Baron William de Tracy of Bradnich 
William was born in Bradninch, Devonshire, England. William's father was King Henry ("Beauclerc", "Fine Scholar") Plantagenet I of England and his mother is Gieva de Tracy. His paternal grandparents were King William ("the Conqueror") I of England and Matilda of Flanders; his maternal grandfather was Baron William de Tracy of Barnstable and his maternal grandmother is Rohesia. He had four half-brothers and eleven half-sisters, named "the King's Son", Rainald, Henry FitzHenry, Haldane, Lady of the English, "The Empress", Constance Matilda, Alix, Joan Elizabeth, Maud, Eustacia, Emme, Sibyl Elizabeth, Annora and Mathilde. He died in 1136.General Notes
Natural son of King Henry I; feudal Lord of Barnstaple.
The surname of Tracy accrued to this family from a maternal ancestor, descended from the Tracys, Lords of Barnstaple, in the county of Devon, who came in with the Conqueror, and were styled from the town of Traci in Normandy. (Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Including American Families with British Ancestry, by Sir B. Burke, 1939; or Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Extinct & Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, & Scotland, by John Burke, 1844)
The name of Tracy is from the Le Sire de Traci, a Norman Baron who went to England with the army of William the Conqueror and fought at the Battle of Hastings, his name appearing on the "roll of Battle Abbey". The Barony of Barnstaple was given to his son, Henry de Traci, by King Stephen, in consideration of his loyalty and services to the King in the county of Devon and the western parts of England. (Tracy Genealogy, being some of the Descendants of Stephen Tracy of Plymouth Colony, 1623, compiled by Sherman Weld Tracy, 1936)
Henry settled in the county of Devon and was the only man of noble birth in that county who stood firm to the king during the invasion of the Empress Maud, and, as he was an excellent soldier and rendered considerable service in those western parts, as a recognition of his loyalty, King Stephen gave him the honor and Barony of Barnstaple, which had formerly been enjoyed by Iahel, the son of Alured de Torneis.
Mother also said to be: 1. unknown; 2. Sybilla Corbet.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.28 Aug 0933 in Fecamp, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, France
- b.ABT 0958/0963 in Normandie d.28 Aug 1026/1027 in Fâecamp, Normandie
- b.~ 0936 in Normandie, France d.1031 in France
- b.1003/1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jun 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.0927/0955 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.29 Jun 0992 in Brittany, France
- b.~ 0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandie, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992/1012
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.0945 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.29 Sep 1027 in Roskilde, Denmark
- b.~ 0978 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1078 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1003/1012 in Falaise, Normandy d.1050
- b.~ 0945
- b.ABT 0974/0980 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1080 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.0949/0961 in Flandres, France d.30 Mar 0987
- b.0980 in Flandres, France d.30 May 1036/1039 in Flandres, France
- b.~ 0945 in Luxembourg d.26 Jan 1003 in Gent, Flanders
- b.1002 in Flanders d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Duchy Of Lower
- b.ABT 0945/0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.~ 0986 in Flandres, France d.21 Feb 1030 in Flandres, France
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.~ 1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandie, France
- b.0939 in Paris, Isle de France, France d.24 Aug 0996 in Paris, Isle de France, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, Isle De France, France
- b.~ 0952 in Germany d.1004
- b.1003/1009 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monastáere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, , France
- b.~ 0947 in Toulouse, France d.Sep 1037
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, France
- b.~ 0945 in Anjou, France
- b.1085/1090 in Bradninch, Devonshire, England d.1136
- b.1009 in Normandy, France d.1066 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.1040 in Normandy, France d.1110 in Barnstable, Devon
- b.1068
- b.1045 in Normandy, France
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Children
Sir William de Tracy
William was born about 1135 in Bradninch, Devonshire, England. He died after 1170.
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