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Name GALLAGHER, MONTAGUE WILLIAM

Service Australian Army

Service Number NX5002

Date of Birth 26 Nov 1918

Place of Birth CUNDLETOWN, NSW

Date of Enlistment 21 Oct 1939

Locality on Enlistment ENMORE, NSW

Place of Enlistment MARRICKVILLE, NSW

Next of Kin GALLAGHER, JAMES

Date of Discharge 8 Oct 1945

Rank Private

Posting at Discharge 2/3 Australian Infantry Battalion

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None * Verpyn Of Cornwall * Vortegyn Of Cornwall * Rolopedaph Of Cornwall * Alanor Of Cornwall * Elnyd Of Cornwall * Fferferdyn Of Cornwall * Mordaff Of Cornwall * Hopkin Of Cornwall Living Gallagher Ida 1899 Peter Gallagher 1923 John Wilson Whinnen 1926 - 1994 Robert Wilson Whinnen 68 68 James Chapman Margaret Norman Hannah Needham Sarah Piper 1771 - 1842 Richard Ridge 70 70 Maria Carroll 0580 * Yazdagird Son Of Sharihar Charles Daley 1893 John Stanley Gallagher Service record

Name GALLAGHER, STANLEY JOHN

Service Australian Army

Service Number N448290

Date of Birth 23 Jun 1893

Place of Birth KRANBACH, NSW

Date of Enlistment 22 Apr 1944

Locality on Enlistment PORT MACQUARIE, NSW

Place of Enlistment PORT MACQUARIE, NSW

Next of Kin GALLAGHER, IDA

Date of Discharge 30 Sep 1945

Rank Lance Corporal

Posting at Discharge 30 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS PART TIME DUTY

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None Thomas Lovell 1809 - 1886 James Bligh Ridge 77 77 1810 Thomas Ridge 1813 - 1892 Richard Charles Ridge 79 79 Mary Ann Riley 1815 - 1867 John Ridge 52 52 1821 - 1888 Isabella Jane Ridge 67 67 Enoch Cobcroft 1819 - 1888 Robert Ridge 69 69 Sarah Johnston Basil Gallagher Mary Ann Skuthorpe 1821 - 1866 Martha Ridge 45 45 1824 - 1835 Elizabeth Lucy Ridge 11 11 1826 - 1851 William Bligh Ridge 25 25 1828 - 1906 Mary Ann Ridge 78 78 Abel John Cobcroft 1829 - 1906 Margaret Ridge 77 77 William Buttsworth 1831 Ann Ridge Thomas Wall 1904 James Mark Gallagher 1832 - 1857 Lucinda Ridge 25 25 ~1803 - 1823 Lucy Upton 20 20 1806 - 1873 Maria Roberts 67 67 1819 - 1819 Robert Forrester 8m 8m 1821 - 1879 George Forrester 58 58 1823 - 1824 Henry Forrester 9m 9m James McDade Charles Homer Martin Henry Potts 1852 - 1858 Albert Potts 6 6 1894 - 1894 Augustus Leigh Gallagher 1850 Emma J Potts 1818 - 1866 Sophia Huxley 48 48 BEF 1052/1053 - 1108 * Philip I 'The Fair' Capet  At age twenty, Philippe I, King of France, married Bertha of Holland, the step-daughter of his first cousin. This marriage had been arranged to seal the reconciliation between the king and his first cousin, the Count of Flanders. However, it took Bertha about six years before she produced a daughter, Constance, which was not the hoped-for heir. Arnoul, a holy hermit of Saint-Medard in Soissons who was always consulted on family problems, prayed to heaven; however, it still took another three years before the heir, the future King Louis VI, was born. He was followed by three more sons.  Twenty years after the marriage, Philippe imprisoned Bertha in comfort in the chateau at Montreuil-sur-Mer. He then wed the still-married Bertrade de Montfort l'Amauri, wife of the Count of Anjou, and they produced four children. It is lost in time whether she seduced  him or he her, but most likely Philippe had an understanding with the Count of Anjou. In any case Betrade was more than willing as she did not want to be "sent away like a whore," as her husband had done to her predecessors.  Philippe's remarriage caused a sensation but not disapproval. The only one who caused problems was Yves, bishop of Chartres, who had been appointed by Pope Urban II without consultations with Philippe and this had been resented by the latter. The king had invited all bishops to his second wedding but Yves declined, referring to Philippe as committing bigamy. Although Philippe had married with the blessing of the Archbishop of Reims as well as the Papal legate, Yves wrote to the Pope who then forbade the bishops to crown Bertrade and told Philippe to cease all relations with her or else be excommunicated.  Next, Bertha, his first wife, died and Philippe gathered two archbishops and eight bishops in Reims who all confirmed the royal second marriage. The Pope also put pressure on the womanising Count of Anjou who then obediently complained about the king's committing  adultery with his wife. In 1096 Philippe pretended to have broken with Bertrade and consequently the excommunication was lifted.  However, when it became obvious in 1099 that Bertrade was still with him, the excommunication was renewed. It took until 1105 before peace was restored and from then on Philippe and Bertrade remained together till Philippe died in 1108.
Source: Leo van de Pas 1008 - 1060 * Henri I Capet 52 52 0972 - 1031 * Robert II 'The Pious' Capet 59 59 0939 - 0996 * Hugh Capet 57 57 Hereditary Abbot of St Martin & St Denis. D. 0956 * Hugh 'The Great' l'Abbe Of Franks * Walter de St Martin * Papie Of Normandy 0865 * Robert 'The Great' Of France 1902 - 1902 Emily Irene Gallagher >1809 - 1883 * Alexander C Stark 74 74 Sailed from Greenock Scotland on 'Lady Bute' which arrived in Port Adelaide on 18 Jun 1839. Was one of five gentlemen to be appointed to first District Council of Bremer in 1874 & their first chairman. 0880 * Beatrice de Vermandois ~0748 - 0788 * Ealmund Of Wessex 40 40 ~0729 * Eafa Of Wessex ~0706 * Eoppa Of Wessex ~0680 * Ingild Of Wessex ~0644 * Kenred (Ceonred) Of Wessex * Ceolwald Of Wessex * Cutha Of Wessex * Cuthwin Of Wessex 0548 - 0593 * Ceawlin Of Wessex 45 45 D. 1951 Kelvin Gallagher 0528 - 0560 * Cynric Of Wessex 32 32 Margaret Norman 1820 Charlotte Cobcroft 0510 - 0559 * Creoda Of Wessex 49 49 1040 - 1110 * William De Tracy 70 70 1045 * Rohesia ~1009 - <1068 * Turgis De Tracy 59 59 0492 - 0534 * Cerdic Of Wessex 42 42 0477 - 0499 * Elesa Of Wessex 22 22 0457 - 0479 * Elesa Of Wessex 22 22 1914 Arthur Joseph Forrester 0440 - 0475 * Gewis Of Wessex 35 35 0421 - 0458 * Uvigg Of Wessex 37 37 0404 - 0434 * Freawine Of Wessex 30 30 0387 - 0427 * Frithogar Of Wessex 40 40 0371 - 0397 * Brond Of Wessex 26 26 0355 - 0403 * Baeldaeg Of Wessex 48 48 1813 - 1889 James Cox Miller 76 76 0329 - 0388 * Overlord Woden Of Anglo-Saxons 59 59 0333 - 0392 * Frigida Of Anglo- Saxons 59 59 0301 - 0356 * Frithuwald Of Anglo-Saxons 55 55 1918 - 1984 Thomas Victor (Dick) Forrester 66 66 0277 - 0317 * Frealaf Of Anglo- Saxons 40 40 0250 - 0299 * Frithuwulf Of Anglo-Saxons 49 49 0228 - 0299 * Finn Of Anglo- Saxons 71 71 0199 - 0244 * Godwulf Of Anglo- Saxons 45 45 0176 - 0215 * Geata Of Anglo- Saxons 39 39 0149 - 0188 * Taetwa Of Anglo- Saxons 39 39 0127 - 0166 * Taetwa Of Anglo- Saxons 39 39 0100 - 0141 * Beaw Of Anglo- Saxons 41 41 1054 - 1093 Bertha Van Holland 39 39 ~1062 - 1103 * Humbert II 'The Fat' de Maurienne 41 41 1920 - 1984 Leonard William Forrester 64 64 Service record

Name FORRESTER, LEONARD WILLIAM

Service Australian Army

Service Number QX7740

Date of Birth 24 Jan 1918

Place of Birth TAREE, NSW

Date of Enlistment 8 Jun 1940

Locality on Enlistment CAIRNS, QLD

Place of Enlistment CAIRNS, QLD

Next of Kin FORRESTER, RUBY

Date of Discharge 21 Oct 1944

Rank Private

Posting at Discharge 2/12 Battalion

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No 1036 - 1076/1089 * Anna Agnesa Yaroslavna ~1017 - 1061 * Floris I Of Holland 44 44 1820 - 1897 Louisa Gough 77 77 ~1028 - 1113 * Gertrud Of Saxony 85 85 ~0980 - 1054 * Yaroslav I 'The Wise' Of Kiev 74 74 1950 - 1915 Robert H Forrester 34 34 1857 - 1861 George H A Forrester 4 4 1827 - 1895 George Holland Humphries Graham 68 68 1865 - 1949 Bertha Amanda Graham 84 84 Alexander McPherson 1922 - 2001 Leslie Edwin Forrester 79 79 Name FORRESTER, EDWIN LESLIE

Service Royal Australian Navy

Service Number S/4060

Date of Birth 4 Feb 1922

Place of Birth TAREE, NSW

Date of Enlistment 8 Apr 1940

Locality on Enlistment AUBURN

Place of Enlistment SYDNEY, NSW

Next of Kin STELLA

Date of Discharge 5 Nov 1945

Rank ABLE SEA

Posting at Discharge HMAS Rushcutter

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No 1884 James McPherson 1886 Alfred E McPherson 1887 George A McPherson 1888 Edith M McPherson 1889 Frederick W McPherson 1892 Charles O McPherson 1895 Claude McPherson 1896 Frank McPherson 1898 Lily M McPherson 1901 Norman C McPherson 1924 - 2003 Mary Forrester 79 79 ~1001 - 1050 * Ingrid Olafsdotter 49 49 ~1158 Unknown De Courtenay Eustachia De Courtenay Clementia De Courtenay Robert De Courtenay Constance De Courtenay Guillaume De Courtenay Isabelle De Courtenay Phillipe De Courtenay ~1060 - 1133 * Gisela De Bourgogne- Ivrea 73 73 1926 Patricia Mary Forrester ~1032 - 1080 * Amadeo II Of Savoy 48 48 ~1040 * Joan De Geneva ~1040 - 1087 * Guillaume I De Bourgogne 47 47 ~1044 - >1092 * Stephanie Of Barcelona 48 48 ~0986 - 1032 * Constance de Toulouse 46 46 ~0995 - 1059 * Bernard II Of Saxony 64 64 ~1005 - 1059 * Eilike von Schweinfurt 54 54 ~1002 - 19 Jan 1057/1060 * Eudes Savoy 1005 - 1091 * Adelais Suza 86 86 ~1008 * Gerald II De Geneva 1928/1930 - 1942/1944 Francis Hilton Forrester ~1010 * Gisela ~0986 - 1057 * Renaud I Of Burgandy 71 71 ~1007 * Adelais (Judith) De Normandie ~1055 - 1082 * Raimund II (III) Berenger 27 27 1059 - 1083 * Mathilda (Maud) De Apulia 24 24 ~0952 - 1004 * Adbelahide Of Aquitaine 52 52 * Guillaume III de Taillefer * Arsinde (Blanche) de Anjou Emma De Mortaigne ~1054 *Agnes De Mortaigne D. 1928 Harold G Forrester D. 0639 * Dagobert I Of Austrasia * Vladimir 'The Great' Of Kiev * Rogneda Of Polotsk * Olaf III 'Skotkonung' Eriksson * Astrid Of Obotrites ~0985 - 1039 * Dirk III Of Holland & West Friesland 54 54  Dirk III ruled 46 years. He appeared to have supported highwaymen who caused a lot of trouble not only for the farmers, forcing them to pay protection money, but also for merchants by creating a toll post on their way to England.  These merchants complained to the Emperor who, in 1018, sent an army. However, this army was so ineffectual in the marshes of Holland, after being decimated and robbed, that its general, Duke Godfrey of Lorraine, was imprisoned and only released after he swore he would not return to avenge his defeat. These 'Friesians' didn't like their counts but outside interference was even more resented.
Source: Leo van de Pas ~0985 - 1044 * Otelhild Of Saxony 59 59 * Otto II Of Germany 0960 * Arnulf Of Holland & West Friesland His year of birth is unknown and it is not certain whether the place  of his birth was Gent. He has been mentioned in records from 26  October 970 onwards. He extended his territories southwards but died  in battle against the Friesians, 18 September 993.
Source: Leo van de Pas 0960 * Luitgard Of Luxembourg D. 1933 Charles R Forrester 1811 - 1867 * Isabella Brown 56 56 Arrived Port Adelaide 18 Jun 1839 on 'Lady Bute'  having sailed from Greenock Scotland. * Bernard I Of Saxony * Hildegarde Of Stade * Heinrich Of The Nordgau & Schweinfurth * Gerberga Of Swabia * Richard Inglett * Margaret Ridsdale ~1590 * John Westlake 1150 - 1220 Thomas Basset 70 70 * Humbert I Of Savoy 1878 Frederick C Eather 1761 * William Nixon 1881 Bertram Henry Eather 1884 Leslie Gordon Eather 1888 Royston C Eather * Ancelie von Lenzburg D. 1035 * Olderic Suza 0980 - 1037 * Bertha Of Este 57 57 * Otto Guillaume Of Burgandy * Ermentrude de Roucy * Raimund I (II) Berenger * Almodis De la Haute Marche 1762 * Mary Rowlege * Robert I 'Guiscard' De Hauteville * Sigelgaita Of Salerno * Hedwige Of Saxony * Roul de Crespy * Humphrey de Viuelles * Audrey de la Haie 1318 * Ralph Trenowith ~1320 * Elizabeth Bushell ~1324 * Stephen Treiago ~1330 * Alice Cheynduit 1737 * Samuel Nixon 1294 * Michael de Trenouth ~1297 * Margaret Butler ~1294 * Richard Bushell ~1294 * John Treiago ~1296 * Joan Trewarthenek ~1302 * William Cheynduit Nellie Bushell 1269 * Stephen de Trenouth 1274 * Joan de Trenaco 1245 * John de Trenouth 1737 * Mary Wood 1250 * Richard de Trenaco ~1270 * Stephen Trewarthenek ~1272 * Joan Trevanion ~1244 * Stephen Trewarthenek ~1246 * Melior Soar ~1246 * John Trevanion * Joan Beaupre ~1220 * Osbert Soar * Stephen Beaupre ~1273 * John Cheynduit ~1715 * Samuel Nixon ~1240 * Ralph Cheynduit ~1216 * Ralph Cheynduit ~1190 * Ralph Cheynduit ~1164 * Ralph Cheynduit ~1138 * Simon Cheynduit * Robert de Buci Eglina de Valletort Hugh de Valletort 1863 - 1867 Talbot G A Forrester 4 4 1864 Isabella J Forrester ~1716 * Sarah Stevens 1865 Henry W Forrester 1867 Wentworth J R Forrester 1869 - 1869 Edith M Forrester 1863 - 1909 Thomas Maisey 46 46 Gilbert Basset Gretta J Kellett 1908 Alexander E McPherson 1910 James G McPherson ~1245 * de Columbers Sigibert III ~1756 * John Dalton 1892 Millie M F Clarke Richard A Munro 1895 Richard J Clarke 1898 John P Clarke 1899 Cecil Clarke 1902 Doris I Clarke 1904 James P Clarke 1245 * Adam le Bret Walter J Wilson ? Walter Curran 1759 *Anne Wiggins Pauline E Harford Gladys M Basham Living Jones ~1266 - 1318 * Henry FitzAlan 52 52 ~1270 *Rose Bigbury ~1276 - 31 Jan 1350/1351 * Richard Lovel ~1285 - Feb 1317/1318 * Muriel de Soules ~1230 - 1295 * Alan FitzRoland 65 65 ~1235 * Matilda de Goldington ~1200 - 1252 * Peter III de Goldington 52 52 ~1731 * Edward Dalton ~1210 * Joan ~1206 * Roland de Rohaut ~1170 - <1219 * Peter II de Goldington 49 49 ~1175 * de la Saucy ~1135 - <1198 * Peter I de Goldington 63 63 D. 0629 * Lothair II Of Neustria ~1130 * Eva ~1145 * Roger de la Saucy Joan de Goldington Charibert II Of Neustria ~1735 *Jane Staples 1911 - 1987 * Lawrence Gallagher 76 76 D. 0584 * Chilperic I Of Soissons 0498 - 0561 * Lothair of Soissons 63 63 ~1250 - <1291 * Hugh Lovel 41 41 ~1254 - >1300 * Eleanor 46 46 ~1250 * John de Soules ~1258 * Hawise Stewart ~1220 - 1281 * Henry Lovel 61 61 ~1225 * Eve ~1240 - >1290 * Nicholas II de Soules 50 50 ~1242 * Annora de Normanville 1805 - <1858 Susanna Hammond 53 53 ~1214 - 1283 * Alexander Stewart 69 69 1218 - 1250 Jean 'Heiress Of Arran & Bute' MacRory 32 32 ~1205 - BEF Jan 1254/1255 * Richard Lovel * Alice ~1195 - 1264 * Nicholas I de Soules 69 69 ~1227 * Ermengarde Durward ~1217 - <1290 * Alexander Comyn 73 73 ~1220 - 1282 * Elizabeth de Quincy 62 62 1173 - 1241 * Walter FitzAlan Stewart 68 68 ~1184 * Beatrix de Angus 1832 - 1884 Ann Forrester 51 51 * James Macrory Of Bute ~1190 * Ragnhild Of The Isles John Stewart Alice Stewart Mary Stewart Elizabeth Stewart ~1200 - 1275 * Alan Durward 75 75 1906 Paul Cocks Mary Fitzgibbon Isabel Basset 1837 - 1913 Isabella Forrester 76 76 0535 - 0575 *Sigibert I Of Austrasia 40 40 ~1213 * Marjorie Of Scotland ~1163 - 1233 * William Comyn 70 70 ~1184 * Margaret Colhan Of Buchan Charibert I Guntram 0465 - 0511 * Clovis I Of Franks 46 46 Theodoric I ~1174 - 1264 * Roger de Quincy 90 90 1911 John Ridge Eather 1835 Lydia Forrester Marjorie Lidia Bateman Forrester ~0555 * Sharihar Son Of Khusraw ~0530 * Khusraw Son Of Harmizd ~1200 - >1245 * Helen Of Galloway MacDougal 45 45 ~0505 * Harmizd Son Of Kushraw Marjorie Comyn Chlodomer Childebert Sviatopolk I Mstislav 1858 - 1923 Robert Samuel Forrester 65 65 Boris Gleb D. 0972 * Sviatoslav I Of Kiev Yaropolk Oleg D. 0945 * Igor Of Kiev Elizabeth Comyn Elena Comyn John Comyn Alexander Comyn 1862 Eliza Matilda Forrester Egidia Agnes Comyn ~1126 - 1204 * Alan FitzWalter 78 78 0534 * Sirin ~0480 * Khusraw Son Of Kavadh ~0455 * Kavadh Son Of Peroz ~1130 * Margaret de Galloway 1142 - 1207 *Gilchrist de Angus 65 65 ~1160 * Margary Haroldsdottir John Stewart Walter Stewart 1864 John Robert Forrester Euphemia Stewart William Stewart Elizabeth Stewart Christian Stewart Margaret Stewart Unknown Stewart ~1145 - 1210 * Angus Of The Isles 65 65 * Arran Of The Isles ~1165 - ~1216 * Henry Lovel 51 51 1173 - ~1254 * Christiana 81 81 1867 Kara M Forrester Unknown Lovel * Alexander II Of Scotland 1115 - 1179 * Richard Comyn 64 64 1122 * Hextilda Of Tynedale FitzUchtred D. <1199 * Fergus Of Buchan Elizabeth Comyn Margaret Comyn William Comyn Fergus Comyn Idonea Comyn 1865 Susannah J Forrester Agnes Comyn D. 0969 * Olga 1904 Patience Edwards ABT 0186 BC - ABT 0145 BC * Philometer Ptolemy VI Of Egypt 1907 Sylvia Annie Edwards 1908 James Edwards 1915 Ellen (Nell) Edwards 1155 - 1219 * Saier IV de Quincy 64 64 Magna Charta Baron Page

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Saire De Quincey

Earl of Winchester

A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron SAIRE de QUINCEY is as follows:

SAIRE de QUINCEY, the Surety, born before 1154, was a Baron present at Lincoln when William the Lion of Scotland did homage to the English monarch in October 1200. He obtained large grants and immunities from King John and was created Earl of
Winchester, 2 March 1207, having been governor in 1203 of the Castle of Ruil in Normandy. He is created with rewriting Magna Charta from the Charter of King Henry I and the Saxon Code. Because he had opposed the King’s concession to the Pope’s
legate, he was bitterly hated by King John. One of the Barons to whom the City and Tower of London were resigned, Saire de Quincey was excommunicated with the other Barons the following year. He was sent, with Robert FitzWalter, the Surety, by
the other Barons, to invite the Dauphin of France to assume the Crown of England and, even after the death of King John, he kept a strong garrison in Montsorell Castle in behalf of Prince Louis. When the Barons, being greatly outnumbered, were
defeated by the troops of King Henry III, Saire de Quincey, with many others, was made prisoner and his estates forfeited. In the following October his immense estates were restored upon his submission. In 1218 the Earl of Winchester went with
the Earls of Chester and Arundel to the Holy Land, assisted at the siege of Damietta in 1219, and died 3 November in the same year, on the way to Jerusalem. His wife was Margaret Beaumont, whom he married before 1173.

At the beginning of John’s reign, Saire de Quincey was not a Baron, much less a great one. In the civil war the King had had the advantage over the rebels. Few of the Barons had had much actual military experience. The Barons’ contribution to
the war was the scutage they paid, a war fund substituted for the contingent of knights owed to the King’s service. The money was collected from vassals, and mercenary knights were paid from it. Many of the mercenaries were regulars who served
the same Baron from campaign to campaign, but those Barons who are known to have had extensive military experience were only Saire de Quincey, Robert FitzWalter, William de Mowbray, William d’Albini, Roger de Cressi and Robert de Roos.

Saire de Quincey is associated with two stalwart Castles in the South of England: Colchester and Winchester, both with the Latin castrum root, signifying that they were once the site of Roman forts.

Colchester Castle could not have been built before the early 12th Century, though Roman materials may have been re-used in its construction. The keep, the only portion now surviving, is in complete harmony with other Norman castles. Colchester
must have been a formidable stronghold, and a challenge to Saire de Quincey. The King's men held the Castle against Quincey, the first Earl to attack Colchester. John had given the fortress into the charge of a Fleming whom he thought he could
trust. But Quincey took the Castle, and later found holding it more difficult. The fighting was of such a nature that John himself came to Colchester to see just how stubborn Saire de Quincey was. The Earl held the Castle for two months, but
lack of food forced him to give up and take flight to France.

Colchester was the largest Norman keep in England. It measures one hundred fifty-two by one hundred seventeen feet, enclosing nearly twice the area of the Tower of London. Its walls vary between eleven and thirty feet in thickness. It was
erected either by William the Conqueror or by William II. It is of the quadrangular variety, turreted at the corners. In it and elsewhere herringbone masonry has been noted.

Winchester Castle was first erected by William the Conqueror. Later alterations and extra height were added by Henry III, about the year 1138. The great Hall has Purbeck columns of 13th Century architecture, supporting a restored roof and
containing handsome windows of the same approximate period. Only the keep remains. "How commonplace this saying, 'Only the keep still stands,' . . . thanks to the old builders who made the keep strong and high to withstand time, and so
difficult to tear down that it escaped the looters of the ages." Perhaps Murphy was thinking of Colchester or Winchester when he thus wrote, for this was the fate of the Quincey strongholds. D. 0879 * Rurik of Kiev 1285 - 1356 Joan de Genevill 71 71 1871 - 1872 Mary Ellen Forrester 3m 3m 1916 - 1965 * Irene Violet Mary Forrester 49 49 1156 - 1236 * Margaret de Beaumont 80 80 ~1186 - 1234 * Alan MacDougal Of Galloway 48 48 1195 - 1228 * Margaret 'The Scot' Of Huntington 33 33 1218 Margaret de Quincy 1222 Elena de Quincy ~1106 - 1177 * Walter FitzAlan 71 71 ~1110 * Eschyne de Molle ~1090 - 1166 * Fergus Of Galloway 76 76 ~1095 *Elizabeth Of England D. <1187 *Gilbert Of Angus 1864 Ernest George Forrester * Harald II Maddadson ~1200 - 1256 * Raoul de Fougeres 56 56 1201 - 1221 * Alix de Thouars 20 20 * Robert II de Dreaux * Yolande de Courci ~1157 - 1225 * Guy de Thouars 68 68 1166 - 1201 * Constance de Bretagne 35 35 * Gormflaeth Maceth ~1127 * Guillaume de Thouars ~1128 - 1171 * Conan 'le Petit' de Bretagne 43 43 James McCann 1141 * Margaret Dunkeld 1110 - 1152 * Henry Of Huntington Stewart 42 42 * Somerled Of The Isles 1120 - 1178 * Ada de Warenne 58 58 * Raginhild Olafsdottir Aufrica Of Galloway ~1095 * Alain II de Bretagne Gilbert Of Galloway Bethoc MacFergus 1333 - 1389 Roger Clifford 56 56 1806 George Freeman ~1120 - <1167 * Berthe Bretagne 47 47 1060 - 1135 * Stephen de Bretagne 75 75 ~1025 * Gudrod Haraldsson ~1046 - 1086 * Marie Haraldsdottir 40 40 * Harald Gudrodsson ~0950 - 0989 * Godfred Of Man 39 39 0955 *Unknown Of Islay ~0925 * Harald Sigrydsson ~0880 - 0927 * Sigtrydd Sigrydsson 47 47 ~0896 - >0930 * Edith Of England 34 34 1794 - 1814 Elizabeth Forrester 20 20 * Sigtryd Halfdansson D. ~1135 * Hawise Bretagne ~0874 * Eggwyn Of England 0999 - 1079 * Eudes Penthievre 80 80 1024 * Agnes de Cornouaille Edith Aethelstan ~0762 *Unknown Of Kent D. 0762 * Aethelbert II Of Kent ~0736 * Unknown Of Kent 1795 - 1873 Margaret Forrester 78 78 D. 0725 * Withred I Of Kent * Cynegth D. 0673 * Egbert I Of Kent D. 0664 * Earconbert Of Kent * Sexburga Of East Anglia * Eadbald Of Kent * Emma Of Austrasia Daughter of Theudebert * Anna Of East Anglia * Saewara ~0730 - 0793 * Makir Theudoric Of Toulouse 63 63 1797 - 1875 John Forrester 78 78 0738 * Auda Aldane Martel 0705 * Rolando Of Toulouse de Autun ~0710 * Bernier 0689 - 0741 * Charles Martel 52 52 ~0700 * Swanhilde Of Bavaria 0687 * Habaibai Ben Nehemiah David 0685 * Bertha Of Neustria 1080 - 1153 * David I Of Scotland 73 73 The youngest of the sons of Malcolm Canmore, he was sent in 1093 to England along with his sister Matilda (who in 1100 married Henry I of England) and remained for several years at the English court. In 1107, when his elder brother Alexander succeeded to the throne, David became  Prince of Cumbria with a territory which, besides part of Cumberland, included all Southern Scotland except the Lothians. By his marriage in 1113 to Matilda, widow of the Norman Earl of Northampton and daughter of the Saxon Earl of Northumbria, he became Earl of Huntingdon.
In 1124 he succeeded his brother on the Scottish throne; in 1127 he swore, with the other great barons of England, to maintain the right of his niece Matilda to the English crown. In 1135, he took up arms on her behalf when Stephen seized the throne and penetrated into England as far as Durham, where peace was purchased by the confirmation of the earldom of Huntingdon to his son Henry and the promise of that of Northumberland. In 1138 the war was renewed and David, deserted by Bruce and others of his Anglo-Norman vassals who owned large estates in England, was signally defeated at the "Battle of the Standards" near Northallerton.
The next year a second peace was concluded when the promised earldom of Northumberland was bestowed on Prince Henry. The rest of David's reign---which marks the end of Celtic and the beginning of Feudal Scotland---was devoted to the welding of the different races of Scotland into one nation, the civilization of the people by the erection of burghs, the promotion of trade, manufacturing and commerce, and the founding or restoration of bishoprics and religious houses.
According to Bellenden, "the crown was left indigent through ampliation of great rents to the church", a state of matters that led James I to remark, while standing by David's tomb at Dunfermline, that "he was ane sair sanct for the crown". He is often called St.David though he was never formally canonized but his name was inserted in the calendar prefixed to Laud's Prayer Book for Scotland (1637). He died at Carlisle and was succeeded by his grandson, Malcolm.
Source: Leo van de Pas 0635 - 0714 * Pepin II Of Austrasia 79 79 0654 - >0689 * Alpaide Of Aupois 35 35 1799 - 1873 Henry Forrester 74 74 1072 - 1130 * Matilda (Maud) Of Huntington 58 58 1046 - 1076 * Waltheof Of Northumberland 30 30 Executed on the orders of William I - beheaded. 1054 * Judith Of Boulogne Of Lens Neice Of William I 'The Conquerer'. 1020 - 1054 * Lambert Of Boulogne 34 34 0650 * Grimaldo II Agilofinges 0670 * Viletrude 0660 - 0739 * Natronai (Nehemiah) Of Hisdai 79 79 ~0651 - 0691 * Thiedoric III Of Neustria 40 40 ~0650 - 0692 * Clothilde Of Austrasia 42 42 0602 - 0685 * Ansigisel Of Metz 83 83 Henry Forrester 0613 - 0693 * Doda St Beggue 80 80 ~0602 - 0667 * Theodon I Agilofinges 65 65 0613 * Regintrud Meroving ~0630 * Hisdai Sharijhahr 0634 - 0657 * Clovis II Of Neustria 23 23 0635 - 30 Jan 0679/0680 * Bathildis Of Chelles 0582 - 0640 * Arnulf Of Austrasia 57 57 0683 * Dode Clothilde de Heristal ~0591 - 0639 * Pepin I Of Austrasia 48 48 0587 - 0652 * Itta Of Landen 65 65 1804 - 1888 Anne Forrester 84 84 1030 - 1090 * Adelaide Of Normandy 60 60 D. 1049 * Eustace I * Maud Of Louvain D. 1015 * Lambert I 'The Bearded Of Louvain 0975 - 1017 * Gerberga Of Lorraine 42 42 0953 - 0994 * Charles Of Lorraine 41 41 * Bonne de Ardennes * Godfrey 'The Old Count' Of Verdun & Ardennes 0580 - 0625 * Garibald II Agilofinges 45 45 0920 - 0954 * Louis IV Of France 34 34 1805 Isabella Jane Forrester 1869 - 1952 * James Peter Gallagher 83 83 Samuel Howard Lothair Of France Marie * Matilda Of France 0580 * Geila Of Friuli ~0605 * Mustanai Son of Yazdagird ~0605 * Izdundad Clotaire III Of Neustria Childeric II Of Neustria Lothar III Of Neustria D. 1801 Mary Frost * Bodegisel II Of Aquitaine 0879 - 0929 * Charles III 'The Simple' Of France 50 50 * Oda Of Suevia 0540 - 0601 * Arnoldus Of Metz 61 61 0539 - 0610 * Bertha Of Kent 71 71 ~0550 - 0645 * Carloman Of Austrasia 95 95 * Tassilon I Of Agilofinges 0552 - 0610 * Gisulf Of Friuli 58 58 0562 * Romilde Of Agilofinges * Charibert I Of Paris James Manning ~0430 * Peroz Son Of Yazdagird ~0405 * Yazdagird Of Persia ~0409 * Dinak ~0380 * Varahan Son Of Yazdagird ~0355 * Yazdagird Son Of Shapur ~0330 * Shapur Son Of Shapur ~0305 * Shapur Son Of Homizd * Ingoberge Of Paris D. 0951 *Eadgifu (Egdina) Of England 0844 - 0879 * Louis II 'The Stammerer' Of France 35 35 1878 Maude Freeman D. 0901 * Adelaide Of Paris Maldred Robert de Quincy 1178 - 1222/1223 Hawise de Quincy Arabella de Quincy 0500 * Ansbertus Of Moselle 0513 - 0580 * Blithilde Of Gaul 67 67 1144 - 1219 * David Of Huntington 75 75 ~0270 * Homizd Son Of Nerseh 0363 - ~0480 * Muredach II Of Scotland 117 117 1878 May Freeman ~0240 * Nerseh Of Armenia ~0215 - ~0272 * Shapur I Of Persia 57 57 Living Davis Living 1171 - 1232 * Maud Of Chester 61 61 D. ~0425 * Erc (Geodnaid) Of Ireland D. 0465 * Eochan Or Owen Or Eugenius 'The Lion' Of Ireland Converted by St Patrick. * Loarn Or Eochaid Of Scotland * Niall 'Of The Nine Hostages' Noigallah * Roighnach 1880 Maisie Freeman * Angus Of Scotland ~0287 - ~0357 * Eochaidh Muigh Meadhoin Of Ireland 70 70 ~0291 * Cairrionn Chasdubh * Romaich Of Scotland * Fincormach Of Scotland ~0280 - 0326 * Murdeach Tireach 46 46 ~0290 * Muireann ~0249 - ~0322 * Fiacha Srabhteine 73 73 ~0240 - ~0322 * Aoife Gallgha 82 82 * Thrinklind Of Scotland 1882 Thomas Freeman ~0200 - ~0284 * Carbre Lifeachain 84 84 ~1085 - 1114 * Alan FitzAlan 29 29 ~1085 * Adeliza de Hesdin 1135 - 1190 *Robert de Beaumont 55 55 1130 - 1212 * Petronilla de Grandmesnil 82 82 1104 - 1168 *Robert II de Beaumont 64 64 1108 - 1168 * Amice de Montfort 60 60 Beatrice Plantagenet D. 1298 Eleanor Of England * Hugh De Clermont 1884 Mary Freeman ~1045 - ~1110 * Marguerite de Montdidier 65 65 ~0906 - ~0984 * Herbastus De Crepon 78 78 * Hugh I de Meulan * Alex de Vexin ~1014 * Agnes Ermentrude Fleitel * Walter Gifford ~0974 * Aveline de Crepon * John Gifford * Sybel 1002 * Hildeburge de Beaumont 1882 - 1957 William Charles Bidner 74 74 1045 * Bertrade de Monfort d'Evreaux Linda Edwards Kerry Cavanagh Michael Edwards 1105 Sibilla 1033 - 1106 * Fulk IV 'The Rude' Of Anjou 73 73 1164 - 1200 * Roland Of Galloway 36 36 Living Edwards Living Findlay Living Findlay 1884 - 1887 Margaret Jane Bidner 2 2 ~1172 - 1217 * Elena de Morville 45 45 ~1143 - 1189 * Richard de Morville 46 46 1340 John Dymock Living Gibson ~0220 * Para Son Of Keribir ~0180 - 0266 * Cormac Mac Art Cormac Uhlfhada 86 86 * Eithene Oilamdhda ~0188 * Keribir Of Britain ~0155 - ~0195 * Art Eaufhear Of Ireland 40 40 * Eachtach 1886 - 1939 Joseph Adam (Joe) Bidner 53 53 1874 - 1963 * Mary Ann McKeough 88 88 ~0140 - 0201 * Llewfer Maw (Lucius) Of Siluria & Britain 61 61 ~0160 * Glwys verch Eurgen 0125 - 0170 * Coel 'Old King Coel' Of Britain 45 45 ~0123 * Eurgan ap Marius ~0119 - ~0157 * Conn Ceadcathach 38 38 ~0125 * Mendhbh Lithdnearg * Feidhlimdh 'The Lawgiver' Rachtmhar * Una * Gurdzad ~0197 - ~0241 * Ardashir I Of Persia 44 44 1890 - 1945 Josephine Bidner 55 55 * Artabanus Of Persia Or Partha * Vologases IV Of Partha * Vologases III Of Partha * Vologases II Of Partha * Vologases I Of Partha * Vonones II Of Partha * Darius Of Atropatene ~1100 - 1174 *Uchtred Of Galloway 74 74 * Artavasdes Of Atropatene * Daughter Of Antiochus I Of The Commagene 1901 - 1974 Dorothy Linda Bidner 73 73 * Antiochus I Of The Commagene Living David D. 1166 * Gunnild Of Dunbar 1147 - 1181 *Hugh de Kevelioc 34 34 1155 - 1227 * Bertrada de Montfort 72 72 * Marius (Meric) Of Britain * Pernardim Of Boudicia Agnes Of Chester 1100 - 1153 *Ranulf de Gernon de Meschines 53 53 Ranulph IV, Gernones,  Earl of Chester, De Gernon/Gernones/German.

