Rumors of a family relationship with the real Pocahontas in the Norton family have long existed.
Hollywood actor and Fight Club star Edward Norton shared news from his life. He recently found out that he is a descendant of Pocahontas. CNN writes about it.
Norton found this out by visiting the genealogical history show Finding Your Roots, which means Find Your Roots. The show focuses on the history of the ancestors of famous people. There Norton learns that Pocahontas, the romanticized and mythologized daughter of a 17th-century Native American chief. And she is his 12th great grandmother.
“There is written evidence that, without a doubt, proves your relationship to your twelfth great-grandparents Pocahontas and John Rolfe,” said historian and show host Henry Louis Gates Jr.
According to him, the couple married on April 5, 1614 in Jamestown, Virginia. According to the documents, Pocahontas died three years later in Gravesend, England, and Rolf died in March 1622.
It was also noted that rumors of a family relationship with the real Pocahontas in the Norton family have existed for a long time.
“You realize how small you are … a piece of the whole history of mankind,” said Norton, who learned all this.
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