Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard

And that is only those two provinces, I haven't even begun about the other fourteen. And that for such a small piece of land
Last time I checked we still only had 12 provinces
Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard
Personally one could call me a Frank. This is for two reasons: my family on my mother's side are Huguenots, thus they come from France, in this case Southern France, around Toulouse. They stayed pretty French in character, since where they live there is a large amount of people of Huguenot descent. The second reason is because my family on my father's side comes from the southern Netherlands, which was part of the Frankish heartland of Austrasia (its name under the Merovingians and Carolingians, but the region itself, and its Frankish character, existed long before Clodovech came along) from the time the Franks became foederati of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. And to say that 'part' of me is purely Frankish is bullocks -- the Franks mixed with Celts, Romans, and anything else they found in Austrasia at the time. And the term 'pure' is a wrong word to begin with, but I use it because of the lack of alternatives.

But, mind you, that's the so-called 'ethnic' character of myself. The term itself is biased, but I simply mean of which peoples the blood which runs in my veins descends. And no-one can claim that is pure, for that is an impossibility. Pure itself is a wrong term anyways. In any case, being technically a Frank (with 25% Jewish blood as well; yes, I'm a mixed bag ), my nationality is Dutch. And even that isn't fully true -- I was born and grew up on the Dutch Antilles. Now there's a brain-teaser, isn't there?



~Wiz
With this I totally agree, all this so-called ethnic stuff is mostly bullsh**. However, in respect to your 'frankish' descent, It is true that the soutern Netherlands once were part of Austrasia, thus being Frankish (though with high quantities of other peoples like for example the Frisians mixing in, as you said). However, your huguenot descet from southern France does actually not mean any Frankish descent; it is unlikely many 'real Franks' went to live south of the Loire, at least their relative proportion would get lower and lower. Depending on the region Roman, Visigoth or Burgundian 'descent' would be more plausible.

Sorry, I can be a "Pietje Precies" at times