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The Elven Vere
Descendants of Odin, Lord of the Rings
Princess Plantina, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
Merovingian Princesand the ancient kings of Britain
De Diabolo Venit Et Ad Diabolum Ibid
Generation No. 1
1. Geoffrey5
Plantagenet (Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey
Ide1) was born 1113, and died 1151. He married Matilda of England,
daughter of King Henry and of Matilda. She was born Abt. 1104, and
died September 10, 1167.
Notes for Geoffrey Plantagenet:
GEOFFREY, surnamed PLANTAGENET, COUNT d'ANJOU, born 1113, died
1151. King Henry I, of England, in despair over loss of his son,
William, Duke of Normandy, who was drowned in the sinking of a ship
off the coast of France, sought the aid of GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, one
of the most powerful princes of France, a noble person, with
"elegant and courtly manners and a reputation for gallantry in the
field." Approving the marriage of his daughter MATILDA with
GEOFFREY, King Henry personally invested him with Knighthood, and
expressed the hope that all Englishmen would give them full
allegiance. The Barons took the oath to uphold the succession of
Matilda and Geoffrey and their children after them. Thus Geoffrey
heads the line of English Kings which bear his Plantagenet name. The
friends of Geoffrey were unaware that their playful nickname for him
of Plantagenet would live through the years. Geoffrey was descended
from the Elven Princess Plantina, sister of the Fairy Melusine. Thus
he derived his popular title. As eldest son of FULK V, KING OF
JERUSALEM, and his wife, ERMENGARDE, daughter of HELIAS, Count of
Maine, Geoffrey was of the House of Angevin Kings, which had been
prominent for three centuries. (Note: Arms of Fulk V, King of
Jerusalem pictured on page 201, Magna Charta.)
Geoffrey's descent from the House of Angevin Kings follows: From
Princess Plantina, sister of the Fairy Princess Melusine………(missing
generations)................C.800 (1) THERTULLUS (Tortulf the
Woodman of Nide de Merle) , wife PETRONELLA, daughter of Conrad,
Count of Paris; (2) INGELERUS I, married Adeline of Challon; (3)
FULK, "the red", born 888, died 938, wife Roscilla of Blois; (4)
FULK II, The Good, Count of Anjou, died 958, married Gerberga of
Catinais; (5) GEOFFREY I, Count of Anjou, died 21 July 987, married
Adelaide de Vermandois, also known as Adelaide de Chalons, born 950,
died 975-78; (6) FULK III, "the Black" Count of Anjou, born 970,
died 21 June 1040, married, second, after 1000, Hildegarde, who died
1 April 1109, married, fifth, Bertrade de Montfort; (9) FULK V, "The
Young", Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, born 1092; died 10 Nov.
1143, who, as above stated, was the father of GEOFFREY V
"PLANTAGENET", Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, who, on 3 April
1127, married MATILDA of ENGLAND, daughter of HENRY I, of England.
NOTE: Also being given below, is the descent of Geoffrey V of Anjou,
(called "Plantagenet") husband of Matilda (Maud), of England, from
KING EDWARD THE GREAT.
GENEALOGY OF GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET (born 1113, died 7 Sept. 1151,
from Aedd Mawr) (KING EDWARD THE GREAT), who appears to have lived
about 1300 B.C. (the line of BOAZ and RUTH) to WILLIAM THE
CONQUEROR, whose Genealogy back to ROLLO the DANE, is given: (1)
KING EDWARD the GREAT, his son; (2) BRYDAIN, who settled in the
island at an early date, and, according to tradition, gave his name
to the entire island, which has since been corrupted into "Britain".
His son; (3) ANNYN TRO, his son; (4) SELYS HEN, his son; (5) BRWT,
his son; (6) CYMRYW, his son; (7) ITHON, his son; (8) GWEYRYDD, his
son; (9) PEREDUR, his son; (10) LLYFEINYDD, his son; (11) TEUGED,
his son; (12) LLARIAN, in whose day London was a considerable town,
having been founded B.C. 1020, or earlier, as some hold, at least
270 yrs before the founding of Rome; his son; (13) ITHEL, his son;
(14) ENIR FARDD, his son; (15) CALCHWYDD, his son; (16) LLYWARCH,
his son; (17) IDWAL, his son; (18) RHUN, his son; (19) BLEDDYN, his
son; (20) MORGAN, his son; (21) BERWYN, his son; (22) CERAINT FEDWW,
an irreclaimable drunkard, deposed by his subjects for setting fire,
just before harvest, to the cornfields of Siluris, now Monmouthshire,
his son; (23) BRYWLAIS; his son; (24) ALAFON, his son; (25) ANYN,
his son; (26) DINGAD, his son; (27) GREIDIOL, his son; (28) CERAINT,
his son; (29) MEIRION, his son; (30) ARCH, his son; (31) CAID, his
son; (32) CERI, his son; (33) BARAN, his son; (34) LLYR (KING LEAR).
