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For 400 years, many historians have claimed that the Colony of Virginia was named for the Virgin Queen of England, Elizabeth (1534-1603), although Queen Elizabeth was no virgin, had numerous love affairs, and was deceased before Jamestown Fort was built in 1607.

So, the most logical reason for the name "Virginia" was because the most important lady during the establishment of Jamestown was the Virgin Princess, Pocahontas, who helped the settlers survive two hard winters, or perhaps the secret plantation known as Varina. (Ref: Pocahontas, by Susan Donnell.)

Princess Pocahontas was born in about 1596 and lived at Varina with her half-brothers, Pamouic and Secotin, and with her mother, the mistress of King William “the silent” of Orange, who had been living and hiding in Virginia since the previous Sir Walter Raleigh expedition.

In 1605, her half-brother, "Will" (See Shakespeare's Sonnet 135) was born and taken to England with Capt. John Smith in 1609, who was using the fictitious name of "Smith" in Virginia at that time. His real name in England can be found by checking the Coat-of-Arms that appears on his map of Virginia, which was published in 1612. But, even his covert name in England, “Capt. John (Smith) Armistead”, was intended to hide his real Royal Family status in Europe.

After "Will" was born and named for William "the silent" of Orange, he was raised at Varina Plantation, until he could safely be transported to England, in early 1609, where he was christened "William Armistead" (1610-1666?) in 1610. And later, “Will” was adopted by King John Maurice Henry of Orange, who was a younger brother of Prince Plilip William Henry of Orange as requested in Shakespeare’s Will, Sonnet 135.

ROYAL FAMILY BACKGROUND
“Capt. John Smith” was most likely Prince Philip William Henry of Orange (1564-1616), who had used other names in the past, and had been held captive by the Spanish for over twenty years. During his capture by the Spanish in South America (at about age 22), he was using the fictitious name of "Capt. John Drake", after being given the command of a ship by "Sir Francis Drake", his father, who used a fictitious name in England, also.

Since Prince Philip William Henry was confined in Spanish prisons, he was bypassed as King of Orange, but may have been chosen as King of Hesse-Kassel after William “the wise” Henry died at sea as “Sir John Hawkins” (1532-1595), who was a rich pirate from Portsmouth, England, although Hesse-Kassel royal records have been very confused, since Hitler, who was prejudiced about Indians. (Ref.: William IV of Hesse-Kassel.)

“Capt. John (Smith) Drake”, the young painter, had sailed around the World on the Golden Hinde with "Sir Francis Drake" and his cousin, “Sir John Hawkins”, who was the special, celestial navigator on the voyage around the world from 1577 to 1580.

“The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake” (by Samuel Bawlf, © 2003) captured gold and silver for Queen Elizabeth as well as determined the width of North and South America by the navigation experiments of “Sir John Hawkins”, who was knighted for his successful longitude, navigation measurements. He was the first to use the stars to determine longitude, accurately, without a portable clock, which was invented later.

Oxford historians claim “Sir Francis Drake” lived with his poor family of 12 brothers on an old bark, like ducks, moored in the Thames River, although they have found few descendants of the Drake Family. Therefore, I claim he was a fugitive from the Iron Duke, like many aristocrats of Europe, had several sisters (who dressed like boys to aid the deception) and used a covert family name, while surviving in England, like his rich cousin, “Sir John Hawkins”, who owned a fleet of merchant and pirate ships in Portsmouth.

So, Cape Henry, where the Jamestown expedition first landed, was named after the Royal Henry Family of Europe, who controlled Germany, France and the Netherlands and had allied themselves with English cousins by the friendship of William "the silent" of Orange (1533-1586?) and Queen Elizabeth I (1534-1603), who were frequent lovers, but never married.

The love affair with Queen Elizabeth is well documented in Shakespeare's first 100 sonnets, since “Shakespeare” was King William "the silent" of Orange, and was also known as the Marquis De Vere in his younger years, before he and many royal families were forced to flee the Netherlands (by the Iron Duke of Alba) on ships during the long War with Spain. Most royal fugitives adopted covert names while hiding in England or Denmark.

