Sunday, October 2, 2016

Queen of France

Rammed Earth Castles

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Rammed Earth Castle, in Spain.

The Stones for the EU Castle Collective

Using Rammed Earth:

As shown in the images, are the older techniques from Spain, with tamped earth, which has been a long lasting alternative in desert climes for many centuries. A 500-year lifetimes for a castle, being the target number with the rammed earth constructions.
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With the use of pneumatic tampers, The Castle constructions can happen quite quickly. However the older hand-tamped method cannot be rescinded, as it has proven the test of durability, whereas, the pnuematic is merely a quicker updated addendum, to the original tool.
tamped-rammed-earth-castle-workers
In as much as the braven sweat on many a mans back is an endearing moment for a Hollywood movie, I believe the newer machines perform as efficiently, and quicker.
Not to debate this, on all ram rebuilds, but rather, let your group (ie. "Ber") go ahead and decide whether to hand tamp or not.
I am not the beast of instant that some of you may prefer for your portfolios. Therefore, the pnuematic version will be available as an option for rebuilds, as well as, the softened tone... of original hand-tamping... if your group "Ber" decides to be more authentic.
A Call to Experts
As France itself is a climate with more humidity than Spain, it cannot be stated that tamped earth = tamped earth everywhere. Like adobe and cob, the soil being used has to be tested for clay contents, etc. The experts of rammed earth construction, will hopefully have the answer on when to add extra clay or add extra limestone. Offering on-site test-kits, per batch of new soil delivered.
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The drastic change to Rammed Earth
I am not advocating rammed earth for all of the Chateau rebuilds.
As I have stated before; (via my Vaux Monarchy mandates) that all of the stones from the quarries of France, belong only to the EU Castle Collective rebuilds of France, and not to residential or outside commercial interests. Although, this doesn't mean going whole-hog on the French quarries, we still have limited quarry supplies, in respect to the sustainability of our mountains production.
The Creative Takers
It appears some of you do not care one ilk past your lifetime to what disruption and ruin you have been associated in "creating". Interesting also, that this group of commercial takers are often those stricken with the disease of antagonism towards artists. As if Their own artist has spired into only creating "take", similar to a bacterial organism that cannot stop.
Person's running their balance of perspectives, decides and rationalities, in suit with one's associated bank account balance. Where that balance, has become their only cognisant release of allow for the human creative spirit.
Oddly, I have also found that these same globally creative "takers",
have a following of "bank account balance worshippers". Person's that are poised to destroy the concept of all creation, within their short lifetimes, due to their fanatical financial beliefs. Whether by forest and mountain destruction, or Nuclear proliferation.
In proving a mountains natural value, there are many that expertly can, however in my cliff notes of expedia:
Mountains are our natural; rainwater harvesters for rivers and snow run-off, natural springs creation, wildlife ecosystems, air current participants that modify wind verocity and storms, genera species creator habitats where only certain species and flora has evolved.
Mountain Production School
Yes, the mountains can recover, after a millon years of planetary shifting and rockfalls, although they will be different mountains in shape and form. Pre-determining that the mountains will "re-grow" in the same location is also not a possible determination.
Therefore, inexplicable changes from even a few quarry digs, are classed as a "Non-Sustainable" resource.
Preference of Sustainability
Yes, there is a preference to the "look" of stone, over that of rammed construction, in certain situations. However, at some point the "look" has to loose its vanity, to our minds wishes.
Remembering, foremost, the native value of a mountain, over the value of a quarry.

Final Close of these Minutes

In conclusion of todays meeting;
Rammed earth castles from Spain, being the long term examples. They are an inexpensive and sustainable alternative, to the original stones. A tamped earth construction technique, lasts for at least 500 yrs.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Queen of France