He was educated in Rome by Augustus Caesar, his son; (35) BRAN, KING
of SILURIA. In the year A.D.36, he resigned the crown to his son
Caradoc, and became Arch-Druid Bran the Blessed of the college of
Siluria. Bran married Anna, granddaughter of St. James (Joseph of
Aramathea); the neice of Jesus Christ. Jesus and his brother St.
James' lineage conjoin with The Uther Pendragon: Aedan Mac Gabran
King of Scots, who married Ygraine of Avallon (see Avallon descent).
During his seven years in Rome, Bran (St. Brandon) became the first
royal convert to Christianity and was baptized by the Apostle Paul,
as was his son, Cardoc and the latter's two sons, Cyllinus and Cynon
(he introduced the use of vellum into England). his son; (36)
CARADOC (CARACTACUS), was King of Siluria, (Monmouthshire, etc.),
his son; (37) ST. CYLLIN, King of Siluria. He first of the Cymry
(Cimmerians of Scythia), gave infants names, for before, names were
not given except to adults. His brother, Linus the Martyr; his
sister Claudia and her husband Rufus Pudens, aided the apostle Paul
in the Christian Church in Rome. As recorded in II Timothy 4:21 and
Romans 16:13, Rufus Pudens and St. Paul are shown to be
half-brothers, children of the same mother, they had different
fathers; Paul, by a Hebrew husband and Rufus, by a second marriage
with a Roman Christian. His son; (38) PRINCE COEL, son of Cyllin was
living A.D. 120; his son; (39) KING LLEUVER MAWR, (Lucius the
Great), the second Blessed Sovereign, married Gladys, whose ancestry
for eight immediate past generations is as follows; (a) CAPOIR,
whose son was; (b) BELI (HELI) THE GREAT, died B.C. 72, whose son;
(c) LUD, died B.C. 62, his son; (d) TENUANTIUS, his son; (e)
CYNVELINE (Cymbeline), King of Britain. He was educated in Rome by
Augustus Caesar, and later, forestalled the invasion of the island.
His eleventh son; (f) AVIRAGUN, King of Britain, lived in Avalon
(The Isle of Arran), the renowned enemy of Rome; married VENISSA
JULIA, daughter of TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS CAESAR, EMPEROR OF ROME, who
was the grandson of MARK ANTONY. The son of Aviragus and Venissa
Julia was; (g) MERIC, (Marius,), King of Britain, married the
daughter of the GODDESS-QUEEN BOADICEA (VICTORIA.)
They had a daughter; (h) EURGEN, of whom later, and a son Coel, who
became King of Britain in 125. OLD KING COLE, educated in Rome,
built Colchester (Coel-Castra), and died A.D. 170. (h)EURGEN, (see
above), the said daughter of Meric, (Marius) and his wife, the
daughter of Boadicea, had, as above stated, Gladys, who became the
wife of No. 39 (see above), Lleuver Mawr (Lucius the Great) who is
said to have changed the established religion of Britain from
DRUIDISM to CHRISTIANITY though this must be patently untrue. The
daughter of Lucius the Great and his wife, Gladys, was; (40) GLADYS,
who became the wife of Cadvan, of Cambria, Prince of Wales. Their
daughter; (41) STRADA, the FAIR, married Coel, a later King of
Colchester, living A.D. 232. Their daughter; (42) HELEN of the
CROSS, (The Arms of Colchester were a "cross with three crowns"),
Helen was born 248, died 328 and became the wife of CONSTANTIUS I,
afterward Emperor of Rome, and, in right of his wife, King of
Britain. He was born 242, died 306.
THE GOD KING OF VALHALLA: ODIN LORD OF THE RINGS
Their son; (43) CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, born 265, died 336. Of
British birth, he is known as the first CHRISTIAN EMPEROR. The
greatest of all Roman Emperors, he annexed Britain to the Roman
Empire, his son; (44) CONSTANTIUS II, died in 360, his son; (45)
CONSTANTIUS III, married Placida, died in 421, his son; (46)
VALENTINIAN III, died in 455. His daughter; (47) EUDOXIA, married
Hunneric, who died in 480. her son; (48) HILDERIC, King of the
Vandals in 525, his daughter; (49) HILDA, married Frode VII, who
died 548; her son; (50) HALFDAN, KING OF DENMARK, his son; (51) IVAR
VIDFADMA, KING of DENMARK and SWEDEN in 660 his son: (52) RORIC
SLINGEBAND, KING of DENMARK and SWEDEN in 700, his son; (53) HARALD
HILDETAND, KING of DENMARK and SWEDEN in 725, his son; (54) SIGURD
RING, living in 750, his son; (55) RAYNER LODBROCK, KING of DENMARK
and SWEDEN, died in 794, married Aslanga.
