"Junk Salvation" by Funky Junk Sisters: It's GIVEAWAY time!!!!

"Junk Salvation" by Funky Junk Sisters: It's GIVEAWAY time!!!!: As you know we all LOVE GIVEAWAYS !!

This one is from the evah FaBuLoUs Heather Hansen... of Heather Hansen Designs !
It is one ...fabulous prize. I've liked and entered all over the place. Hope I win. Love those junk sisters and just bought a necklace from Heathers ETSY shop.

WHO AM I ?

My roots certainly are of royalty.  While visiting our 18th Great-Grandfathers Castle in Ashton-with-Stoddy in Lancaster, England, my sister began calling me QUEENIE.

 I had been called that over the years but this reference to it inspired me to start my business called yes "QUEENIE". Of course I collect crowns make purses and anything regal enough for a queen.  My favorite story is after my son had done our genealogy linked back to the family owning the above castle, (and pretty much all European royalty)  my husband and I made plans to visit.  Upon telling my mother she said "  of all the people that you had to tell they were royalty it had to be Christine.  She has always thought she was royalty anyway.   Thanks, QUEENIE
                                                                   
                                                                     ASHTON HALL
                                                               

Robert de Lancaster
or Sir Robert Lawrence

According to H G Somberby this generation was
 Sir Robert Lawrence b 1155/60 - 1216 who had arms [a cross raguley, gules] conferred upon him by Richard Coeur of Lion, for his bravery in scaling the walls of Acre in 1191.

  According to this genealogy, the Lawrences of Ashton Hall are descended from a Robert Lawrence born about 1150 A.D., or about 1155/60 A.D., depending on the writer, in the vicinity of Lancaster, England.
   One source indicates that his father also was named Robert and worked as a silversmith for the Lord of Lancaster Castle. Lancaster Castle was established about 1100 A.D. on the remains of three Roman forts and today is a prison.
   Somberby's account of the Lawrences may have been drawn from Fosbroke's History of Gloucestershire.  This work also is cited in Nichols' The Herald and Genealogist where the lineage is quoted from Sir Robert Lawrence, knighted on the Crusade to John Lawrence who married a Holt as shown in the table below.
     Nichols goes on to say "What the value of the above may be, unattested by evidences, I must leave your Correspondents to determine."
     Robert Lawrence joined the Third Crusades in 1187 A.D. led by Richard Coeur de Lion.
     He traveled by ship first to Cyprus and then to what is now present day Palestine.
    There he took part in the siege of Acre.
     One version indicates that he scaled the walls of Acre with four other men and opened the gates to the armies of the Crusades.
     Another version indicates that he was the first to raise the flag of the Crusades on a Palestine hill during the siege of Acre.
    For his deeds he was knighted by King Richard in 1191 A.D. and was given Ashton Hall.
     Another writer indicates that he was created a Knight-Banneret
        (a military Knighthood and the highest grade in the Middle Ages)
     and was allow to bear for Arms, "Agent, a cross ragulée gules," a red cross of trunks of trees having pieces like couped boughs projecting from the side in a slanting direction, on a silver shield.
   This Arms is registered with the College of Arms in London, England.
Sir Robert Lawrence also is referred to Robert de Lancaster in some texts.
This probably is more accurate as surnames did not come into common use until the late 1200s or early 1300s.

    One source indicates that within the halls of Ashton Manor is a silver cup adorned with the motif of Roman armies and the Roman General, Julius Agricola who was born in the year 40 A.D.
   Legend indicates that General Agricola arrived in Lancaster in the year 89 A.D. where he and his armies built the first wooden fort upon a hill where Lancaster Castle stands. 
   During his stay, he met and fell in love with a young British girl by whom he had a son.
    He was unable to take the girl and child with him when he returned to Italy where he had a large estate, wife, and children. He gave the cup to the girl as a legacy.
     The son supposedly became the first silversmith in a long line of silversmiths and, according to legend, was the direct ancestor of the above Robert Lawrence.
      No basis for the legend appear in existing records but no doubt the thousands of Romans marching through England left some genetic connections behind.

    Sir Robert Lawrence existence is proven by the recording of his knighthood in the College of Arms and his being mentioned in the French scribe’s rendition of the "Intinerarium", a day by day account of the Third Crusades.by Paul E Lawrence 

TEST TEST TEST

My first time at this is  challenging at best.   I will try once again to add  pictures and promise  to try daily to get better at it.