VIRGINIA HISTORY AFTER JAMESTOWN
“Will” Armistead (1605-1666-77) was educated at Cambridge and later became King William V of Hesse-Kassel, after his uncle Moritz died, but abdicated in 1637 to return to Virginia with his first “love-child”, William, by Lady Anne Lovelace, Duchess of Kent, and with Lady Anne Lovelace, whom he married in Virginia in about 1639, after her pastor husband died. Lady Anne Lovelace had been his “first love” before the Siege of Groll in 1628 and before her “repentance” marriage to the Rev. Gorsuch of England.

“Will” abdicated from Hesse-Kassel in 1637, leaving his “widow” in charge, who was later replaced with his first son, William VI, who had been raised by King Fredrick V Henry as Philip William (1628-1649). The Dutch or Prussians did not consider royal birth by marriage to be necessary to determine the next ruler or heir, unlike England, and loved deceptions.

In 1649, Lady Anne Lovelace was murdered by Oliver Cromwell rebels in Virginia, and William Armistead-Berkeley was known, thereafter, as William Berkeley in England for security reasons, since King Maurice (or Moritz) had also used the fictitious name of "Berkeley" while hiding in England in 1610 for security reasons.

Sir William Armistead-Berkeley (1605-1677) was appointed as Governor of Virginia after Oliver Cromwell was ousted, married Lady Culpepper, and built the royal palace "Greenspring" at White Sulphur Springs, WV. (after 1666), which is now called the "Greenbrier" Country Club. King William II of England was his grandson by Queen Mary Stuart I of England.

Sir William Armistead-Berkeley had special royal privileges and had published a few plays in London, (after 1650) before being chosen as the new Governor of Virginia in about 1665.

Lady Culpepper's cousin, General Nathaniel Bacon, led the Bacon Rebellion (in 1676) along with Col. John and Anthony Armistead, which used Dutch ships to burn down Jamestown, since the Dutch claimed that the English and the Indians had been stealing Varina tobacco crops that belonged to the Royal Dutch Families of Virginia. Plus, Jamestown Island was believed to be infested with plague carrying rats from Europe.

It is easy to determine whose side Sir William Armistead-Berkeley was on during the revolution that failed, since he pardoned Col. John and Anthony Armistead, his sons, while he hanged many Englishmen after the Bacon Rebellion. Some say General Daniel Bacon was hanged, while others claim he died of "the fax", and no one is now completely sure where Jamestown was even located in 1607, since many court and library records were burned in 1705, after Capt. William Kidd was hanged. Was he King William II, too?

In fact, in order to settle the Bacon Rebellion, many acres of the Henrico Middle Plantation, which belonged to the Dutch Royal Family, were donated to build the new village of Williamsburg, which was more centrally located and on higher ground than the original Jamestown settlement.

THE REAL JAMESTOWN LOCATION
Therefore, it is believed that the original Jamestown Fort was on Turkey Island, which was only about 10 miles from Varina Plantation, near Richmond. Varina was established as a Monastery for Bible Scholars, even before Jamestown, where Sir Dudley Diggs, a Knight, was in command. “Wm. Shakespeare” was also at Varina and may have been responsible for the Book of Poetic Psalms, while pretending to be just another Bible scholar. Only a few of the scholars knew where they were living and working, since no maps existed of Virginia, except in the head of King “Shakespeare”.

King William "Shakespeare" of Orange and 99 other scholars spent about 5 years at Varina Monastery prior to 1605, when the first edition of the King James Bible was published. (Ref: “Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia”, 1891, by Bishop Wm. Meade of the Episcopal Church, where the names of most Bible scholars are listed.) Amendments were made in 1609, when “Shakespeare” returned to England, temporarily. (Ref. “Amen”.)

In the book, “Pocahontas” (by Susan Donnell), it is claimed that Chief Pohatan gave Pocahontas (and John Rolfe-Armistead) Varina Plantation as a wedding gift, while most historians know that Virginia was claimed by the Dutch and the English, who considered the “natives” to have very limited, if any, property rights. Plus, Chief Powhatan lived 100 miles away, nearer to Mobjack Bay at Werowocomoco on the Mattiponi River, while Pocahontas lived at Varina near Jamestown Fort with “Shakespeare”, her private tutor!
Pocahontas was Shakespeare's "My Fair Lady".