born 1100 died 1163, married Maud. Their son was Hugh De Keveliock, 3rd Earl Chester.  Ranulph was poisoned by William Peverel III, the grandson of Wiliam I's illegitimate son by the same name in 1153. The Peverel family had their seat at
Peveril Castle, Castleton, Derbyshire. As a result of this attempted murder, the Peveril's lost their lands and were forced into exile on the continent. It is noteworthy that William Smith gives Ranulph the title of Count [Earl] of Huntington. Roy Clark 1896 - 1963 Elizabeth Eve (Sr Mary Aquin) Bidner 67 67 1926 Elizabeth II Alexandra Mary Windsor D. 1291 Eleanor Of Provence ~1120 - 1189 * Matilda Of Gloucester FitzRobert de Caen 69 69 * Emma Of Normandy 1921 Philip Mountbatten D. 1290 Eleanor Of Castille Margaret Plantagenet Adgina Living Edwards Living Edwards 1847 Henrietta (Harriet) Nixon 0968 - 1057 * Leofric 'The Great' III Of Mercia 89 89 0980 - 1067 * Godiva (Godifu) Of Mercia 87 87 AKA 'Lady Godiva' * Leofwine * Alward * Edulf * Elfwina * Ordgar Hereward 1380 *James Nanfan 1229 Roger Floer 1839 James Nixon Patrick Edwards Phillip Edwards * Isias Philostrogos Anne Carlion Ann Rosmergey 1231 William Floer Bartholomew 1846 Harriett Whinnen 1840 - 1899 Mary Whinnen 59 59 1836 - 1908 William Barker 72 72 1843 Jane Nixon Ann Blee ~1812 - 1896 Stephen Blee 84 84 ~1814 Ann Blee ~1817 Peggy Blee Mary Emily ~1824 George Blee Elizabeth Williams 1850 Jane Williams Blee 1854 Mary Eliza Blee 1856 - 1934 Edward Lindsay Blee 77 77 1845 John Henry Nixon Claude Whitworth Lindsay Blee Elliott Lindsay Blee ~1786 Mary Blee ~1788 - 1789 Edward Blee 1 1 1790 George Blee ~1794 Stephen Blee ~1799 Margaret Blee Joan Davey ~1784 Prudence Thomas ~1803 - 1865 John Blee 62 62 * Henry Josua Strassburg/er Eliza Blee Stephen Blee 1811 Charles Blee Thomas Blee Penelope Blee George Blee William Blee Sophia Hughes ~1828 John Blee ~1830 Sophia Blee * Margaret ~1837 - 1888 Charles Hughes Blee 51 51 Jane Blee Stephen Blee John Blee Elizabeth Pascoe Stephen John Blee James Blee Charles H Blee William James Blee Bessie Blee 1856 Edward Gallagher * John McKeough Elizabeth Repper James Blee John Blee Edward Blee Elizabeth Blee Mary Thorn ~1836 Margaret Blee ~1837 - 1888 Charles Blee 51 51 Eliza Blee Jane Bates 1857 Jane Gallagher 1857 - 1928 Martha Blee 71 71 1858 Mary Blee 1861 - 1870 Jane Blee 9 9 1863 - 1870 Charles Blee 7 7 1864 - 1870 Emma Blee 6 6 1866 - 1870 Alfred Blee 4 4 1869 - 1870 William Ernest Blee 1 1 1871 - 1910 Alfred Ernest Blee 39 39 1873 - 1931 Charles Henry Blee 58 58 1875 - 1929 William George Blee 54 54 1883 William H Forrester 1880 - 1950 Walter Robert Blee 70 70 James Armstrong Scott Mary Calhoun 1893 - 1974 Alfred Ernest Blee 81 81 1896 - 1965 William Blee 69 69 1901 - 1988 Dorothy Jane Blee 87 87 1907 - 1972 Rudolf Blee 65 65 Mary Ann Daniels Lucy Moussell 1895 - 1946 Charles Henry Blee 51 51 1884 Ernest G Forrester 1897 - 1978 Walter Stanley Blee 81 81 1902 - 1902 Lucy May Blee 1902 - 1948 Vera Gladys Blee 46 46 1915 - 1973 John Thomas Blee 58 58 D. 1776 William Blight Jennifer Blight ~1746 * Richard Williams 1748 *Mary Thomas *William Buckfolde Gent ~1772 Mary Williams 1887 Florence M Forrester ~1775 Elizabeth Williams ~1777 Honour Williams Eunice Woodfall Living Blee Living Blee Living Blee Living Blee Frances Kealy Amy Edith Lawry Leslie Blee 1891 Cecil John Forrester Eileen May Duffy Frank Blee Eileen Blee Walter Blee William Chisholm Mary Chisholm William Chisholm Janet Chisholm Thomas Chisholm John Chisholm Lillian B Forrester Elsie Chisholm Isabel Chisholm James Blee Scott William Armstrong Scott Euphemia Weir Scott Ethel Jean Scott Mary Huntly Scott Walter Huntly Scott Nellie Veir Scott May Scott Pearl E Forrester Thomas Armstrong Scott Evelyn Gibson Living Blee Living Blee Living Blee Richard Alexander Jackson Living Jackson * Thomas Walters * Ann 1868 - 1973 Ernst Heinrich Oppermann 105 105 ~1798 Frances Foley 1873 - 1956 Frederick Oppermann 83 83 1870 - 1962 Emma Louisa Oppermann 91 91 ~1810 * Ernst Oppermann Augusta Prange Hilda May Haines 1860 - 1917 Emanuel Brooks 56 56 1875 Helene Oppermann ~1871 James Coulson 1897 Herbert Willis Holland Myrtle Beatrice Ey 1824 Louisa Nixon Unknown Holland Unknown Holland Unknown Holland Unknown Holland Unknown Holland Living Holland Unknown Brooks 1902 - 1982 Victor Charles Brooks 80 80 1900 - 1981 Ivy Gesinea Brooks 81 81 1902 - 1981 Elsie Adeline Brooks 79 79 1826 Samuel George Nixon ~1855 - 1933 * Emily Jane Riley 78 78 1892 - 1961 John Emanuel Brooks 69 69 1893 - 1956 Susan Jane Brooks 63 63 1891 Leslie Stuart Brooks 1898 - 1982 Anna Helena Victoria Brooks 84 84 1911 - 1912 Emma Beatrice May Brooks 7m 7m 1907 - 1985 Emanuel Raymond Brooks 77 77 1895 - 1983 Hilda Daisy Brooks 87 87 1904 - 1973 Francis Wilfred Brooks 69 69 1908 - 1980 Clement Lloyd Brooks 71 71 1896 Howard Clare Haines 1829 William Nixon ~1899 David John Rivett 1897 - 1965 Daniel Charles Harrold 68 68 Julius Samuel Schulz Unknown Schulz Unknown Schulz Unknown Schulz 1931 - 1950 Ena Ruth Schulz 18 18 Unknown Harrold 1919 - 1989 Douglas Daniel Harrold 70 70 Elizabeth 1832 Mary Anne Nixon 1734 - 1789 William Longhurst 55 55 1731 Elizabeth Longhurst 1739 Mary Longhurst ~1700 Samuel Sima Sarah Groves ~1494 - 1563 * John Arscott 69 69 1503 - 1563 * Phillipa Battyn 60 60 1513 - 1580 Humphry Arscott 67 67 ~1531 Thomas Arscott 1532 Joane Arscott 1819 Eliza James ~1534 - 1564 John Arscott 30 30 ~1538 - 1613 Thomas Arscott 75 75 ~1542 Edmund Arscott ~1544 Margery Arscott ~1548 George Arscott ~1550 - 1619 Halnet Arscott 69 69 ~1552 William Arscott ~1469 - 1541 * John Arscott 72 72 ~1472 - 1514 * Margery Floyer 42 42 ~1496 Agnes Arscott Living Wessling ~1498 Christian Arscott ~1500 Thomas Arscott ~1502 Richard Arscott ~1504 John Arscott ~1439 - 1493 * John Arscott (or Reynsham) 54 54 ~1443 * Joane Cloford ~1471 Halnatha Arscott ~1409 * John Arscott ~1413 * Elizabeth Floyer ~1441 Richard Arscott Living Wessling ~1443 Alnet Arscott ~1445 John Arscott ~1447 Margert Arscott ~1379 * John Arscott ~1383 * Joan Tilley ~1360 * Nicholas Tilley ~1349 * John Arscott ~1353 * Unknown Renson 1474 - 1522 * Humphrey Battyn 48 48 ~1478 * Katherine Carmynowe Living Wessling ~1431 - 1514 * John Carmynowe 83 83 ~1446 - 1520 * Phillipa Trenowith 74 74 1400 * Walter Carminowe 1406 * Jane Resprin ~1410 - 1497 *John Trenowith Of Fentongollan 87 87 1427 * Honor Tregarthen 1351 - 1407 * William Carminowe 56 56 1372 - 8 Feb 1406/1407 * Margaret Kelly ~1380 * Richard Resprin 1375 *John Trenowith Of Fentongollan Douglas McArthur *Johanna Nanfan 1400 * William Tregarthen 1322 - 1361 * Walter Carminowe 39 39 ~1321 - >1356 * Alice Tynten 35 35 ~1346 * John De Kelly ~1348 * Margaret 1350 - 1427 * Ralph Trenouth 77 77 ~1378 * Jane Basset * Mithridates I Kallinikos ~1295 - 1341 * John Carmynowe 46 46 1835 * Ernst Oppermann ~1300 - 1349 * Johanna Glynn 49 49 <1303 - ~1321 * Stephen Tynten 18 18 <1303 * Elizabeth De Bloyou ~1265 * John De Kelly 1330 * John Trenowith 1336 * Jane (Joan) Treiago (Trejago) 1337 - 1384 * William Basset 47 47 1360 * Margaret Fleming * Richard Floyer ~1388 - >1428 * John Floyer 40 40 1830 * Anna Gesienne Sophie Schafer ~1392 - >1433 * Alice Basse 41 41 ~1350 * John Floyer ~1354 * Margaret Clive <1329 - >1388 * John Floyer 59 59 D. >1329 * Joan ~1270 - >1311 * William Floer 41 41 ~1279 * Fina Herewarde ~1227 - >1307 * John Floyere 80 80 * Unknown Mariot D. <1264 * Floridus Floer ~1798 * Johann Christoph Schafer 1893 - 1980 * Frederick Arthur Forrester 86 86 Service record

Name FORRESTER, FREDERICK ARTHUR

Service Australian Army

Service Number N282499

Date of Birth 29 Apr 1893

Place of Birth PENRITH, NSW

Date of Enlistment 13 Nov 1941

Locality on Enlistment AUBURN, NSW

Place of Enlistment PADDINGTON, NSW

Next of Kin FORRESTER, MATILDA

Date of Discharge 4 Sep 1942

Rank Driver

Posting at Discharge 106 R M T COY MARRICKVILLE

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No ~1201 - >1264 * Sabina De Dunstanville 63 63 D. >1170 * Richard Of Floyers Hayes D. AFT 1 Mar 1159/1160 * Nicholas D. >1131 * Richard <1066 - >1086 * Floher 20 20 <1175 * Geoffrey De Dunstanville * John Hereward * Sir Thomas Hereward ~1325 * Richard Clive * Thomas Basse ~1800 * Anna Gesche Sophia Eisenhuth * Matilda * Thomas Basse * Henry Basse 1337 - 1370 *Simon Fleming 33 33 1342 * Cicely Champernoun ~1314 - 1342 *Thomas Champernoun 28 28 ~1284 - 1316 * Richard Champernowne 32 32 1295 * Elizabeth Joan de Valletort ~1260 - 1283 *Richard Chambernon 23 23 ~1264 * Joan Plantagenet 1705 * John Longhurst ~1236 * Richard Chambernon *John de Wotton 5 Jan 1208/1209 - 1272 * Richard Plantagenet ~1216 * Joan De Valletort ~1212 - >1284 * Dionisia English 72 72 ~1207 - >1272 *Henry De Champernowne 65 65 Knight. ~1186 *Robert English ~1195 - <1232 *Oliver Champernowne 37 37 Knight. ~1175 * Eve Of Cardigan 1301 - 1351 *William Basset 50 50 ~1709 * Sarah Dickson ~1311 * Johanna Bottreaux 1270 - 1305 * William Basset 35 35 1275 * Alice Wallis 1240 *Laurence Basset 1245 * Hawisia Mallett * Alan Basset 1155 - 1233 * Alan Basset 78 78 1159 * Aline de Gay 1099 - 1182 * Thomas Basset 83 83 1108 - >1207 * Alice De Dunstanville 99 99 ~1675 - 1712 * Jervais (Jarvis) Longhurst 37 37 1270 - 1310 * Hugh de Valletort 40 40 ~1275 - >1310 * Lucia le Bret 35 35 ~1153 * Isolda Baronis ~1165 - ~1210 * Henry De Champernowne 45 45 1170 - 1237 * Rohais de Tracy 67 67 D. ~1203 * Henry De Champernowne ~1100 - >1170 * Mabel Of Gloucester 70 70 ~1090 - 1147 *Robert Of Gloucester 57 57 Born an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England about 1090 in  Caen, he was consequently known as Robert de Caen. He witnessed  charters of the King from about April 1113 onwards and fought at the  battle of Bremule, on 20 August 1119, where King Henry I defeated  Louis VI, King of France.  Between June and September 1122 he was created Earl of Gloucester.  In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of the castle of  Brionne held by the rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had custody  of his uncle, Duke Robert of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol and  later at Cardiff. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Matilda,  recognising her as his father's successor in the kingdom. On this  occasion he had a dispute with his cousin, Stephen de Blois, as to  precedence which was decided against him.  In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of the Abbey of Neath. In  1131, at the Council of Northampton, he took precedence among the five  Earls who attended. In 1133 he was sent by the King to Bayeux, after  the death of Bishop Richard, to enquire as to the fees and services  due to the see by its barons, knights and vavasours. He was present at  the King's death in December 1135 and received 60,000 livres from him,  apparently as executor.  On Stephen's accession to the English Crown and his recognition as  Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents but removed  his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England and, after  Easter, did homage for his English lands and, when Stephen granted his  Charter of Liberties, he was a witness. At about this time or in the  following year he founded St.James's Priory at Bristol as a cell to  Tewkesbury, giving to the Lady Chapel of the Priory every tenth stone  while building the keep of Bristol Castle at the same time.  In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy. However, they  quarrelled and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited.  Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of  his half-sister Matilda in Normandy, obtaining the surrender of Caen  and Bayeux to her husband. In September 1139 he landed in England with  Matilda and, taking her to Arundel Castle, became her commander in the  civil war that ensued.  In 1140 he burnt Nottingham and, in February 1141, he and his  son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, relieved Lincoln and took  Stephen prisoner, sending him to Bristol. He accompanied Matilda in  her progress to Winchester and London and, when the citizens drove  her out, fled with her to Oxford.  Taking part in the fighting at Winchester, he helped Matilda to  escape from the city but, on 14 September 1141, was captured at  Stockbridge and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards he was  exchanged, without concessions on either side, for King Stephen.  Robert then joined Matilda at Bristol and with her proceeded to  Oxford.  In June 1142 Matilda sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of  Anjou, to urge him to invade England. Geoffrey declined to help until  he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in his  campaign. When they received the news that Matilda was besieged in  Oxford, Robert hurried back to help her, taking with him her son, the  future King Henry II. He captured Wareham and other places and, on  Matilda's escape from Oxford, he and Henry met her at Wallingford. In  1143 Robert defeated Stephen at Wilton and in 1144, blockaded  Malmesbury, Stephen refusing battle.  Matilda's party was now so much reduced that Stephen was able to  take Faringdon, which had been fortified by Robert. In the spring of  1147 Robert took Henry (II) back to Wareham and sent him over to  Anjou; in the same year he founded Margam Abbey. However, on 31  October 1147 he died of a fever at Bristol and was buried there in the  Priory of St.James.
Source: Leo van de Pas ~1078 * Unknown 1250 *John Wallis ~1679 - 1706 * Catherine Williams 27 27 1176 *William Mallett Steward to King Henry II. <1189 - >1207 * John Basset 18 18 D. ~1130 * Alan De Dunstanville Beatrice De Dunstanville ~0742 - 0814 * Charlemagne 'Charles The Great' Of The Franks 71 71 Over 100 lines of descent from Charlemagne. 1100 - 1175 * Reginald (Rainald) FitzRoy 75 75 ~1068 - 1135 *Henry I Of England 67 67 1027/1028 - 1087 * William I Of England ~1031 - 1083 * Matilda Of Flanders 52 52 She was of very small stature and very little is known about her early years. Being a descendant of the English King Alfred The Great was one reason why William, Duke of Normandy, sought her in marriage. Apparently she refused him as she did not want to be married to a bastard. Furious, William forced entry to her room and gave her a beating. However, this rather unconventional behaviour resulted in her changing her mind and they married in 1051, although they had to wait until 1059 before the papal dispensation arrived. William relied heavily on her and she acted as regent in Normandy whenever he was absent. After the conquest of England, she was crowned William The Conqueror's queen at Winchester. She went to the north of England with him and at Selby gave birth to the future King Henry I, probably their tenth or eleventh child. In the year 1069 she went back to the Duchy of Normandy where she remained in charge. When she became ill in 1083, William The Conqueror hurried over from England to be with her. However, she died on 2 November 1083 at Caen and was buried there.
Source: Leo van de Pas D. 1035 * Robert 'The Magnificent' Of Normandy 1871 - 1947 Alexander Stark 75 75 ~0940 * Rogerus Magnus De Montgomery D. 1026 * Richard II Of Normandy 0982 - 1017 * Judith De Bretagne 35 35 ~0933 - ~0996 * Richard II 'The Fearless' Of Normandy 63 63 D. 1031 * Gunnor Of Crepon D. 0942 * William Longsword Of Normandy * Sprota (Adela) Of Senlis 0870 - 0932 * Robert 'Rollo The Dane' Ragnvaldsson 62 62 ~0870 * Poppa De Valois 0846 - 0932 * Rolf 'The Ganger' Ragnvaldsson 86 86 William Albert Stark ~0857 - 0890 * Ragnvald I 'The Wise' Of More Eysteinsson 33 33 * Eystein Ivarsson * Halfdan Of Normandy * Sveide Of Normandy * Berenger Of Bayeaux De Senlis * Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir ~1012 - 1067 * Baldwin V 'The Pious' Of Flanders 55 55 ~1009 - 1079 * Adela (Alix) Capet 70 70 0972 - 1031 * Robert II 'The Pious' Of France Capet 59 59 About 1018 the 'Manichaean' teachings appeared in Aquitaine; this sect not only rejected both baptism and the Cross but apparently observed strict asceticism. Ten years later, ten of the canons of the Church of the Holy Cross at Orleans were accused of being 'Manichaeans' and of  worshipping the devil. These canons, which included the confessor of Queen Constance, rejected the sacraments of the Church and denied the human birth of Christ together with the reality of his Passion and Resurrection. Brought to trial before the King, Robert 'the Pious', and an assemblage of bishops, these heretics were consigned to the flames, yet not before Queen Constance struck out the eye of her former confessor.
Source: Leo van de Pas ~0986 - 1032 * Constance Of Provence 46 46 Archibald Edmund Stark ~0938 - 0996 * Hugh Capet 58 58 ~1028 - 1080 * Herbert V Of Vermandois 52 52 ~0895 - 0956 *Hugh 'The Great' Of Neustria Capet 61 61 0908 - 0937 * Edhilda Of England 29 29 0758 - 0783 * Hildegarde Of Swabia 25 25 ~0777 * Bertha Of Toulouse * Childebrand Roger Carminowe Thomas Carminowe Reginald Carminowe Caroline Isabella Stark Margaret Carminowe <1250 - >1280 * Jonathan Glynn 30 30 <1198 - >1220 * Paschasius De Glin 22 22 <1168 - >1198 * Richard De Glin 30 30 ~1150 * Richard De Glin ~1250 - ~1308 * Roger Carmynowe 58 58 1253 - ~1329 * Joanna de Dinham 76 76 1284 Oliver Carmynow ~1230 * Roger Carmynowe <1236 - >1302 * Sara Hornacote 66 66 Arthur Edward Stark 1888 - 1950 * Matilda May Bidner 62 62 Living Stark ~1195 - >1263 * Robert Carmynowe 68 68 <1173 - >1220 * Roger Carminow 47 47 <1152 - >1173 * Roger Carminow 21 21 <1216 - ~1302 * Gervais De Hornicote 86 86 1163 - 1224 * Robert De Tintaioel De Tintagel 61 61 <1160 - ~1208 * Gervais De Hornicote 48 48 >1287 - ~1322 * John De Tynten 35 35 ~1280 * Joane Durant <1267 - <1286 * Ralph De Tynten 19 19 ~1250 - >1296 * Alice Russell 46 46 John Stark <1255 - ~1285 * Thomas Durant 30 30 1002 - 1059 * Alfgar III Of Mercia 57 57 ~1270 - 1305 * Alan De Bloyou 35 35 <1283 - ~1343 *Joanna Nanscoyk 60 60 >1243 * Ralph De Bloyou * Elizabeth >1217 * Alan De Bloyou ~1220 * Joan De Bodrugan ~1188 - <1240 * Ralph De Bloyou 52 52 <1165 - ~1204 * Alan De Bloyou 39 39 Robert Longhurst <1140 * William De Bloyou ~1200 - >1256 * Henry II De Bodrugan 56 56 *Juliana de Cardinham Philip De Bodrugan <1154 * Henry De Bodrugan * Isabella <1220 * Richard De Kelly <1200 - ~1252 * William De Kelly 52 52 Thomas Fleming 1312 - 1332 *Baldwin le Fleming 20 20 William Longhurst 1318 * Matilda de Genevill 1285 - 1300 *Richard le Fleming 15 15 1285 * Maria Martyn 1321 - 1369 * Eleanor De Rohant 48 48 ~1292 - ~1350 * Roger de Rohant 58 58 ~1296 * Eleanor Lovel 1125 - 1192 * Robert de Quincy 67 67 1100 - 1162 * Mabel FitzRichard 62 62 1080 - 1140 * William de Burgo De Mortaigne 60 60 1080 * Isabel FitzRichard De Clare John Longhurst ~1082 - >1156 * Sybilla Corbet 74 74 ~1037 - ~1091 * Robert De Mortaigne 54 54 (The ROBERT, COMTE DE MORTAIN AND EARL OF CORNWALL

The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch窠Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall, the exact date of whose birth is as much a question as that of Odo, who, if his age at the time of his death be correctly stated, must have been the elder of the two; but, whether or not, there was
probably not more than a year or so's difference between them. Our first knowledge of him is obained from the fact of his being made Comte de Mortain in the Cotentin (not to be confounded with Mortagne in La Manche), by his uterine brother,
Duke William, on the banishment of William the Warling, son of Malger, and grandson of Duke Richard the First, on suspicion of treason — for it really amounted to nothing more — the wily tyrant availing himself of an opportunity to advance,
under a pretence of justice, another of his mother's family. This was just previous to Duke William's visit to England in 1051, and Robert, I conclude, might at that period have been nearly of full age, being born, as I take it, circa 1031.

In 1054, on the invasion of Normandy by Henry, King of France, we find him joining the army of William, with his knights and retainers; but he was not in the battle of Mortemer, being in the Duke's division, and consequently had no opportunity
of distinguishing himself.

We next hear of him at the council called by William on receiving the tidings of Harold's assumption of the crown of England, and subsequently at the great meeting at Lillebonne, when he promised to contribute to the invading fleet no less than
one hundred and twenty vessels, according to the curious Latin record published by Taylor; [A Roberto de Mortoleio, c. et xx.] an enormous number, but the size has to be taken into consideration, and the list may be held to include boats of
every description.

In the great battle of Senlac, Wace tells us he never went far from the Duke, and commanded the chivalry of the Cotentin, but he is not conspicuously delineated in that portion of the Bayeux Tapestry. His share of the spoil is said to have been
the greatest. He was created Earl of Cornwall, in which county alone he possessed two hundred and forty-eight manors at the time of the compilation of Domesday; fifty-four in Sussex, besides the borough of Pevensey; seventy-five in Devonshire,
forty-nine in Dorsetshire, twenty-nine in Buckinghamshire, thirteen in Hertfordshire, ten in Suffolk, ninety-nine in Northumberland, one hundred and ninety-six in Yorkshire, and twenty-four in other counties, amounting altogether to seven
hundred and ninety-seven, with two castles in his county of Cornwall, one at Dunhever and the other af Tremeton.

In 1069, the Earl of Cornwall and Robert Comte d'Eu were left by King William in Lindsey to watch the Danes who had landed at the mouth of the Humber and invested York, but alarmed at the approach of the Royal forces retreated to the opposite
shore, and took shelter in the fens. Availing themselves of the opportunity afforded them by a festival at which the disaffected inhabitants liad invited the invaders to be present, the two Earls fell upon them unexpectedly, and pursued them
with great slaughter to their very ships. We hear little of him from that period till we find him beside the death-bed of the elder William, supplicating for the pardon and release of his brother Odo, which the King, with great reluctance, at
length conceded to the urgent and incessant entreaties of the Earl and his friends. "My brother Odo," said the dying monarch, " is a man not to be trusted—ambitious, given to fleshly desires, and of enormous cruelty. There is no doubt that if
he is released he will disturb the whole country, and be the ruin of thousands." The petitioners pledging themselves for the Bishop's reformation, the King yielded from mere weariness, observing, " It is against my own judgment that I permit my
brother to be liberated, for be assured that he will cause the death or the grievous injury of many persons."

He was too true a prophet. His son Rufus had scarcely ascended the throne when the pestilent priest commenced, as we have seen, to sow dissensions amongst his subjects, and succeeded in involving the generous brother, to whom he was indebted
for his freedom, in a conspiracy to depose the nephew who had restored him the possessions he had deservedly forfeited. Imposing on the duller nature, and working on the affection of Robert, he beguiled him into a rash attempt to hold his
Castle of Pevensey against the King, which failing might have cost the Earl his life or liberty, and the confiscation of all his estates. The Red King, however, made a judicious distinction between his uncles, banishing for ever the
arch-traitor Odo, and accepting the submission of Robert, allowed him to return to his allegiance. This event occurred in 1088, and after that time his name disappears from the pages of our historians.

Brooke, in his Catalogue of Nobility, says, witliout citing any earlier writers, " This Robert was slain in Northumberland in the year 1087." Vincent, in his "Discoverie," points out the error of the date, but is silent respecting the account
of the death, which he certainly would not have been if he could have contradicted it. Dugdale was equally ignorant on the subject. "When he departed this world, I do not find," he tell us; "but if he lived after King William Rufus so fatally
lost his life by the glance of an arrow in New Forest from the bow of Walter Tyrrell, then was it," he continues, "unto him that this strange apparition happened, which I shall here speak of;" and then he relates the story told by Matthew
Paris, how that, at the very hour the King was killed, the Earl of Cornwall, being hunting in a wood at some distance, and left alone by his attendants, was met by a huge black goat bearing Rufus all black and naked with a wound in his breast.
The Earl adjured the goat by the Holy Trinity to tell him whom it was he carried, and was answered, "I am carrying your King to judgment. Yea, that tyrant William Rufus, for I am an evil spirit, and the revenger of his malice which he bore to
the Church of God, and it was I that did cause his slaughter, the proto-martyr of England, St. Alban, commanding me so-to-do, who complained to God of him for his grievous oppressions in this Isle of Britain which he first hallowed — all which
the Earl related soon after to his followers." What a pity the goat did not reveal the name of the individual he had caused to do the slaughter!

This absurd story, one of the many circulated at the time of the King's death, and tolerably well proving a guilty foreknowledge, is only quoted here as bearing on the question of the decease of Robert Earl of Cornwall, for the narrator does
not distinguish the Earl by his baptismal name, and therefore leaves it uncertain whether he is alluding to Robert or to his son William, who had undoubtedly succeeded to the earldom of Mortain and Cornwall before 1103, as in that year he had
left England for Normandy, and was in open rebellion against Henry I, whom he hated from childhood, and by whom he was consequently deprived of his titles and estates for treason.

In the absence at present of any reliable information, I am inclined to believe that Robert's death preceded that of his brother Odo, as the monk of Malmesbury tells us that, "not content with the two earldoms of Mortain in Normandy and
Cornwall in England, his son William demanded from King Henry the earldom of Kent which his uncle Odo had held, and petulantly declared that he would not put on his robe or mantle till the inheritance he derived from his uncle should be
restored to him," a terrible threat, which must have alarmed the King amazingly.

Without presuming to fix on an exact date, I consider then that Robert Earl of Cornwall died between the years 1089 and 1097; and if there be any foundation whatever for Brooke's statement, that he was slain in Northumberland, it is possible
that he was there with his nephew King William on the occasion of Robert de Mowbray's rebellion in 1095. It is not the less remarkable, however, that the death of so important and wealthy a personage should have occurred without its being
recorded by a single historian.

Robert Earl of Cornwall had taken to wife previously to the Conquest, but at what period we are ignorant, Matilda, daughter of Roger de Montgomeri, Earl of Shrewsbury, and by her left one son, William, of whom I have just spoken, and three
daughters — Agnes, first offered in marriage to William de Grentmesnil, but afterwards the wife of Andr矤e Vitry, Denise, married in 1078 to Guy, 3rd Sire de La Val, of whom more hereafter; and Emma, wife of William Count of Toulouse.

Of the three sons of Herleve, William, Odo, and Robert, the latter alone appears to have possessed some kindly feeling. He is described by William of Malmesbury as a man of a heavy, sluggish disposition, but no foul crimes are laid to his
charge. He had evidently the courage of his race, and his conduct as a commander is unassociated with any act of cruelty. Scandal has not been busy with his name as a husband. No discords are known to have disturbed his domestic felicity. With
the exception of the one occasion when ensnared by the artful representations of Odo, he had joined in the rebellion against Rufus, no trace is seen of his having been involved in any of the revolts and conspiracies which were continually
convulsing both Normandy and England, and his fidelity to the elder William was never for an instant shaken. We have seen him beside the death-bed of that William, pleading urgently for the pardon of their worthless brother, and pledging
himself generously but rashly to his reformation; and the distinction made by the second William between his two uncles upon their surrender at Pevensey, shows that he believed in the contrition of Robert, and thoroughly estimated the amount of
dependence he could place upon the word or oath of the faithless, treacherous, turbulent Odo.

He was a great benefactor to the Abbey of Grestain in Normandy, which had been founded by bis father, Herluin de Conteville, and his appropriation of the possessions which belonged to the Priory of St. Petroc at Bodmin, in Cornwall, founded by
King Ethelstan, appears to be justified by the fact that they had been taken from the Priory, and were illegally enjoyed by canons secular. By a charter to the monks of St. Michael in Peril of the Sea, on the coast of Normandy, giving to them
and their successors in pure alms for ever the monastery of St. Michael on the Mount in Cornwall, and which must have been executed before 1083, as the name of Queen Matilda occurs amongst the witnesses, we learn that the standard of that saint
had been carried before him in battle, and may fairly conclude that it was in the decisive one at Senlac. This charter appears to have been subsequently confirmed by him in 1085 at Pevensey. [Mr. Freeman appears to have mistaken this date for
the original one of the Charter, and consequently demurs to its authenticity; but it is clear from the names of the witnesses that it must have been executed in Normandy, and the note appended to it in the Monasticon refers merely to a
confirmation some years afterwards, -- "Firmata atque roboratur est h塠carta anno millesimo octagesimo quinto apud Pevensel," in Robert's own castle.]

Meagre as are the materials which we are enabled at present to scrape together for a memoir of Robert Earl of Cornwall, his character stands out in honorable distinction from those of his brothers, neither surrounded by the "guilty glory" of
the King, nor blackened by the baseness of the Bishop.

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UPDATED 01/11/2003 10:45:03 ~1039 * Matilda (Maud) De Montgomery ~1062 - 1107 * Richard De Clare 45 45 ~1096 - >1135 * Adeliza De Meschines 39 39 ~1001 - >1087 * Harlowen De Conteville 86 86 ~1003 - ~1050 * Arlotte De Falaize 47 47 We hear nothing of Herleve after the birth of William until she appears as the lawful wife of a Norman knight named Herluin de Conteville, [P籥 Anselm, vol. ii, p. 470, has the following astounding marginal note: —" D'autres le nomment Gilbert
de Crepon"! There may be "more in this than meets the eye" at present.] of whom little is known beyond the fact that he was a widower, father of a son named Ralph, on whom William is said to have bestowed large domains, besides heaping honours
and possessions on Herluin, both in Normandy and England, though no one knows what or where. He held the honour of Sainte Marie Eglise, a portion of the Comt矯f Mortain, but whether the gift of the Conqueror to him, or a family possession,
does not appear. He had a castle there, and founded in its neighbourhood the Abbey of Grestain, in which he and his wife were buried. There is tolerably sufficient evidence that, as I have already stated, Herleve had by Duke Robert a daughter,
named Adeliza, or Adelaide, of whom I shall have much to say anon; but the date of Herleve's marriage to Herluin is uncertain, William of Malmesbury stating it to have taken place before the death of Robert, while the monk of Jumi禥s, a
contemporary, asserts the contrary. My own opinion is that the contemporary chronicler is in this instance wrong. He either knew nothing, or suppressed his knowledge of Robert's lawful marriage with Estrith, sister of Canute the Great, and
widow of UIf, a distinguished Dane, who was murdered by order of his brother-in-law in 1025. Robert is said to have ill used and repudiated her, at what exact period is unknown; but he had no issue by her, which might possibly be one cause of
his displeasure. It seems to me most probable that the marriage of Herleve and Herluin was consequent on that of Duke Robert with Estrith, and shortly after the birth of Adeliza her second child, who at the period of the pilgrimage could not
have been more than six, William being only between seven and eight.

