Carley concluded they showed royal loyalty but not royal origins, but suggested it might be worth checking the collection for books from Henry's library.
The historian Martin Carver has argued that Wuffa is "best regarded as an emblematic figure personified from royal origin-myth" Later East Anglian kings claimed their right to rule by being descended from Wuffa, in the same way that the Kentish kings claimed descent from Oisc.
These proclamations of non-royal origins were possibly made to dissociate these kings from their immediate predecessors, in particular Seth Meribre whose monuments have been usurped and defaced.
Egyptologists have noted that instead of hiding their non-royal origins, Neferhotep I, his predecessor Sobekhotep III, and his successor Sobekhotep IV, remarkably proclaimed them on their stelae and scarab seals.
He told such tall tales of his origins and adventures that few believed his claims to royal descent.
From South Carolina recipes for squirrel and venison to thoughts about why how peacocks shouldn't be eaten and Jimi Hendrix should change his clothes, to recipes learned cooking in Pee Wee's Slave Trade Kitchen, to lies told in Paris about royal African origins, this trippy cookbook provides a rare glimpse into the world of black bohemia.
By the treaty made between King Alfred the Great and the Danish king Guthrum in 878, the latter acquired Essex, but it was won back by the Wessex dynasty early in the 10th century and was thereafter ruled by ealdormen, in origin royal household officials.
Moreover, after art collections of royal and noble origin became the core of the first museums, there appeared other, less ambitious collections accumulated by wealthy amateurs who shared a mutual taste for quality.
The origins of Scottish estate houses are in aristocratic emulation of the extensive building and rebuilding of royal residences, beginning with Linlithgow, under the influence of Renaissance architecture.