John Rolfe-Armistead (1585-1622) is believed to be the only son of William “the wise” of Hesse-Kassel, who had many Dutch cousins, three of which were lost during the War with Spain, and inherited Varina because he married Pocahontas. (See: “The Tempest” and Sonnet 135 by Shakespeare.)

In fact, “William Shakespeare” was the person who suggested that Rebecca, his step-daughter, and John Rolfe-Armistead be transported to London to be welcomed into the Royal Circles of Europe before traveling to Hesse-Kassel. (Ref: Pocahontas, by Susan Donnell.)

Hesse-Kassel was near Darmstadt Germany and located on the Rhine River about 220 miles upstream from Delft, which is near the mouth of the Rhine River. The Dutch harbor of Vere is almost 100 miles due East of London with easy access to the Thames River and Hampton Court, which is near Richmond, England, where most travel between kingdoms was by boat. And, “Shakespeare’s Death Mask” was even found at Hesse-Kassel!

And, Hesse-Kassel genealogy records may still exist that indicate that King John Rolfe-Armistead and Queen Rebecca lived at Hesse-Kassel after 1617, when she was reported to have died at Gravesend, England, of a fever; but King John still visited Virginia, yearly, until he died in 1622.

If you study the first map of Virginia by Capt. John Smith, you will notice that the location of Jamestown was not marked for security reasons, since the intent of the Jamestown Fort was to prevent random Spanish Ships from surprising royals at Varina Plantation, which included King William “the silent” of Orange and his last Indian mistress, a gift from Pohatan.

The original settlers at Jamestown were forbidden to go up-river, had constant problems with the Weanoc tribes (west and south of Hopewell) and the Chickahominy tribes (east of Hopewell), and never knew that Varina existed before Jamestown. But, they learned that they could defend Jamestown (and Varina) from the Spanish with a few cannons on the Hopewell bluffs, or by the quick dispatch of a gunship moored and hidden near Jamestown, since the first Jamestown Fort was located around the Hopewell bend in the James River on Turkey Island, which flooded, almost yearly.

Later, Fort Henry was built at Hopewell (after Jamestown burned) to defend Richmond and Varina, which was growing, rapidly. Plus, after the leaders on the “Sea Venture” ship were rescued from Bermuda in 1610, they settled between Jamestown Fort and Varina at “Bermuda Hundred”, which was closer to Varina than the present tourist attraction of “New Jamestown”.

If you read “Pocahontas”, carefully, only a few Jamestown workers were allowed to leave the fort at night to sell guns and gun powder to the snipers, while others were shot, mysteriously, by very accurate archers from higher ground. If the Jamestown Fort had been where historical experts now claim, only one side of Jamestown Fort would have been vulnerable to snipers with arrows or Dutch crossbows.

And, if you check the Jamestown historical rosters, a “William” (with no last name) appeared to help the settlers as a carpenter, like Jimmie Carter, and claimed that he had been living in Virginia for 20 years after being “ship wrecked”. He was most likely King William (1533-1623) “the silent” of Orange, “William Shakespeare”, and “Sir Francis Drake” from Europe.

SHAKESPEARE’S DEATH AND BURIAL
King William “the silent” was buried at the “New Church” in Delft, Netherlands in 1623, after he designed the church as his monument in a famous Dutch painting now hanging in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, which others have claimed. Plus, he painted many portraits of Queen Elizabeth that remain unclaimed, while some of his better paintings have been claimed by Vermeer, an art dealer in Delft (Ref: "The Tomb of William the silent in an Imaginary Church".)

Capt. John Smith-Armistead may have been Shakespeare "the actor", as well as Michiel Jansz. Miereveld [Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1567-1641], who painted thousands of Royal Portraits during his lifetime, including William "the silent", Pocahontas, and most of his royal family.


James H. Armistead© March 2008
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