At the time, therefore, of the Council of Fecamp Herleve would be with her husband, which may account for her not being mentioned by any historian in connection with that event, or associated in any way with the care or education of her son.
Gilbert Comte d'Eu, was appointed his guardian, and Alain Count of Brittany, governor of Normandy during the Duke's absence; the latter act being a politic one, as Alain could not with honour harass a province committed to his charge. ~1005 - 1094 * Roger De Montgomery 89 89 ROGER DE MONGOMERI

The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch窠Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

"William sat on his war-horse and called out Rogier, whom they name De Montgomeri. ' I rely greatly on you. Lead your men thitherward and attack them from that side. William, the son of Osbern, the seneschal, a right good vassal, shall go with
you and help in the attack, and you shall have the men of Boulogne and Poix and all my soldiers' " (i.e. paid troops -- mercenaries). Such are the words Wace puts in the mouth of the Conqueror. And yet, according to Orderic, Roger de Montgomeri
was not present at Hastings, having been left by the Duke in Normandy, governor of the duchy.

His statement is most explicit. King William, during his visit to his Norman dominions in 1067, was greatly disquieted by the reports from England of the disaffection of his new subjects, and the advantage taken of it by the Danes. "Leaving the
government of Normandy," he proceeds, "to his Queen Matilda, and his young son Robert, with a council of religious priests and valiant nobles, to be guardians of the state, he rode, on the night of the 6th of December, to the mouth of the river
Dieppe, below the town of Arques, and setting sail with a south wind in the first watch of the cold night, reached in the morning, after a most prosperous voyage, the harbour on the opposite coast called Winchester. . . . In his present voyage
he was attended by Roger de Montgomeri, who at the time of his former expedition to invade England was left with his wife, governor of Normandy." Now when we remember that the father of Orderic was Odelirius of Orleans, one of the followers of
this very Roger de Montgomeri when he came into England, and for his services received a grant of land lying on the banks of the river Meole at the east gate of Shrewsbury; that, with the help of his lord, he founded the monastery there of St.
Peter and St. Paul, to which he retired in 1110, the Earl himself having died therein fourteen years previously; that Orderic, born in 1075, was at school at Shrewsbury until he was ten years of age, when he was sent to Normandy, became a monk
in the Abbey of St. Evreux, of which Roger de Montgomeri was a patron and benefactor, revisited England in 1115, and was living, at the age of sixty-six, in 1141, -- it surely follows, that of all the companions of the Conqueror he had ever
seen or heard of, Roger de Montgomeri, Earl of Shrewsbury, his father's lord and friend, was the one respecting whom he must have possessed the most accurate information. Is it likely, supposing Roger de Montgomeri had commanded a wing of the
invading army, and performed feats of bravery at Senlac, that his servant and prot訩 who came over with him, and must in that case have been present at Hastings himself, would have been silent on the subject? Would not his deeds have been the
theme of his whole household, and of the very school-fellows of the young Orderic? Was the Lord of Belesme amongst the noble personages who accompanied King William on his visit to Normandy in 1067? and if not, what was he doing in England
during the disturbances in the King's absence? How was it that a man of his position and prowess was not associated with the other great warriors appointed to guard the realm and administer justice throughout it? His name never occurs even
incidentally during that period.

Against this, to me overwhelming evidence, we have to place the statement of William of Poitiers, who, without any allusion to Roger de Montgomeri, simply says that Roger de Beaumont was the person at the head of the council appointed by the
Duke to assist Matilda in the government of Normandy, and that of Wace, who circumstantially describes the actions of Roger de Montgomeri in the great battle. As the latter authority distinctly contradicts William of Poitiers, by making "old
Rogier de Belmont" present at Senlac, in lieu of remaining in Normandy to counsel Matilda, he is as likely to be wrong in one assertion as the other. William of Poitiers is more to be trusted, but he does not say that Roger de Montgomeri was in
the battle; he makes no mention of him whatever, though he gives the names of a dozen of the principal personages present; nor does he prove that he was not amongst the noble and wise men selected by the Duke to compose that council, of which
the writer states Roger de Beaumont was the president. Mr. Freeman, confiding in the archdeacon, sets down the assertion of Orderic as "a plain though very strange confusion between Roger of Montgomeri and Roger of Beaumont." I only suggest
that the son of Odelirius is the least likely person to have made that confusion, and that we have no proof of Roger de Montgomeri's presence in England previous to 1068.

The Lord of Belesme, however, is too remarkable a personage in the annals of those times to be omitted, on anything short of conclusive evidence, from an account of the companions of the Conqueror, and his family history is full of stirring and
romantic incidents.

Orderic has minutely chronicled his marriages, his children, his deeds of valour and piety, his death and burial, and yet such is the mist that hangs over the genealogical history of our ancient nobility, that the father of this great and
powerful Earl has only been recently identified. Brooke, in his Catalogue, declared him to be the son of Hugh de Montgomeri and of Sibell, his wife, fifth daughter of Herfastus the Dane, brother of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy. Vincent
triumphantly quotes the monk of Jumi禥s in contradiction of this assertion, and insists that he was the son of Hugh de Montgomeri by Jocellina, his wife, daughter of Turolf de Pontaudemer, by Weeva, sister of the said Duchess Gunnora, and so
he continued to be considered, notwithstanding that many passages in Orderic show this to be a mistake, until the French editors of that historian and the late Mr. Stapleton, in his illustration of the Norman Rolls of the Exchequer, clearly
proved that the first Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury was not the son of a Hugh de Montgomeri by either lady, but of another Roger de Montgomeri, living in the time of Richard III and his brother Robert, Dukes of Normandy, and who in an early
deed describes himself: "Ego Rogerius, quam dicunt Montgomeri." His son Roger, the subject of this memoir, in the act of foundation for the Abbey of Troarn in the Hiemois, acknowledging and distinguishing his father in the following words: "Ego
Rogerius, ex Normannis, Normannus magni autem Rogerii filius."

"The old chronicler, Robert du Mont, had heard," observes Mr. Stapleton, "of the reputed descent from a niece of the Duchess Gunnora, wife of Richard 1, Duke of Normandy, but the genealogy given is certainly erroneous in making her, as wife to
Hugh de Montgomeri, the immediate progenitrix of Roger, the Viscount of the 0ximin or Hiemois."

To any one unaccustomed to the examination of such subjects, it would appear strange that modern historians and genealogists could have overlooked the obvious inference to be drawn from the very circumstantial account given of the assassination
of Osbern the seneschal by Guillaume de Jumi禥s himself, who, in the second chapter of his seventh book, informs us that Osbern, the son of Herfast, brother of the Duchess Gunnora, had his throat cut by William, son of Roger de Montgomeri, one
night while sleeping in the Duke's chamber at Vaudreuil; that Roger, for his perfidy, was exiled to Paris; and that five of his sons, Hugh, Robert, Roger, William, and Gilbert, continued their wicked careers in Normandy.

Surely no statement can be much clearer than this that there was a Roger de Montgomeri living during the minority of William II, Duke of Normandy, who had five sons, the third being named after him, and who, it is evident from subsequent
passages in the same and other histories, was the Roger de Montgomeri who ultimately became Earl of Shrewsbury. Of these five sons we can trace the destinies. Hugh, Robert, and William were slain, -- the latter by Barno de Glotis, a servant of
the Seneschal 0sbern in revenge for the murder of his master. Roger was Viscount of the Hiemois; and Gilbert, his youngest brother, was unintentionally poisoned by his sister-in-law, as I shall hereafter have occasion to mention.

Of the five sons of the first Roger de Montgomeri, Hugh was apparently the eldest, as at the foot of one of his charters in the time of Duke Robert is "Signum Hugonis filii ejus," and it is therefore highly probable that the father of the first
Roger might have been named Hugh, and was the husband of one of the nieces of Gunnora, and the confusion have arisen from that circumstance.

The story told by the monk of Jumi禥s, though clear enough as regards the family of Montgomeri, is obscure in other respects. William de Montgomeri is named as the murderer of Osbern, who, if there be any truth in the statement of Brooke, must
have been his near kinsman, and Roger, the father of the criminal, is banished, apparently for the crime; which would imply that he was " particeps criminis" -- the instigator or accomplice of his son.

However this may be, it appears to have been the result of a personal quarrel, if not a family feud, for Orderic records that Osbern, the steward of Normandy, and William and Hugh, two sons of Roger de Montgomeri, and many other powerful
knights, made war on each other in turn, causing great distress and confusion in the country, which was deprived at that time of its natural protectors, simply mentioning that Osbern was one of the many nobles who fell in those mutual quarrels.

The genealogy of the Dukes of Normandy from Rollo is in all the collateral portions exceedingly confused, and the chronology of the duchy itself beset with difficulties.

Next to Charlemagne, the Duchess Gonnor, or Gunnora, appears to have been the favourite starting-point for our Norman genealogists. If there is any insuperable obstacle in the way of hooking their line on to the Emperor of the West, they
eagerly hitch it up, no matter how, to some loose end of the family of that fortunate fair one for whose romantic bistory we are indebted to the pages of Guillaume de Jumi禥s. As it is short as well as romantic, and so very old that it may be
new to many of my readers, I will venture to tell it in the fewest words possible.

One of the foresters of Richard 1, Duke of Normandy, was blest with a most beautiful wife, of Danish blood it would appear, named Sanfrie, the report of whose charms inspired the Duke with a vehement desire to ascertain the truth of it by
personal observation. He therefore ordered a hunting party in the direction of the forester's dwelling, at which he stopped during the day, as a matter of course for rest and refreshment. The beautiful Sanfrie received her sovereign as was her
duty, and the Duke was so captivated that he commanded her husband to resign her to him. As resistance could avail nothing, the woman, who had as much wit as beauty, contrived to substitute her sister for herself, and, the Duke, luckily for all
parties, was not only well pleased with the exchange, but piously rejoiced that be had escaped a more flagrant breach of the decalogue. The fair substitute was named Gonnor or Gunnora, and on the death of Richard's first wife became Duchess of
Normandy, and mother of Duke Richard I1, called after her Gonnorides.

Such is the story, and at least there is no doubt about the marriage, which naturally led to the elevation of the other members of the Duchess's family. Besides Sanfrie (the wife of the forester), Gunnora had two sisters, the one named Eva or
Weeva, and the other Avelina or Duvelima, and a brother named Herfast: and to one or other of these lucky Danes the majority of our Norman pedigrees are, as I have stated, hung on by hook or by crook.

The date of the death of the elder Roger de Montgomeri is not yet known, but he was evidently dead in 1056, when Roger II invited Gislebert, Abbot of Chatillon, with his monks, to Froarn, and expelled thence the twelve canons who had been
placed there by his father in 1022, and had abandoned themselves to gluttony, debauchery, carnal pleasures, and worldly occupations.

We have already heard of William Talvas, the Lord of Belesme, who cursed the Conqueror in his cradle (vide p. 9, ante). Roger de Montgomeri married, in 1048, Mabel, the daughter of that William, and niece of Ivo de Belesme, Bishop of S褺 from
1035 to 1070. By this match he acquired a large portion of the domains of his father-in-law, and by the advice of Bishop lvo, his wife's uncle, transferred the Church of St. Martin of S褺 to Theodoric, Abbot of St. Evroult, and, in conjunction
with his wife, earnestly entreated the Bishop to erect a monastery there, which it appears he did. Now this Mabel, the chronicler tells us, was both powerful and politic, shrewd and fluent, but extremely cruel. Still she had a high regard for
the excellent Theodoric, and in some things submitted to his admonitions, although in general averse to religious men.

"This lady," he subsequently tells us, "maliciously caused many troubles to the monks of St. Evroult, on account of the hatred she bore to the family of Giroie, founders of that abbey, but as her husband, Roger de Montgomeri, loved and honoured
the monks, she did not venture to exhibit any open signs of her vindictive feeling. She therefore made the abbey her frequent resort, attended by numerous bands of armed retamers, under pretence of claiming the hospitality of the brotherhood,
but to their great oppression, in consequence of their poverty through the barrenness of their land. At one time, when she had taken up her abode at the abbey with a hundred men-at-arms, and was remonstrated with by Abbot Theodoric on the
sinful absurdity of coming with such a splendid retinue to the dwelling of poor anchorites, she exclaimed, in great wrath, 'When I come again my followers shall be still more numerous!' The abbot replied, 'Trust me, unless you repent of this
iniquity, you will suffer what will be very painful to you.' And so it happened, for the very night following she was attacked by a disorder which caused her great suffering. Upon this she gave instant orders for being carried forth from the
abbey, and flying in a state of alarm from the territory of St. Evroult, passed by the dwelling of a certain farmer named Roger Suissar, whose newly-born child she stopped for a few moments to suckle, with a hope of obtaining relief. It caused
her severe pain at the time, but she reached home, we are told, completely restored to health, the unfortunate infant dying shortly afterwards."

Of course the honest monk who believes "each strange tale devoutly true" has no suspicion that the abbot took care that his prophecy should be fulfilled, and gave the very inconvenient visitor a dose which would not kill her, but cure her of
coming to the abbey. The death of the baby, if it did die, was a coincidence too tempting not to be made the most of.

In 1063 Arnould d'Eschafour, son of William Giroie, the founder of the Abbey of St. Evroult, against whose family a deadly hatred had been continually cherished by that of Belesme, and who by the machinations of Mabel had been banished
Normandy, presented himself at the Court of the Duke, and offering him a magnificent mantle, humbly entreated that his inheritance might he restored to him. The Duke, at that moment being in want of brave soldiers for his wars with the Manceaux
and the Bretons, with his usual policy accepted the gift, and promised to restore him his estates (the greater proportion of which Mabel had contrived to obtain for her husband), giving him meanwhile free passage through his territories for a
limited time.

Returning from the Court in company with Gilbert de Montgomeri, brother of Roger, he stopped at his Castle of Eschafour, then in the possession of Roger and Mabel, whose attendants pressed him earnestly to partake of some refreshments their
lady had ordered them to set before him. He had, however, received from a friend a hint of some treachery, and remembering the warning, steadily refused to touch either the meat or the wine. Gilbert, who had ridden there with him, quite
unconscious of the foul design, took a cup without dismounting from his horse, and draining its poisoned contents, died three days afterwards at Remalord. Thus, observes Orderic, this perfidious woman, attempting to destroy her husband's rival,
caused the death of his only surviving brother, who was in the flower of his youth, and much distinguished for his chivalrous gallantry. Foiled in this attempt, she shortly afterwards made another, as deadly and unfortunately more successful.
By means of entreaties and promises she induced Roger Gulafre, the chamberlain of Arnould, to become the instrument of her murderous designs.

Arnould being at Gourville, near Chᳲes, with his relatives, Giroie de Courville and William, surnamed Gouet de Montmirail, the traitor Gulafre took an opportunity of serving to his master and the other two nobles the poisoned beverage he had
received from Mabel: Giroie and William de Montmirail survived the effects of the poison, but Arnould, after languishing for some days, expired on the 1st of January, 1064. After his decease the great family of Giroie gradually fell to decay,
and for twenty-six years their lands remained in the possession of that of Montgomeri.

A truly terrible fate, however, awaited this infamous woman, who, according to the chronicler, had caused many great lords to be disinherited and to beg their bread in foreign lands. Amongst her victims was Hugh de la Roche d'lg窠in the Canton
de Belesme, from whom she had wrested his castle on the rock, and had deprived of the inheritance of the lands of his fathers. In the extremity of his distress he undertook a desperate enterprise. With the assistance of his three brothers, men
of undaunted courage, he forced an entry by night into the chamber of the Countess (for such was her rank at that time) at a place called Bures, on the Dive, near Froarn, and severed her head from her body as she lay in bed after having taken a
bath. Their vengeance satiated, they lost no time in making good their retreat. Hugh de Montgomeri, her second son, who was in the castle with sixteen men-at-arms, on hearing of his mother's murder, instantly took horse and pursued the
assassins, but was unable to overtake them, as they had taken the precaution to break down behind them the bridges over the rivers, which, being flooded and the night dark, presented such obstacles in the way of the pursuers that the four
brothers succeeded in crossing the frontiers of Normandy, and took unmolested the road to Apulia.

Mabel was buried at Froarn on the 5th of December, 1082, Durandus being at that time the abbot who disgraced himself by causing a fulsome epitaph, preserved by Orderic, to be inscribed on the tomb of a detestable murderess.

I have travelled a little out of the record, as the lawyers say, in order to complete the story of this special representative of the hereditary wickedness of the family of Belesme, and must now return to her husband, whom the chronicler
appears to acquit of direct complicity in the darker deeds of his wife, and simply observes, that as long as Mabel lived he was, at her instigation, a very troublesome neighbour to the inmates of Ouche, she having been always opposed to the
family of Giroie. In 1066 we find him at the Council of Lillebonne, and, according to Taylor's List, contributing a noble contingent to the fleet of his sovereign, "A Rogero de Mongomeri sexaginta naves," the furnishing of which by no means
proves that he accompanied them to England.

Wace is the only writer worth consideration who speaks of him as present in the great conflict, and selected by the Duke to command a wing of the invading army, while Dugdale, quoting the annals of St. Augustin at Canterbury, says he "led the
middle part," which Wace as distinctly asserts was led by William himself, composed of all his principal nobles, his personal friends and kinsmen. Neither Robert du Mont, nor William of Jumi禥s, nor Benoit de St.-More, nor William of Poitiers,
nor the author of Carmen de Bello make any mention of Roger de Montgomeri at that period, while Wace, not content with giving him the command of an important division, tells us of his single combat with a gigantic Englishman, captain of a
hundred men, who, with his long Saxon axe, had hewed down horse and man till the Normans stood aghast at him. Roger de Montgomeri, riding at full speed with his lance couched, and shouting "strike, Frenchmen!" ("Ferrez, Franceiz") bore the
giant to the earth, and revived the courage of his soldiers. Orderic, however, seems never to have heard of this brilliant exploit, nor anyone else that I am aware of.

In 1068, however, he appears to have been in England, and two years afterwards received from the Conqueror the earldoms of Arundel and Shrewsbury, with the honour of Eye in Suffolk, and various estates in the counties of Cambridge, Warwick,
Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, and Middlesex, amounting in all to one hundred and fifty-seven manors, besides the cities of Chichester and Shrewsbury, and the Castle of Arundel.

At the same date (1070), by the death of lvo, Bishop of S褺, he became, in right of his wife Mabel, Seigneur of Belesme and Count of Alencon, which, added to his patrimonial lordship of Montgomeri, rendered him comparatively as powerful in
Normandy as in England.

In 1077, the Earl of Shrewsbury accompanied King William in his expedition to recover the province of Maine, which had revolted, and, after its submission, marched with a division of the army to the relief of the Castle of La Fl碨e, in which
its lord, John de la Fl碨e was besieged by Fulk le Rechin, Count of Anjou. A battle being prevented by the interposition of some Cardinal not named, terms of peace were agreed upon, Roger Earl of Shrewsbury and William Count of Evreux taking a
prominent part in the negotiations. This treaty is known as the Peace of Blanchelande or of Bruere, from the locality in which it was concluded.

After the death of his wicked wife Mabel by the vengeful sword of Hugh de la Roche d'lg窠in December, 1082, Roger de Montgomeri married Adelaide, daughter of Everard de Puiset, an amiable and virtuous lady, who wrought by her advice and her
example a great change for the better in his character, which, naturally good, had been warped by the arts and influence of his former Countess.

His building of the church at Quatford, near Bridgenorth, in Shropshire, was due to one of tliose so-called " pious frauds," of which we read so many accounts in our mediaeval chronicles, and which in this instance was practised on the Countess
Adelaide.

On the first passage of this excellent lady from Normandy to England there arose so great a storm at sea, that nothing but shipwreck was expected by the mariners. The chaplain of the Countess, being much wearied with long watching, fell asleep,
and saw in his dreams a comely matron, who said to him, "If your lady would be preserved from the danger of this dreadful tempest, let her vow to God that she will build a church to the honour of St. Mary Magdalen in the place where she shall
first meet the Earl, her husband, in England" (he having preceded her thither some short time), "and specially where an hollow oak groweth near a hog-stye." All which, when the priest awoke, he related to the Countess, who forthwith made her
vow accordingly, whereupon the tempest ceased, and she and her attendants landed safely in England. Journeying to rejoin her husband, she, after divers days, encountered him near Quatford, in a wood, hunting, at a certain spot where such an oak
as "the comely matron" had described then grew -- and near a hog-stye, I presume, though it is not mentioned. She lost no time in informing her lord of the chaplain's vision and her consequent vow, and prayed him to fulfil it. The Earl, in
gratitude for the preservation of his wife, readily assented. The church in honour of St. Mary Magdalen was built, endowed with ample possessions, and given to the Earl's collegiate chapel in the castle at Bridgenorth -- much to the advantage,
no doubt, of the reverend chaplain, who may have been one of the clergymen, Godebald or Herbert, by whose counsels, Orderic tells us, in addition to those of Odelirius, the Earl was always prosperously guided.

The Earl, in common with many of the Norman nobility, appears to have been much attached to Robert Court-heuse, who, with all his faults, was brave, generous, and kindly-hearted. Witness his conduct when besieging his brother Henry in Mont St.
Michel, in 1091. The garrison, being in great distress from want of water, Robert forbade his soldiers to prevent detachments issuing from the place to draw water from the wells, and, on being blamed by William Rufus for his consideration,
exclaimed, "What, shall we suffer our brother to perish of thirst? who can now give us another should we lose him?" Where shall we find such an incident recorded of the heartless tyrant, his father, who ridiculed and hated him?

As early as 1081, we find the name of Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, amongst those who zealously interceded with King William at Rouen in favour of Robert after the battle of Gerberoi, and, after long pleading, succeeded in effecting a
reconciliation between them, which, reluctantly consented to by the former, was of very brief duration; and on the accession of William Rufus he proved still further his affection for Robert, and his opinion of the injustice with which he had
been treated by the Conqueror, by joining with the Earls of Kent, Cornwall, and other powerful noblemen in the attempt to place Robert on the throne of England, as the eldest son and rightful heir to the crown; and though not openly taking up
arms, secretly favouring the movement, his three eldest sons, Robert, Hugh, and Roger, being amongst the young nobility who held Odo's castle at Rochester against the King. The Earl of Shrewsbury is said to have been gained over by the artful
promises of Rufus to submit his right to the crown to be decided by him and others whom the late King had assigned to be his curators; and after the reduction of Rochester, and the suppression of the rebellion, we find Earl Roger fortifying his
Castles of Belesme and Alencon in the cause of the King, and his son Robert a prisoner of that very Duke of Normandy, to place whom on the throne they had so recently risked their lives and properties.

The accounts of these tergiversations are so confused and discordant that, beyond main facts, it is dangerous to state anything, and as to the motives we are completely in the dark; but the days of Roger de Montgomeri were now briefly to be
numbered. He returned to England in 1094, and having obtained from the Abbey of Cluni, of which he was a benefactor, the habit of its celebrated abbot, St. Hugh, assumed it, and was shorn a monk in the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at
Shrewsbury, with the consent, we are assured, of his wife, the Countess Adeliza, and for three days before his death wholly applied himself to divine conference and devout prayers with the rest of the community, expiring, in the odour of
sanctity, 6th kalends of August, in the above year, leaving by his first wife, Mabel, five sons and four daughters: Robert, the eldest son, who succeeded to his mother's large estates in Normandy as Count of Alencon and Seigneur de Belesme;
Hugh, who inherited his father's domains in England, with the earldoms of Arundel and Shrewsbury; Roger, surnamed of Poitou, in consequence of his marriage with Almodis Countess of March, who possessed great estates in that province, and also
sometimes called Earl of Lancaster for a similar reason; Philip, who accompanied Duke Robert to the Crusades, and died at Antioch; and Arnoul, who married Lafracota, daughter of a king of Ireland, and by conquest obtained that part of South
Wales now called Pembrokeshire, and, building a castle there, appears to have been sometime entitled Earl of Pembroke, as his brother was of Lancaster. The daughters by Mabel were Emma, Abbess of Almenache; Maud, wife of Robert, Count of
Mortain and Earl of Cornwall; Mabel, wife of Hugh de Ch᳥au-neuf; and Sibil, who married Robert Fitz Hamon, Lord of Corboil, in Normandy.

By his second wife he had only a son named Everard, who took holy orders, and was chaplain to King Henry 1.

The Earls of Eglintoun are presumed to be descended from this family of Montgomeri, but no proof has ever been made, and though in 1696 there existed a Comte de Montgomeri in France, an Earl of Montgomery in England, a Montgomery Earl of
Eglintoun in Scotland, and a Montgomery Earl of Mount Alexander in Ireland, the link has yet to be found which would legitimately connect these noble families with that of the great Earl of Shrewsbury, who has only transmitted his name to us in
that county of North Wales which he won by the sword and called Montgomery.

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HUGH BIGOD, son of Surety Roger Bigod and himself a Surety was third Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and heir to his father's estates and honors, to which he had succeeded in the 5th of King Henry III He died four years later, in February 1224/5,
having married about 1212 Maud, a sister of the Surety William Marshall, and eldest daughter of William Marshall, the Protector. In her right Hugh acquired the Earldom of Pembroke, in which rank William Marshall bore the Royal Sceptre at the
Coronation of King Richard I. ~1192 - 1248 * Maud (Matilda) Marshall Of Normandy 56 56 Ralph Bigod Roger Bigod John Bigod William Dalton Hugh Bigod William Bigod Simon Bigod ~1150 - <1221 *Roger Bigod 71 71 Magna Charta Baron Page

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Bigod is the name associated with Framlingham Castle in Suffolk. It is an imposing structure. The outer walls are forty-four feet high and eight feet thick. Thirteen towers fifty-eight feet in height remain, along with a gateway and some
outworks. In early Roman times it was probably the site of the fortified earthwork that sheltered Saint Edmund when he fled from the Danes in 870, but we cannot be sure of the authenticity of this tradition. The Danes seized the fort, but they
lost it in 921; it then remained a Crown possession, which passed into the hands of William the Conqueror when he became King. In 1100 Henry I granted the Castle to Roger Bigod, and possibly Roger was the one to erect the first masonry
building.

The ruins indicate a 12th Century dating, though material from an older building may very well have been used in the walls. Evidently the Castle was completely rebuilt in 1170. It remained in the Bigod family for some generations, then passed
into the hands of the Mowbrays.

ROGER BIGOD, the Surety, was born about 1150 and succeeded as second Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk. It is fitting that, after Richard's return to England after his captivity in Germany, Roger Bigod was chosen to be one of the four Earls who
carried the silken canopy for the King, as Hugh Bigod had borne the Royal sceptre in the Royal procession.

Roger Bigod was appointed in 1189 by King Richard one of the Ambassadors to King Philip of France, to obtain aid for the recovery of the Holy Land. In 1191 he was keeper of Hereford Castle. He was chief judge in the King's Court from 1195 to
1202. In 120() he was sent by King John as one of his messengers to summon William the Lion, King of Scotland, to do homage to him in the Parliament which was held at Lincoln, and subsequently attended King John into Poitou; but on his return
he was won over to the opposition by the rebel Barons and became one of the strongest advocates of the Charter of Liberty, for which he was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III He died before August 1221, having married as his first wife,
Isabella daughter of Hameline Plantagenet, who was descended from the Earls of Warren. ~1154 * Isabel Plantagent Margaret Bigod William Bigod Thomas Bigod Alice Bigod Mary Bigod Elizabeth Dalton Roger Bigod Ralph Bigod ~1095 - <1176 *Hugh Bigod 81 81 ~1116 - ~1199 * Julianna De Vere 83 83 Baldwin Bigod Hugh Bigod Simon Bigod Nicholas Bigod William Bigod Julia Bigod Jane Dalton ~1060 - ~1107 *Roger Bigod 47 47 1072 * Adeliza de Grentmaisnill Gunnora Bigod ~1035 * Robert (Roger) Bigod William Bigod ~1015 - 1071 * Robert Bigod 56 56 ~0989 * Toustien le Goz 1017 Humphrey le Goz 1025 *Richard le Goz 0994 * Judith De Montandlier Anne Dalton 0963 * Ansfred II Goz 0937 * Ansfred I (The Dane) Rollosson 0909 * Rollo Thurston Brico Of Moere <0891 * Hrollager Of Moere * Emina ~0857 * Hilda Hrolfsdottir ~0823 * Hrolf Rolla Nefja ~0828 * Unknown ~0812 * Ascreda Rognvaldsdottir ~0790 * Rognvald Olafsson Sarah Dalton * Tora Sigurdsdottir ~0770 - 0840 * Olaf II Gudrodsson 70 70 ~0775 * Unknown ~0738 * Gudrod Halfdansson ~0743 * Unknown ~0704 * Halfdan Olafsson * Asa Eysteinsson * Olaf Ingjaldsson ~1019 * Unknown ~1040 * de St Saveur Thomas Dalton ~1016 - ~1066 * Neil St Saveur 50 50 NEEL DE SAINT-SAUVEUR

The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch窠Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

M. le Pr赯st, the French annotator of Wace, is disinclined to believe that Neel le Vicomte, whom we have seen in arms against Duke William at the battle of Val-es-Dunes (vol. i. p. 80), was fighting in his cause at Senlac; and Mr. Taylor, in
his English version, does little more than cite le Pr赯st's opinion. The reasons of the latter are of no great weight: simply that the presence of Neel at Hastings is not vouched for by any contemporary authority, an objection that would
equally apply to three-fourths of the persons who undoubtedly were there -- and that the name of "Sanzaver" in Brompton's List is not a corruption of Saint-Sauveur, but of Sanzavier (Sans-avoir), a family which established itself in England at
the time of the Conquest, and of whom some charters are to be found in Dugdale's "Monasticon."

Surely this is very illogical. Brompton's inclusion of the name of Sanzavier in his List, which is as little to be relied upon as any other, does not disprove the presence of Neel de Saint-Sauveur in the army of William, any more than the
silence of Guillaume de Poitiers, or the other historians of the Conquest who merely mention a few of the principal leaders and contradict each other about them. That Wace is in error requires some much stronger argument, and I think I can show
that probabilities are at least in his favour.

He speaks of the Barons of the Cotentin, of which province Neel was the Viscount, that he was at the head of a company -- "Jost la cumpaigne Neel" (1. 13,626), and that he excited himself greatly to gain the love and favour of his feudal lord,
vigorously assaulting the English, overthrowing many by the poitrail of his horse, and speeding, sword in hand, to the rescue of many barons (l. 13,489). It is quite clear that Wace knew well enough whom he was describing: and now let us see
what evidence we can find to support him.

It is well known that after the "Noble Chef de Faucon," as he was called, unwillingly retreated from Val-es-Dunes, he was banished by Duke William, and took refuge, in Brittany, that he was subsequently pardoned and restored to his estates, at
what time is not exactly ascertained, but most likely at the moment the politic Duke felt the importance of such assistance as the valorous Viscount could afford him in his projected expedition; and, consequently, we find him at the head of a
company, exerting himself to deserve the favour of the suzerain who had forgiven him his former rebellion.

That he is not mentioned in "Domesday" is, as Mr. Taylor admits, to be accounted for by the supposition that he died previously to its compilation; and that supposition receives support from the fact that his son and successor, the last Neel de
Saint-Sauveur, died in 1092, seven years afterwards, as is proved by the desire of his relative, Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances, to attend his funeral ("Mem. Ant. Norman." i. 286, the bishop himself dying the following year. According to the
Welsh Chronicles, as transmitted to us by Humphrey Lloyd and Dr. Powell, Neel the Viscount was one of the slain in the battle of Cardiff, A.D. 1094 (p. 116). Mons. de Gerville, following the French account, says 1074, but afterwards, as I have
already mentioned, corrects as he imagines this date, substituting that of 1092; evidently confounding him with his son and successor above mentioned.

The more critically the Welsh account of the battle of Cardiff is examined, the more does the general truth of the story appear, and if the last Neel the Viscount was killed in Wales in 1092, in company of Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, and Arnold
de Harcourt, there is every probability that his father was a companion of the Conqueror in 1060.

But Wace names also a "Sire de Neahou" amongst the combatants at Senlac, and it is a question whether he is alluding to Neel de Saint-Sauveur by another title, or to some distinct individual. The fief of Nehou, in the arrondissement of
Valognes, received its name from Neel, an ancestor of the Saint-Sauveur family, Nehou signifying Neel's Hou or Holm, i.e. Nigelli Humus. On the banishment of Neel the Viscount in 1047, Nehou is said to have been given by Duke William to Baldwin
de Meules; but it could not have been at that period, as Baldwin and his brother Richard were then refugees in Flanders, and not received into the Duke's favour until 1053. Was Nehou excepted when WIlliam restored to Neel his estates previous
to the Conquest, or did it pass to the Rivieres (De Redvers, Rivers) on the death of his son, the last of the family, in 1092? I shall return to this subject when noticing the Vernons (vide p. 205), who were Sires de Nehou from the end of the
eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century.

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The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch窠Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall, the exact date of whose birth is as much a question as that of Odo, who, if his age at the time of his death be correctly stated, must have been the elder of the two; but, whether or not, there was
probably not more than a year or so's difference between them. Our first knowledge of him is obained from the fact of his being made Comte de Mortain in the Cotentin (not to be confounded with Mortagne in La Manche), by his uterine brother,
Duke William, on the banishment of William the Warling, son of Malger, and grandson of Duke Richard the First, on suspicion of treason — for it really amounted to nothing more — the wily tyrant availing himself of an opportunity to advance,
under a pretence of justice, another of his mother's family. This was just previous to Duke William's visit to England in 1051, and Robert, I conclude, might at that period have been nearly of full age, being born, as I take it, circa 1031.

In 1054, on the invasion of Normandy by Henry, King of France, we find him joining the army of William, with his knights and retainers; but he was not in the battle of Mortemer, being in the Duke's division, and consequently had no opportunity
of distinguishing himself.

We next hear of him at the council called by William on receiving the tidings of Harold's assumption of the crown of England, and subsequently at the great meeting at Lillebonne, when he promised to contribute to the invading fleet no less than
one hundred and twenty vessels, according to the curious Latin record published by Taylor; [A Roberto de Mortoleio, c. et xx.] an enormous number, but the size has to be taken into consideration, and the list may be held to include boats of
every description.

In the great battle of Senlac, Wace tells us he never went far from the Duke, and commanded the chivalry of the Cotentin, but he is not conspicuously delineated in that portion of the Bayeux Tapestry. His share of the spoil is said to have been
the greatest. He was created Earl of Cornwall, in which county alone he possessed two hundred and forty-eight manors at the time of the compilation of Domesday; fifty-four in Sussex, besides the borough of Pevensey; seventy-five in Devonshire,
forty-nine in Dorsetshire, twenty-nine in Buckinghamshire, thirteen in Hertfordshire, ten in Suffolk, ninety-nine in Northumberland, one hundred and ninety-six in Yorkshire, and twenty-four in other counties, amounting altogether to seven
hundred and ninety-seven, with two castles in his county of Cornwall, one at Dunhever and the other af Tremeton.

