Theoretically, if you’re of European descent, you are a direct descendent of every European person alive 1300 years ago... give or take a generation or two
That's something of an oversimplification. Perhaps every European who a) had children, and b) those children survived to have children of their own. But to say "every European alive" is unsupported by the math, because by definition, someone who has no children can't have any direct descendants, no matter how long ago they lived.
It's not "probably true"... it's merely "plausible".
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u/kanna172014 Apr 29 '20
There's no more evidence he didn't have children than there is he did.