EU Castle Collective: Hotels: From Ruins to Riches

Chateau Mur
Private Property, in Vaucluse

The Eu Castle Collective
Hotel Chain

The lovely & stereo-typical Chateau Mur on the right, is alloted as a private residence. However, with this Castle building age, with so many ruins, let it be an example of perfection.
The Mur Chateau states romance, indicative of the King Author era, which is much easier on a commercial scale valuation. Visitors from all around the world adore the King Ludwigs Castles and these tiny pristine Chateaus of France. Chateaus, that bring knights in shining armor and gracious carriages, purposeful, for our imaginations to steady, in the midst of their reality.
Therefore, instead of going with absolute original constructions on every build. We build these castles to fit the tastes of our time. The tastes that also bring visitors, and create sales. I am talking Majestic, Renaissance and balanced. Balanced construction appeases the eyes, whereas, a room extra for another room extra, was often shabbily done to conform to the necessities of the time, over the actual architectural design privileges.
EntreChaux in Vaucluse
Otherly, monstroscities were built on cliff precipaces, meaning, construction difficulties for rebuilds. As found often in Vaucluse and the Haute Alp regions. Walled Citadels, that only a fly man or two could actually repair even in this day and age.
I have the theory, that a team of horses, was used as crane power; to joist the stones higher. Horses that merely walked from point A to B. Walking toward point A to lower the scaffold and workers, and walking to point B to raise the scaffold, workers and stones. However the tension ropes and guises had to made extremely strong, with twined leather, even cowhides to contain the stones.

Which Castle first? City, Rural or Major Venues

Touristed Local town and City locations, that contain eye-sores, have to be a priority over smaller country residences. Due to the tourist population, creating chances for a higher income. However there are situations where certain castles have brought persons from all over the world to tiny far away places in France. Castles that have created a bounty of income even in their sometimes difficult-to-find locations. Those types of Castles either offer shows and extravaganzas during the summer, with Camping facilities or they have gone the opposite, and have become 5 star accommodations for corporate business clientele, weddings, etc.
Therefore, if the business plan for a Chateau has been determined to be worth the elaborated repair costs, such as, becoming a 5 star hotel, with equal income potential, to that of a touristed city, then it qualifies as one of the first castles to rebuild.

Business Plans

The castle business plan itself, will have to be a basic design, one that all the castle rebuild facet groups can use. So, that it isn't re-written 1000 times by various persons (There are at least 1000, castles and ruins in France.).
The plan style also helps to determine the correct budget for the rebuild of each castle.
The start of the business-to-income castle plan, has to begin with a castle information database also:
Containing these basics:
Location: City, Local, Countryside
Terrain difficulty: Hill, Cliff, flatland, Riverside, Moated,
Terrain difficulty: Park size of the property. Castle only, 1/2 HA, 1 HA, 3 HA, etc.
Chateau Size: 4000 sq feet, etc
Approx. Number of rooms when finished: 40,
Income Gained Through: Camping, Resales to other Facet Members, Hotel (* - *****), Bed and Breakfast, Summer Extravaganzas, Opera or Concert Parties, Weddings, Museums.
Current Condition: Pile of Stones, Basic Ruine with 2 walls, Ruine with Several Walls, Basic Ruin Castle with Roof, Repaired Castle with Roof, Habitable Castle, Castle ready for Tourists.
Average number of paying customers per day, each year:
If a Corporate Rental, estimated persons per year:
If a Hotel, or bed and breakfast, or campground, estimated guests per year:
If not a Hotel, or tourist occasion, what is the Income potential to be from?: Art seminars, Raising sheep, Vineyard, Casino

From Ruines to Riches

As the collective increases, in size with facet participants; each Chateau sees a renew.
Our Facet team builders, if even, for only one summer during their lifetime, reap benefits of the Collectives Savings increases throughout their lifetime.

Update: I added to the the Facet Name Page:

The Baronnee Facet Names
If you don't qualify in the Facet Castle Name categories.
There are also the Regional Facet Names, also listed on the Castle Facet Name Page
and if you're named after a Region of France, such as "Vau", in "Vaucluse"... You're invited to be a voting participant, toward any major Castle decisions in your region, regardless of the Castles Facet Surname:
Similar to a Baronies powers of say, in the past. However, a limit will be placed on the number of voting Barons and Baronesses. The original Facet Castle surname holders will be able to keep 50% of the vote.
In Halt-Vote decisionals, (50-50 stalemates), well, votes from 2 other facets in the region get to be the deciding vote.