In 1069, the Earl of Cornwall and Robert Comte d'Eu were left by King William in Lindsey to watch the Danes who had landed at the mouth of the Humber and invested York, but alarmed at the approach of the Royal forces retreated to the opposite
shore, and took shelter in the fens. Availing themselves of the opportunity afforded them by a festival at which the disaffected inhabitants liad invited the invaders to be present, the two Earls fell upon them unexpectedly, and pursued them
with great slaughter to their very ships. We hear little of him from that period till we find him beside the death-bed of the elder William, supplicating for the pardon and release of his brother Odo, which the King, with great reluctance, at
length conceded to the urgent and incessant entreaties of the Earl and his friends. "My brother Odo," said the dying monarch, " is a man not to be trusted—ambitious, given to fleshly desires, and of enormous cruelty. There is no doubt that if
he is released he will disturb the whole country, and be the ruin of thousands." The petitioners pledging themselves for the Bishop's reformation, the King yielded from mere weariness, observing, " It is against my own judgment that I permit my
brother to be liberated, for be assured that he will cause the death or the grievous injury of many persons."

He was too true a prophet. His son Rufus had scarcely ascended the throne when the pestilent priest commenced, as we have seen, to sow dissensions amongst his subjects, and succeeded in involving the generous brother, to whom he was indebted
for his freedom, in a conspiracy to depose the nephew who had restored him the possessions he had deservedly forfeited. Imposing on the duller nature, and working on the affection of Robert, he beguiled him into a rash attempt to hold his
Castle of Pevensey against the King, which failing might have cost the Earl his life or liberty, and the confiscation of all his estates. The Red King, however, made a judicious distinction between his uncles, banishing for ever the
arch-traitor Odo, and accepting the submission of Robert, allowed him to return to his allegiance. This event occurred in 1088, and after that time his name disappears from the pages of our historians.

Brooke, in his Catalogue of Nobility, says, witliout citing any earlier writers, " This Robert was slain in Northumberland in the year 1087." Vincent, in his "Discoverie," points out the error of the date, but is silent respecting the account
of the death, which he certainly would not have been if he could have contradicted it. Dugdale was equally ignorant on the subject. "When he departed this world, I do not find," he tell us; "but if he lived after King William Rufus so fatally
lost his life by the glance of an arrow in New Forest from the bow of Walter Tyrrell, then was it," he continues, "unto him that this strange apparition happened, which I shall here speak of;" and then he relates the story told by Matthew
Paris, how that, at the very hour the King was killed, the Earl of Cornwall, being hunting in a wood at some distance, and left alone by his attendants, was met by a huge black goat bearing Rufus all black and naked with a wound in his breast.
The Earl adjured the goat by the Holy Trinity to tell him whom it was he carried, and was answered, "I am carrying your King to judgment. Yea, that tyrant William Rufus, for I am an evil spirit, and the revenger of his malice which he bore to
the Church of God, and it was I that did cause his slaughter, the proto-martyr of England, St. Alban, commanding me so-to-do, who complained to God of him for his grievous oppressions in this Isle of Britain which he first hallowed — all which
the Earl related soon after to his followers." What a pity the goat did not reveal the name of the individual he had caused to do the slaughter!

This absurd story, one of the many circulated at the time of the King's death, and tolerably well proving a guilty foreknowledge, is only quoted here as bearing on the question of the decease of Robert Earl of Cornwall, for the narrator does
not distinguish the Earl by his baptismal name, and therefore leaves it uncertain whether he is alluding to Robert or to his son William, who had undoubtedly succeeded to the earldom of Mortain and Cornwall before 1103, as in that year he had
left England for Normandy, and was in open rebellion against Henry I, whom he hated from childhood, and by whom he was consequently deprived of his titles and estates for treason.

In the absence at present of any reliable information, I am inclined to believe that Robert's death preceded that of his brother Odo, as the monk of Malmesbury tells us that, "not content with the two earldoms of Mortain in Normandy and
Cornwall in England, his son William demanded from King Henry the earldom of Kent which his uncle Odo had held, and petulantly declared that he would not put on his robe or mantle till the inheritance he derived from his uncle should be
restored to him," a terrible threat, which must have alarmed the King amazingly.

Without presuming to fix on an exact date, I consider then that Robert Earl of Cornwall died between the years 1089 and 1097; and if there be any foundation whatever for Brooke's statement, that he was slain in Northumberland, it is possible
that he was there with his nephew King William on the occasion of Robert de Mowbray's rebellion in 1095. It is not the less remarkable, however, that the death of so important and wealthy a personage should have occurred without its being
recorded by a single historian.

Robert Earl of Cornwall had taken to wife previously to the Conquest, but at what period we are ignorant, Matilda, daughter of Roger de Montgomeri, Earl of Shrewsbury, and by her left one son, William, of whom I have just spoken, and three
daughters — Agnes, first offered in marriage to William de Grentmesnil, but afterwards the wife of Andr矤e Vitry, Denise, married in 1078 to Guy, 3rd Sire de La Val, of whom more hereafter; and Emma, wife of William Count of Toulouse.

Of the three sons of Herleve, William, Odo, and Robert, the latter alone appears to have possessed some kindly feeling. He is described by William of Malmesbury as a man of a heavy, sluggish disposition, but no foul crimes are laid to his
charge. He had evidently the courage of his race, and his conduct as a commander is unassociated with any act of cruelty. Scandal has not been busy with his name as a husband. No discords are known to have disturbed his domestic felicity. With
the exception of the one occasion when ensnared by the artful representations of Odo, he had joined in the rebellion against Rufus, no trace is seen of his having been involved in any of the revolts and conspiracies which were continually
convulsing both Normandy and England, and his fidelity to the elder William was never for an instant shaken. We have seen him beside the death-bed of that William, pleading urgently for the pardon of their worthless brother, and pledging
himself generously but rashly to his reformation; and the distinction made by the second William between his two uncles upon their surrender at Pevensey, shows that he believed in the contrition of Robert, and thoroughly estimated the amount of
dependence he could place upon the word or oath of the faithless, treacherous, turbulent Odo.

He was a great benefactor to the Abbey of Grestain in Normandy, which had been founded by bis father, Herluin de Conteville, and his appropriation of the possessions which belonged to the Priory of St. Petroc at Bodmin, in Cornwall, founded by
King Ethelstan, appears to be justified by the fact that they had been taken from the Priory, and were illegally enjoyed by canons secular. By a charter to the monks of St. Michael in Peril of the Sea, on the coast of Normandy, giving to them
and their successors in pure alms for ever the monastery of St. Michael on the Mount in Cornwall, and which must have been executed before 1083, as the name of Queen Matilda occurs amongst the witnesses, we learn that the standard of that saint
had been carried before him in battle, and may fairly conclude that it was in the decisive one at Senlac. This charter appears to have been subsequently confirmed by him in 1085 at Pevensey. [Mr. Freeman appears to have mistaken this date for
the original one of the Charter, and consequently demurs to its authenticity; but it is clear from the names of the witnesses that it must have been executed in Normandy, and the note appended to it in the Monasticon refers merely to a
confirmation some years afterwards, -- "Firmata atque roboratur est h塠carta anno millesimo octagesimo quinto apud Pevensel," in Robert's own castle.]

Meagre as are the materials which we are enabled at present to scrape together for a memoir of Robert Earl of Cornwall, his character stands out in honorable distinction from those of his brothers, neither surrounded by the "guilty glory" of
the King, nor blackened by the baseness of the Bishop.

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Service Australian Army

Service Number SX2790

Date of Birth 11 Dec 1915

Place of Birth MILLICENT, SA

Date of Enlistment 14 May 1940

Locality on Enlistment MOUNT GAMBIER, SA

Place of Enlistment WAYVILLE, SA

Next of Kin STARK, VERA

Date of Discharge 6 Nov 1945

Rank Corporal

Posting at Discharge 9 DIVISION CAVALRY REGIMENT

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No * Elizabeth Dabernon * William Battyn * John Dabernon * Isabella Mules * John Dabernon * Thamsine Cade 1386 - ~1442 * John Mules 56 56 * Robert Cade * Unknown De Donsland 1360 * John Mules 1918 Donald Alexander Stark 1364 * Ann Wotton * Elizabeth * John De Donsland 1336 * John Mules 1340 * Unknown Favel ~1314 * Roger Favel 1303 - 1339 * John De Mules 36 36 1282 - 1323 * Roger De Mules 41 41 1286 * Mariota Le Dennys 1260 * Robert Le Dennys 1920 Phyllis Vida Stark 1254 * Roger De Mules 1226 * John De Mules ~1200 * Robert De Molis William De Mules Maude Trenouth 1458 Catherine Trenouth Margaret Trenouth 1240 - >1295 * John de Valletort 55 55 1210 - 1259 * Philip de Valletort 49 49 * Joan Of Cornwall 1920 - 2001 David Willis Stark 80 80 Name STARK, DAVID WILLIS

Service Australian Army

Service Number SX7656

Date of Birth 1 Jul 1920

Place of Birth MILLICENT, SA

Date of Enlistment 3 Jul 1940

Locality on Enlistment MOUNT GAMBIER, SA

Place of Enlistment WAYVILLE, SA

Next of Kin STARK, LAVINIA

Date of Discharge 12 Feb 1944

Rank Trooper

Posting at Discharge 9 DIV CAV REGT

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No 1175 * Joel de Valletort 1180 * Emma de Botterell <1120 * Osmond Basset * Basilia Bray <1076 - 1120 * Ralph Basset 44 44 ~1073 * Alice de Buci 1050 - >1086 * Thurston 'The Norman' Basset 36 36 * Irmgard Of Anjou Alice Of Normandy Richard Of Normandy 1924 - 1985 Beryl Doris Stark 61 61 Name STARK, BERYL DORIS

Service Royal Australian Air Force

Service Number 114726

Date of Birth 6 Apr 1924

Place of Birth MILLICENT, SA

Date of Enlistment 14 Feb 1945

Locality on Enlistment SEMAPHORE

Place of Enlistment ADELAIDE

Next of Kin STARK, DONALD

Date of Discharge 12 Mar 1946

Rank Aircraftwoman

Posting at Discharge Station HQ Pearce

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No Eleanor Of Normandy Unknown Of Normandy D. <1203 * Orabilis de Mar William Basset Thurston Basset Nicholas Basset Gilbert Basset Richard Basset Thomas Basset ~1060 * Unknown 1926 - 1926 ? Stark 1841 - 1910 * Ellen Nixon 69 69 ~1005 * Fouque De Aulney ~0960 * Osmond De Centville ~0915 * Norman Of Basset ~0870 * Bathel Or Basset Of The Normans Unknown Osmund Basset 1034 * Adelaide De Beaumont 0942 * Helloe de Beaulac 0921 * Godfrey de Beaulac 0913 * Gerlotte Of Blois 1927 Mervyn Harry Stark Name STARK, MERVYN HARRY

Service Royal Australian Navy

Service Number 35146

Date of Birth 2 Mar 1927

Place of Birth MILLICENT, SA

Date of Enlistment 17 Apr 1945

Locality on Enlistment Unknown

Place of Enlistment PORT ADELAIDE

Next of Kin STARK, LAVINIA

Date of Discharge 5 Oct 1948

Rank ORDINARY SEAMAN

Posting at Discharge HMAS Torrens

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No 1000 - 1045 * Neil II de St Saveur 45 45 * Roger de St Saveur * Neil I de St Saveur * Richard I de St Saveur 0855 - 0912 * Malahule (Hadrick) Eysteinsson 57 57 0953 - 0996 * Godfrey d'Eu 43 43 ~0956 * Heloise De Guines 0905 - 0965 * Sigfried 'le Danois' Guines 60 60 0932 * Elstrude van Vlaanderen 0875 - 0924 * Edward 'The Elder' Of England 49 49 1929 Margaret Lavinia Stark 0878 - 0919 * Alflaed Of Wiltshire 41 41 0848 - 0901 * Alfred 'The Great' Of England 53 53 Born in 849 in the royal manor of Wantage in Berkshire.  Apparently his mother encouraged their learning by showing Alfred and his brothers a beautifully illuminated book of poetry saying the one who could read it first could have it. Alfred, the youngest, was first.  As a young man he was his brother King Ethelred's supporter in the struggle against the marauding Vikings. In 868 he married Ealhswith by whom he had a large family. When in 871 he succeeded his brother Ethelwulf as king, most of England was in Danish hands. Even though they won several small victories and, in 875, a seabattle, the Danes had the upper hand. Alfred had to take refuge in 877 and, during this period of not being seen, stories emerged of his being disguised as a wandering minstrel and strolling into Danish camps to gather information. There was also the story of his burning the cakes he had been asked to watch.  In May 878, joined by English forces, he drove back the Danes to Chippenham. This was the turning point from which Alfred again emerged as King of England. Twice a year he called a great council which was the beginning of the English Parliament.  Apparently Alfred suffered from a strange, regularly re-occurring illness as recorded by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne. According to Sir Iain Moncreiffe of That Ilk, it might have been porphyria. Alfred died  26 October 899 and was buried at Winchester. His wife survived till 5 December 902.
Source: Leo van de Pas 0852 - 0905 * AEhlswith Of the Gainas 53 53 0859 - 0897 * AEthelhelm Of Wiltshire 38 38 * Aethelglyth Of Mercia 0806 - 0858 * AEthelwulf Of Wessex 52 52 0810 - ~0853 * Osburgh Of Wight 43 43 0775 - 0839 * Ecgbert III Of Wessex 64 64 0788 - 0840 * Redburga de Carolingians 52 52 0785 * Oslac Of Wight 1930 - 1993 Melville John Stark 62 62 0825 - 0871 * AEthelred I Of England 46 46 0827 * Wulfthryth 1135 - >1170 * William II De Tracy 35 35 1137 * Unknown Pomeroy ~1097 - 1136 * William De Tracy 39 39 1110 - >1167 * Henry Of Berry Pomeroy 57 57 1120 - >1176 * Rohese Fitzherbert 56 56 * Joscelin de la Pomeroy ~1096 - <1190 * Jordan De Champernowne 94 94 1125 - 1176 * Richard 'Strongbow' De Clare 51 51 1889 Edward Blee Whinnen 1145 - >1186 * Aoife (Eva) MacDermot MacMurrough 41 41 ~1104 - >1172 * Isabelle De Beaumont 68 68 1100 - 1148 * Gilbert FitzGilbert 'Strongbow' De Clare 48 48 ~1065 - 1114 * Gilbert FitzRichard De Clare 49 49 ~1058 * Adelaide De Clermont 1049 - 1118 * Robert I De Beaumont 69 69 Present at Battle Of Hastings 1066. 1022 - 1094 * Roger De Beaumont 72 72 1014 - 1081 * Adeline de Meulan 67 67 ~0990 - 1096 *Waleran III de Meulan 106 106 ~0994 * Ode de Conteville 1891 - 1950 George Whinnen 59 59 ~1060 * Adelaide de Lisle ~1044 - ~1080 * Humphrey de Lisle 36 36 1112 - 1192 * William II De Braose 80 80 1123 * Bertha Of Gloucester ~1125 - 1192 *Bernard IV de St Valery 67 67 ~1125 *Alanora St John 1095 - 1166 * Renauld II de St Valery 71 71 ~1065 * Bernard III de St Valery ~1035 * Gauthier (Walter) de St Valery ~1040 * Isabel Elizabeth De Monthlery * Reginald Cock * Bernard II de St Valery 0977 * Gilbert de St Valery ~0960 * Papia De Normandy 0947 * Bernard I de St Valery 0950 * Emma de St Valery * Reginald de St Valery 1092 - 1143 * Miles De Pitres 51 51 1096 - >1143 * Sybil De Neufmarche 47 47 <1073 - 1134/1139 * Philip De Braose ~1084 * Aenor De Totnais 1849 - 1909 John Frederick (Frederick) Bidner 60 60 ~1049 - 1093/1096 * William I De Braose Came to England with William The Conquerer * Eve De Boissey ~1049 - 1123/1130 * Judeal Johel De Totnais ~1054 *Unknown de Pecguigny * Arnoul de Pecguigny ~1015 * Alured De Totnais Philip De Braose Basilia De Braose D. <1129 * Walter De Pitres 1070 * Berthe 1856 - 1914 Mary Rose 58 58 1050 - 1093 * Bernard De Neufmarche 43 43 1079 * Nesta verch Osborn 1059 * Nesta verch Gruffud 1055 - 1080 * Osbern FitzRichard 25 25 * Geoffrey De Neufmarche * Ada de Hugleville * Thureyitel De Neufmarche 1030 * Richard FitzScrob 1011 - 1063 * Gruffyd I ap Llewelyn 52 52 1034 - 1086 * AEldgyth Of Mercia 52 52 1876 - 1941 Magdalene Bidner 64 64 0997 * AElfgifu D. ~1063 * AElfgar Of Mercia 0980 - 1023 * Llewelyn ap Seisyll 43 43 0982 * Angaradh verc Maredudd 0938 * Seisyll ap Ednowain * Prawst verch Elise 0938 - 0999 * Maredudd ap Owain 61 61 0913 - 0987 * Owain ap Hywel Dda 74 74 0918 * Angarad verch Llewelyn William Floyer 1880 - 1946 Harriet Bidner 65 65 1757 - 1827 * Robert Forrester 70 70   ROBERT FORRESTER was born Abt. 1759 in MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND, and died 14 January 1827 in WINDSOR NSW.  He married (1) ISOBEL RAMSAY.  She was born Abt. 1762.  He met (2) JANE WILSON in PROBABLY NEVER.    He met (3) MARY FROST Abt. 1793.

Notes for ROBERT FORRESTER:

Robert Forrester was tried at Justice Hall at the Old Bailey in London at the sessions which commenced on Wednesday 30 April 1783 before Mr. Justice Nares and the Second Middlesex Jury.  Robert Forrester and Richard McDale were indicted for
feloniously stealing on 29 April 1783, six pieces of gold coin of the realm called guineas to the value of Six Pounds and Six shillings English Currency being the property of Simon Hughes.  The offence was alleged to have taken place at the
dwelling house of Letitia Coleman a widow.  Both Forrester and McDale were found guilty and senced to be hanged.

ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA AS A CONVICT ON 21/1/1788 ABOARD "SCARBOROUGH". SHIPPED OUT OF PORTSMOUTH.

Robert Forrester arrived at Port Jackson in New South Wales, Australia on 26th January 1788 aboard "Scarborough" of the First Fleet.

This account is a preliminary outline of the life and times of Robert Forrester. The information contained in it has been drawn from two sources. The first is the forty or fifty descendants of Robert Forrester who are themselves engaged in
research into their First Fleet convicts genealogy and history. Many of them have been doing there own research in their own way for a longer period of time than the writer of this account. All have contributed in one way or another to this
story and it is difficult to mention one of them and not others. However it ought to be noted that Mr Geoffery Steer (18 Gumblossom Drive, Westleigh, New South Wales, Australia, 2120. has set himself the task of tracing and recording the basic
genealogical information (ie dates of births and/or baptisms marriages and deaths and/or burials) of every descendant of Robert Forrester. This is a great undertaking which will complement this outline or any other biography or history of
Robert Forrester. All descendants of Robert Forrester are asked to contact Mr Steer and provide him with details of their families who have descended from Robert Forrester.

The second source of information on Robert Forrester has been two professional record agents. Mr Michael Yelland (of Ancestry Research Associates, 9 Home Court, Maple Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 4AZ England UK) was commissioned to search for
information on Robert Forrester's birth, trial and goal movements in England and he reported on 28 June 1982 and 4 October 1982. Mrs Joanna Richards (3 Wellington Street, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia, 2025) was commissioned to search
for information on Robert Forrester generally in New South Wales and on Norfolk Island and to keep a watchong brief on information relating to Robert Forrester for the future. Mrs Richards reported on 1st June 1982, 20th August 1982, 1st
September 1982, 4th September 1982 and 23rd October 1982. Mrs Richards has provided much information about Robert Forrester's early days at Port Jackson and on Norfolk Island.

Mr Yelland's information and Mrs Richard's information has been incorporated into this account.

Origins

The date and place of Robert Forrester's birth is not yet known. At his trial in 1783 Robert Forrester in his defence stated that he was "a stranger in London". Mr Yelland is inclined to believe the statement because so many defendants gave the
same defence. Robert Forrester's entry in the Old Bailey Sessions Roll at the Greater London Record Office staes that he was "late of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields in the County of Middlesex". However Mr Yelland suggests that addresses
given in court proceedings generally were addresses or locations where the crime was committed.

St Matthews Anglican Church Windsor Burial Register records Robert Forrester's age at time of death on 14th February 1827 as sixty nine years which indicates a date of birth of around about 1758.

Mr Yelland searched the registers of St Giles in the Fields but did not find the baptism of a Robert Forrester there around about 1758. The closest is Robert Forrester son of Robert and Mary Forrest baptised on July 8, 1759. Mr Yelland believes
that the big London parishes kept accurate records and that this is most certainly not a case of Forrest being wrongly used for Forrester. However if Robert Forrester was illiterate he might have made the mistake and as a youth (perhaps
separated from his parents) he might have assumed that his surname was Forrester whereas it was really Forrest.

The International Genealogical Index (IGI) records for London the baptism of Robert Forrester son of Robert Forrester in September 1757 at Founders Hall in London. Mr Yelland has advised that Founders Hall was the Scots Church at Lothbury in
the City of London.

It will be difficult to trace Robert Forresters origins further as in both England and New South Wales, Australia Forrester is often mixed with and used instead of Forester, Forster and Foster!

Trial

Robert Forrester was tried at Justice Hall at the Old Bailey in London at the Sessions which commenced Wednesday 30th April 1783 before Justice Nares and the Second Middlesex Jury.

For a full account of the trial see the Old Bailey Sessions Papers 1782-1785 pp 485-487, 523 and 941 and the Old Bailey Sessions Roll April 1783.

Robert Forrester and Richard McDale (sometimes McDeed or M'Deed) were indicted for feloniously stealing on 29th April 1783 six pieces of gold coin of the realm called guineas to the value of Six Pounds and Six Shillings English Currency being
the property of Simon Hughes. The offence was alleged to have taken place at the dwelling house of Letitia Coleman a widow. Both Forrester and McDale were found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.

The judgement was recorded at the end of the same Sessions. Both were pardoned at the end of the Sessions which commenced on 10th September 1783. The record reads that the "prisoners who had been capitally convicted at the former sessions were
called to the bar and received his Majesty's gracious pardon on the annexed condition". The "annexed condition" in the case of Robert Forrester and Richard McDale was that of "transportation respites". However transportation to America was
diminishing quite dramatically at about the same time because of the American independence movement and the war which accopanied it. Robert Forrester and Richard McDale were transported to New South Wales, Australia for reasons which are not
readily apparent.

Robert Forrester and Richard McDale were received at Newgate Prison (probably from the cells at the Old bailey) on 5th May 1783 as capital convicts. Mention is made in the Newgate Prison records of their pardon and transportation. On 4th
October 1783 both were delivered "to Duncan Campbell Esq to be transported to Northern America". They must have gone to another prison or to one of the hulks but no record of this has emerged so far.

Valerie Ross in her Matthew Everingham A First Fleeter and his Times (Sydney Library of Australian History 1980) states that Duncan Campbell was "a contractor who had previously been engaged in transportation to the American colonies, bought
two vessels, the Justitia at two hundred and sixty tons and the Censor, an old frigate, from the Admiralty, dismantled them of rigging and moored them in the stream at the Thames between Gallions Reach and Barking Reach at Woolwich" p 20.

Marriage in England

Robert Forrester would have been about twenty five years of age in 1783 if St Matthew's Windsor Burial Register is correct about his age in 1827. He would have been of marriageble age prior to his incarceration. There is however no indication
in either the English or Australian records that he married prior to his transportation to New South Wales, Australia. The IGI has an entry for the marriage of Robert Forrester to Mary Pratt on 22nd May 1780 at St Andrews Enfield but there will
never be any way of determining that this marriage is the marriage of the Robert Forrseter who was transported to New South Wales, Australia.

Voyage to New South Wales, Australia

There are several short readable accounts of the voyage of the First Fleet to New South Wales. A Good one is Chapter 7 of Charles Bateson's The Convict Ships 1787-1868 (Sydney A H & A W Reed 1974) (pp 94-119). Another good one is Victor
Crittendens The Voyage of the First Fleet (Canberra Mulini 1981). A recent good one is Jonathan King The First Fleet (Sydney Macmillian 1982). Valerie Ross has a good chapter in her Matthew Everingham A First Fleet and his Times (pp 23-34).
There are several excellent journals and accounts of the voyage of the First Fleet by people who were part of it. One is The Journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant, R.N. 1787-1790 (Sydney Australian Documents Library 1980).

Residence in New South Wales

Robert Forrester resided at Port Jackson until November 1791. During this time he had several shirmishes with the authorities. On 29th December 1790 or thereabouts he was a member of the watch and was sent to investigate a riotous party at the
residence of William Whiting and to take him into custody. Instead he seems to have joined the party and got drunk himself. He and Whiting and two others appeared before Justices of the Peace (David Collins the Reverend Richard Johnson and
Augustus Alt). Forrester was discharged from the watch into a work gang.

The Register of Marriages of St Philip's Anglican Church Sydney records the marriage of Robert Forster and Mary Frost on 19th October 1791. The Reverend Richard Johnson Chaplain solemnised the matrimony. John Cobley in his Sydney Cove 1791-1792
identifies Robert Forster with Robert Forrester on the basis presumably that no convict named Robert Forster arrived Port Jackson prior to 19th October 1791. It is very likely of course that the variety of pronunciations of Forrester etc
combined with limited abilities to spell and to write accounts for the various uses of Foster, Forster, Forester and Forrester.

This marriage presents not only the problem of proper identification of Robert Forster but also the problem of where the marriage took place. Robert Forrester went to Norfolk Island in October 1791 (see Residence on Norflok Island). Mary Frost
arrived Port Jackson on 28th June 1790 aboard "Neptune" of the second Fleet. She and many other female convicts were transferred aboard "Surprise" bound for Norfolk Island where she arrived on 7th August 1790. She was victualled on Norfolk
Island throughout 1790 and 1791 and wholly ot partly through to 1793 maybe 1795. The Norfolk Island Victually Book from which this information comes also lists a second Mary Frost who was victualled through to March or April 1793 and she too
arrived on Norfolk Island on 7th August 1790. The proper identification of Mary Frost is very complicated and cannot be made on present information nor can the proper identification of the Mary Frost who married Robert Forster on 19th Octoner
1791 nor can it be properly determine where that marriage took place.

Free By Servitude

Robert Forrester's crime took place in 1783 and he received a conditional pardon of his death sentence and a sentence of transportation for seven years. His sentence of transpotation would have expired around 1790 but his misdemeanours might
have carried it on until late 1791. In any case Robert Forrester received settler status on Norflok Island. Receiving settler status was the way that a convict's sentence had expired at least on Norfolk Island.

Residence on Norfolk Island

Robert Forrester sailed for Norfolk Island on 26th Octoner 1791 aboard "Atlantis". In the Norfolk Island Victually Book 1792-6 in the Archives Office of New South Wales, Robert Forrester is stated to have arrived on Norfolk Island aboard
"Atlantic" on 4th November 1791 and to have settled on Norfolk Island on 6th December 1791 and to have departed from Norfolk Island on 9th March 1793 aboard "Kitty".

Robert Forrester is listed in Historical Records of Australia in a Return of Lands Granted in His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales and dated 5th November 1791. He is described in the return as a convict whose sentence had expired and he
is said to have been married. His grant was of ten acres of land.

"Atlantic" arrived Port Jackson on 20th August 1791. She was a 460 ton ship under the command of Archibald Armstrong with James Thomson a ships Surgeon. "Atlantic" sailed from Plymouth in company with "Salamander" and "William and Ann" on 27th
March 1791 with Lieutenant Richard Bowen as naval agent in charge. "Atlantic" embarked 220 male convicts of whom 18 died on the voyage. She disembarked 220 male convicts at Port Jackson on 20th August 1791. "Atlantic" voyage is described
together with other ships of the Third Fleet in Charles Bateson's The Convict Ships 1787-1868.

There is an account of the arrival of "Atlantic" and "Queen" off Norfolk Island in November 1791 in The Journal and Letters of Lt. Ralph Clark 1787-1792. Clark states that "there is also 29 Discharged Marines come in this ship to Settle on this
Island" (p121). Clark does not mention discharged convicts.

It is likely that towards the end of 1791 there are some official recognition of the fact that Robert Forresters term of transportation would expire by the end of that year. Forrester might of course have been living with Mary Frost prior to
their marriage (she had arrived on 28th June 1790 aboard "Neptune") and married her on 19th October 1791. They left Port Jackson on 26th October 1791 aboard "Atlantic" and arrived off Norfolk Island on 2nd November 1791. Forrester received his
land grant on Norfolk Island on 5th November 1791 and became a settler there on 6th December 1791.

Robert Forresters name appears in several documents held by the Archives Office of New South Wales. The most notable of these documents is the Norfolk Island Victualling Book 1792-6. Robert Forresters entry includes the following information.

Category Settlers and Free People

No 93

Date of Arrival 4th November 1791 "Atlantic"

Qualities Nil

Departed 9th March 1793 "Kitty" Port Jackson

Victualled 1792 350 days All species 7 days Meat only

1793 Nil 7 days Meat only

(no entries for 1794 and 1795)

Time when Settled 6th December 1791

A list of persons settled on Norfolk Island but who had not received their land grants shows Robert Forrester as a convict settler who settled there on 6th December 1791 and who lived at Mount Pitt Path Queensboro' Town and had twelve acres of
land.

These are records of some small commercial transactions by Robert Forrester on Norfolk Island. he sold grain between 21st December 1792 and 30th January 1793 (eleven bushels of maize) and was paid in Spanish dollars (at the rate of 5/- Sterling
for every Spanish Dollar). Between 27th December 1792 and 31st January 1793 he sold an additional 80 1/2 bushels for the same price. he signed two bills for this grain with his mark.

Robert Forrester appears to have liked Norfolk Island not at all nor Mary his wife as it seems almost certain that he left them both on 9th March 1793 aboard "Kitty" and returned to Port Jackson where the next phase of his life in the antipodes
began to unfold.

Residence In New South Wales

Robert Forrester received a grant of land on 3rd December 1794 at the Hawkesbury. It consisted of thirty acres with a river frontage. It was not the only grant Robert Forrester received. he was to receive an additional seventy acres on 16th
July 1804 at Mulgrave Place from Governor Philip Gidley King.

Robert Forrester commenced a de facto relationship with Isabella (or Bella) Ramsay soon after he arrived back at Port Jackson which was to last for more than a decade.

There is abundant evidence that Robert Forrester and Isabella Ramsay lived together and had children. The Register of Baptisms of St John's Anglican Church at Parramatta conatins the following entries

Isabella Ramsay appears in the 1806 Muster in New South Wales as "Housekeeper to R Forster". The concept of "housekeeper" in the early days of the Colony of New South Wales nearly always carried the connotation of a de facto relationship.

More About ROBERT FORRESTER:

Burial: 15 January 1827, ST matthews Windsor Cemetery NSW Australia

Occupation: 1800, farmer

Record Change: 14 November 1998

Residence: 1814, NSW MUSTER LIVING WITH ROBERT FORRESTER

Notes for ISOBEL RAMSAY:

Isabella Ramsay was convicted on 6th August 1790 in Carlisle in the County of Cumberland in England and was sentenced to seven years transportation to New South Wales. She arrived in Port Jackson on 9th July 1791 aboard "Mary Ann" of the Third
Fleet. The Register of Marriages of St John's Anglican Church at Parramatta contains the record of the marriage of James Manning and Issabella (sic) Ramsey (sic) on 10th June 1792. The Reverend Richard Johnson solemnised the marriage and the
entry is endorsed that he acted by "Special Permission". Jame Manning was a First Fleet marine who arrived in New South Wales which cannot properly be identified on present information.

NB. Many thanks to Ros Taylor who provided me with the above information. Mabel Floyer Thomas Tregarthen ~1370 * Edward Tregarthen ~1340 * Thomas Tregarthen ~1310 * William Tregarthen * Margaret Hellegan * John Tregarthen * Bedimus Hellegan ~1327 * John De Tregarthen * John De Tregarthen 1884 - 1944 William Bidner 60 60 William De Champernowne ~1153 *Gilbert Andea Elizabeth Champernowne John De Champernowne * Andrew De Cardigan 1166 - 1216 * John Plantagenet 49 49 His mother was well over forty when John, his parent's youngest  child, was born. He was not only his mother's favourite but he also  inherited many of her characteristics. He grew up enjoying the good  things of life: food, women and fashion. His parents indulged him but,  when at 18 he was sent to Ireland to complete its conquest, he was  recalled when he aggravated the situation by making fun of the beards  and clothes of the Irish chieftains.  His father denied him any lands and nicknamed him John Lackland;  but when John's brother, Richard I, became king, he granted him the  county of Mortain in Normandy. Richard I also found him a wife,  Isabella of Gloucester. However, the Archbishop of Canterbury declared  the marriage void as John and Isabella were second cousins. The Pope  reversed this decision but that did not improve the marriage and they  soon lived apart, the marriage to be annulled in 1200.  When Richard I went on crusade, being aware of John's character,  he appointed William de Longchamp as Regent. However, as soon as  Richard was gone, John found support not only by the people of England  but also by his illegitimate half-brother Geoffrey, Archbishop of  York. Marching on London, he won the city by allowing the people to  elect their mayor. Realizing he could not withstand his sovereign's  brother, Longchamp fled disguised as a woman. He was ready to sail  from Dover when an amorous sailor discovered who he was.  Before Richard I died, he declared John to be his heir, by-passing  Arthur of Brittany whose deceased father, Geoffrey, was John's elder  brother. On 25 April 1199 he was invested as Duke of Normandy as well.  In 1200 he divorced his unwanted wife as he had become enamoured of  the 12-year-old Isabella of Angouleme. Her parents, keen to see their  daughter become queen, assisted and they were married by the  Archbishop of Bordeaux.  As king he had a great concern and interest in the administration  of his territories. Ralph of Coggeshall recorded that he ruled  'energetically enough'. He travelled widely in England, often dealing  with mundane financial and legal matters. He was munificent and  liberal to outsiders but a plunderer of his own people, trusting  strangers rather than his subjects, wherefore he was eventually  deserted by his own men and, in the end, little mourned.  John produced some eight illegitimate children and, according to  William of Newburgh, lusted after the wife of Eustace de Vesci, but  who contrived to smuggle a prostitute into the king's bed in her  place. Next day when John coarsely told him how good his wife had been  in bed, de Vesci confessedÄÄÄthen fled.  In 1203 John was responsible for the murder of his nephew and  rival, Arthur. King Philippe of France, overlord for both Normandy and  Brittany, was enraged by this action and, forfeiting Normandy,  attacked and conquered Rouen.  In 1205 John quarrelled with Pope Innocent III as he did not want  to accept Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. As a result  John was excommunicated in 1208. This lasted until 1213 when he had to  accept England as a fief from the pope.  Campaigns in 1214 in France were disastrous. While he was in  France his enemies in England joined forces under the banner of  Stephen Langton, then forced John to accept the Magna Carta which was  sealed by John on 15 June 1215 at Runnymnede near Windsor. Infuriated,  John gained the support of the pope and gathered an army to fight his  barons who were supported by the French king. Landing in England, King  Louis marched on London. The Barons promised the crown to the French  king and a civil war was begun. During John's travels through England,  one of his baggage-trains was swept away while crossing a river and he  lost all his valuables including his crown. This caused so great a  depression that he fell seriously ill. His illness was aggravated by  his gluttony and he was then taken by litter to Newark Castle where he  died, aged nearly forty-nine, on 18 October 1216.
Source: Leo van de Pas ABT 1186/1188 - 1246 * Isabella Of Angouleme 1133 - 1189 * Henry II Plantagenet 56 56 1122 - 26 Jan 1201/1202 * Eleanor Of Aquitaine The eldest daughter and heir of the Dukes of Aquitaine, she was born about 1122. She was brought up by her grandfather, the renowned troubadour Guillaume IX. In 1137 she inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine and married the French king, Louis VII.
Two daughters were born from this marriage. Eleanor accompanied her husband on crusade and was rumoured to have had an affair with Saladin and others. On their return to France, Louis VII had their marriage annulled on 18 March 1152 on grounds of consanguinity. Eleanor, then about 30 years old, wasted no time in seducing the nineteen-year-old Henry, Duke of Normandy, marrying him on 18 May 1152 in Beaux.
Over a period of fifteen years, five sons and three daughters were born. Eleanor and Henry then grew apart and, when their children had grown up, she supported first one son and then another against Henry. In 1189 Henry died and Eleanor lived long enough to outlive her son, Richard the Lionheart, and see her husbands favourite son, John, become king before she herself died in 1204 at about eighty-two years of age, to be buried at Fontevrault.
Source: Leo van de Pas 1079 - 1118 * Matilda (Maud) Of Scotland 39 39 James Bidner ~1031 - 1093 * Malcolm III Caenmor 62 62 Killed MacBeth 1057.

