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Originally Posted by The Colonel
Her predecessors the Plantagenets, however, did. It's related to Henry II describing his sons as "the Devil's brood", but derives from the Black Legend of Anjou - specifically, that the Counts of Anjou (including Henry II's father) were descended from a marriage between Count Fulk and the devil's daughter... it was at least a somewhat self aware excuse for being ambitious, arrogant and foul tempered...
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A wonderful family legend for the billion or so people who are descended from the Plantagenets (basically anyone with any European ancestry). They ruled for a long time and were fairly busy when it came to producing children (legitimate or otherwise). Of course, quite a few less of them can prove ancestry, but that is because of poor record keeping over the centuries.