Aslanga was granddaughter of the one-eyed God-King ODIN, (Father of
Sigfreid and Brunhilde: Swan Princess and Valkyrie) LORD OF THE
AESIR (The inspiration for both Tolkein's Gandalf [Grey Elf ] and
the one-eyed Sauron [from Saur: Lizard or Dragon] Lord of the
Rings). Odin was the ancestor of Robert de Vere, the historical
Robin Hood or Hoden.
RAYNER LODBROCK'S son; (56) SIGURD SNODOYE, KING of DENMARK and
SWEDEN, died 830, his son; (57) HORDA KNUT, KING of DENMARK, died in
850, his son; (58) FROTHA, KING of DENMARK, died 875, his son; (59)
GORM ENSKE, married Sida and died in 890, his son; (60) HAROLD
PARCUS, KING of DENMARK, whose wife was Elgiva, daughter of ETHELRED
I, King of England, (a brother of King Alfred The Great), his son;
(61) GORM del CAMMEL, KING of DENMARK, died in 931. His wife was
Thyra, his son; (62) HAROLD BLAATAND, KING of DENMARK, died in 981,
his daughter; (63) LADY GUNNORA, wife of Richard I, third Duke of
Normandy, born 933, died 996. They had (beside their son Richard II
((see later)), a son; (64) ROBERT d'EVEREUX, the Archbishop, who
died in 1087, his son; (65) RICHARD, Count d'Evereux, died 1067, his
daughter, (66) AGNES EVEREUX, who became the wife of Simon l de
Montfort, her daughter; (67) BERTRADE MONTFORT, became the wife of
FULK IV, Count d'Anjou, born 1043, died 1109. The said Fulk IV's
descent from OLD KING COLE is as follows;
THE FRANKISH KINGS
Coel: OLD KING COLE, son of Meric (MARIUS) (g) above mentioned, was
the father of, (1) ATHILDIS, wife of Marcomir IV, King of Franconia,
who died 149. They had (2) CLODOMIR IV, King of the Franks, died
166, married Hasilda, their son; (3) KING FARABERT, died 186, his
son; (4) KING SUNNO, died 213, his son; (5) KING HILDERIC, died 253,
his son; (6) KING PARTHERUS, died 272, his son; (7) KING CLOLIUS
III, died 298, his son; (8) KING WALTER, died 306, his son; (9) KING
DAGOBERT, died 317, his son; (10) GENEBALD I Duke of the East
Franks, died 350, his son; (11) KING DAGOBERT, died 379, his son;
(12) KING CLODIUS I, died 389, his son; (13) KING MARCOMIR, died
404, his son; (14) KING PHAROMOND, married Argotta, daughter of
Genebald, their son; (15) KING CLODIO, married Basina de Thuringia,
and died 455, their son; (16) SIGERMERUS I, married the daughter of
Ferreolus Tomantius, his son; (17) FERREOLUS, married Deuteria, a
Roman lady, their son; (18) AUSBERT, died 570, married Blitheldes,
daughter of Clothaire I, King of France, and his wife Ingonde, and
grand-daughter of CLOVIS THE GREAT, King of France, born 466,
baptized at Rheims, and died 511, and his wife Clothilde, of
Burgundy, "The girl of the French Vineyards.
It was she who led him to embrace Christianity, and mythically three
thousand of his followers were baptized in a single day. When Clovis
first listened to the story of Christ's Crucifixion, he was so moved
that he cried, "If I had been there with my valiant Franks, I would
have avenged Him". Ausbert and Blithildes were the parents of (19)
ARNOUL, Bishop of Metz, died 601, married Oda de Savoy and had (20)
ST. ARNOLPH, Bishop of Metz, died 641, married Lady Dodo and had,
(21) ACHISEA, married Begga of Brabant, who died 698, their son;
(22) PEPIN d'HERISTAL, Mayor of the Palace, died 714, who married
Alpais.