He was a child when his father, King Duncan, was slain by Macbeth (1040). He spent his youth in Northumbria with his uncle, Earl Siward, who in 1054 established him in Cumbria and Lothian.  In 1057, after Macbeth was slain, he became King of all Scotland. His first wife, Ingibiorg, widow of Thorfinn of Orkney, had died; and in 1069 Malcolm wedded Margaret, sister of Edgar the Aetheling, whose cause he made his own.  Five times he harried Northumbria (1069, 1070, 1079, 1091, 1093) and there were counter-invasions by William the Conqueror and Prince Robert in 1072 and 1080. In 1092 William II Rufus wrested from Scotland all of Cumbria south of the Solway; and next year Malcolm  marched into England but was entrapped and slain at Alnwick on 13 November 1093. He left five sons, of whom four succeeded him: Duncan, Edgar, Alexander and David.
Source: Leo van de Pas 1045 - 1093 * Margaret Of Hungary 48 48 ~1001 - 1040 * Duncan I MacCrinan 39 39 D. ~1040 * Sybil Of Northumberland 1016 - 1057 * Edward 'The Exile' Of England 41 41 D. >1093 * Agatha Of Hungary 0978 - 1045 * Crinan Of Dunkeld 67 67 ~0980 * Bethoc (Beatrix) MacMalcolm 1110 *Simon Chenduit *Robert de Trevors Rosabella Bidner D. 1016 * Edmund II 'Ironside' Of England 1018 * Algitha Of Germany ~1140 * Juhel De Molis ~1110 * Nicholas De Molis ~1080 * Roger De Molis ~1022 * Baldwin de Briones FitzGilbert ~1034 * Emma 1153 - 1156 William Plantagenet 3 3 1155 - 1183 Henry Plantagenet 28 28 1156 - 1189 Matilda (Maud) Plantagenet 33 33 Samuel Bidner 1157 - 1199 Richard 'Lionheart' I Plantagenet 42 42 1158 - 1186 Geoffrey Plantagenet 28 28 1161 - 1214 Eleanor Plantagenet 53 53 1165 - 1199 Joan Plantagenet 34 34 1086 - 1125 Henry V 39 39 * Roger De Pitres ~1072 * Gieva De Tracy Mistress of King Henry Ist. ~0945 - 1006 * Adela Of Poitou 61 61 0915 - 0963 * William I Of Poitou 48 48 1307 - 1362 Isabel Berkeley 55 55 Deceased Infant Bidner 1102 Emma De Beaumont 1104 - 1166 Waleron De Beaumont 62 62 ~1114 - 1191 * More O'Toole 77 77 Hugh 'The Poor' De Beaumont >1104 Adeline De Beaumont >1104 Amicia De Beaumont >1104 Albreda De Beaumont William Bigod 1110 - 1171 * Dermot MacMurchad 61 61 Richard Bigod 1850 - 1928 Joseph Bidner 77 77 Geoffrey Bigod John Bigod Maude Bigod * Gunnor Unknown De Braose Maude De Braose 1150 - ~1227 Sibilla De Braose 77 77 Roger De Braose 1175 - 1210 *William De Braose 35 35 Maude De Braose 1851 - 1927 Eva Korn 76 76 Giles De Braose Roger De Braose Philip De Braose Bertha De Braose Thomas De Braose John De Braose Henry De Braose Annora De Braose Loretta De Braose 1182 - 1227 *Reginald De Braose 45 45 Thomas Bidner Flandrina De Braose Bernard De Braose ~1200 *Egidia De Lacey Petronilla De Lacey 1396 - 1442 Thomas Carminowe 46 46 ~1205 - <1258 * Geoffrey de Dinham 53 53 * Thomas Durant 1179 - 1221 * Oliver Dinham 42 42 * Warren De Kelly ~1145 - ~1204 * Geoffrey Dinham 59 59 Charles Bidner ~1121 - ~1183 * Oliver Dinham 62 62 * Lucy D. 1202 * William De Kelly * Roger Carminow 1088 - 1156 * Olivier Dinham 68 68 1100 - ~1150 * Agnorie De Penthievre 50 50 * William De Bloyou ~1065 - ~1120 * Geoffrey Dinan 55 55 * Radegonde ~1032 * Oliver Dinan Edward Bidner ~1762 * Isabella Ramsay ~1006 * Geoffrey Dinan * Orio Rohais De Clare Unknown De Clare 0997 * Elgifu Of England ~1089 * Murcetac O'Toole Edith De Warenne Unknown De Warenne 1054 - 1075 Robert III Of Normandy 21 21 1055 - <1066 Adeliza 11 11 George Bidner 1058 - 1127 Cecily 69 69 1057/1058 Richard 1061 Constance 1062 - 1137 Adela Of England 75 75 1064 - <1080 Agatha 16 16 Odo Earl Of Kent De Conteville Half brother to  William the Conquerer. Commisioned the Bayeaux Tapestry. Present at the Battle Of Hastings 1066. * Haccombe *Andrew Haccombe D. >1086 * Ralph de la Pomeroy >1109 - >1190 * Mabira De Caen 81 81 Frederick Bidner ~1058 - 1107 * Sybil De Montgomery 49 49 * Emma Of Almannia 0711 - 0768 * Pepin III Of France 57 57 0714 - 0777 * Bertrada Of Laon 63 63 * William Of Toulouse * Gondres * Bernard Louis The German Giselle Pippin Alice Bidner Adelaide ~0968 - 1016 * AEthelred 'The Unready' Of England 48 48 0944 - 0975 * Edgar 'The Peaceable' Of England 31 31 0921 - 0946 * Edmund 'Deed Doer' Of England 25 25 D. 1034 * Malcolm II Of Scotland D. 0995 * Kenneth II Of Scotland D. 0954 * Malcolm I Of Alba D. 0900 * Domnall II Of Alba D. 0877 * Constantine I Of Picts & Scots Killed in battle fighting the Danes 877. D. 0860 * Kenneth mac Alpin 3 X Male Infants Deceased Bidner D. 0780 * Eochaid 'The Venomous' Of Scots-Argyll D. 0778 * Aedh 'The White' Of Scots-Argyll D. 0733 * Eochaid III Of Scots-Argyll D. 0697 * Eochaid 'Crook Nose' Of Scots-Argyll D. ~0673 * Domangart II Of Scots-Argyll D. 0643 * Domanll Brecc 'The Speckled' Of Scots-Argyll D. ~0629 * Eochaid Buidhe Of Scots-Argyll D. ~0608 * Aidan Of Scots- Argyll D. ~0559 * Gabhran Of Scots-Argyll D. ~0506 * Domangart I Of Scots-Dalriada 1 Female Infant Deceased Bidner ~0445 - 0501 * Fergus The Great 'mac Erc' Of Scots-Dalriada 56 56 1207 - 1272 Henry III Plantagenet 65 65 1210 - 1238 Joan Plantagenet 28 28 1214 - 1241 Isabelle Plantagenet 27 27 1215 - 1275 Eleanor Plantagenet 60 60 1057 - 1100 William II 43 43 D. 1107 Edgar D. 1124 Alexander I * Hernam Of Cornwall Emma Of Anjou Plantagent 1896 - 1978 Mary Kathleen McDonnell 82 82 ~1240 - 1270 * Hugh XII De Lusignan 30 30 ~1242 - 1274 * Jeanne de Fougeres 32 32 ~1221 - 1250/1260 * Hugh XI De Lusignan 1212 - 1255 * Yolanda de Dreaux 43 43 Alice De Lusignan 1242 - >1266 Mary De Lusignan 24 24 ~1183 - 1249 * Hugh X De Lusignan 66 66 D. 1241 Maud De Lusignan ~1124 - ~1254 Alice le Brun 130 130 1225 - ~1296 Guillaume De Lusignan 71 71 Mary Phyllis Bidner 1190 - 1250 * Pierre de Dreaux 60 60 1160 - 1218 * Aymer Of Angouleme 58 58 1160 - 1211 * Alice De Courtenay 51 51 ~1134 - 1187 * William IV Taillefer 53 53 ~1138 * Emma de Limoges ~1126 - 1183 * Peter I De Courtenay 57 57 1148 - 1205 * Isabel Elizabeth De Courtenay 57 57 1100 - 1161 * Reginald De Courtenay 61 61 1110 - >1158 * Hawise (Hedwige) de Donjon 48 48 D. 1218 Pierre II De Courtenay 1923 - 1989 Allan Leonard Bidner 66 66 1081 - 1137 * Louis VI 'Le Gros' Capet 56 56 ~1092 - 1154 * Adelaide de Maurienne 62 62 1119 - 1180 *Louis VII Capet 61 61 Constance Capet 1083 - 1138 * Frederick de Donjon 55 55 Guy de Donjon 1075 - >1127 * Miles (Milo) De Courtenay 52 52 1078 - 1100 * Ermengard de Nevers 22 22 1047 - 1089 * Renault de Nevers 42 42 ~0985 - 1034 * Athon De Courtenay 49 49 1925 - 1996 Joyce Sylvester Bidner 70 70 John Carmynowe ~1034 * Josselin De Courtenay ~1040 * Elizabeth (Isabel) de Monthlery 1072 Josselin De Courtenay 1074 Geoffrey De Courtenay ~1040 * Elizabeth de Monthlery John Carminowe Nicholas Carminowe John De Kelly * Nicholas De Kelly Veronica Jean Bidner 1797 - 1870 * Samuel Nixon 73 73 Notes for SAMUEL NIXON:
Samuel's death was notified by his brother Thomas. Samuel is mentioned in the 1822 & 1824-5-6-NSW Musters, + 1828 Census, & in James McLelland's "History of NSW". A native of Rugby (Warwickshire) & a tailor by trade, Samuel took to "Highway Robbery," for which he was tried at Warwick Assizes & goaled for life on 28th Mar 1818. (The records give death as the sentence, but this was commonly communted to transportation for life) There was also a Thomas Nixon sentence to death for Larceny in a Dwelling Place, no doubt Samuel's brother, who was transported in 1819. Samuel sailed aboard the "Shipley" in 1818 leaving Woolwich for Sydney, arriving 18 Nov 1818. He was sent to work for William Cox at Windsor, it would seem that his sentence was shortened to 7 years as this is the time given at the 1822 muster, in 1825 he is still said to be serving life sentence & working as a laborer. He gained his ticket of leave, before 1828 census (#27/53) when he was living on 2 acres of cleared & cultivated land at Windsor, later gained a conditional pardon (#39/106) described as 5'9 1/2" tall, of pale complexion, brown hair & blue eyes. At his trail in 1818, his age was given as 20, in 1828 census as 28 yrs. Between 1824-1832 Samuel & Partner Frances E Foley had 4 children. They may have separated between 1832-34 as Samuel married  Ellen Connor in 1834. On 15 May 1847 Samuel was up before the Police Court in Windsor, charged with stabbing his wife Ellen. Bailed to appear 1 June 1847 at Central Criminal Court Sydney, he was remanded in custody until 5 June 1847, & was sentenced to 6 months hard labour in Sydney Goal for malicious stabbing & assault. 1349 Ralph Carminowe Alicia Mules Joan Dabernon ~1280 John De Mules ~1163 - 1219 * Hugh IX De Lusignan 56 56 ~1158 - 1233/1239 * Mathilde Tailliefer ~1100 * Ademar III de Limoges ~1118 * Graule Taillefer ~1084 - 1118 * Guillaume III Taillefer 34 34 ~1086 * Vitapoy de Benauges 1929 Kathleen Monica Bidner Vulgrin II Taillefer ~1060 * Amanieu de & Saint-Macaire Benaug 1064 * Unknown ~1015 - 1087 * Foulques Taillefer 72 72 ~1062 * Cundo Vegena ~1038 * Qunormau Vegena ~1043 * Unknown ~0998 - 1048 * Geoffrey Taillefer 50 50 ~0994 * Petronille de Archaic ~0973 * Mainard 'Le Riche' de Archaic D. 1973 Mary Irene Pearl Wills ~0977 * Hildegarde ~1017 Geoffrey Taillefer ~1019 Arnold Taillefer ~1021 Guillaume Taillefer ~1023 Aymar Taillefer 1025 Humberge Taillefer 1062 - >1092 * Ida de Forez 30 30 1009 - 1095 * Guy de Monthlery 86 86 He was Lord of Monthlery and Chevreuse as well as of Chateaufort and Bray. He founded the Abbey of Longpont, where late in life he became a monk and died.
Source: Leo van de Pas 1014 * Hodierne de Gometz-le Ferte 1050 - 1086 * Everard de Donjon 36 36 1917 Irene Sheila (Sheila) Bidner 1108 - 1140 * Walgren II Taillefer 32 32 1109 * Ponce de Lezigan 1065 - 1151 * Hugh VII de Lezigan 86 86 1067 * Sarazine Of Armenia 1039 - 1110 * Hugh VI de Lezigan 71 71 1041 * Ildegard Thouars 1015 - 1093 * Aumary IV Thouars 78 78 AIMERI DE THOUARS

The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch窠Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

We have already heard of "Le Visquens cil de Thouars" (Aimeri, Aumari, or Haimon, as he is indifferently called), in the first chapter of this volume, as the enthusiastic admirer of the martial appearance of the Conqueror previous to the
battle. "Never have I seen a man so fairly armed nor one who rode so gallantly, or bore his arms, or became his hauberk so well; neither any one who carried his lance so gracefully, or sat his horse and manoeuvred him so nobly. There is no
other such knight under Heaven! A fair Count he is, and a fair King he will be. Let him fight and be shall overcome; shame be to him who shall fail him!"

And assuredly no shame could be cast on "li bon Visquenz de Toarz" on that occasion, who, appointed by William to lead with Alain of Brittany the left wing of the army, principally composed of Poitevins, Bretons, Manceaux, and of course his own
following, which was a numerous one, proved himself "no coward that day."

As neither Monsieur le Pr赯st nor Mr. Taylor have given us any information respecting the family of this undoubted companion of the Conqueror, I shall endeavour to supply the deficiency, more particularly as this is one of the Norman families
in which a remarkable custom existed to the great confusion of the genealogists.

Monsieur de Besly, in a letter to his brother antiquary, the learned Andr矤u Chesne, dated 23rd May, 1620, says: "Of all the great houses in this country, there are none in my opinion so difficult to give a clear account of as that of the
Viscount of Thouars and of the other 'Gentilhommes' between the river S絲e, which flows to Mortagne, and the Dive, which passes to Moncontour, the more because in these parts they have retained an ancient mode of succession exceedingly
singular, and of which an example could scarcely be found elsewhere in the kingdom; for the eldest son in the direct line, if he had male issue only, took all the fiefs and 'biens nobles,' with the obligation of providing for his younger
brothers, which was done by dividing the usufruct of the whole estate into nine portions, two of which they afterwards divided equally amongst themselves. But if the eldest son died before his younger brothers, his children succeeded only to
his personalities, and all his estates went to the next brother charged with the provision as before to any younger brothers and the children of the elder deceased, by subdivision of the two-ninths of the usufruct equally amongst themselves, as
I have already stated. The lands thus passed from brother to brother, and after the decease of the youngest reverted entirely and absolutely to his nephews, the sons of the eldest brother, who became heirs of each other in the regular order of
succession. This custom, which was termed 'Retour,' was abolished by the Three Estates of the kingdom in 1514, in consequence of its severity and the troubles and litigation it engendered.

"Here, in fact, you have the true cause and origin of the deplorable confusion at present to be seen in the genealogies of our nobility in these quarters. For the fief passing from brother to brother, all the younger assumed the full title as
though they were lords in actual possession of the territories, in lieu of simple annuitants. Sometimes also these uncles permitted their nephew, the eldest son of their eldest brother, to do homage for the lands and bear the title, saving the
right as to the annuity, the reservation of which, nevertheless, was not thereafter expressed in their charters, so that frequently two Viscounts de Thouars are found named in and signing the same charter. Sometimes twelve viscounts are found
succeeding each other in less than thirty years, arising from the circumstance that the elder of several brothers having lived to a very great age, the younger having all become old men, soon followed him to the grave, leaving us in these days
uncertain and at a loss to guess which was the father, which the son, which the uncle, and which the nephew; so that the ordinary calculation could not be relied upon in such a case which allows ninety or a hundred years for three generations."

Guided by this curious exposition of manners and customs, as interesting to the jurist as to the genealogist, I find that our Aimeri IV, Vicomte de Thouars, was the eldest son of Geoffrey II, Viscount de Thouars, by a lady named Ainor or
Aldearde, but in consequence of the strange perplexing rules alluded to does not appear to have directly succeeded to him, though bearing in accordance with them the title of Viscount. He was present when Agnes, Duchess of Guyenne, gave the
town of St. Angely to the abbey of that name in 1048. At the time of the invasion he was probably between twenty and thirty, and the husband of Aserengarde, sister of Raoul de Mauleon, living in 1069, by whom he had two sons, Herbert and
Geoffrey, and a daughter, lldegarde, who became the wife of Hugues VI, Sire de Lezingen.

Aimeri married, secondly, a lady named Ameline, for the health of whose soul, the souls of his father and mother, of his own soul, and those of his sons Herbert and Geoffrey, he gave, in December 1088, the Church of St. John the Evangelist, in
the Castle of La Cheze, to the Abbey of St. Florent de Saumur. He also commenced the erection of another church in that castle, in honour of St. Nicholas, and confirmed to it all the gifts he had made to it, with the consent of his wife and
children, Thursday, 15th of January, 1092.

He died the following year, and was buried in his new Church of St. Nicholas de la Cheze, leaving by his second wife, according to P籥 Anselm, four sons, — Savary, Raoul, Hugues, and another Geoffrey, whom he makes the successor to his
grandfather Geoffrey; but as Savary and Raoul were both witnesses to charters in favour of St. Florent in 1054 and 1068, and as he makes Geoffrey out to be eighty years of ago in 1120, and consequently born in 1040, they could not be the sons
of Ameline, married between 1069 and 1088.

I can recommend the whole pedigree as a pleasing puzzle to all whom it may concern. I have extracted as much as concerns me on this occasion, which, little as it is, sheds some light on "li bon Visquenz de Toarz," who was "ne mauvais ne coarz,
qui ert apel矅imeris," and who "mult recu le jor grand pris," and at the same time illustrates the singular custom recorded by Monsieur Besly.

