>>6592256
> McLeod syndrome
https://phys.org/news/2011-03-puzzle-henry-viii.html
If Henry also suffered from McLeod syndrome, a genetic disorder specific to the Kell blood group, it would finally provide an explanation for his shift in both physical form and personality from a strong, athletic, generous individual in his first 40 years to the monstrous paranoiac he would become, virtually immobilized by massive weight gain and leg ailments.
"It is our assertion that we have identified the causal medical condition underlying Henry's reproductive problems and psychological deterioration," write Whitley and Kramer.
"We have traced the possible transmission of the Kell positive gene from Jacquetta of Luxembourg, the king's maternal great-grandmother," the report explains. "The pattern of reproductive failure among Jacquetta's male descendants, while the females were generally reproductively successful, suggests the genetic presence of the Kell phenotype within the family."
http://www.philippagregory.com/family-tree/jacquetta-of-luxembourg
Jacquetta, the daughter of Count Saint-Pol of Luxembourg, a family said to have traced their ancestry back to the water goddess Melusina, was first married at the age of seventeen to the Duke of Bedford (brother to King Henry V) and lived with him in France where he served as the regent for his nephew Henry VI.
Accusations of witchcraft followed Jacquetta throughout her life. Warwick named her as a witch and claimed that Edward IV’s surprise marriage to Jacquetta’s daughter Elizabeth had come about through magic. Jacquetta was tried for witchcraft while Edward IV was captured and the accusers produced little lead figures which they said she had been using for charming, and witnesses who swore she had been casting spells. The case fell apart when Warwick released Edward IV from custody, and Jacquetta was cleared by the king’s great council of the charges on January 19, 1470.
https://venerablevixens.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/the-line-of-melusina-jacquetta-of-luxembourg/
The myth of Melusina tells the tale of the water goddess Melusina. Melusina was one of three daughters. She was born half fay and half human. When her mother punished her for wrongdoings against her father, Melusina was cursed to become a serpent from the waist down until she met a man who would marry her under the condition of never seeing her on Saturday and keeping his promise. The Luxembourg’s claimed their ancestor, Siegfried, married this Goddess. He became enchanted with her when he met her in the forest and asked her hand in marriage, agreeing to not see her on Saturdays under any circumstance. She made their castle of Bock appear the morning after her wedding, as if by magic.
Melusina, realizing her husband had broken his promise, departed from him. Upon leaving she said, “But one thing will I say unto thee before I part, that thou, and those who for more than a hundred years shall succeed thee, shall know that whenever I am seen to hover over the fair castle, then will it be certain that in that very year the castle will get a new lord.” Melusina’s cry would haunt her descendants with the tragic news of impending death, and it was from this misery that Jacquetta’s line sprang. Jacquetta would share the magic of her ancestor and would be haunted for life with the sad song of impending death and doom to her house.
https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2015/10/the-tale-of-mélusine.html
At the turn of the 14th century to the 15th century two versions of the legend of Mélusine appeared the first by Jean d’Arras (1393-1394), with another penned by Coudrette sometime in the opening years of the 15th century. This tale is about one of the most compelling female characters in medieval French fiction. It most likely draws on earlier myths dating back to Gallo-Roman and Celtic prototypes. Even the name "Fair Melusina" may derive from the same ancient Gaulish root for the fair beings such as mermaids, water sprites, and forest nymphs.
The intriguing story tells of the beautiful Mélusine, the result of the marriage of the King of Scotland and his fairy wife.
>>6635516
>The 'original' inhabitants were tall and fair (sound familiar?)