The Mustin family has recorded a tradition of service in the United States Navy spanning more than a century.
It may well be a mix up of the kings when recording a centuries old tradition.
The 4th-century church historian Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, records a tradition concerning a correspondence on this occasion, exchanged between Abgar of Edessa and Jesus.
Homer recorded a tradition that Crete had 90 cities.
Thomas Keightley recorded a similar tradition from Northumberland in 1905: "The children constantly run this number [nine times], but nothing will induce them to venture a tenth run."
Frank Waters records a Hopi tradition that the Spanish did ignore a cornmeal line drawn by the Hopis and a short battle followed.
However, Janet Backhouse argues for the validity of the statement by pointing out that, "there is no reason to doubt [Aldred's] statement" because he was "recording a well established tradition".
In his Ex Ponto, Ovid recorded a local tradition that ascribed its name to a mythical founder, Aegisos the Caspian.
Pausanias records a tradition of two generations of Muses; the first being daughters of Uranus and Gaia, the second of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
Matthew Paris records a tradition that her death brought an end to an illness from which she had been suffering at some length.