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UPDATED 01/11/2003 11:08:39 1017 * Auremarde Moulcon 1013 - 1060 * Hugh V Sire 47 47 1000 - 1060 * Almodis de la Marche 60 60 Mary Veleta Bidner 0974 * Bernard I de la Marche 0987 * Hugh IV Sire 0989 * Aldearde Thours 0963 * Raoul I Thours 0961 * Hugh III Sire 0935 * Hugh II Sire 0922 - 0944 *Elgiva 22 22 1200 - 1240 Isabel Marshall 40 40 1099 - 1137 * William X Of Aquitaine 38 38 1103 - 1130 * Eleanor de Chatellerault 27 27 1921 - 1923 Patrick Bidner 2 2 1077 * Aumary I de Chatellerault 1071 - 1127 * William VIII 'The Troubador' Of Aquitaine 56 56 1073 - 1117 * Phillipa Of Toulouse 44 44 1026 - 1086 * William VII "Guido' Of Aquitaine 60 60 1030 - 1104 * Hildegarde Of France 74 74 Agnes Of Poitou 0969 - 1030 * William V 'The Great' Of Aquitaine 61 61 0995 - 1068 * Agnes Of Burgandy 73 73 1024 - 1077 Agnes Of Aquitaine 53 53 ~1023 William VI (Peter) Of Aquitaine 1924 Eva Thomasine Bidner ~0949 - 0995 * William IV Of Aquitaine 46 46 ~0954 - 1003 * Emma Champagne (De Blois) 49 49 0915 - 0963 * William III Of Aquitaine 48 48 0917 - >0962 * Adele Of Normandy 45 45 0889 - 0962 * Ebalus 'The Bastard' 'Manzer' Of Poitou 73 73 D. 0890 * Ramnulf II Of Poitou * Ramnulf I Of Poitou * Gerard Of Auvgern ~0802 * Hildegard Of The Franks 0958 - 1026 * Otto William Of Burgandy 68 68 1927 - 1995 Alban John (Boydie) Bidner 68 68 0952 * Ermentrude de Roucy 0922 - 0967 * Ragenoldus Of Roucy 45 45 0930 - 0973 * Alberade Of Hennegau 43 43 ~1003 - 1039 * Robert de Grentmesnil 36 36 ~1007 * Hawisa de Escalfoy ~1005 - ~1083 * Ivo de Beaumont 78 78 1008 - 1099 *Judith Adelaide de Gournay 91 91 1040 Beatrix de Beaumont 0977 * Gervase de Grentmesnil 0981 * Giroie de Escalfoy Esther Patricia Styles 0983 * Gisele de Montfort ~1101 * Unknown * Laodike Thea Philadelphos * Antiochus VIII Philmeter Grypos * Cleopatra Tryphaena Of Egypt Over 100 lines of descent from Cleopatra Tryphaena. ABT 0184 BC - ABT 0117 BC * Euergetes II Ptolemy VIII Of Egypt * Cleopatra III Of Egypt * Epiphanes Ptolemy * Cleopatra Philopater * Philpater IV Ptolemy Living Forrester * Arsinoe * Euergetes III Ptolemy * Bernenice Of Egypt * Phildelphus Ptolemy * Arsinoe * Philadephus Ptolemy * Soter 'Saviour' I Ptolemy * Arsinoe ~0915 - 0995 * Theobald I Of Blois 80 80 ~0920 - 9 Feb 0978/0979 * Luitgarde de Vermandois Living Forrester 1812 - 1849 * Ellen Connors 37 37 ~1225 * John Russell 1260 - 1290 * Alice Bossell 30 30 1235 * John Bossell ~1094 * Inghin O'Byrne 1055 * Gillacomhall O'Toole 1030 * Doncuan O'Toole 1005 - 1056 * Gillacaemphin O'Toole 51 51 0980 - 1041 * Gillacomghall O'Toole 61 61 0950 - 1018 * Doncuan Of Leinster 68 68 0920 * Dunlaing Of Leinster Living Forrester 0890 * Tuathal Of Leinster 0860 * Ugaire Of Leinster 0830 * Oilliol Of Leinster 0800 * Dunlaing Of Leinster 0770 * Mureadac Of Leinster Unknown 0740 * Bran Of Ireland 0745 * Eithne 0710 * Muredac Of Leinster 0640 * Bran Muit Of Leinster Living Forrester 0600 * Conal Of Leinster 0570 * Faolan Of Leinster 0530 * Colman Of Leinster 0500 * Cairbre Of Leinster 0460 * Cormac Of Leinster 0435 * Lillial Of Leinster D. 1149 * Loigsech O'Morda * Gormlaith Ingen Finn O'Caellaide * Finn O'Caellaide D. 1097 * Amargen O'Morda Ruby Samuels * Gormflaith O'Neill D. 1069 * Faelan O'Morda * Maelind Ingen Meic Dairgin D. 1026 * Amargen O'Morda * Mac Dairgin O'Thairmeascain 0818 - 0840 * Pepin Of Senlis 22 22 * Isabel de Craon 1198 - 1226 * Amaury I de Craon 28 28 D. 1237 * Jeanne des Roches D. 1196 * Maurice II de Craon Living Forrester D. 1220 * Isabel de Beaumont * Hugues de Craon * Marquise de Vitre D. 1181 * Agnes de Monfort 1100 - 1158 * Saher de Quincy 58 58 ~1096 - 1140 * Maude Of Northampton Saint Liz 44 44 ~1068 - 1111 * Simon I de Saint Liz 43 43 ~1020 - 1055 * Siward Biornsson 35 35 1031 * Aelfled Of Bernecia D. 1045/1049 * Bjorn Ulfiusson Living Forrester D. 0125 * Marius Or Cyllin Or Meurig Of Britain ~0060 * Julia Or Victoria ferch Prasutagus Of Icenea D. 0074 * Arviragus Gwenivyth Of Britain D. 0050 * Venissa Or Genissa Claudius D. 0017 * Cymbeline Or Cynfelyn Of Britain D. 0026 BC * Tenuatius Of Britain 0010 BC - 0054 * Tiberius Claudius Germanicus Nero 0015 - 0059 * Julia Agrippina Minor 44 44 24 May 0015 BC - 0019 * Germanicus Julius Caesar 0038 BC - 0009 * Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Living Forrester 0036 BC - 0038 * Antonia Minor Of Rome 0083 BC - 0030 BC * Marcus Antonius III (Mark Antony) Of Rome 0064 BC - 0011 BC * Octavia Minor D. 0062 * Boadicea Of Icenea * Mandubratius 0080 BC - 0018 * Llud Llaw Ereint ap Heli * Beli Mawr Or Heli ap Manogan * Don Or Anna ferch Mathonwy * Manogan ap Eneid * Eneid Living Forrester 0014 BC - 1933 * Vipsania Julia Agrippina Major 0038 BC * Tiberius Claudius Nero 30 Jan 0058 BC - 0029 * Livia Drusilla D. 0071 BC * Marcus Antonius Crecitus * Julia 0143 BC - 0087 BC * Marcus 'The Orator' Antonius D. 0086 BC * Lucius Julius Caesar III Lucius Julius Caesar III was Consul in 89 B.C., a Censor in 88 B.C. and the author of the Julian Law. * Cossutia * Lucius Caesar II ~1073 - ~1114 *Nesta verch Rhys 41 41 Living Forrester ~1035 - 1093 *Rhys ap Tewdwr 58 58 ~1051 * Gwaladus verch Rhiwallon * Tewdwr Mawr 'The Great' ap Cadell 1026 - 1069 * Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn 43 43 0982 * Cynfyn ap Gwerystan 0982 * Angharad verch Maredudd 0943 * Unknown verch Llandilo * Cleopatra II Epiphanes Of Egypt Over 100 lines of descent from Cleopatra II. William Floyer <1414 William Floyer Living Forrester Ellen (Elinor) Floyere <1284 John Floyere Hamelin Hereward * William Bottreaux Hawise de Meschines Mabel de Meschines Amicia de Meschines Beatrix de Meschines Joanna de Meschines ~1117 - 13 Mar 1180/1181 * Simon III de Montfort D. 1996 Stella Margaret Ross * John Connors ~1126 * Maud De Evereux *Aumary IV de Montfort * Agnes de Garlende Guy de Montfort Jane Hill 1270 Joan Carmynowe 1205 - <1262 * Philip de Columbers 57 57 ~1226 - >1297 * Egeline de Courtenay 71 71 1180 - <1257 * Philip de Columbers 77 77 1183 - 1242 * Robert de Courtenay 59 59 Living Forrester 1150 - 1194 * Reginald de Courtenay 44 44 1150 - 1219 * Hawise de Courcy 69 69 1183 - 1242 * Mary de Reivers de Vernon 59 59 1155 - 1217 * William de Vernon 62 62 1162 - >1204 * Mabel de Beaumont 42 42 1140 * Hugh FitzRichard de Valletort Simon de Valletort * Renaud de Courtenay * Hawise Deincourt * William II de Courcy Living Forrester 1115 - 1174 * Maud d'Avranches 59 59 1141 - 1207 * Robert de Beaumont 66 66 1140 * Maud Of Cornwall FitzRoy Isabel de Beaumont 1092 Sybilla FitzHenry <1106 - <1155 * Herbert FitzHerbert 49 49 Nephew of King Stephen. Chamberlain & treasurer to King Henry I. Herbert FitzHerbert 1060 - <1130 * Herbert Of Winchester 70 70 1073 * Emma Of Blois 1045 - 1102 * Stephen III Of Champagne & Blois 57 57 Living Forrester * Unknown Mistress 1015 - 1089 * Theobald III Of Blois 74 74 1020 * Alix de Crepi 0990 - 1037 * Eudes II Of Champagne & Blois 47 47 0994 - 10 Mar 1039/1040 * Ermengarde de Auvergne 0985 - 1030 * Raoul II de Crepi 45 45 0992 * Adele de Breteuil 0950 - 12 Mar 0995/0996 * Eudes I Of Blois 0964 - >1010 *Bertha Of Arles 46 46 0970 - 1032 * Robert I de Auvergne 62 62 1922 Eric Kenneth Jones ~0980 - 0994 * Ermengarde Of Provence 14 14 Berthe Of Champagne & Blois Stephen Of Champagne & Blois 0944 - 1017/1024 * Walter 'The White' de Vexin 0954 * Adele de Senlis 0970 * Hildouin de Breteuil 0974 * Emmaline de Chartres Raoul de Crepi 0925 - 0993 *Conrad 'The Peaceful' Of Burgandy 68 68 Gerberga Of Burgandy Living Jones * William II Of Arles & Provence *Adelaide Blanche Of Anjou * Walter I Of Valois & Amiens & Vexi * Adele Of Anjou * Bormard de Senlis Alix de Vexin Drogo de Vexin * Hildouin de Ponthieu * Hersende 0948 * Fouche I Of Chartres Living Jones 0890 - 0937 *Rudolf II Of Burgandy 47 47 0907 - 0967 * Bertha Of Swabia 60 60 Matilda Of Burgandy 0865 - 0911 * Rudolf I Of Burgandy 46 46 0870 - 0929 * Willa Of Vienne 59 59 * Berkhard II Of Swabia * Regilinde de Nullenburg Adelaide (St Adelaide) Of Burgandy 0845 - 0887 *Boso II Of Vienne 42 42 0852/0855 - 0896 * Ermengarde de Lorraine 1954 - 1997 Wendy Jones 43 43 ~0820 - 0864 *Budwine Of Metz 44 44 0825 - 0855 * Richilde Of Arles 30 30 0835 - 0900 * Engelberga 65 65 *Boso III Of East Franks Unknown Of Metz Richaut Of Metz D. 0928 * Gello Of Blois Ellen Hatch Marie Savorie Mary Fitz 1921 - 1998 Charles Erasmus Richards 77 77 Mary Squire Anthony Leigh Barbara Arscott Christopher Harris John Kelloway D. 1290 Devorguilla MacDougal Of Galloway D. 1246 Christine MacDougal Of Galloway Marjory MacDougal Of Galloway Robert Of Huntington Query AKA 'Robin Hood'? Isabella Of Huntington 1947 - 1948 Coral Teresa Richards 1 1 John Of Huntington Matilda Of Huntington Ada Of Huntington Henry Of Huntington Henry Of Stirling Of Huntington Henry Of Brechin Of Huntington Ada II Of Huntington David Of Huntington 1141 Malcolm IV Stewart 1143 William I 'The Lion' Stewart Living Richards * Ellen Living Stark 1146 Ada Stewart 1195 * Reginald De Valletort Caius Julius Caesar Lucius Julius Caesar * Sextus Julius Caesar * Sextus Julius Caesar Sextus Julius Caesar I was a military tribune under Lucius Aemilius Paulus. He was proconsul in Liguria. In his time, 200 B.C. books instead of being written on one long sheet of scroll and rolled, were of many leaves bound together. Caius Julius Caesar * Lucius Julius Caesar * Numerius Julius Caesar 0995 - >1077 * Godeheut Borrell 82 82 1950 - 1988 Patricia Anne Richards 37 37 1052 William FitzWilliam 1056 Roger De Breteuil 1058 Ralph FitzWilliam 1060 John FitzWilliam 1062 Richard FitzWilliam Adeliza FitzOsbern 0955 * Ralph de Toeni 0990 * Adela Estefania de Barcelona 0992 Ralph de Toeni 1014 Robert de Toeni Living Richards 0972 - 1018 *Raymond III Borrell 46 46 0975 * Ermensinde de Carcassonne 0946 - 0992 *Borrell II Of Barcelona 46 46 0952 * Luitgarde de Toulouse 0932 - 1012 *Roger I de Carcassonne 80 80 0949 * Adelaide Of Melgueil 1005 Raimund Berenger Toda Of Barcelona 0890 * Hugh de Cavalcamp 0878 - 0948 *Sunyer Of Barcelona 70 70 Living Richards 0911 - >0954 * Richilde de Rouergue 43 43 0921 - 0960 *Raymond III de Toulouse 39 39 0926 * Garsinde Of Toulouse 0975 Ermengard I Of Barcelona 0898 *Arnaud I de Carcassonne * Eystein 'The Noisy' Ivarson 0840 - 0897 *Guifre (Wilfred) 'The Hairy' Of Barcelona 57 57 0855 * Gunhilda Of Flanders *Armengol Of Toulouse * Adelaide Countess of Toulouse Living Richards *Raymond II de Toulouse * Guidenilde * Oliba II de Carcassonne * Ascroda Ragnvaldsdatter *Sunifred I Of Urgel * Ermesinde 0835 - 0878 *Baldwin I Of Flanders 43 43 0843 - 0870 *Judith Of The HRE 27 27 Guidenhilde Of Barcelona ~1821 - 1898 Laurence Gallagher (Gallohue) 77 77 Living Richards 1863 - 1936 Mary Jane Frost 73 73 1887 Elizabeth Janet Gallagher 1889 - 1952 Albert Peter Gallagher 62 62 1890 - 1890 Priscilla Margaret Gallagher 1891 - 1962 John Arthur Gallagher 70 70 1893 Mary Florence Gallagher 1895 - 1970 Joseph Samuel Gallagher 74 74 1897 - 1940 William Kenneth Gallagher 42 42 1899 Emily Imelda Gallagher 1902 - 1954 Bridget Agnes Gallagher 51 51 Living Richards 1904 - 1989 Gertrude Mary Gallagher 84 84 1906 - 1958 Patrick Cyril Gallagher 52 52 1866 - 1930 Margaret Halpin 64 64 1891 - 1966 Vincent Gallagher (Gallohue) 75 75 1892 Mary Maude Gallagher (Gallohue) 1894 - 1963 Augustine Gallagher (Gallohue) 69 69 1896 Laurence Gallagher (Gallohue) 1898 - 1917 John Percy Gallagher (Gallohue) 18 18 1899 Ellen Gallagher (Gallohue) 1901 David Herbert Gallagher (Gallohue) Frederick Gilligan 1903 Patrick Francis Gallagher (Gallohue) 1904 William Gallagher (Gallohue) Ruby Gallagher (Gallohue) Emily Gallagher (Gallohue) 1874 - 1942 Jane Cusick 68 68 1894 - 1973 Stephen Gallagher 79 79 1896 - 1896 Helen Gallagher 1897 - 1969 James Gallagher 72 72 1899 - 1968 Clarence Gallagher 69 69 1901 Elizabeth Veronica Gallagher 1899 - 1968 Roy Oswald Keevers 68 68 1903 Loreto 'Laura' Gallagher 1905 Agnes Gallagher Catherine Gallagher Daphne Gallagher John Gallagher 1913 Eric Gallagher 0774 Adelhaid Of The Holy Roman Empire 0775 Rotrud Of The Holy Roman Empire 0778 Lothar Of Franken 0779 Bertha Of The Holy Roman Empire 1928 Roylene Dorothy Keevers 0781 Gisela Of The Holy Roman Empire 0782 Hildegarde Of The Holy Roman Empire 0687 - 0737 * Heribert Of Laon 50 50 0696 - 0745 * Bertdada Of Laon 49 49 0688 - 0724 * Rotrud Of Trier 36 36 0708 Hildegarde Of France 0713 - 0762 Karlmann Of Austrien 49 49 0715 Grifo Of Trier * Martin II Of Laon * Bertha Of Merovingia Living Keevers 1833 - 1908 * Levi Witcom 75 75 Member of the Cranbrook Primary School Committee 1883.
Assisted immigrant via 'Herefordshire' in 1857 (aged 17 years). * Richilda Of Bourges 1066 Agnes de Beaumont 0535 * Garibold Of Agilofinges 0540 * Waldrada Of Lombardy 0495 * Theodebert Of Agilofinges 0500 - 0540 * Waccon Of Lombardy 40 40 ~0500 * Austricuse Ostrogoth Of Gepides 0480 * Elemundo Of Gepides 1890 Millie J Forrester 1895 Robert H Forrester 1855 - 1933 Laura Bidner 78 78 Hugh Bulmer D. 1993 Bessie Patterson Bulmer Malcolm Henricks Living Henricks Living Wilkie Living Henricks Living Henricks Living Henricks Living Henricks Living Keating 1852 David Grice Living Stran Living Stran ? Living Lyssagor Living Gallagher <0943 - 0959 Eadwig Of England 16 16 0884 Thyra Danebod Of Denmark ? 0870 * Thyra Of Jutland 0814 - 0850 * Horda Knut Sigurdsson 36 36 0782 - 0873 * Sigurd Ragnarson 91 91 0784 * Heluna Of England David A Grice 0750 - 0845 * Ragnar Sigurdsson 95 95 * Aslaug Sigurdsdottir 0724 - 0812 * Sigurd Ranvardsson 88 88 0728 - 0810 * Alfhild Gandolfsdatter 82 82 0670 - ~0770 * Randver Radbardsson 100 100 0638 - 0700 * Radbard Of Russia 62 62 0633 * Auda Ivarsdatter 0612 - 0647 * Ivar Halfdansson 35 35 0618 - 0669 * Gauthilde Gyrithe Alfsdatter 51 51 D. 1115 * Donnchad MacMurchad Richard H Grice D. 0870 * Murchad Gilbert Basset Thomas Basset 1110 - 1194 Aubrey De Vere 84 84 Geoffrey De Vere Robert De Vere William De Vere Gilbert De Vere Alice De Vere Rohese De Vere Margaret A Grice 0242 BC - 4 Jun 0187 BC * Antiochus III Of Syria 0240 BC * Laodike Of Syria 0265 BC * Seleuchus Kallinikos Of Syria 1865 James Witcom 1866 Maria Witcom 1861 Ann Witcom Henry Paskin 1888 Stella Paskin 1889 Alice Paskin 1891 Edith Paskin 1857 - 1932 Catherine Bidner 74 74 1892 Millie Paskin 1895 Eva Paskin 1896 Elsie Paskin 1899 Ethel Paskin 1900 George Paskin 1902 Vera Paskin Richard Arnold 1887 Richard Arnold 1893 Lorrie Arnold ? 1894 Alice Arnold D. 1929 John Korn 1897 Cecil Arnold 1903 Vera Arnold * Roger Of Buchan * Ludolph Of Saxony * Gertrude 1812 *Robert Crisp Holland *Mary Ann Phillippo 1900 Ernest Edward Holland 1902 Dora Amelia Holland *Robert Holland John Korn *Mary 1841 Elizabeth Eleanor Holland 1842 - 1920 Robert Josiah Holland 77 77 1847 Henry Holland 1849 - 1920 Martha Amelia Holland 71 71 1851 Mary Crisp Emma Ann Holland 1853 Rosa Alberta Holland 1854 Charlotte Lavinia Holland 1857 Henry Archibald Ernest Edward Holland *James Phillippo Henry Korn *Elizabeth 1300 Matilda Carmynowe *Sarah *Elizabeth 1125 Alan Dinham 1136 Emma Dinham 1172 Geoffrey Dinham ~0107 Eurgan Ap Marius 0540 - 0614 *Brunhilda Of The Visigoths 74 74 *Chrunsine Of Burgandy Margaret Korn ~1833 - 1901 * Kezia Pope 68 68 Possibly assisted immigrant via 'Northern Light' 1858 (aged 24 years). *Laodice II Of Syria *Prasutagus Of The Icenea 1242 - 1279 *Maud De Brienne 36 36 1225 - 1307 *Guy De Brienne 82 82 1217 - <1274 *Eve de Tracy 57 57 ~1210 - BEF 22 Mar 1281/1282 *Nicholas Martin 1185 - BEF 15 Feb 1215/1216 *William Martin ~1185 - >1246 *Avice De Toriton 61 61 ~1202 - 1251 *Guy IV De Brienne 49 49 ~1202 *Jane de la Pole Annie Korn ~1190 - 1274 *Henry de Tracy 84 84 1196 *Maude de Braose 1176 - 1213 *Maude de Clare 37 37 1197 John De Braose 1158 - <1217 *Richard de Clare 59 59 1160 - 1 Jan 1224/1225 *Amice FitzRobert 1116 - 1173 *Roger de Clare 57 57 ~1132 - 1193 *Maude de St Hilary 61 61 1116 - 1183 *William FitzRobert 67 67 1129 *Hawise de Beaumont Mary A Korn 1180 Joan de Clare 1180 Gilbert de Clare *James de St Hilary *Aveline Unknown 1155 Elana de Clare 1168 Aveline de Clare *Eve de Torrington 1152 *William de Tracy de Sudeley *Harvise de Born 1108 *John de Sudeley Kate Korn *Grade de Tracy *Henry de Tracy <1114 Ralph de Sudeley 1057 - >1115 *Harold de Sudeley 58 58 1068 *Maude D'Avranches 1034 *Emma de Conteville 1026 - 1057 *Ralph 'The Staller' De Sudeley 31 31 1026 *Agatha de Gytha *Osgood Clapo de Gytha James Blight Elizabeth Korn 1741 Elizabeth Blight Suzanna Blight John Blight Phillipa Blight D. 1760 *James Blight ~1676 - 1744 *Gertrude Blewett 68 68 D. 1681 *John Blight D. ~1725 *Phillipa Margaret Blight Samuel Blight Emily Korn Phillis Blight John Blight Frances Blight Mary Blight *George Blewett ~1681 *James Rowe Elizabeth Rowe *Elizabeth Davyes Jane Rowe ~0960 *Thorold Of Lincoln 1859 - 1929 George Bidner 70 70 1060 Alice De Vere 1064 Geoffrey De Vere 1066 Roger De Vere 1068 Robert De Vere 1072 William De Vere *Boso Of Tuscany *Willa Of Burgandy *John Bigbury >1224 *Alphonse De Brienne *Mary de Lusignan 1867 - 1936 Annie Jupp 69 69 ~1148 - 1237 *Jean De Brienne 89 89 Regent of Jerusalem 1212-1225. Emperor of Constantinople 1228-1237. ~1199 *Berenguela Of Leon & Castille *Alfonzo IX Of Leon & Castille *Berenguela Of Castile 1150 *Ralph de Lusignan Anne Stevens 1866 - 1926 Edward Blee Whinnen 60 60 ~1340 *Englesia Dymock D. 1000 *Manfredo I Of Turino *Prangarda Di Canossa Maurice Bidner D. 0988 *Adalbert II Of Modena & Canossa D. 1014/1021 *Humbert I Of Este *Railinda Of Como D. 0975 *Alberto Azzo *Guilla Of Spoleto ~0925 - 0999 *Wiprand Of Como 74 74 D. >0958 *Siefried Langobarde >0900 - ~0950 *Adelbert III Of Tuscany 50 50 D. 0928 *Bonifacio I Of Spoleto *Olderado Of Como Emily Bidner *Railinda D. >0976 *Arduin Of Auriate * De Mosezzo D. 0928/0929 *Gui Of Lucca ~0898 - 0986 *Marozia 88 88 Prisoner in Castel St Angelo for 54 years. Mistress of Pope Sergius III (904-911). Mother of Pope John XI (931-936). Grandmother of Pope John XII (955-964). Great Grandmother of Popes Benedict VIII (1012-1024) & John XIX (1024-1032), Great Great Grandmother of Pope Benedict IX (1032-1048). *Roger Of Auriate *Manfredo De Mosezzo *Adelbert II Of Lucca *Bertha Of Lorraine *Theophylactus Alice Bidner 1882 - 1960 * Archibald Charles McArthur 78 78 D. ~0928 *Theodora Mistress of Pope John X. ~1051 - 1138 *Stephen De Penthievre 87 87 *Hawise de Grungampe <1140 - <1194 *Henry Lovel 54 54 1252 - >1307 *Theobald Butler 55 55 1283 - <1306 *Maude de Mortimer 23 23 1223 - 1285 *Theobald de Botiller 62 62 1230 *Margaret de Burgh 1200 - 1230 *Theobald de Botiller 30 30 1202 - <1225 *Joan du Marais 23 23 Joseph Bidner 1188 - 1242 *Richard de Burgh 54 54 1170 *Geoffrey du Marais 1252 - 1304 *Edmund de Mortimer 52 52 ~1259 - 1333 *Margaret de Fiennes 74 74 1231 - 1282 *Roger de Mortimer 51 51 1233 - <1301 *Maude de Braose 68 68 ~1245 - 1302 *William de Fiennes 57 57 ~1245 - 1302 *Blanche de Brienne 57 57 1274 Isolde de Mortimer 1287 Roger de Mortimer Harriet Bidner 1288 Hugh de Mortimer 1285 Matilda de Mortimer 1292 Joan de Mortimer 1294 Walter de Mortimer 1296 Margaret de Mortimer 1298 Edmund de Mortimer 1300 John de Mortimer 1302 Elizabeth de Mortimer ~1160 *Theobald Walter 1187 - 1226 *Maude le Vavasoar 39 39 Thomas Bidner 1158 - 1206 *William de Burgh 48 48 1162 *Mor O'Brien ~1230 Walter de Burgh 1234 Alice de Burgh 1190 - 1246 *Ralph de Mortimer 56 56 He owned lands in the Counties of Gloucester, Southampton, Berkshire,  Salop and Hereford. Of a martial disposition, he erected several  strong castles by which he was able to extend his possessions against  the Welsh. Realizing he could not cope with him, Prince Llewelyn gave  him his daughter in marriage.
Source: Leo van de Pas ~1205 - 1251 *Gwladys verch Llewellyn 46 46 1204 - >1243 *William de Braose 39 39 1204 - <1246 *Eve Marshall 42 42 1246 Isobel de Mortimer 1248 Guillaume de Mortimer 1863 - 1912 Margaret Elizabeth Bidner 49 49 1250 Ralph de Mortimer 1256 Roger de Mortimer 1192 - 1267 *Enguerrand de Fiennes 75 75 1217 - 1267 *Isabeau de Conde 50 50 1225 - 1296 *Jean de Brienne 71 71 1232 *Jeanne de Chateaudun 1265 Robert de Fiennes 1276 Alice de Fiennes 1277 Jean de Fiennes 1130 *Hervey Walter D. 1992 Zeta Mavis Berrigan 1132 *Maugar le Vavasoar 1202 Maud Walter Fulk Fitzwaren 1210 Fulk Fitzwaren 1227 Eugenia Fitzwaren 1200 John du Marais 1133 *Walter de Burgh 1137 *Alice *Donnel O'Brien *Orlacan Mac Murrough Living Grobb Katherine De Lacey D. 1215 *Roger de Mortimer Like his ancestors, he was constantly combatting the Welsh and at  one time suffering a great defeat. However, in the end he was  victorious and took twelve of their principal leaders in one battle.  He then enlarged his territories considerably and also ejected thieves  and robbers from those parts.  Being at one time present at the solemn anniversary of his father,  he confirmed all his grants to the canons of Wigmore. He then added  his own gift of a spacious and fruitful pasture lying adjacent to the  abbey and called the 'Treasure of Mortimer'. When his steward  remonstrated with him for parting with so valuable a treasure, he  replied, "I have laid up my treasure in that field, where thieves  cannot steal or dig, or moth corrupt."  By his first wife he had a son and two daughters. His second wife,  Isabel de Ferrers, was the sister and heir of Hugh de Ferrers and  brought him three sons as well as many properties.
Source: Leo van de Pas *Isabel de Ferrers *Lleyellyn ap Iorwerth *Tangwystl verch Llywarch 1233 Hugh de Mortimer 1235 John de Mortimer 1237 Peter de Mortimer 1186 - 1223 *Gracia de Brewer 37 37 *Guillaume de Fiennes Living Grobb Agnes de Mello *Nicholas de Conde *Isabel de Moreaumes 1230 Reginald de Fiennes 1231 Maude de Fiennes 1233 Robert de Fiennes 1235 Enguarrand de Fiennes 1240 Giles de Fiennes *Jean de Brienne *Berengaria Alfonsez Living Grobb *Hervey Walter *Maugar le Vavasoar 1167 William le Vavasoar 1157 - 1198 *William de Burgh FitzAldhem 41 41 ~1157 *Juliana Daisnel 1150 Rowland de Burgh 1150 Thomas de Burgh 1145 - 1226 *William de Briwere 81 81 1149 - 1217 *Beatrice de Lavalle 68 68 1184 Isabel de Briwere Living Grobb 1197 Joan de Briwere 1173 Margaret de Briwere ~1110 - 1175 *Reginald de Dunstanville 65 65 1114 - 1162 *Beatrice de Mortain 48 48 1114 *Henry de Briwere *William de Briwere ~1195 *Clemence Des Roches *Guillaume Des Roches ~1345 *William de Wotton ~1345 *Gundred Wyger Living Leach 1893 - 1978 * Julia Mabel Whinnen 84 84 ~1320 *Walter Dymock *Cecily 1140 *Philip de Columbers *Maude de Chandos *Mary Cunningham *John Stark *Aldhem De Burgo 1138 *Agnes Capet ~1122 *Robert Daisnel 1340 Richard Champernoun Living Forrester ~1150 *Gilbert English ~1122 - 1167 *Philip FitzRobert de Gay 45 45 1135 *Alice de Berkeley 1100 - 1165 *Roger III de Berkeley 65 65 *Hawise De Paynel *Roger II de Berkeley 1100 - ~1141 *Ralph De Paynel 41 41 D. 1139 *Hawise de Ferrers Cecily De Paynel D. 1139 *Robert de Ferrers Living Forrester ~1080 *Hawise de Vitre *Henry de Ferrers *Bertha Roberts *Andre de Vitre *Alice Picot *Anabila John Carmynowe Maude Carmynowe Gervais Carmynowe Maria Battyn Living Forrester Johanna Battyn John Battyn *Parvie Of Vermandois D. 0886 *Manfredo Of Milan *Ptolemy IV Philpater Of Egypt *Arsinoe III Of Egypt ~1155 - 1191 *Avice de Lancaster 36 36 ~1105 - 1262 *Hugh de Morville 157 157 In 1150 Hugh de Moreville founded Dryburgh Abbey, in Berwickshire,  Scotland. One of his sons, also named Hugh, was one of four knights  who, on 29 December 1170, was responsible for the murder of Thomas  Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.  In 1150 Hugh de Moreville founded Dryburgh Abbey, in Berwickshire,  Scotland. One of his sons, also named Hugh, was one of four knights  who, on 29 December 1170, was responsible for the murder of Thomas  Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
Source: Leo van de Pas ~1107 - >1153 *Beatrice de Beauchamp 46 46 1079 - 1167 *Simon de Morville 88 88 Living Martin 1081 *Ada de Engaine 1085 - >1111 *Robert de Beauchamp 26 26 *Rohesia de Vere 1100 - 1170 *William de Lancaster 70 70 1117 - 1166 *Gundred de Warrene 49 49 *Gilbert de Lancaster *Godith *Hugh de Morville *Ralph de Engaine *Ebria Trivers Living Forrester *Hugues de Beauchamp *Adeliza Matilda Taillebois *James Callaghan Occupation-Farmer in NSW. Possibly transported to New South Wales 1838. *Elizabeth Lynum 1845 John Callaghan 1848 Michael Callaghan 1848 William Callaghan 1851 Elizabeth Callaghan 1853 Catherine Callaghan D. <1502 Joane Carminowe Living Forrester 1445 - 1470 Nicholas Carew 25 25 1466 - 1513 Edmund Carew 47 47 Catherine Huddesfield <1500 Catherine Carew Phillip Champernowne 1519 Katherine Champernowne 1521 - 1581 Walter Rawleigh 60 60 Margaret Raleigh Carew Raleigh 1552 - 1618 Walter Raleigh 66 66 5th cousin 14 times removed. Living Forrester Elizabeth Throckmorton Roger de Mortimer D. >1345 Margaret de Mortimer ~1306 Edmund de Mortimer ~1309 - <1369 Catherine de Mortimer 60 60 ~1314 Joan de Mortimer ~1313 Agnes de Mortimer ~1318 Beatrice de Mortimer ~1307 Maude de Mortimer 1314 Thomas de Beauchamp Living Forrester 1335 Maude de Beauchamp 1338 Thomas de Beauchamp 1334 Phillipe de Beauchamp 1358 William de Beauchamp 1372 Joan FitzAlan 1396 Joan de Beauchamp D. 1452 James Butler 1426 - 1515 Thomas Butler 89 89 1428 Anne Hanchford 1465 Margaret Butler Living Gallagher William Boleyn 1477 Thomas Boleyn 1486 Elizabeth Howard 1504 Mary Boleyn 1501 - 1536 Anne Boleyn 35 35 Second wife of King Henry VIII.

7th cousin 17 times removed. George Boleyn 1491 - 1547 Henry VIII Tudor 56 56 9th cousin 18 times removed. 1533 Elizabeth Tudor 8th cousin 16 times removed. 1308 *William Dymock 1311 *Elizabeth Rous Living Gallagher 1866 * John Whinnen ~1322 *Margaret Tremenent ~1300 *Richard Tremenent ~1280 *John Tremenent ~1282 *Ralph le Rous ~1252 *Richard Trement ~1222 *Richard Trement ~1222 *Isabel De Clist ~1185 *William De Clist ~1150 *Gerard De Clist ~1155 *Beatrice de Hainoc Living McKenzie ~1125 *William de Hainoc ~1095 *Roger de Hainoc ~1312 *Thomas Wyger *Christian ~1315 *Richard de Wotton ~1320 *Julian le Prouz ~1295 *John de Wotton ~1306 - 1343 *Joan de Moels 37 37 ~1285 - >1361 *William le Prouz 76 76 1168 *William de la Pole Living Potts 1130 *Nicholas Pola 1105 *Nicholas Pola *William de Pola 1184 Hugh de Vere 1240 Robert de Vere 1224 Isabel de Vere 1220 - 1255 Eva de Braose 35 35 1250 - 1298 Milicent de Cauntelo 48 48 1282 - 1314 Eva la Zouch 32 32 Maurice Berkeley Living Forrester 1295 - 1361 Thomas Berkeley 66 66 1352 - 1428 John Berkeley 76 76 1400 - 1478 Elizabeth Berkeley 78 78 1400 John Sutton 1425/1427 - 1484 Edmund Sutton 1430 - 1485 Joyce Tiptoft 55 55 1461 John Sutton Margaret Charroll 1497 - 1563 Margaret Sutton 66 66 1483 - 1558 John Butler 75 75 Living Forrester 1540 - 1609 William Butler 69 69 1544 - 1581 Margaret Greeke 37 37 ~1568 - 1650 Margaret Butler 82 82 1560 - 1616 Lawrence Washington 56 56 1600/1601 - 1652/1653 Lawrence Washington 1632/1633 - 1677 John Washington Amphyllis Twigden Anne Pope 1659 - 1697/1698 Lawrence Washington Mildred Warner Living Forrester 1693 - 1743 Augustine Washington 50 50 Mary Ball 22 Feb 1731/1732 - 1799 George Washington First president of The United States Of America.

15th cousin 12 times removed. 1731 - 1802 Martha Dandridge 71 71 ~1370 John Champernoun Richard Champernoun Elizabeth Champernoun ~1460 William Fortescue 1485 - 1527 Jane Fortescue 42 42 Unknown Cobleigh Living Forrester 1502 - 1547 Margaret Cobleigh 45 45 Unknown Giffard D. 1596 Jane Giffard 1527 - 1577 Amyas Chichester 50 50 1584 Frances Chichester Unknown Wyatt Margaret Wyatt Matthew Allyn >1626 Mary Allyn >1626 Thomas Allyn Living Forrester Abigail Allyn John Williams Elijah Williams Abigail Williams Thomas Williams Abigail Williams Unknown Bliss Margaret Bliss Unknown Hoyt Margaret Jane Hoyt Living Samuel Edward Axson 1860 - 1914 Ellen Louise Axson 54 54 16th cousin 7 times removed.

Wife of President Woodrow Wilson. 1856 - 1924 Woodrow Wilson 67 67 28th President of the USA. Unknown Newberry ~1656 Mary Newberry Unknown Moseley ~1686 Joseph Moseley Mary Moseley 1711 Abigail Moseley John Lyman Living ~1736 Mindwell Lyman Unknown Pomeroy 1761 Eunice Pomeroy Unknown Clarke ~1786 Jerusha Clarke Unknown Gates ~1811 George William Gates ~1836 George Porterfield Gates ~1861 Margaret Gates Unknown Wallace Living * Emily McIntosh 1885 - 1982 Elizabeth Virginia Wallace 97 97 1884 - 1972 Harry S Truman 88 88 33rd President of the USA. Unknown Weller ~1711 Mary Weller Unknown Sackett ~1736 Daniel Sackett ~1770 Mehitable Sackett Unknown Francis ~1800 Manning Francis ~1833 Frederick Augustus Francis Living 1863 Anne Ayers Francis George Robbins 1890 Kenneth Seymour Robbins Edith Luckett 1923 Anne Francis Robbins 19th cousin 4 times removed. Wife of Ronald Reagan. 1911 Ronald Wilson Reagan 40th President of the USA. D. 1385 Katherine Clivedon ~1353 Elizabeth Betteshorne John de Sutton Constancia Blount Living Crisp John De Somery Gunnor D. 1211 Ralph De Somery Margaret Marshall 1208 - <1273 Roger De Somery 65 65 D. >1293 Margaret De Somery 1210 - 1240 Nichole d' Aubigny 30 30 Ralph Basset D. 1336 Margaret Basset 1301 - 1372 Ralph de Stafford 70 70 Living Crisp Jane de Stafford Nicholas Beke Elizabeth Beke D. ~1395 Robert de Swynnerton ~1370 Maude de Swynnerton John Savage >1410 Margaret Savage 1403 - 1445 John Dutton 42 42 1421 - 1459 Thomas Dutton 38 38 Anne Tuchet Living Philp Isabel Dutton Christopher de Southworth 1478 - 1518 John de Southworth 40 40 Helen de Langton 1497 - 1546 Thomas de Southworth 49 49 Margery Boteler 1526 - 1595 John de Southworth 69 69 Mary Ashton 1548 - 1616 Thomas Southworth 68 68 Rosamund Lister Living Philp 1590 - 1621 Edward Southworth 31 31 Alice Carpenter 1616 - 1669 Thomas Southworth 53 53 Elizabeth Reynor 1664 - 1717 Elizabeth Southworth 53 53 Joseph Howland 1671 - 1746 Nathaniel Howland 75 75 Martha Cole Nathaniel Howland Abigail Burt Living Crisp 1749 - 1836 Joseph Howland 87 87 Lydia Bill 1779 - 1852 Susan Howland 73 73 John Aspinwall 1809 - 1886 Mary Rebecca Aspinwall 77 77 Isaac Roosevelt 1828 - 1900 James Roosevelt 72 72 Sara Delano 1882 - 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 63 63 32nd President of the USA.

23rd cousin 5 times removed. 1884 - 1962 Eleanor Roosevelt 78 78 24th cousin 7 times removed. Living Crisp Maude Dutton D. 1456 William Booth George Booth Katherine Montfort 1473 - 1519 William Booth 46 46 Edward Booth William Booth Edward Booth 1608 - 1687 Richard Booth 79 79 Elizabeth Booth Living Emms John Miner 1670 - 1753 Grace Miner 83 83 Samuel Grant 1692 - 1727 Noah Grant 35 35 Martha Huntington 1719 - 1756 Noah Grant 37 37 Susanna Delano 1748 - 1819 Noah Grant 71 71 1794 - 1873 Jesse Root Grant 79 79 Hannah Simpson Living Forrester 1822 - 1885 Ulysses Simpson Grant 63 63 18th President of the USA.

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As a second-lieutenant he joined the army of occupation in Texas  under General Zachary Taylor, was in the battles of Palo Alto and  Resaca de la Palma, and was present at the capture of Monterey.  Promoted captain in 1853, in 1854 he resigned his commission and  settled on a farm near St. Louis, Missouri.  In 1861, when the Civil War began, Grant was appointed colonel of  the 21st Regiment of Illinois Infantry. In November, now brigadier-  general, he fought the battle of Belmont. In February 1862 he captured  Fort Henry, and soon after Fort Donelson. In April he fought a two  days' battle at Shiloh. After various unsuccessful movements against  Vicksburg, Grant crossed the Missisippi, April 1863, twice defeated  the enemy, and drove them into Vicksburg, when he besieged. After many  assaults the stronghold surrendered conditionally on July 4, 1863,  with 31.600 prisoners. In October he fought at Chattanooga, and drove  the enemy out of Tennessee.  In March 1864 Grant, now a major-general in the regular army, was  promoted lieutenant-general, and given the command of all the armies  of the United States. His plan of campaign was to concentrate all the  national forces into several distinct armies, which should operate  simultaneously against the enemy. Sherman moving toward Atlanta, while  Grant himself accompanied the army of the Potomac against Richmond. On  May 4 he crossed the Rapidan, encountered General Robert E. Lee in the  Wilderness, and fought a desperate three days' battle, and pursuing  the offensive, he drove the enemy within the lines of Richmond. On  March 29, 1865, began a week's hard fighting, after which Lee  surrendered his entire army, April 9. The fall of Richmond  substantially ended the war.  In July 1866 Grant was appointed full general; in 1868 and 1872  he was elected president by the Republicans. Amont the events of his  administration were the guaranteeing of the right of suffraqge without  regard to race, colour or previous servitude, and the peaceful  settlement of the 'Alabama Claims'. The proposal of a third term of  presidency not having been approved, Grant became a sleeping partner  in a bankinghouse.  In May 1884 the house suspended, and it was discovered that two  of the partners had robbed the general of all he possessed. In the  hope of providing for his family, he begun his autobiography, when in  1884 a sore throat proved to be cancer at the root of the tongue. The  sympathies of the nation were aroused, and in March 1885 congress  restored him to his rank of general, which he had lost on accepting  the presidency. He died at Mount McGregor near Saratoga, July 23.
Source: Chambers's Biographical Dictionary. Julia Dent D. 1041 *Tankred De Hauteville *Fredesende De Normandie Raimon Berenger Of Barcelona Agnes Of Essex >1164 - 1221 Robert De Vere 57 57 Isobel de Bolbec 1210 Hugh De Vere 1240 Robert De Vere Living Burns 1843 - 1921 * David Crisp Holland 77 77 Alice de Sandford Joan De Vere William de Warrenne Alice de Warrenne Edmund FitzAlan Richard FitzAlan Robert Bruce Robert le Bruce Isabel de Clare Robert le Bruce Living Forrester Maude Of Carrick D. 1329 Robert I Bruce Robert the Bruce.
3rd cousin 28 times removed. Isabel Of Mar 1297 - 1316 Marjorie Bruce 19 19 Walter Stuart 1316 - 1390 Robert II Stuart 74 74 5th cousin 26 times removed. Elisabeth Mure 1337 - 1406 Robert III Stuart 69 69 Annabella Drummond D. <1411 Elizabeth Stuart Living Forrester James Douglas D. 1457 James Douglas Elizabeth Gifford John Douglas David Douglas James Douglas Arthur Douglas John Douglas John Douglas James Douglas Living Hillier John Douglas Grizel Forbes D. 1749 John Douglas 1710 - 1766 Euphemia Douglas 56 56 Unknown Irvine 1742 - 1808 John Irvine 66 66 Anne Elizabeth Baillie 1770 - 1810 Anne Irvine 40 40 Unknown Bullock 1793 - 1849 James Stephens Bullock 56 56 Living Mills Martha 1834 - 1884 Martha Bullock 49 49 1831 - 1878 Theodore Roosevelt 46 46 Anna Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 Theodore Roosevelt 60 60 26th president of the USA.
23rd cousin 8 times removed. 1860 - 1894 Elliott Roosevelt 34 34 Corinne Roosevelt Anna Rebecca Hall 1394 - 1437 James I Stuart 43 43 Jane Beaufort Living Jones 1428 - 1486 Joan Of Scotland 58 58 James Douglas <1466 - 1513 John Douglas 47 47 Elizabeth Douglas Robert Keith D. >1562 Elizabeth Keith George Gordon D. 1557 Elizabeth Gordon Unknown Stewart D. 1595 Elizabeth Stewart Living Crane Unknown Fraser Margaret Fraser Unknown Cumming Janet Cumming Unknown Munro Agnes Munro Unknown Monroe D. 1668 Andrew Monroe 1666 - 1737 William Monroe 71 71 D. 1735 Andrew Monroe Living Crane D. 1774 Spence Monroe Elizabeth Jones 1758 - 1831 James Monroe 73 73 5th President of the USA.

21st cousins 10 times removed. Elizabeth Monroe Spence Monroe Andrew Monroe Joseph Jones Monroe Elizabeth Kortright Richard de Clare Maude De Lacy Living Jones 1243 - 1295 Gilbert de Clare 52 52 1272 - 1307 Joan Of Acre 35 35 1292 - 1337 Eleanor de Clare 45 45 1280 - 1326 Hugh le Despencer 46 46 D. 1342 Edward le Despencer Anne de Ferrers 1335 - 1375 Edward le Despencer 40 40 Elizabeth de Berghersh 1373 - 1399 Thomas le Despencer 26 26 Constance Of York Living Jones 1400 - 1439 Isabel le Despencer 39 39 Richard de Beauchamp 1415 - 1447 Elizabeth le Despencer 32 32 Edward De Neville Catherine De Neville Robert Tanfield 1489 - 1529 William Tanfield 40 40 1508 - 1558 Francis Tanfield 50 50 Anne Tanfield Unknown Vincent Living Dillon 1865 - 1939 * Anna Maria Oppermann 73 73 Elizabeth Vincent Unknown Lane 1589 Dorothy Lane William Randolph 1621 - 1678 Richard Randolph 57 57 1650 - 1711 William Randolph 61 61 Mary Isham 1685 - 1742 Isham Randolph 57 57 1720 - 1776 Jane Randolph 56 56 Peter Jefferson Living Jones 1743 - 1826 Thomas Jefferson 83 83 3rd President of the USA.

19th cousin 10 times removed.