PEPIN of HERISTAL made himself conspicuous. His home was near Spa in
the woodland country around Liege. He made the office hereditary in
his family. His heroic son, (23) CHARLES MARTEL, the Hammer, Mayor
of the Palace, King of France, was still more famous, because, in
the decisive Battle of Tours in 732, he utterly routed the Arabs,
who had conquered Spain and the south of France. Charles Martel
Married Rotrude and died in 741. His son, (24) PEPIN THE SHORT (or
PEPIN le BREF, King of France, died in 768, leaving by his wife
Bertha, of Laon, a son; (25) CHARLEMAGNE, Charles the Great, born 2
April 742, probably at Aix-La-Chapelle, the greatest figure of the
Middle ages, King of the Franks. Charlemagne and his younger
brother, Carloman, succeeded to equal portions to one of the most
powerful of European kingdoms, bounded by the Pyrenees, the Alps,
the Mediterranean and the Ocean. Carloman, the younger brother, died
soon after the death of their father, Pepin The Short, and with the
consent of the great nobles, Charlemagne became King. Desiderius,
the King of Lombardy, had made large encroachments upon the states
of the Roman Pontiff, whose cause was taken up by Charlemagne. This
led to feuds, which Bertha, his mother, endeavored to appease by
arranging a marriage between her son and the daughter of the
Lombard.
But the Ring Lord Charlemagne soon took a disgust to the wife thus
imposed upon him, and repudiated her, that he might marry Hildegarde,
born 757, died 30 April 782, the daughter of a noble family in
Suabia. By his wife, Hildegarde, he had a son: (26) LOUIS I, the
DEBONAIRE, who by his second wife, Judith, was the father of Gisela,
ancestress of Hugh Capet, King of France and of JAMICIA, wife of
RICHARD de CLARE, MAGNA CHARTA SURETY. Louis I, by his first wife
Ermengarde, who died 818, daughter of Ingram, Count of Basbania, was
father of (27) LOTHAIRE, Earl of Germany, who married Ermengarde of
Alsace, and had (28) ERMENGARDE, who was the wife of Giselbert.
Their son; (29) REGUIER I, Count of Hainault, died 916, who married
Albreda, their son; (30) CISELBERT, Duke of Lorraine, married
Gerlerga and died 930, their daughter; (31) ALBREDA of LORRAINE,
wife of Renaud, Count de Roucy, who died 973, their daughter; (32)
ERWENTRUDE ROUCY, married Alberic II, Count de Macon, who died 975,
their daughter; (33) BEATRICE MACON, married Geoffrey I de Castenais,
their son; (34) GEOFFREY II de CASTINAIS, married Ermengarde de
Anjou, their son; (35) FULK IV, Count of Anjou, born 1043, died
1109, married Bertrade de Montfort (no. 67 above), their son (36)
FULK V, Count d'Anjou, who, as elsewhere stated (above) was the
father of GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, who married MATILDA of ENGLAND, a
great-great-great-grand daughter of RICHARD I, Duke of Normandy and
his wife, Lady Cunnora. Matilda's descent from Richard I, Duke of
Normandy is as follows: (1) RICHARD I, Duke of Normandy, his son;
(2) RICHARD II, Duke of Normandy, died 1026, married Judith de
Bretagne, their son; (3) ROBERT the MAGNIFICENT, also known as
Robert the Devil, who, by Herleve Falaise, had WILLIAM THE
CONQUEROR, father of King Henry I of England, who had Matilda, Wife
of Geoffrey Plantagenet.
NOTE: WURTS' MAGNA CHARTA, pp. 158-168 inclusive,gives sixty nine
Generations of lineal descent from No. 1, Edward the Great, (Aedd
Mawr) to No. 69, Geoffrey Plantagenet. This also shows Geoffrey's
descent from the FRANKISH KINGS, Nos. 1, to and including 35; also
his descent from No. (6) (HELI) Beli the Great through LUD, through
TUANTIUS, through CYNVELIN (CYMBELINE), through AVIRAGUS, through
MERIC (MARIUS), through EURGEN, through GLADYS, wife of No. 39, (LLEUVER
MAWR) LUCIUS THE GREAT. And page 168 Wurt's Magna Charta shows that
both Geoffrey Plantagenet and his wife, Matilda, or Maud, of
England, were descendants of WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, who as above
stated, was descended from CHARLEMAGNE.