Regional Facet Names


French Surnames that prefix as:

Baronnee Regional Department Facets:

Ain [Ain (1)] :
Ain, Az, Ais, [Aisne (2)] :
Aul, Al, [Allier (3)] :
Mer [Alpes-Maritimes (6)] :
Agu, Aig, [Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes (Region)] :
Ard, Arg, Art, Desc, [Ardèche (7)] :
Ard, Arg, Art, Den, [Ardennes (8)] :
Ari, Ayri, Edg, [Ariège (9)] :
Aub, Aux [Aube (10)] :
Aub, Aux [Aude (11)] :
Ave, Roh [Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Region)] :
Ave, Roh [Aveyron (12)] :
Vas, Was, Rin [Bas-Rhin (67)] :
Bou, Roh [Bouches-du-Rhône (13)] :
Bour, Fran, Com [Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (21)] :
Bri, Tan, [Brittany (Region)] :
Cal, Vas, Was, [Calvados (14)] :
Can, Tal, [Cantal (15)] :
Wahl, Val [Centre-Val de Loire (Region)] :
Che [Cher (18)] :
Cor [Corrèze (19)] :
Cor [Corse-du-Sud (2A)] :
Or, [Côte-d'Or (21)] :
Arm, Mor, [Côtes-d'Armor (22)] :
Cru,Rou, Ru, [Creuse (23)] :
Sav, Sev, [Deux-Sèvres (79)] :
Dor, Don [Dordogne (24)] :
Dou, Du, [Doubs (25)] :
Dro, [Drôme (26)] :
Ess, Son, [Essonne (91)] :
Y'eu, [Eure (27)] :
Y'eu, Lou, lu, [Eure-et-Loir (28)] :
Fin, [Finistère (29)] :
Gar, [Gard (30)] :
Ger, [Gers (32)] :
Gir,Gui [Gironde (33)] :
Rin, [Haut-Rhin (68)] :
Cor [Haute-Corse (2B)] :
Gar, [Haute-Garonne (31)] :
Lou, Lu, [Haute-Loire (43)] :
Mar [Haute-Marne (52)] :
Sei, Sey, [Haute-Saône (70)] :
Sav [Haute-Savoie (74)] :
Ven, Wen, [Haute-Vienne (87)] :
Al, Aul, [Hautes-Alpes (4)] :
Al, Aul, [Hautes-Alpes (5)] :
Peyr, Per [Hautes-Pyrénées (65)] :
Sei, Sey, [Hauts-de-Seine (92)] :
Hér [Hérault (34)] :
Fran, Vran, [Île-de-France (Region)] :
Vil, Wil, [Ille-et-Vilaine (35)] :
Ind, [Indre (36)] :
Ind, Lou, Lu, [Indre-et-Loire (37)] :
Ser, [Isère (38)] :
Jou, [Jura (39)] :
Lan, [Landes (87)] :
Lan, Rou, Ru, Peyr, [Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées (Region)] :
Lou, Lu, Che, [Loir-et-Cher (41)] :
Lou, Lu, [Loire (42)] :
Lou, Lu, Lan [Loire-Atlantique (44)] :
Lou, Lu, [Loiret (45)] :
Lau, [Lot (46)] :
Lau, Gar [Lot-et-Garonne (47)] :
Lau, Loe, [Lozère (48)] :
Mey, Lou, Lu [Maine-et-Loire (49)] :
Man, [Manche (50)] :
Mar, [Marne (51)] :
Mey, Mai, [Mayenne (53)] :
Mur, Mos, [Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)] :
Mou, [Meuse (55)] :
Mor, [Morbihan (56)] :
Mos, [Moselle (57)] :
Ni, [Nièvre (58)] :
Pas, Cal, [Nord-Pas-De-Calais (59)] :
Pas, Cal, Pic [Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie (Region)] :
Ois, [Oise (60)] :
Orn, [Orne (61)] :
Par, [Paris (75)] :
Pas, Cal, [Pas-de-Calais (62)] :
Pai, lou, lu, [Pays de la Loire (Region)] :
Aze, [Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Region)] :
Pui [Puy-de-Dôme (63)] :
Peyr, Per [Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64)] :
Peyr, Per [Pyrénées-Orientales (66)] :
Roh [Rhône (69)] :
Sei, lou, lu [Saône-et-Loire (71)] :
Sar [Sarthe (72)] :
Sav [Savoie (73)] :
Sei, Sey, Mar [Seine-et-Marne (77)] :
Sei, Sey, Mar [Seine-Maritime (76)] :
Sei, Sey, [Seine-Saint-Denis (93)] :
Sau, [Somme (80)] :
Tar [Tarn (81)] :
Tar, Gar [Tarn-et-Garonne (82)] :
Bel [Territoire de Belfort (90)] :
Wahl, Val, Ois [Val-d'Oise (95)] :
Wahl, Val, Mar [Val-de-Marne (94)] :
Var, [Var (83)] :
Vau, Bau, Beau [Vaucluse (84)] :
Van, Wan [Vendée (85)] :
Ven, [Vienne (86)] :
Vas, Was, [Vosges (88)] :
Yon, [Yonne (89)] :
Yèv [Yvelines (78)] :