1762: Graduated from College of William and Mary  1767: Began practicing law  1769-79: Served in Virginia legislature  1775:-76: Member of Virginia's delegation to Congress; wrote Declaration of Independence  1779-81 Governor of Virginia  1783-84: Member of Virginia's delegation to Congress  1784-85: Diplomatik commissioner of Congress in Europe  1785-89: U.S. diplomatic minister to France  1789-93: Secretary of State under George Washington  1797-1801: Vice President under John Adams  Term: March 4, 1801-March 4, 1809 as 3rd President of the U.S.  Vice Presidents: Aaron Burr; George Clinton  1816-25: Founder and first rector of the University of Virginia  Buried: Charlottesville
Thomas Jefferson was the eldest son and third of the ten children of Peter and Jane Jefferson. Peter Jefferson was a wealthy plantation owner, and Jane was a member of the prominent Randolph family, which was descended from British royalty.
As a boy, Thomas received instruction in Latin, Greek, French, mathematics, and philosophy from local scholars. When Peter Jefferson died in 1757, Thomas inherited Shadwell, the thousand-acre Virginia estate on which he was born. In 1760, at the age of seventeen, Thomas entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. There he studied vigorously for two years under the tutelage of Dr. William Small, a professor of mathematics, history, and philosophy. He left the college in the spring of 1762, however, without taking a degree.
Jefferson then studied law in Williamsburg for five years under the well-respected lawyer George Wythe. During Jefferson's stay in Williamsburg, Wythe and SmalI introduced him to many members of Virginia's government, including Francis Fauquier, the royal governor of the colony. In 1767 Jefferson was admitted to the Virginia bar and began a successful legal practice. Two years later he took a seat in Virginia's House of Burgesses. During his six years in that body, Jefferson distinguished himself as a powerful literary stylist. His colleagues often called upon him to draft proclamations and legislative documents.
Jefferson brought his reputation as a gifted writer to the Continental Congress in 1775. The following year, at the age of thirty-three, he was appointed by Congress to the committee charged with writing the Declaration of Independence. His fellow committee members -John Adams, Benjannin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman- chose him to draft the document. Although the committee made minor changes in Jefferson's original draft and the entire Congress asked that several passages be deleted or rnodified, the Declaration of Independence was largely Jefferson's work.
Jefferson returned to Virginia in 1776 to a seat in the state legislature. In 1779 he became governor of his home state. His first experience as a chief executive was not impressive. In 1781 he was forced to abandon the Virginia capital of Richmond when British troops advanced upon the city. Some Virginians accused him of cowardice, but after a long debate the Virginia legislature passed a resolution stating that Jefferson's retreat was justified. He declined renomination for governor in 1781.
Diplomat and Secretary of State
In 1784 Congress sent Jefferson to Paris asits minister to France. During his five years at this post, Jefferson witnessed the many events of the French Revolution. He applauded the revolution's stated democratic goals and had many friends among its leaders. Jefferson, like John Adams, missed the drafting of the Constitution because of his diplomatic service in Europe.
In 1789 Jefferson returned to the United States to become the country's first secretary of state. In this capacity Jefferson was more than just the nation's leading diplomat. Like the other members of George Washington's cabinet, Jefferson served as an adviser to Washington on matters outside the area of policy traditionally associated with his position. Washington often preferred to have his cabinet debate issues while he listened dispassionately to their reasoning. In these debates Jefferson was usually pitted against Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, who was closer ideologically to Washington than Jefferson, was undoubtedly the most influential member of the cabinet. In July 1794 he announced that he would resign at the end of the year because of his disagreements with administration policies. In particular, Jefferson objected to Hamilton's creation of a national bank and Washington's strict neutrality between Britain and France despite the 1778 treaty of alliance with France, which Jefferson believed should have been honored.
By 1798 the Democratic-Republican party, which opposed the Federalists, had begun to emerge with Jefferson as its leader. That year he lost the presidential election te John Adams by three electoral votes, and, according to the original election rules of the Constitution, his second-place finish earned him the vice presidency. In this office he actively opposed the policies of Adams and the Federalists.
Presidency
After the election of 1800 the Twelfth Amendmnent introduced new election rules, which called for the president and vice president to him as a team, thereby eliminating the possibility of a candidate intended for the vice presidency receiving more votes than the presidential candidate. In the 1800 election, however, Jefferson was paired on the Democratic-Republican ticket with Aaron Burr. When the ambitious Burr received as many electoral votes as Jefferson, he refused to concede to his running mate. The tie gave the House of Representatives, where the Federalists and Alexander Hamilton were still in the majority, the responsibility of electing the president. To Hamilton's credit, he worked for the election of Jefferson, his political archenemy, whom he thought less dangerous and more reasonable than Burr. The tie-breaking process took thirty six ballots, but Jefferson was elected eventually.
Despite the acrimony between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists (outgoing president John Adams did not even attend Jefferson's inauguration), Jefferson entered office preaching reconciliation. He transformed the atmosphere surrounding the presidency from the stiff, regal style of Washington and Adams to his own democratic informality. Jefferson immediately freed all persons who had been jailed under the Alien and Sedition Acts enacted during the Adams administration. The Alien Act gave the president the authority to jail or deport aliens in peace time, and the Sedition Act gave federal authorities broad power to prosecute persons who criticized the govemment. He also worked with Congress, which had come under the control of his party after the 1800 election, to cut the govemment budget and federal taxes.
In foreign policy Jefferson acted decisively to meet the threat to American shipping in the Mediterranean from pirates operating from the Barbary Coast of North Africa. American and European nations had been paying tribute to the governments of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli to protect their ships from harassment. Jefferson, however, refused demands for increased tribute payments and sent a squadron of warships to the Mediterranean to protect U.S. shipping. After U.S. forces defeated Tripoli in a naval war, a treaty was concluded in 1805 that ended tribute payments to that state. The United States continued tribute payments to other North African states, however, until 1816.
Jefferson's most important act during his first term as president was the Louisiana Purchase. In 1803 the French owned the port of New Orleans as well as a vast area that stretched from New Orleans to present-day Montana, known as the Louisiana Territory. Jefferson, fearing that the French could block U.S. navigation of the Mississippi and threaten American settlements in the West, sent ambassadors to France in the hope of purchasing the port of New Orleans. The French instead offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory. The American representatives, James Monroe and Robert Livingston, saw the opportunity to create an American empire and improve the security of the western frontier. Thus, they struck a deal with French emperor Napoleon to buy all ot the Louisiana Territory for $15 million.
Jefferson recognized that to support the agreement he would have to ignore his own principles of strict constructionism, since the Constitution did not specifically authorize the president to acquire territory and Congress had not appropriated money for the purchase. He believed that the purchase would greatly benefit the nation and that the offer from Napoleon might be withdrawn if he hesitated. Therefore, Jefferson approved the deal and urged Congress to ratify it and appropriate funds for the purchase. In the fall of 1803 Congress bowed to his wishes and appropriated the $15 million. With the addition of the 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana Territory, the area of the United States nearly doubled.
In 1804, Jefferson, who was at the height ot his popularity, easily won reelection. He lost only two states and defeated Charles C. Pinckney in the electoral college by a vote  of 162-14.
Jefferson's second term was troubled by war between Britain and France. In 1806 both powers were blockading each other's ports and seizing American sailors and cargo. Jefferson was determined, however, to not become involved in the war. Thus, he  persuaded Congress to pass the Embargo Act of 1807, which prohibited the shipping of U.S. products to other nations. Jefferson hoped that by cutting off all foreign trade he would prevent provocations on the seas that could lead to war.
The Embargo Act was a total failure. lt severely hurt American businesses and farmers by denying them export markets. As the U.S. economy stagnated, Federalists and some Democratic-Republicans argued that the federal government's authority to regulate foreign commerce did not give it the power to stop ... commerce altogether. Many merchants defied the embargo, causing Jefferson to order harsh enforcement measures that led to abuses of civil rights. On March 1, 1809, three days before the end of his term, Jefferson signed the Non-Intercourse Act, which ended the embargo against nations other than Britain and France and made provisions to lift the embargo against those two nations if they stopped violating U.S. neutralty. Despite the unpopularity of the Embargo Act, Jefferson's chosen heir and secretary of state, James Madison, won the 1808 presidential election.
Retirement
When his second term expired, Jefferson retired to Monticello, his home outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, which he had designed himself. He devoted his time to managing his estate, entertaining visitors, corresponding with former colleagues, and revelling in his many intellectual pursuits. Jefferson, who suffered from financial troubles caused by bis generous entertaining and the defaults by several friends on loans he had cosigned, sold bis 6,500- volume library to Congress in 1815. Congress's original collection of books had been burned by the British during the War of 1812. Jefferson's books formed tbe nucleus of the collection that would become the modern Library of Congress.
In 1819 the University ot Virginia was chartered under Jefferson's supervision. He planned the curriculum, chose the faculty, drew up the Plans for its buildings, and served as its rector until his death. Jefferson died at Monticello on July 4, 1826, the same day as John Adams and the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson is buried at Monticello beneath a gravestone that he willed should read: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the ... of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and the father of the University of Virginia".
Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton, a wealthy twenty-three-year-old widow, on January 1, 1772. The couple had six children, but only two, Martha and Maria, reached maturity. Martha Jefferson's father, John Wayles, died in 1773, leaving a forty-thousand-acre estate to the Jeffersons that doubled their landholdings. Wayles was heavily in debt, however, and Jefferson struggled for many years to pay off the balance. On September 6, 1782, Martha Jefferson died at the age of thirty-three. Little is known about Martha, and there is no authentic portrait of her in existence. Jefferson never remarried. Martha Skelton John de Warrenne Maude De Braose D. 1389 Elizabeth le Despencer Maurice de Berkely 1352 - 1417 Thomas de Berkely 65 65 Margaret de Lisle 1386 - 1422 Elizabeth de Berkely 36 36 Richard de Beauchamp Living Mani Elizabeth de Beauchamp D. 1469 George Neville D. 1469 Henry Neville D. 1530 Richard Neville D. 1543 John Neville D. 1577 John Neville D. 1596 Catherine Neville D. 1585 Henry Percy D. 1632 Henry Percy D. 1650 Dorothy Percy Living Trudgett D. 1677 Robert Sidney D. 1684 Dorothy Sidney 1621 - 1643 Henry Spencer 22 22 D. 1702 Robert Spencer 1674 - 1722 Charles Spencer 48 48 1682 - 1716 Anne Churchill 34 34 1708 - 1746 John Spencer 38 38 D. 1783 John Spencer D. 1834 George John Spencer Georgiana Spencer Living Trudgett D. 1857 Frederick Spencer D. 1922 Charles Robert Spencer D. 1975 Albert Edward Spencer 1924 Edward John Spencer 1961 - 1997 Diana Frances Spencer 36 36 25th cousin 4 times removed. Living Windsor Living Windsor Living Windsor Richard Plantagenet Richard Plantagenet Living Garland Joan de Cornwall John Howard Robert Howard Margaret de Scales John Howard Henry Howard Elizabeth Howard Margery Wentworth 1483 - 1528 George Waldgrave 45 45 Phyllis Waldgrave Living Garland Bridget Higham George Burrough Nathaniel Burrough George Burrough Hannah Burrough Thomas Fox Mercy Fox Fanny Johnson Eber Call Charles Call Living Garland Flora Call 1901 - 1966 Walter Elias Disney 65 65 22nd cousin 5 times removed. 1294 - 1360 Elizabeth de Clare 66 66 1318 - 1363 Elizabeth Damory 45 45 1349 - 1385 William Bardolf 36 36 D. 1432 Cecily Bardolf 1408 - 1466 Miles Stapleton 58 58 1441 - 1505 Elizabeth Stapleton 64 64 Anne Calthorpe D. 1572 Anne Drury Living O'Connor 1859 - 1941 Elias Disney 82 82 1832 - 1891 Kepple Disney 59 59 Mary Richardson 1801 - 1880 Arundel Elias Disney 79 79 Marie Swan 1775 - 1857 Kepple Disney 82 82 Frances Best 1746 - 1808 Robert Disney 62 62 Mary Kepple Isabel le Despencer Living Trudgett Ankeret Lestrange Mary Talbot Thomas Greene Elizabeth Greene Edward Raleigh Edward Raleigh Bridget Raleigh Elizabeth Cope Bridget Dryden Anne Marbury Living Smith Living Stark Edward Hutchinson Elisha Hutchinson Hannah Hutchinson Hannah Ruck John Lillie Anna Lillie Harriet Howard Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay Samuel Howard Fay Susan Shellman Living Smith Harriet Eleanor Fay Samuel Prescott Bush Prescott Sheldon Bush George Bush 41st President of the USA.

26th cousin 3 times removed. Living Bush Barbare Pierce Living Welch 1165 - 1223 Phillipe Capet 58 58 1187 - 1226 Louis VIII Capet 39 39 1214 - 1270 Louis VIII Capet 56 56 Living Parsons 1245 - 1285 Phillip III Capet 40 40 1268 - 1314 Phillip IV Capet 46 46 1295 - 1355 Isabella Of France 60 60 1284 - 1327 Edward II Of England 43 43 D. 1307 Edward I Of England 1312 - 1377 Edward III Of England 65 65 1341 - 1402 Edmund Of York 61 61 1374 - 1416 Constance Of York 42 42 1405 - 1452 Eleanor Holland 47 47 Constance Tuchet Living Parsons 1450 - 1503 Jane Whitney 53 53 1470 Elizabeth Vaughan 1498 - 1577 Rowland Morgan 79 79 1534 - 1603 Thomas Morgan 69 69 1560 - 1653 William Morgan 93 93 1583 - 1638 Elizabeth Morgan 55 55 1607 - 1685 James Morgan 78 78 1646 - 1704 Joseph Morgan 58 58 1680 - 1754 Martha Morgan 74 74 1709 - 1779 John Perkins 70 70 Living Parsons 1731 - 1798 John Perkins 67 67 1753 Dyer Perkins 1793 - 1859 Elizabeth Rogers Perkins 66 66 1838 - 1906 John Perkins Humphrey 68 68 1874 - 1914 Maud Humphrey 40 40 1899 - 1957 Humphrey DeForest Bogart 57 57 Hollywood actor.

23rd Cousin 5 times removed. Betty Joan Perske 1245 - 1296 Edmund Plantagenet 51 51 1281 - 1345 Henry Plantagenet 64 64 1318 - 1372 Eleanor Of Lancaster 54 54 Living Hennessy- Parsons 1339 - 1369 Henry de Beaumont 30 30 1360 - 1396 John de Beaumont 36 36 1379 - 1413 Henry Beaumont 34 34 1411 - 1447 Henry de Beaumont 36 36 D. 1471 Henry Beaumont 1467 Constance Beaumont 1487 Joyce Mitton Edward Mitton Katherine Mitton D. 1640 Elizabeth Marshall Living Hennesy 1626 Judith Lewis Hannah Gibbins Mary Hibbert 1710 - 1762 Nathan Jewett 52 52 1736 - 1780 David Jewett 44 44 1771 - 1860 Elizabeth Jewett 89 89 1795 - 1857 Elizabeth Comstock 62 62 1820 - 1907 George Seldon Butler 87 87 1848 - 1916 Amy Gridley Butler 68 68 1867 - 1938 Adele Augusta Ayer 71 71 Living McLouglin 1892 - 1967 Dorothy Ayer Gardner 75 75 1913 Gerald Rudolph Ford 38th President of the USA.

25th cousin 3 times removed. 1208 - 1246 Daffyd Of Gwynedd 38 38 Anne ferch Daffyd Madog ap Elise Efa Ferch Madog Einion ap Gruffudd Gruffudd ap Einion Elissau ap Gruffudd Dafydd ap Elissau Living Parsons John Wynn D. 1626 David Yale D. 1617 Thomas Yale 1616 - 1683 Thomas Yale 67 67 1662 - 1744 Hannah Yale 82 82 1684 - 1757 Sarah Talmadge 73 73 1727 - 1796 Abraham Hemingway 69 69 1764 - 1838 Jacob Hemingway 74 74 1791 - 1863 Jacob Street Hemingway 72 72 1808 - 1886 Allen Hemingway 78 78 Living Parsons 1844 - 1926 Anson Tyler Hemingway 82 82 1871 - 1928 Clarence Edmonds Hemingway 57 57 1899 - 1961 Ernest Miller Hemingway 62 62 Author.

21st cousin 7 times removed. D. <1190 William de Ferriers He was one of the adherents of the younger Henry on his rebellion in  April 1173, and sacked and burnt Nottingham in May or June 1174. He  made his submission to the King at Northampton, 31 July 1174,  surrendering his castles of Tutbury and Duffield. The King took him,  with other prisoners, to France in August 1174, and imprisoned them at  Caen. He went on Crusade and died, before 21 October 1190, at the  siege of Acre, in Palestine. His wife survived him and was, perhaps,  living at late as 1228.
Source: Leo van de Pas Edmund de Botiller Joan Fitzgerald 1305 James de Botiller 1305 Elinor de Bohun 1331 James Butler Anne Darcy Living Johnson Living Stark 1943 - 2003 * Carole Denise Gallagher 60 60 1361 James Butler Anne Welles 1392 James Butler 1420 James Butler Eleanor Beaufort 0975 - 1038 *Stephen I Of Hungary 63 63 Canonized 1083.

32nd 33rd & 34th G Grandfather.

First King of Hungary.

St. Stephen
First King of Hungary, b. at Gran, 975; d. 15 August, 1038. He was a son of the Hungarian chief Géza and was baptized, together with his father, by Archbishop St. Adalbert of Prague in 985, on which occasion he changed his heathen name Vaik (Vojk) into Stephen. In 995 he married Gisela, a sister of Duke Henry of Bavaria, the future Emperor St. Henry II, and in 997 succeeded to the throne of Hungary. In order to make Hungary a Christian <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03712a.htm> nation and to establish himself more firmly as ruler, he sent Abbot Astricus to Rome to petition Pope Sylvester II for the royal dignity and the power to establish episcopal sees. The pope acceded to his wishes and, in addition, presented him with a royal crown with which he was crowned at Gran on 17 August, 1001 (see HUNGARY.--History). He founded a monastery in Jerusalem and hospices for pilgrims at Rome, Ravenna, and Constantinople. He was a personal friend of St. Bruno of Querfurt and corresponded with Abbot St. Odilo of Cluny. The last years of his life were embittered by sickness and family troubles. When on 2 September, 1031, his only son, St. Emeric, lost his life on a bear hunt, his cherished hope of transferring the reins of government into the hands of a pious Christian <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03712a.htm> prince were shattered. During his lifetime a quarrel arose among his various nephews concerning the right of succession, and some of them even took part in a conspiracy against his life. He was buried beside his son at Stuhlweissenburg, and both were canonized together in 1083. His feast is on 2 September, but in Hungary his chief festival is observed on 20 August, the day on which his relics <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm> were transferred to Buda. His incorrupt right hand is treasured as the most sacred relic <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm> in Hungary.
Source:  'The Catholic Encyclopedia" *Gisela Of Bavaria 0951 - 0995 *Henry II Of Bavaria 44 44 *Geza Of Hungary *Gisela Of Burgandy Living Johnson 0918 - 0955 *Henry I Of Bavaria 37 37 *Judith Of Bavaria John FitzGeoffrey ~1240 Isabelle FitzJohn Isabel Vipont Roger de Clifford Robert de Clifford Maude de Clare Robert de Clifford Iodine de Clifford Living Johnson Isabel de Berkely ~1677 George Blewett D. 1742 Samuel Blight Thomas de Clifford Elizabeth de Ros John de Clifford Elizabeth de Percy Thomas Clifford Joanna Dacre John Clifford Living Parsons Margaret Bromflete Henry Clifford Anne St John Henry Clifford Margaret Percy Henry Clifford Eleanor Brandon Charles Brandon Mary Tudor Francis Clifford Living Reid Elizabeth Clifford Richard Boyle Charles Boyle Jane Seymour Charles Boyle Richard Boyle Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle William Cavendish William Cavendish George Augustus Henry Cavendish Living Reid Georgina Spencer Georgina Dorothy Cavendish George Howard Blanche Georgina William Cavendish Edward Cavendish Emma Elizabeth Lascelles Victor Christian William Cavendish Evelyn Emily Mary FitzMaurice Edward William Spencer Cavendish Living Walker Mary Alice Gascoyne- Cecil William John Robert Cavendish 1920 - 1948 Kathleen Kennedy 28 28 Sister of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of USA. 1888 - 1969 Joseph Patrick Kennedy 81 81 1890 - 1995 Rose Fitzgerald 105 105 Elizabeth Comptom William Cavendish Louisa O'Callaghan- Lismore William Cavendish *Marguerite De Sable Living Andison 1250 *William le Rous 1285 *Joan Godnesford 1250 *Robert de Godnesford 1255 *Joan Speccot ~1250 *Peter Nanscoyk Henry de Lancaster William de Lancaster Alan La Zouch 1272 - 1324 *Roger de Moels 52 52 ~1285 - <1335 *Alice Prouz 50 50 Living Andison *Nicholas de Moels *Hawise de Newmarch ~1245 - 1316 *William Prouz 71 71 ~1247 - >1318 *Alice de Regni 71 71 *James de Newmarch D. 1270 *William Prouz *Alice Widworthy *William Prouz 1230 *Alice de Ferrers *William Widworthy Living Andison *John de Regni Fergus Of Galloway Lochlan Of Galloway 1335 Maude de Beauchamp 1369 - 1413 Catherine Clifford 44 44 1353 Ralph Greystoke Maude Greystoke 1389 John Greystoke Eudo Dewelles 1406 - 1461 Lionel Dewelles 55 55 Living Andison 1971 - 2003 Antony Adam Troy Stark 32 32 Joane Watertowne 1427 Margaret Dewelles 1432 Thomas Dymoke D. 1463 Margaret Dymoke Thomas FitzWilliam Beatrix FitzWilliam Richard Woodruffe 1466 Beatris Woodruffe 1464 Thomas Wentworth 1520 Thomas Wentworth Living Gray 1532 Grace Gascoigne 1569 - 1627 Mary Wentworth 58 58 1560 William Brewster 1584 Elizabeth Brewster 1590 - 1634 Patience Brewster 44 44 1606 - <1634 Fear Brewster 28 28 1599 Thomas Prence 1630 Mary Prence 1651 John Freeman 1687 - 1720 Mercy Freeman 33 33 Living Richards 1680 Chillingworth Foster Chillingworth Foster Mercy Winslow 1737 Chillingworth Foster Sarah Freeman 1783 Ruby Foster 1782 Nathaniel Crosby 1810 Nathaniel Crosby Mary Lincoln 1835 Nathaniel Crosby 1921 Jack Edward Brinkworth 1839 Cordelia Smith 1870 Harry Lowe Crosby Catherine Harrigan 1903 - 1977 Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby 74 74 23rd cousin 4 times removed. <1261 *Henry Wyger ~1230 - 1277 *John Wyger 47 47 ~1235 *Gundreda ~1300 *Ellen de Ponte 1896 Everett Crosby 1895 Laurence Crosby Living Brinkworth ~1270 *Geoffrey de Ponte 1900 Edward Crosby 1904 Catherine Crosby 1906 Mary Rose Crosby 1913 George Robert Crosby 1911 - 1952 Wilma Lee 41 41 1933 - 1995 Gary Crosby 62 62 Living Crosby 1934 - 1991 Dennis Crosby 57 57 1938 - 1989 Lindsay Crosby 51 51 Living Nguyen Living Grant Living Crosby Living Crosby Living Crosby William de Whalesburgh 1289 - 1355 John de Whalesburgh 66 66 Margaret Of England 1282 - 1316 Elizabeth Of England 34 34 D. 1317 Margaret Of France 1300 - 1338 Thomas Of Brotherton 38 38 Living Nguyen 1307 - 1330 Edmund Of England 23 23 D. 1349 Margaret Wake 1328 - 1385 Joan Of Kent 57 57 D. 1436 John Of Eltham 1318 - 1355 Eleanor Of England 37 37 1321 - 1362 Joan Of England 41 41 D. 1369 Phillipa Of Hainault 1330 - 1376 Edward Of England 46 46 Isabella Of England D. 1348 Joan Of England Living Nguyen 1340 - 1399 John Of Gaunt 59 59 D. 1362 Mary Of England D. 1361 Margaret Of England D. 1359 Thomas Of Woodstock 1341 - 1369 Blanche Of Lancaster 28 28 1895 - 1952 George VI Windsor 57 57 1900 - 2002 Elizabeth Bowes- Lyon 102 102 Living Mountbatten- Windsor Living Mountbatten- Windsor Living Mountbatten- Windsor Living Gilbert 1930 - 2002 Margaret Rose Windsor 72 72 1865 - 1936 George V Windsor 71 71 1867 - 1953 Mary Of Teck 86 86 1894 - 1972 Edward VIII Windsor 78 78 1897 - 1965 Mary Windsor 68 68 1900 - 1974 Henry Windsor 74 74 1902 - 1942 George Windsor 40 40 1905 - 1919 John Windsor 14 14 1841 - 1910 Edward VII Of England 69 69 1844 - 1925 Alexandra Of Denmark 81 81 1035 - 1067 * Adeliza de Toeni 32 32 1864 - 1892 Albert Victor Of England 28 28 1867 - 1931 Louise Of England 64 64 1868 - 1935 Victoria Of England 67 67 1869 - 1938 Maud Of England 69 69 1819 - 1861 Albert Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 42 42 1819 - 1901 Victoria Of England 82 82 Victoria Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 1843 - 1878 Alice Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 35 35 1844 - 1900 Alfred Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 56 56 1848 - 1939 Louise Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 91 91 0990 - ABT 1038/0039 * Roger de Toeni Living Stark 1853 - 1884 Leopold Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 31 31 1858 - 1896 Beatrice Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 38 38 1850 - 1942 Arthur Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 92 92 1846 - 1923 Helena Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha 77 77 1767 - 1820 Edward Of England 53 53 1786 - 1861 Victoria Of Saxe-Coburg- Saalfeld 75 75 1738 - 1820 George III Of England 82 82 D. 1818 Charlotte Of Mecklenberg- Strelitz 1762 - 1830 George IV Of England 68 68 1763 - 1827 Frederick Of England 64 64 1868 - 1926 John Griffis 57 57 1765 - 1837 William IV Of England 72 72 1766 - 1828 Charlotte Of England 62 62 1768 - 1840 Augusta Of England 72 72 1770 - 1840 Elizabeth Of England 70 70 1771 - 1851 Ernest Augustus Of England 80 80 1773 - 1843 Augustus Frederick Of England 70 70 1774 - 1850 Adolphus Frederick Of England 76 76 1776 - 1857 Mary Of England 81 81 1777 - 1848 Sophia Of England 71 71 1779 - 1783 Octavius Of England 4 4 1878 - 1891 George Bidner 12 12 1780 - 1782 Alfred Of England 2 2 1783 - 1810 Amelia Of England 27 27 D. 1751 Frederick Lewes Of Hanover D. 1772 Augusta Of Saxe- Gotha 1683 - 1760 George II Of Hanover 77 77 D. 1737 Caroline Of Anspach 1660 - 1727 George I Of Hanover 67 67 1666 - 1726 Sophia Dorothea Of Celle 60 60 D. 1698 Ernest Augustus Of Hanover 1630 - 1714 Sophia Of the Rhine 84 84 1873 - 1967 Charles Griffis 94 94 D. 1632 Frederick V Of the Rhine 1596 - 1662 Elizabeth Stuart 66 66 1566 - 1625 James I Stuart 59 59 D. 1619 Anne Of Denmark 1594 - 1612 Henry Frederick Stuart 18 18 1600 - 1649 Charles I Stuart 49 49 1609 - 1669 Henrietta Maria Of France 60 60 1630 - 1685 Charles II Stuart 55 55 1633 - 1701 James II Stuart 68 68 1545 - 1567 Henry Stuart 22 22 1900 - 1976 Alfred Griffis 76 76 1542 - 1587 Mary Of Scotland 45 45 D. 1542 James V Of Scotland 1489 - 1541 Margaret Of England 52 52 1473 - 1513 James IV Of Scotland 40 40 D. 1503 Elizabeth Of York 1457 - 1509 Henry VII Tudor 52 52 D. 1483 Edward IV Of England D. 1400 Richard Of England Richard III Of England D. 1411 Anne Mortimer 1889 - 1976 Emily Burrage 87 87 D. 1415 Richard Of Cambridge D. 1398 Roger Mortimer D. 1378 Phillippe Of Ulster D. 1381 Edmund Mortimer D. 1368 Lionel Of England D. 1877 Adelaide Horatia Seymour D. 1851 Horace Beauchamp Seymour Hugh Seymour D. 1801 Anna Horatia Waldegrave D. 1763 James Waldegrave Living Griffis D. 1741 James Waldegrave D. 1730 Henrietta FitzJames D. 1689 Henry Waldegrave D. 1714 Arabella Churchill D. 1972 Cynthia Hamilton D. 1958 Rosalind Bingham D. 1953 James Hamilton D. 1910 Cecilia Lennox D. 1914 George Bingham D. 1860 Charles Lennox Ronald Kenneth Harkness D. 1819 Charles Lennox D. 1805 George Henry Lennox D. 1750 Charles Lennox 1672 - 1723 Charles Lennox 51 51 D. 1734 Louise de Keroualle D. 1718 Mary Of Modena D. 1766 James III Stuart D. 1788 Charles Edward Stuart 1837 - 1892 Louis Of Hesse 55 55 1863 - 1950 Victoria Of Hesse 87 87 Living Harkness 1872 - 1918 Alex Of Hesse 46 46 1854 - 1921 Louis Of Battenburg 67 67 1892 - 1938 George Of Battenburg 46 46 1885 - 1967 Alice Of Battenburg 82 82 1882 - 1944 Andrew Of Greece 62 62 Living Armstong- Jones Living Armstong- Jones Living Armstong- Jones D. 1456 Edmund Tudor Margaret Beaufort 1924 Pendry Herbert (Herbert) Shadlow 1366 - 1413 Henry IV Of England 47 47 D. 1394 Mary de Bohun 1387 - 1422 Henry V Of England 35 35 D. 1421 Thomas Of England D. 1435 John Of England D. 1447 Humphrey Of England D. 1437 Catherine Of France 1421 - 1471 Henry VI Of England 50 50 D. 1461 Owen Tudor D. 1496 Jasper Tudor Living Shadlow Living Stark 1403 - 1444 John Beaufort 41 41 Margaret Beauchamp 1373 - 1410 John Beaufort 37 37 Margaret Holland 1401 - 1418 Henry Beaufort 17 17 Catherine Swynford 1375 - 1447 Henry Beaufort 72 72 1377 - 1427 Thomas Beaufort 50 50 D. 1455 Edmund Beaufort D. 1560 Marie Of Lorraine- Guise Living Darlington D. 1551 Henry Stuart D. 1557 Archibald Douglas 1515 - 1578 Margaret Douglas 63 63 D. 1571 Matthew Stuart Charles Stuart D. 1492 Elizabeth Woodville 1471 - 1483 Edward V Of England 12 12 D. 1483 Richard Of England D. 1482 Mary Of England D. 1507 Cecily Of England Living Darlington D. 1511 Anne Of England D. 1527 Katherine Of England D. 1517 Bridget Of England 1452 - 1488 James III Of Scotland 36 36 D. 1486 Margaret Of Denmark 1431 - 1460 James II Of Scotland 29 29 D. 1463 Mary Of Guelders 1394 - 1437 James I Of Scotland 43 43 D. 1455 Joan Beaufort 1340 - 1406 Robert III Of Scotland 66 66 Living Darlington D. 1401 Annabella Drummond Margaret Of Scotland 1316 - 1390 Robert II Of Scotland 74 74 D. 1355 Elizabeth Mure Francis Seymour Isabella FitzRoy Charles FitzRoy Henrietta Somerset 1663 Henry FitzRoy Isabella Bennett Living Grey Barbara Villiers ~1120 Galfridis de Crawford D. 1202 John de Crawford D. 1229 Reginald de Crawford 1165 Margaret Of Loudoun D. 1255 Hugh de Crawford 1226 - >1297 Hugh de Crawford 71 71 ~1230 Alicia Of Draffen 1251 - >1273 Margaret de Crawford 22 22 1245 Malcolm Wallace Living Harkness Jan 1271/1272 - 1305 William Wallace Scottish patriot.
6th cousin 25 times removed. 1646 Anne Digby 1706 - 1758 Charles Spencer 51 51 1701 Robert Spencer 1715 Elizabeth Trevor 1739 - 1817 George Spencer 78 78 1743 Caroline Russell 1766 - 1840 George Spencer Churchill 74 74 Susan Stewart 1793 - 1857 George Spencer Churchill 63 63 Living Harkness Jane Stewart 1822 - 1883 John Winston Spencer Churchill 61 61 Frances Anne Emily Vane 1849 - 1895 Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill 45 45 Jeanette Jerome 1874 - 1965 Winston Leonard Churchill 90 90 24th cousin 5 times removed.

British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. 1675 - 1759 Dorothy Morgan 84 84 William Witter Mary Witter Erastus Spaulding 1903 - 1969 Beatrice Griffis 65 65 Martha Ann Spaulding Caroline Garlinghouse Katherine Martha Houghton 1919 - 2003 Katherine Houghton Hepburn 84 84 23rd cousin 5 times removed. D. 1286 William de Warrenne 1285 - 1338 Alice de Warrenne 53 53 D. 1385 Alaive FitzAlan D. 1398 Lucy Le Strange Laura FitzHugh Joan Constable Eric M Homer 1473 John Mallory William Mallory William Mallory 1566 - 1644 Thomas Mallory 78 78 Roger Mallory Jane Mallory 1695 - 1751 Roger Quarles 56 56 Dianna Quarles John William Thomson Pike Montgomery Thomson Rita Homer John William Thomson Lillian Thomson Julia Crawford 1930 - 1980 Steve McQueen 50 50 Actor.
20th cousin 7 times removed. William d' Aubigny 1119 - <1175 *William de Botterell 56 56 1096 *Nicholas de Botterell *Unknown Dunbar *Dunfugan Of Angus *Gospatrick III Dunbar Ross Homer Living Stark *Diedre ~1092 *Colban Of Buchan *Eva Mormaer Isaac Allerton ~1627 - >1662 Isaac Allerton 35 35 Elizabeth Willoughby ~1671 - >1731 Sarah Allerton 60 60 Hancock Lee Elizabeth Lee Zachary Taylor Unknown Homer 1744 - 1829 Richard Taylor 85 85 Sarah Dabney Strother 1784 - 1850 Zachary Taylor 65 65 12th President of the USA.

19th cousin 8 times removed. 1884 Alice Lee Roosevelt 1861 - 1884 Alice Hathaway Lee 23 23 1861 - 1948 Edith Kermit Carow 87 87 Theodore Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt Edith Carow Roosevelt Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt 1907 Horace Griffis Quentin Roosevelt *Honor Hendower Alice Prouz *Richard Speccot ~1695 *John Dalton ~1695 *Anne Rivers ~1710 *John Staples *Jane Taylor D. 1303 Joan FitzJohn D. 1321 Edmund Butler 1911 - 1996 Gwen Theresa Ethel Hunt Bunyan 84 84 Joan FitzGerald *Unknown Hendower John Blight Jane Blight Alice Blight Honour Blight Mary Blight Thomas Blight Charles Blight ~1639 *John Rowe Living Griffis *Jane ~1679 Benjamin Rowe ~1671 William Rowe ~1674 Alexander Rowe *Edward Whinnen *Margaret *Francis Mitchell *Elizabeth Priddis *Thomas Rivers *Mary 1923 Merton Scott (Scott) Murray *Robert Burr *Mary Butler <1691 *Grace Carpenter *John Rosewarne Margaret Rosewarne ~1650 *John Rosewarne *Margaret Warren *Edward Rosewarne ~1623 *Susanna Eddy 1593 - 1641 *Phineas Eddy 47 47 Occupation - tailor. Living Murray ~1595 - <1639 *Katherine Courthopp 44 44 ~1568 - 1616 *William Eddy 48 48 Vicar of St Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook ENG.

