The most ridiculous.......

[gilmore]

Oh no! Not King John! Anybody, but not King John!

Afraid so. As they say, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your relatives.

King John was quite prolific, having had at least eight or so children who lived to adulthood, as I recall, including the illegitimates. Some sources put the number of the latter higher.

He married one of his daughters to Llewellyn ap Irowerth, Prince of Wales. His other close descendants include the kings of Scotland and the Balliols. In just six generations they numbered in the hundreds, too many to cut and paste a list of them in this post. They are set out here: http://www.genealogics.org/descend.p...00807&tree=LEO