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However, he had been traumatised to discover that his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was, in fact, Nicola de Gryphone, the illegitimate son of a French noblewoman and a Moorish warrior, and whose archers were directly responsible for the death of King Harold.

Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

However, he had been traumatised to discover that his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was, in fact, Nicola de Gryphone, the illegitimate son of a French noblewoman and a Moorish warrior, and whose archers were directly responsible for the death of King Harold.

BNP Leader Griffin Found Dead Dungeekin 2009

But in the years since Born's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather had settled in this tree, contact with other tribes had first dwindled and then stopped altogether.

Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

Jonathan Safran Foer: According to family legend, our great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Menashe Chrabolowski was a master ...

Aaron Gross: Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals 2009

Jonathan Safran Foer: According to family legend, our great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Menashe Chrabolowski was a master ...

Rabbi David Wolpe: Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets? 2009

I have it on the word of a cousin who researched the matter that the husband, our great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, 'appears in the standard printed histories of Arkansas as "Old Colonel Ben Hardin, the hero of so many Indian wars."'

Why Didion Is Still Great 2007

At Torurn he showed where Nicholas Copernicus had studied the stars, and when the raft went past the place at which vast Malbork Castle lay somewhat to the east, he told of the time their great-great-great - great-great-great-great-great-grandfather had been imprisoned there because he had tried to buy an amber necklace.

Poland Michener, James 1983

"And it was thus that your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was driven to Murano, was it?" queried Mr. Cabot.

The Story of Glass Sara Ware Bassett 1920

They bowed low to Lionel, and the gravest one said: "Sire, your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, the King of this country, is dead, and now you have got to come and be King."

The Book of Dragons H. Granville [Illustrator] Fell 1891

James DeWolf Perry VI's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather used African slaves to grow coffee on this rocky hillside outside Havana, and to him its thorny weeds and small sugar plots feel haunted.

The Seattle Times 2010