Rev. William Eddy was also known as Rev. William Eddye. He was born between 1558 and 1564 at Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.1 He graduated in 1583 from at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, receiving an AB. He was a sizar at Trinity Hall, which is a student who performs certain duties in partial payment for his education.1 He was a curate between 1583 and 1586 at Thurston, Suffolk, England.1 He was an assistant vicar to the Rev. Robert Roades. In 1586 at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, England.1 He graduated in 1586 from at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, with a MA.1 On 20 November 1587 at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, England, William married Mary Fosten, daughter of John Fosten <p41.htm> and Ellen Munn <p110.htm>.1 Rev. William Eddy was the Vicar appointed by Archbishop Whitgift between 12 January 1591 and 1616 at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, England.1 On 22 February 1613/14 at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent, England, William married Sarah Tayler <p110.htm>. Sarah was a widow with several children.1 Rev. William Eddy left a will on 20 August 1616 at Cranbrook, Kent, England.1 He died on Wednesday, 23 November 1616 at Cranbrook, Kent, England.1 His estate was probated on 4 December 1616 at Court of the Archdeacon of Canterbury, England.1     
Source: www.theroyfamily.com D. 1611 *Mary Fosten 1542 - 1578 *Thomas Eddy 36 36 ~1568 *Peter Courthopp 1571 *Anne Sheaffe ~1537 - 1573 *John Fosten 36 36 ~1540 - 1611 *Ellen Munn 71 71 ~1511 - ~1591 *John Fosten 80 80 ~1514 *Stephen Munn Living Salmon ~1516 - ~1591 *Bridget Saxby 75 75 1599 Ellen Eleanor Eddy Anne Eddy 1589 Nathaniel Eddy 1591 Mary Eddy 1597 - 1684 John Eddy 87 87 1601 - 1687 Abigail Eddy 86 86 1603 Anna Eddy 1606 Elizabeth Eddy 1608 - 1682 Samuel Eddy 74 74 Living Murray 1610 Zacharias Eddy Margaret Eddy Abigail Eddy Peter Eddy ~1532 - 1604 *Thomas Sheaffe 72 72 1536 - 1609 *Mary Harman 73 73 1505 - 1557 *Richard Sheaffe 52 52 ~1515 - 1564 *Elizabeth Andrews 49 49 D. ~1548 *Thomas Harman Cloth merchant. ~1557 Unknown Sheaffe Living Murray 1559 Richard Sheaffe 1560 Edmund Sheaffe 1561/1562 Thomas Sheaffe 1562 Joan Sheaffe 1566 Alexander Sheaffe 1570 Harman Sheaffe 1573 Samuel Sheaffe 1575 William Sheaffe 1577 Benjamin Sheaffe 1579 Elizabeth Sheaffe Living Murray Living Sullivan ~1532 Joan Sheaffe 1534 Katherine Sheaffe 1536 Margaret Sheaffe 1538 Margery Sheaffe 1541 Alice Sheaffe 1542 William Sheaffe 1545 Mary Sheaffe 1546 Anne Sheaffe 1470 - <1520 *Thomas Sheaffe 50 50 ~1474 *Alice Hendley Living Chambers 1498 John Sheaffe 1501 Gervase Sheaffe 1503 Dorothy Sheaffe 1507 Mary Sheaffe ~1510 *John Harman John Harman 1534 Richard Harman 1540 Thomas Harman D. 1561 Stephen Harman Richard Harman Living Chambers Stephen Harman ~1451 *Gervase Hendley 1452 *Elizabeth Roberts ~1438 - 1522 *Walter Roberts 84 84 *Alice Naylor ~1408 *John Roberts ~1412 *Agnes Buckfold Gent 1436 *Richard Naylor 1484 - 1526 *Giles Andrews 42 42 ~1490 *Agnes Living Chambers *Robert Andrewe 1467 - 1513 *Agnes Millon 46 46 ~1443 - ~1502 *Robert Millon 59 59 *Joan 1508 *Elizabeth Courthope 1474 - 1525 *Alexander Courthope 51 51 Occupation - clothier. 1478 *Katherine Foster D. 1497 *Robert Foster *Peter Courthope 1509 Agnes Courthope Living Murray 1508 Katherine Courthope 1512 Eleanor Courthope 1510 Katherine Courthope 1510 Richard Courthope 1505 William Courthope John Courthope ~1440 *Thomas Sheaffe John Benjamin 1607 - 1689 Elizabeth Savery 82 82 1637 John Eddy Living Saunders 1639 Zachariah Eddy 1645 Obadiah Eddy 1639 Alice Paddock 1680 Joshua Eddy 1682 Hannah Stevens 1709 Benjamin Eddy 1715 Elizabeth 1745 Joseph Eddy 1750 Phoebe 1774 George Eddy 1883 - 1951 Sarah Jane Nixon 68 68 1770 Nancy Ann Salisbury 1813 Darius Eddy 1820 Esther Ann Irons 1848 Isaac Nelson Eddy 1852 Martha Percy Gardiner 1875 William Darius Eddy Isabel Kendrick 1901 - 1967 Nelson Eddy 65 65 Entertainer.

9th cousin 5 times removed. Catherine Rosewarne 1485 *John Fosten 1919 John William Bidner *John Venecome *Grace Barnabas Wines 1632 Hannah Wines 1636 - 1671 Barnabas Wines 35 35 Sarah Wines Mary Sarah Wines 1666 - 1696 Barnabas Horton 30 30 1687 - 1772 Caleb Horton 85 85 1909 - 1980 Kathleen Kenney 71 71 Phebe Terry 1722 - 1773 Phoebe Horton 51 51 1715 - 1793 Henry Tuthill 78 78 1741 - 1776 Anna Tuthill 34 34 1742 - 1814 John Cleves Symmes 71 71 1775 - 1874 Ann Tuthill Symmes 98 98 Wife of President William henry Harrison, 9th President of the US.

6th cousin 8 times removed. 1773 William Henry Harrison 9th President of the United States. 1597 Amy Doggett 1504 Peter Courthope Mary Roberts Living Bidner Joan Roberts John Roberts *Elizabeth Thomasine Naylor Richard Naylor ~1440 Anne Roberts *Richard Saxbie *Catherine McIntosh 1804 - 1878 John Scott Harrison 74 74 1810 - 1850 Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin 40 40 Living Powell Living Stark 1833 - 1901 Benjamin Harrison 67 67 23rd President of the USA.

8th cousin 6 times removed. 1625 Mary Eddy Thomas Horton Mary Horton Job Tyler 1642 Moses Tyler Prudence Blake 1675 Job Tyler Margaret Bradstreet 1710 Hannah Tyler Living Bidner John Spofford 1733 Phebe Spofford John Grout 1751 Phoebe Grout Jacob Winn 1775 Endymia Winn Thomas Sherwood 1794 Lucinda Sherwood John Minthorn 1817 Theodore Minthorn Living Bidner Mary Wasley 1848 Hulda Randall Minthorn Jesse Clark Hoover 1874 - 1964 Herbert Clark Hoover 90 90 31st President of the USA.

12th cousin 2 times removed. Lou Henry Deliverence Owen Patience Eddy Hannah Eddy Ebenezer Eddy 1681 - 1739 Eleazer Eddy 58 58 Living Bidner Elizabeth Randall John Eddy Eleazer Eddy Joshua Eddy Charity Eddy Elizabeth Eddy Caleb Eddy 1704 Hannah Eddy Robert Millard 1744 Abiathard Millard 1920 - 1987 Laura Marion Bidner 67 67 Tabitha Hopkins 1781 - 1831 Phoebe Millard 49 49 Nathaniel Fillmore 1800 - 1874 Millard Fillmore 74 74 6th cousin 8 times removed.

13th President of the USA. 1620 - 1670 Sarah Eddy 50 50 1643 Caleb Eddy 1647 Hannah Eddy 1350 *William Tilley *John Wright *Mary 1926 David Bruce Cowan Ann 1143 - >1212 *Alice De Cary 69 69 ~1100 - <1147 *Ralph Lovel 47 47 1110 *Margaret Of Hawick D. 1207/1208 Ralph Lovel Living Cowan Living Nicholls Living Cowan Living O'Farrell Living O'Farrell Living Stark 1921 - 1977 Donald Frederick Bidner 55 55 1921 Joyce Peacock 1949 - 1950 Robyn Bidner 7m 7m Living Bidner Living Johns Living Bidner Living Bidner Living Bidner Living Bidner Living Taggert 1975 - 2001 Tracey Anderson 25 25 Living Taggert Living Bidner Living Kemp Living Kemp Living Kemp John Nixon Margaret Lee 1108 Amice de Gael 1000 * Robert Osbern de Crepon * Emma Aldreda Living Stark 0884 - 0950 * Gorm 'The Old' Of Denmark 66 66 0846 - 0899 * Harald Parcus Of Denmark 53 53 0850 * Alfgifu Of England 0804 - 0875 * Frotho VI Of Sjaelland 71 71 * Unknown Daughter Of Harde Knud * Wihtgar Of The Isle Of Wight * William de Roches ~1707 * John Rosewarne ~1709 *Grace Venecome 1680 * John Rosewarne Living Stark 1922 - 1992 * Derrick Arthur Stark 69 69 Service record

Name STARK, DERRICK ARTHUR

Service Australian Army

Service Number SX15118 (S32472)

Date of Birth 17 Sep 1921

Place of Birth MILLICENT, SA

Date of Enlistment 8 Nov 1941

Locality on Enlistment SEMAPHORE, SA

Place of Enlistment ADELAIDE, SA

Next of Kin STARK, ENID

Date of Discharge 17 Dec 1945

Rank Private

Posting at Discharge 2/123 BRIGADE ORDNANCE FIELD PARK AAOC

WW2 Honours and Gallantry None

Prisoner of War No 1863 - 1943 John Joseph Gallagher 80 80 1860 - 1914 Patrick Peter Gallagher 53 53 1876 - ~1913 Elizabeth 'Agnes' Gallagher 37 37 * John Gallagher (Gallohue) Jessica Margaret Clough 1866 William J Gallagher 1892 William Gallagher 1708 * James Blight *Amy Rowe 0936 * Adalbert Of Italy Living Stark D. 0990 * Gerberga Of Chalon 0900 - 0966 * Berengar II Of Italy 66 66 D. 0966 * Willa Of Tuscany D. 0971 * Letald I Of Macon 0894 - 0948 * Ermengarde Of Chalon 54 54 0866 - 0910 * Manase Of Chalon 44 44 0868 - 0945 * Alberic I Of Narbonne 77 77 0869 - 0925 * Tolosana Of Macon 56 56 0852 - 0920 * Raculf Of Macon 68 68 0833 - 0911 * Mayeul Of Narbonne 78 78 Living Stark 0880 - 0939 * Giselbert Of Lothringen 59 59 0914 - 0984 * Gerberga Of Saschen 70 70 0876 - 0936 * Heinrich I Of Saschen 60 60 D. 0968 * Mathilde Of Hamalant Arthur Henry Ray 0878 - 0916 * Dietrich Of Hamalant 38 38 0880 - 0937 * Reginhilde Of Klak 57 57 0865 - 0885 * Gottfried Of Klak 20 20 0864 - 0901 * Reginhilde Of Ostergau 37 37 0835 - 0891 * Friese Of Ostergau 56 56 Living Colclough 0847 - 0882 * Harald Of Klak 35 35 0828 - 0860 * Halfdan III Of Vestfold 32 32 0830 - 0850 * Helga Frode 20 20 0803 - 0847 * Dag Frode 44 44 0810 - 0856 * Gundrod Of Vestfold 46 46 0788 - 0831 * Halfdan II Of Vestfold 43 43 0766 - 0808 * Eyestein I Of Vestfold 42 42 0744 - 0779 * Halfdan I Of Vestfold 35 35 0748 - 0793 * Aasa Of Heidmork Throndheim 45 45 John Hayward Biden Living Colclough 0721 * Eyestein Of Heidmork Throndheim 0710 - 0768 * Olav I Of Vestfold 58 58 0689 * Ilradi Of Uppsala 0667 - 0718 * Braut Of Uppsala 51 51 Living Lee 0645 - 0683 * Yngvarr Of Uppsala 38 38 0623 - 0671 * Eyestein I Of Uppsala 48 48 0600 - 0640 * Athils Of Uppsala 40 40 0577 - 0617 * Ottar Of Uppsala 40 40 0551 - 0592 * Egill Of Uppsala 41 41 Living Jones 0532 - 0564 * Jorundr Of Uppsala 32 32 0505 - 0557 * Yngui II Of Uppsala 52 52 Living Bidner Living Bidner 1928 James Stanley Everingham Living Everingham Living Thompson Living Thompson Living Thompson Living Thompson Living Jones 1440 Stephen Roberts 1434 Sarae Roberts 1390 *Stephen Roberts 1380 *Johane Tilley 1860 Kezia Witcom * George Pope * Anne * James Witcomb * Harriett Hooper ~1824 - 1894 John McCallum 70 70 Living Sharpe 1855 - 1923 Isabella Brown McCallum 67 67 1858 - 1881 Margaret Jane McCallum 22 22 ~1856 Clunie McMichael 1881 - 1881 Unknown McMichael 4d 4d 1862 - 1867 Elizabeth Mary McCallum 4 4 1865 - 1941 Alexander Cunningham McCallum 76 76 1869 - 1907 William George Sinclair McCallum 37 37 Living McLean 1869 - 1877 Jane Stark 7 7 1872 Andrew Edward Stark Living Stark 1875 James Angus Stark Susan Longhurst Mary Longhurst Thomas Longhurst Sarah Longhurst John Longhurst Margaret Longhurst Elizabeth Longhurst Susan II Longhurst William Longhurst Living Stark Stephen Longhurst John Longhurst Stephen Longhurst William Longhurst Mary Longhurst Elizabeth Longhurst Elizabeth Longhurst Gervais Longhurst Catherine Longhurst Emily Sunstrom Living Phillips 1923 * Enid Betty McArthur Living Williams Living Hopkins Living Stark Living Stark Living Williams Living Williams ABT 1190/1191 William Marshall 1967 - 1968 Sherryn Lynette Williams 6m 6m 1910 Leonard John Pennell Living Pennell Living Stark Living Pennell Living Pennell * Mary * Dorothy Francis Westlake Living Pennell Nicholas Westlake John Westlake 1030 - 1100 * William I de Nevers 70 70 1917 - 1983 Doreen Myrtle McKinnon 65 65 Living Phillips Living Stark 1030 * Ermengarde Of Tonnerre 0955 * Renaud De Courtenay 0975 * Guillaume de Gometz 0985 - 1040 * Renaud I de Nevers 55 55 0925 - 0996 * Renaud I 71 71 * Fromond I 1147 Amice de Beaumont *Hugh II de Grandmesnil * Alice de Beaumont 1945 - 1978 Peter Robert Stark 33 33 1078 *Ralph de Gael Montford * Emma Avice de Vermandois 1121 Isabel de Beaumont 1125 Margaret de Beaumont 1173 - 1210 *Oliver de Tracy 37 37 *Ralph de Gael ~1056 * Emma FitzOsbern 1020/1030 - 1071 *William FitzOsbern WILLIAM FITZ OSBERN

The Conqueror and His Companions

by J.R. Planch窠Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.

Of the three great names at the head of this chapter [Wm F.O., Roger de Montgomeri, Robt de Beaumont], that of William Fitz Osbern claims precedence as the nearest personal friend of the Conqueror, and the chief officer of his household. Son of
that Osbern the son of Herfast, otherwise Osbern de Cr误n, who was foully murdered in the bed-chamber of his young sovereign by William de Montgomeri, he succeeded him in his office of Dapifer and the favour of the Duke. No particular feat of
arms is recorded of him, though he must have fought in some, if not all, of the battles in Normandy during the twenty years or more which immediately preceded the invasion of England, from that of Val-籭Dunes in 1047 to that of Varaville in
1060, and was probably with the Duke in his expeditions against Conan in Brittany and his invasion of Maine in 1063. We have proof at least of his presence at the siege of Domfront in 1054, when he was sent with Roger de Montgomeri to demand an
explanation from Geoffrey Martel of his conduct in marching into Normandy and seizing Alen殮. It is not, however, till the memorable year 1066 that he becomes a prominent person in the history of Normandy and of England. He appears to have
somewhat resembled his master in character, combining great valour with much readiness of wit and astuteness of policy. We have seen him entering the hall of the Palace at Rouen "humming a tune," and rousing the moody Duke from his silent and
sullen consideration of the news from England by bidding him bestir himself and take vengeance on Harold, who had been so disloyal to him; to call together all that he could call, cross the sea, and wrest the crown from the perjured usurper.
William followed his advice, as most people do when they have already determined on taking the course suggested, and "Osbern, of the bold heart," was very likely aware of that fact when he ventured to express his opinion. The call was made
first of the Duke's relatives and most confidential friends, and then of the whole baronage of Normandy. It is at this last and large assembly at Lillebonne that the audacity and cunning of Fitz Osbern become strongly apparent.

Considerable hesitation, and in some instances direct objection, being displayed to the adoption of the project, and the council breaking up into groups to discuss it, the wily Dapifer flitted about from one influential chief to the other,
suggesting the danger of driving their feudal lord to extremities; that they should rather anticipate his wishes than suffer him to ask their aid in vain, and that it would be much worse for them eventually, should the Duke have to complain
that his enterprise had failed in consequence of their defection. Puzzled and irresolute they at length requested him to speak to the Duke in the name of the whole body, and say not only that they feared the sea, but also that they were not
bound to serve him beyond it.

Having thus contrived to be elected their spokesman, he, with the greatest effrontery, assured the Duke that they were unanimous in their determination to support him. That to advance him they would go through fire and water. They would not
only cross the sea, but double their service. He who should bring twenty knights would cheerfully bring forty; he who was bound to serve with thirty would come with sixty, and the barons who had to serve with one hundred men would join him with
two hundred. As to himself, he promised to furnish sixty ships laden with fighting men. The barons were as indignant as astounded at this unwarrantable declaration. Many openly disavowed him; all was tumult and confusion. "No one could hear
another speak; no one could either listen to reason or render it for himself" (Roman de Rou).

The Duke then withdrawing to one side of the hall, sent for the barons one by one, and assuring them of his love and grace, pledged himself that if they would support him, as Fitz Osbern had stated, by doubling their service on this occasion,
that they should not be called on in future for service beyond what was the custom of the land, and such as their ancestors had always rendered to their feudal lord. The Duke's eloquence was successful, and, as before stated (page 51), each
baron's promise was recorded by scribes ready at hand as soon as it was made.

In Taylor's List, the number of ships furnished by Fitz Osbern, whose name stands first upon it, agrees with that mentioned by Wace. "Habuit a Willielmo Dapifero, filio Osberni LX naves." No knights are mentioned.

We next hear of him on English ground. While the Duke of Normandy was haranguing his forces on the morning of the battle, "William Fitz-Osber" rode up and interrupted him, saying, "Sire, we tarry here too long, let us all arm ourselves. Allons!
Allons!" Wace, who recounts this incident, says, Fitz Osbern's horse was "all covered with iron." This is one of the instances in which he has been guilty of an anachronism, no such practice existing in the days of the Conqueror (vide the
Bayeux Tapestry), but at the time that he composed the Roman de Rou, the fashion had been imported from the East by the Crusaders, and the horses were often coated with chain from the tail to the nostrils. In the disposition of the army, he was
selected by the Duke to be a leader of the wing composed of the men of Boulogne and Poix, but we hear of no special incident connected with his name in the course of the battle.

The reward of his great and long-continued service was promptly bestowed upon him. The earldom of Hereford and the lordship of the Isle of Wight being the principal honours; the manor of Hanley, in Worcestershire, and several in Gloucestershire
and other counties, which, in consequence of his dying before the great survey, cannot now be identified.

In addition to these substantial benefits, King William, on his return to Normandy in 1067, made him governor of his newly built Castle of Winchester: an office of great responsibility, as Winchester at that period was a city second only in
importance to London. Its palace was the favourite residence of Edward the Confessor and the early Norman kings. It possessed a mint and a treasury, in which the riches and regalia of the sovereign were deposited, and was consequently to be
most jealously guarded. The Conqueror also associated him with Bishop Odo, in the vicegerency (sic; viceregency) of the realm during his absence. Fitz Osbern having the chief administration of justice in the north, and Odo in the south of the
kingdom.

On the defeat of Edgar Athelin and his confederates at York by the Conqueror in 1068, William Fitz Osbern was appointed governor of that city, and in the following year was hastily summoned to relieve the cities of Shrewsbury and Exeter,
simultaneously attacked by the Welsh and the disaffected men of Cheshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall. He was too late to save Shrewsbury, which the insurgents, under Edric the Wild, had burned and abandoned; but reaching Exeter at the moment when
a sudden sally of the garrison had driven back the besiegers and thrown them into confusion, the Earl, in conjunction with Count Brian of Brittany, fell upon them and put them nearly all to the sword.

In 1070, he was sent to Normandy by King William in order to assist Queen Matilda, the duchy being at that time in a very disturbed state. About the same period war broke out in Flanders between Richilde, widow of Count Baldwin VI -- called De
Mons, and mother of his eldest son and heir, Ernulph -- and Robert, surnamed the Frison, who claimed the regency during the minority of Ernulph, in conformity with the will of his deceased brother. Matilda, taking the side of her sister-in-law,
sent the Earl of Hereford with what forces she could spare to her aid. The Earl was then a widower, and either from love or ambition, became a suitor for the hand of the still fair Countess of Flanders.

Richilde, either responding to his affection, or from a desire to attach the valiant Norman more thoroughly to her interest, married him, and made him titular Count of Flanders.

He did not long, however, enjoy his dignity, for, on the 22nd of February, 1071, a sanguinary engagement took place at Ravenchoven, near Cassel, between the forces of Robert the Frison and those of the Countess Richilde and her ally, Philip I,
King of France, in which both her son, young Count Ernulph, and her husband, the Earl of Hereford, who fought by his side, fell together.

According to Meier, the death-blow of William Fitz Osbern was dealt by one of his own knights, named Gerbodon, who had previously unhorsed him, but we are left in doubt as to the motive of the felon. The Earl's body was carried by his
men-at-arms to the Abbey of Cormeilles, in Normandy, of which he was the founder in 1060, and buried there "amid much sorrow." His first wife, Adelina or Adeliza, was the daughter of Roger de Toeni. The date of her death is uncertain, but it
probably took place some few years before the Conquest. She was buried at the Abbey of Lire, on the river Risle, in Normandy, which was also founded by Fitz Osbern as early as 1046; perchance on the occasion of his marriage, as Cormeilles may
have been on that of her death. The dates are at least suggestive.

By Adelina de Toeni he had three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, William, succeeded him as Lord of Breteuil and Pacy, and in all his other possessions in Normandy. The second, Ralph, was shorn a monk, when young, in the Abbey of
Cormeilles; and the third, Roger de Breteuil, had the earldom of Hereford and all the land his father held in England. The eldest daughter, Emma, married Ralph, Earl of Norfolk, of whom much hereafter. The name of the second and that of her
husband are at present unknown, but she became the mother of Raynold de Cracci. (It is clear, therefore, that Dugdale and the other genealogists are in error, who give to Roger de Toeni for wife Alicia, a daughter of William Fitz Osbern,
independently of the fact that in that case she would have been his own grand-daughter. Adela, by Pere Anselm called Helene, the widow of Roger de Toeni, and mother of Adeline or Alicia, wife of Will. Fitz Osbern, married secondly Richard Count
of Evreux, vide chapter viii., p. 249.) A natural daughter of William de Breteuil, named Isabel, married Ascelin Goel, and was the direct ancestress of the Lovels of Tichmarsh. (Vide vol. ii, ch. vii)

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Some sources suggest he was born in France. Died of Inflammation of the Lungs. 1893 - 1949 * Lavinia May Holland 55 55 1614 * William Badkock ~1620 * Margaret John Badkock 1643 Jane Badkock 1645 Henry Badkock 1647 Thomas Badkock 1651 Richard Badkock 1668 Ann Badkock 1662 Jone Badkock 1662 Elizabeth Badkock 1825 - 1901 * Jane Longhurst 76 76 Came to Australia via 'Emily' 1849. Cause of death Senile Decay. ~1586 * Henerie Badkock ~1586 * Elezabeth Katerne Badkock Margaret Badkock Living Anderson * ? John Cornish * ? Mary * Johnson * Ann George ~1776 * James Williams 1848 - 1919 James Victor Dalton 71 71 0975 * Aimon Living Smith * Hildeburg de Belesme 1030 * Erenburg 1045 * Robert 1080 * Geoffrey de Venuz ~1920 - 1994 Lorna May Carrison 74 74 Living Stark 1038 * Ernulf Of Hesdin * Emmalina 1849 - 1924 Emily Wilson Moar Dalton 74 74 1022 * Ilbert Payn De Chaworth 1926 Mervyn Hartley Clarke Living Clarke 0992 - ~1040 * Payn Of Freteval De Chaworth 48 48 * Adierne Of Montdoubleau 0962 * Nivelon I 0962 * Ermentrude 0962 - 1057 * Odo Of Montdoubleau 95 95 Living Clarke 0962 - 1062 * Placentia Of Montoire 100 100 1855 Mary Anne Dalton * Hugh Of Montdoubleau * Adela Of Belzai 0932 - 1030 * Nihard Of Montdoubleau 98 98 * Milo De Monthlery * Hodierne de Gometz-la- Ferte Living Clarke * William de Gamaches * Alice Of Paris 0980 * Geoffrey Of Bretagne Living Clarke 1857 Ellen Dalton * Hawise Of Normandy 0063 BC - 0012 BC * Marcus Vipsanius Agrippina 0039 BC - 0014 BC * Julia Agusta * Appius Claudius Nero 0124 BC - 0091 BC * Marcus Livius Drusus Living Clarke D. 0020 BC * Caius Octavius D. 0043 BC * Atia * Lucius Vispanius Living Widdison 1859 Harriett Jarret Dalton Living Stark 23 Sep 0063 BC - 0014 *Augustus Of Rome Ordered the census which took place at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. Living Stark Living MacLennan D. 0016 * Scribonia Of Rome * Tiberius Claudius Nero 1953 - 1996 Ian Bruce Stark 43 43 Richard Marshall D. 0019 BC * Marcus Livius Drusus * Marcus Atius Balbus 1861 Matilda Dalton Living Stark 0051 BC * Julia Minor * Caius Octavius * Gaius Antonius Living Stark * Caius Octavius 0085 BC * Caius Julius Caesar Living Stark * Marcia Julius Caesar 1864 Martha Dalton * Lucius Scribonius Libo Of Rome Living Stark * Johanna Barratt 1861 - 1942 Laurence Patrick Gallagher (Gallohue) 81 81 1873 Johanna 'Annie' Gallagher (Gallohue) 1879 Mary Jane Gallagher (Gallohue) Living Stark Living Stark 1084 * William Comyn 1088 * Maud Basset 1865 Robert Thomas Dalton 1095 * Uchtred FitzWaldeve 1929 Herbert Norman Moulton Living Moulton 1066 * Bethoc Dunkeld Living Moulton 1926 - 1997 Valma Dawn Catlin 70 70 Living Stark 1053 * John Comyn 1057 * Giffard 1022 - 28 Jan 1068/1069 * Robert Comyn In 1068, completely ignoring the wishes of the people of that county, William the Conqueror created him Earl of Northumberland. The Northumbrians first decided to abandon their dwellings but, as they were prevented by the inclemency of the weather, decided to kill their  new Earl. Egelvine, Bishop of Durham, warned Robert Comyn of their intentions but he ignored the warning and, using Durham as his base, with 700 soldiers commenced on a course of plunder and bloodshed. Incensed, the people of the neighbourhood assaulted Durham and the Earl and all his men were put to death.
Source: Leo van de Pas 1868 Amy Dalton 1844 - 1892 * Alexander Stark 48 48 Died of Influenza. * Osbert Giffard Living Stark 1068 * Waldeve Tynedale 1033 - 1100 * Donald III 'The Fair' Of Scotland 67 67 * John Comyn Raymond Gallagher Living Stark * Ranulph 'The Rich' de Saint Liz * Ralph de Mar * William de Mar 1869 Arthur Dalton * Aldred Of Bernecia Living Stark * Herbert Of Cornwall 1013 * Godwin Of Cornwall ~1853 Mary Anne Ferguson 1874 Alfred Dalton ~1864 - 1908 Marianna Meadows 44 44 1903 Vera Mary Dalton 1876 Ernest Dalton 1878 Sarah Dalton 1843 - 1906 Alfred Dalton 63 63 1880 Marianne Dalton 1786 * Penina Blee ~1754 * Thomas Blee ~1757 * Ann Walters ~1729 * Stephen Blee 1731 * Margery Rosewarden ~1710 - 1756 * Stephen Blee 46 46 ~1707 * Margaret 1840 - 1919 Mary Ann (Marian) Clifford 79 79 1844 James Boothey 1784 * Robert Longhurst 1882 - 1941 Ernest Harold Boothey 59 59 1876 Ada Susannah Bridgman ~1782 Thomas Blee ~1784 Stephen Blee ~1790 Edward Blee ~1792 Ann Blee ~1774 John Blee ~1751 Rachel Blee ~1756 Stephen Blee ~1759 George Blee ~1797 * Mary Hodges ~1771 Margery Blee ~1725 - <1730 Charles Blee 5 5 ~1732 Sabinah Blee ~1734 Margaret Blee ~1736 Elizabeth Blee ~1738 Joan Blee ~1740 John Blee Marie Badkock 1791 James Nicholas 1721 - 1780 * Francis Bligh 59 59 1786 * Robert Dalton 1702 - 1768 * Jane Balsam 66 66 1754 - 1817 William Bligh 63 63 Born at St. Tudy, near Plymouth, on 9 Sep 1754, he was the son of a customs

officer. His mother died when William was 14, but it was very early when his

parents had decided on as Naval career for their young son. He first appears

on Naval roles at the age of 9, when, at the behest of Hon. Keith Stewart,

said to have been a close relative of his mother, he was entered as a personal

servant to an officer on a man-of-war. This was a common practice, even at

that age, in order to give young boys who were destined for a Naval career the

necessary 6 years qualification as early as possible. He was "paid off" on 21

Feb 1763.

By the age of 15, he was not only well-versed in science and mathematics,

but had developed fine talents as a writer and illustrator. He does not

appear in the records again until 27 Jul 1770, when his name was entered on

the paysheets of the H.M.S. Hunter, a small sloop mounting only 10 guns, rated

as an AB and master's mate. This was soon after the death of his mother and

the remarriage of his father, and these event may have had something to do

with Bligh's re-entry into the Navy. It is believed that, in accord with

normal custom, he was carried as an "additional midshipman", that is, a young

man deserving of officer's training, but carried in addition to the two

official midshipman's positions on a naval vessel. They were officially

recognized as junior officers in training, both by respect of crew and duties

assigned. They also became official midshipmen as soon as vacancies occurred.

On 4 Feb 1771, he was discharged by order of Rear Admiral Sir Richard Spry,

and re-entered the next day on the same ship as a midshipman. He remained on

that ship until 22 Feb 1771, when he was reassigned to H.M.S. Crescent whereon

he served until 23 Aug 1774. He then served on H.M.S. Ranger.

It was on 20 Mar 1776 that he received what was to be his first opportunity

to visit the South Seas, when he was appointed Master on board

H.M.S. Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, just prior to Cook's third

voyage. At 22, to be appointed sailing master on a major research vessel was

a great tribute to his skill and connections. There is evidence that he was

in constant attendance on this ship, and in consultation with Cook and his

officers constantly. On 1 May 1776, he passed his examination for Lieutenant.

The voyage of the Resolution ended in late 1780, and Bligh took a 12-month

leave from active duty, during which time he was married. Although little is

known of his activities during this period, there is some indication that he

may have spent time writing memoires of the famous voyage.

His wife's relationship to Sir Duncan and Captain Sir John Campbell paved

the way to additional career-enhancing appointments. After serving on a

number of ships, in Jun 1783, he entered the service of Sir Duncan Campbell in

the West Indian trade. The pay of a junior lieutenant often demanded

occasional forays into higher-paying positions, and this appears to have been

the case here. It was in the service of Campbell that Bligh commanded his

first ship, the Lynx. He remained in the Jamaica trade for four years, his

last assignment on board the Brittania, where he was to meet Fletcher

Christian an others who were to sail with him on the Bounty.

After the Bounty voyage, Bligh commanded a number of scientific voyages.

Specialization in scientific projects paid off, and he became a Fellow of the

Royal Society. Late in 1796, he was appointed commander of H.M.S. Director, a

comparatively old ship, but a very important naval command. It was rated 4th

class, mounted 64 guns, and carried 491 crewmen. This marked Bligh's

promotion to senior command assigment. It is also interesting that in 1797,

Bligh was involved in another serious mutiny, known as the Mutiny at the

Nore. The crews of a number of naval vessels, including the Director, under

the command of Vice-Admiral Buckner, mutinied together. It was a bloody and

violent struggle. At its conclusion, Bligh stood strongly behind his ship's

crew, and was commended by both seaman and officer alike for his handling of

the affair.

His naval career was distinguished. Brave in battle, he was line astern of

Nelson at Copenhagen in 1801. The wartime period ended in 1802, and Bligh

again commanded a scientific voyage, this time a hydrological expedition.

In 1805, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales. His success in the

realm of politics, unfortunately, did not match his prowess as a Naval

commander. His appointment lasted until 1808 when the colonists "mutinied"

and sent him back to England. He arrived there on 25 Oct 1810, and never

received further appointment. His service record was as follows:

* 01 Jul 1762 Captain's Servant: HMS Monmouth

* 27 Jul 1770 AB: HMS Hunter

* 05 Feb 1771 Midshipman: HMS Hunter

* 22 Sep 1771 Midshipman: HMS Crescent

* 02 Sep 1774 AB: HMS Ranger

* 30 Sep 1775 Midshipman: HMS Ranger

* 20 Mar 1776 Master: HMS Resolution

* 14 Feb 1781 Master: HMS Belle Poule

* 05 Oct 1781 Lieutenant: HMS Berwick

* 01 Jan 1782 Lieutenant: HMS Princess Amelia

* 20 Mar 1782 Lieutenant: HMS Cambridge

* 14 Jan 1783 Half-Pay Lieutenant

* 16 Aug 1787 Commanding Lieutenant: HMS Bounty

* 14 Nov 1790 Captain: HMS Falcon (sloop)

* 15 Dec 1790 Captain: HMS Medea

* 08 Jan 1791 Half-Pay Captain

* 16 Apr 1791 Captain: HMS Providence

* 07 Sep 1793 Half-Pay Captain

* 30 Apr 1795 Captain: HMS Calcutta

* 07 Jan 1796 Captain: HMS Director

* 03 Jul 1800 Half-Pay Captain

* 13 Mar 1801 Captain: HMS Glatton

* 12 Apr 1801 Captain: HMS Monarch

* 08 May 1801 Captain: HMS Irresistible

* 28 May 1802 Half-Pay Captain

* 02 May 1804 Captain: HMS Warrior

* 30 Apr 1805 Half-Pay Captain

* 24 May 1805 Governor of New South Wales

* 27 Sep 1805 Commander: HMS Porpoise

* 14 Nov 1805 Captain: HMS Porpoise

* 31 Jul 1808 Commodore: HMS Porpoise

* 03 Apr 1810 Commodore: HMS Hindostan

* 31 Jul 1810 Half-Pay Rear Admiral

* 04 Jun 1814 Half-Pay Vice Admiral

William Bligh does not deserve his popular reputation as a cruel villain.

He could better be described as a "young turk ... a man moving in the fast

lane". He evidenced early brilliance matched with the right connections. His

perfectionism carried him far, but also led to most of his problems. He could

not emotionally understand or deal well with persons who did not share his

devotion to duty and detail. He was uncommonly concerned with the physical

health of his men, and contrary to popular misconceptions, he was slow to

impose corporal punishment. But he could, and did, impose fearful tongue-

lashings, and his temper was legendary. These were not traits that would

endear him to the violent, street-smart members of the lower classes who made

up the bulk of the crews over which he served. Like many of today's corporate

executives, he almost, but not quite, reached the pinnacle of his profession.

He is a man deserving of admiration. 1828 Francis Nicholas 1835 Martha Nicholas 1789 William Hodge 1854 William Nicholas ~1687 * Richard Bligh 1688 - 1766 * Jane Cocks 77 77 John Bligh Richard Bligh * Anne Reed Reginald Bligh James Bligh William I Bligh William II Bligh Joseph Bligh Mary Bligh 1646 * John Bligh * Mary Watts Temperance Bligh Mary Bligh 1741 - 1804 * Thomas Longhurst 63 63 John Bligh Elizabeth Bligh Dorothy Bligh Patience Bligh James Bligh 1697 Charles Bligh D. 1663 * Richard Bligh * Mary Westlake Dorothy Bligh Elizabeth Bligh ~1744 * Margaret Burr Mary Bligh James Bligh Loveday Bligh Richard Bligh Charles Bligh ~1592 * James Bligh * Loveday Worthevale Elizabeth Bligh John Bligh * Richard Bligh * John Brown 1565 * Elizabeth Inglett Elizabeth Bligh ~1542 - Feb 1597/1598 * John Bligh ~1546 * Agnes Arscott Thomas Bligh Margaret Bligh Thomazine Bligh Mary Bligh Johanna Bligh Robert Bligh * Margaret MacCaulay 1851 - 1909 * Anne Rachel (Rachel) Dalton 58 58 Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.