment on Saturday, when he saw her in her bath and discovered her to be a mermaid.

He cried out in surprise, and Melusina and her bath sank into the earth. Melusine remained trapped in the rock but returns every seven years either as a woman or a serpent, carrying a golden key in her mouth. Anyone brave enough to take the key will free her and win her as his bride. Also every seven years, Melusine adds a stitch to a linen chemise; if she finishes the chemise before she can be freed, all of Luxembourg will be swallowed by the rock.

In 1997, Luxembourg issued a postage stamp commemorating her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melusine#:~:text=M%C3%A9lusine%20(Fre....