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"My castles are my King's alone from turret to
foundation stone but the hand of Sinclair is his alone."
i HAVE NO IDEA WHERE
THIS Quote is from. As a a lad I learned this from my Mother, Gor rest her
soul, some fifty odd years ago. She called storie/poems "Tales of the Lion
in the North" As close as memory serves me
" My mothers broken Heart
Now my severed head
shall attest to thy parental
care
but could these few short
summers
be mine
the world would cry Sinclair
and echo with our fame
My castles are my King's
alone
from turret to foundation
stone
but the hand of Sinclair is
his alone.
I die Canmores obediant
servent
and he the lessor for
it"
My mother told on a
winters eve of Sinclair deedsvictorous, She claimed that we served
Malcom Canmore as he booted the Kingdom in to unity until Sinclair came to
stand as large as the King himself. It is only my mothers tale that I have
never seen documented nor have I ever found the quote reference for the fragment
above.
Sinclair
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 10:20
PM
Subject: Re: St Clair sur Epte
At 12:38 08/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
Niven
Sinclair
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- From: Privateers <Privateers@privateers.org>
- To: sinclair@jump.net
<sinclair@jump.net>
- Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 11:53 PM
- Subject: Re: St Clair sur Epte
Do you have any info oh Sinclair as bodyguards to the King of
France? I do belive 911 is correct for thr Treaty and 912 for
baptism. Clair is only spelling I found. Robert is a very French
pronounced Rowbear
Sinclair
----- Original Message -----
From: Niven Sinclair
To: laurel@spiritone.com
Cc: sinclair@mids.org ;
Selvermj@aol.com ; jsq@mids.org ; Ian Sinclair -
Manchester ; Elaine
Sin-Fowler ; sinclair@mindspring.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:13 AM
Subject: St Clair sur Epte
If you will be good enough to let me have your address, I will send
you the relevant information on St Clair sur Epte.
It would appear to be quite simple: Forest - Hermit - Hut - Death
884 - Chapel - Church - Village - Town - Rollo - Treaty of
St Clair-sur-Epte 912 some 28 years after the death of Clair
(which is the spelling which is used on the three feet high altar
in the shrine to the hermit).
The only name which could have existed before the death of the
hermit would have been the name of the forest itself.
Another account of Clair states that he was born in Scotland (where
else?) and wrote the "Ritual of Divine Duty" and
lived
about 600 A.D
In the Dictionary of Christian Biography, Vol I (London 1877) there
are notices of nine saints named Clarus. The account
there states that the Clarus, after whom St Clair-sur-Epte was
named, was a personage of the ixth century and hailed from
Rochester in Kent. This is the generally accepted
version. It is of little consequence because there is no
suggestion that
the Sinclairs had any blood connection with any of the Saints.
When surnames came into vogue people simply adopted the
name of the area in which they lived or, in other cases, the name of
their trade or profession.
There is another interesting territorial connection because the
Sinclairs became the Governors of Rochester, Dover and Colchester
castles after the Conquest - protecting the gateways to London just as
they protected the gateway to Edinburgh (Rosslyn and Hermandston
Castles) and the gateway to Tunsberg (the then Royal Palace of Norway)
by being Governors of Bergen Castle.
The Sinclairs had a strategy which transcended national
boundaries. They were, according to a Professor at Moscow State
University, one of the two most important families in
Europe.
Thankfully, there is evidence of a resurgence of interest in our
lineage and in our heritage which can only augur well for the
future.
We are nothing without our roots. It is knowing our roots
which gives us stability; which allows us to realise and then release
the
true potential which lies within each one of us and, with that
knowledge, to forge a better future for all Mankind. "We are too
few"
I hear people say. Well it has always been the few
who have changed history. Our forefathers did. We may not be
able to do so
on the same scale but I'm reminded that "If every man could mend a
man, the whole World would soon be mended" which
brings us back to St Clair who was a great
healer.
Niven Sinclair
P.S.
Rollo (as the French know him) or Hrolf 'the Ganger' (which was the
epithet by which he was generally known) which means
Hrolf 'the Walker' because he was so big that no horse could carry
him!!
If surnames had not come into vogue I wonder what nick-names we
would have? Bill 'the Prophet''? Louisa 'the Torment'?
- perhaps I'd better stop there before people begin identifying
themselves with my suggestions. I'd prefer to be known as Niven
'the Mediator' rather than Niven 'the trouble maker' (Actually
Niven means "little saint" in Gaelic so I am a "little saint St Clair"
which may have been what my parents were hoping for but which, alas,
they didn't get).
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