Updated Close of these EU Castle Collective Minutes

In conclusion of todays meeting;
The addition of "the Baronnee Facet names".
With attention to the voting procedures per department.
Business plan database outline, for the ruins to riches objective, of the Collective. -------------------------------
EU Castle Collective Research links:
The List of Castles from Wikipedia, with links to many images:
France

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Queen of France

King List of Europe from the Middle Ages

This is my most up to date "King Line" Chart List so far: Adding Luxembourg, Holland and Germany: (It's clearer in the gallery view, click on the image, and then right click to zoom:)

This chart lists Kings from my Grandfather Vaux: (King Edward III from John de Gaunt, etc),
His wife (from my Grandmother's bloodline), also finds Kings and Queens.
From her tall Norwegian self, various royal ancestors are also discovered; including a way through to King Edward III from his youngest son Thomas, and another way through to the 3 Scottish Kings, Duncan I, Malcolm III and David I, (including a new Scottish Princess Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany .
Meaning, there are 2 Ancestry lines ascending to King Edward III: one from each of my Grandparents (mother's side of the family), where the surnames of those lines thereafter King Edward III, including the French Capetians Kings, Arpad Dynasty, etc are converged.
king lines of europe
I may be "only Vaux in history",
who has been able to find themselves as a direct descendant of the Capetian French Kings, and other European Kingdoms.
For those who want to purview, My Vaux Kingdom database which supports the details of my findings, as a Royal, of England, the Capetian Dynasty and other European Kingdoms, surname by surname: I will try to add new names as they arise. The surname update page has my most recent info. However, the database below is better as it includes first names, and surnames lines by color.

The smaller 1 page Printable version "King List of Europe" : Column AZ/row 14:
Extensive List with More Kings, dates of Reign, Wives, etc., Better for studying.


I also have made a few slideshows of Dynasties, listing portraits and paintings and a bit of historical data, including only my particular royal ancestors, within each dynasty shown:

Capetian Kings of France

Counts of Berengue(r) and the Kingdom of Aragon

The Arpad Dynasty


One line finds ancestors not as Kings of France or England at all, (after "William the Conquerer"); rather a line with a bastard son, the son of King Henry*. (*One of My Royal Ancestors.)
The "Be Faithful" motto of the Vaux's of de Vallibus, did not rally with the state of affairs that was being run by, the Kings of England. Which was giving name and occupancy, with fortitudes and plenty to their bastard children. Hence the dispirited Vaux's staked Scotland as theirs, away from the King's decadent allocations.

Honorable Mention to the author, J. David Vance:

A good resource book for the Vaux's, available with pdf., and their offshoot names throughout much of history, going through the years of the smaller Barnbarroch* Castle after Dirleton. Which did look halfway decent, prior the 1940's.
He attempts to settle the difference of Vaux and Baux, which still leads into confusion. As Haploid wants to rule the path of a genetic traveler over all else. *84 rooms
However, as quoted from the pdf.:
"In 929 AD Bertrand de Baux went to Normandy, in the north of France, by invitation of the Duke of Normandy and established a branch of the family there where the name became de Vaux. Bertrand was the progenitor of the family de Vaux, which long held a distinguished rank among the nobles of Normandy."
I will return to the simple Boat warning, As the rivers in the south of France are very shallow as compared to the North. A major fear of mine, as I was once in a heeled yacht and almost lost my dog to a drowning. The most awful situation, if a boat is your home, and your livi-hood.
The Vaux's did after all, conquest with William the Conquerer from boats.
Pdf: The Path of Family
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Dirleton was a gutted visit, steeped in history. Next to the new turnabout in a small Scottish village. Where oil was once poured from its turrets to scald any antagonists of the Castle.
It included a terrible "Penance reckoning" chamber, for prisoners underneath the Chapel.
However, during my travels through Scotland, I did not find the little estate with a lake, called Barnbarroch.
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Good news, as apparently I descend only from the sister of the brother, and not the brother, who was strangled to death, in Schönburg Castle. There are several Schoenburgs, but one of them has a castle design that is so extreme and eclectic, I couldn't include a picture of it, on this site. Not all castles were of great design.
De Vallibus Castle of Normandy may hold an old treasure, of how it was, sadly it is shown as a ruine.