Notes for Matilda of England:
Descent from CHARLEMAGNE to MATILDA, or Maud, of England, wife
of GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET; (1) CHARLEMAGNE and wife, Hildegarde had a
son; (2) PEPIN, born 776, died 8 July 810, before his father. He was
crowned by the Pope in 781, King of Lombardy and Italy, married
Bertha, daughter of William, Count of Toulouse, his son; (3)
BERNHARD, King of Lombardy, succeeded his father about the year 812,
he was deposed by his Uncle Louis, blinded and put to death. By his
wife Cunegonde, he had a son; (4) PEPIN, who was deprived of the
throne by his Uncle Louis, Emperor, called the Debonair, and
received a part of Vermandois and the Seigneuries of St. Quentin and
Peronne. His son; (5) PEPIN, Pepin de Senlis de Valois, Count
Berengarius, of Bretagne, who was living in 893, the father of (6)
LADY POPPA, (puppet or doll), who became the first wife of ROLLO the
DANE, first Duke of Normandy. Their son; (7) WILLIAM LONGSWORD, was
father of (8) RICHARD the FEARLESS, father of; (9) RICHARD II, "the
Good", whose son; (10) ROBERT "THE DEVIL", sixth Duke of Normandy,
who, by Herleve de falaise, daughter of the Tanner, Fulbert de
Falaise, had a son; (11) WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, born at Falaise in
1027, father of HENRY I, KING of ENGLAND, WHO WAS THE LAST OF THE
NORMAN KINGS. (Magna Charta 178, 182, 183). She was designated
Henry's heir, and on his death (1135), Stephen siezed the throne and
Matilda invaded England (1139) inuagurating a period of inconclusive
civil war. She and her second husband (Geoffrey) captured Normandy
and in 1152 the Treaty of Wallingford recognised Henry as Stephen's
heir. Burke says she was betrothed in her eight year (1119) to
Henry.
Child of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Matilda England is:
+ 2 i. King Henry II6 Plantagenet, born March 25, 1133 in Le Mans;
died July 06, 1189 in Chinon Castle, Anjou.
Generation No. 2
2. King Henry II6
Plantagenet (Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais,
Geoffrey I de1) was born March 25, 1133 in Le Mans, and died July
06,1189 in Chinon Castle, Anjou. He married (1) Eleanor of Aquitaine
May 18, 1152 in Bordeaux, France. She died June 26, 1202. He met (2)
Rosamond De Clifford 1160. He met (3) Ida Abt. 1172.
Notes for King Henry II Plantagenet:
KING HENRY II of ENGLAND, son of Matilda, or Maud, of England
and her husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet, was born at Le Mans, 25 March
1133 and died at Chinon, 6 July 1189. In 1152 he married Eleanor of
Aquitaine, former wife of Louis VII, of France, and daughter of
William, Duke of Aquitaine. She survived King Henry nearly three
years, dying 26 June 1202. Both were buried at Fontrevaud in Anjou.
Their daughter Eleanor married Alphonse IX, King of Castile; their
eldest son William, died at the age of four years, their second son,
Henry, born 28 Feb. 1155, who on 15 July 1170, by command of his
father, was crowned King of England, but died before his father, 11
July 1183, their third son, Richard the Lion Hearted, reigned as
King of England from 1189 to 1199. He was the most prominent leader
on the Third Crusade to regain Jerusalem for the Christians from the
Mohammedans. He had greater military genius, but less statesmanship
than his father.
His great power was in his physical and mental capacity as a
soldier, and in his strenuous and irrepressible courage. Richard was
proud, cruel and treacherous. He left the government of England in
the hands of his Justiciars, and was in his English Kingdom but
twice in his reign of ten years; four months at the time of his
coronation, and two months, five years later. The Third Crusade was
a failure. Richard fell out with the French King, and refused to
marry his sister Alice, to whom he had been betrothed since early
childhood, but on 12 May 1191, he married Perengaria of Navarre. HE
DIED WITHOUT ISSUE. The fourth son of Henry II, Geoffrey, had a son
Arthur, who was murdered in 1203, leaving as successor to the throne
of England; (*See Note Below)
Henry II (1154-1189) Born: 5th March 1133 at Le Mans, MaineDied: 6th
July 1189 at Chinon Castle, Anjou Buried: Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou
Parents: Geoffrey, Count of Anjou and the Empress Matilda Siblings:
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes & William, Count of Poitou Crowned: 19th
December 1154 at Westminster Abbey, Middlesex Married: 18th May 1152
at Bordeaux Cathedral, Gascony Spouse: Eleanor daughter of William
X, Duke of Aquitane & divorcee of Louis VII, King of France
Offspring: William, Henry, Matilda, Richard, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan
& John. Contemporaries: Louis VII (King of France, 1137-1180),
Thomas Beckett (Archbishop of Canterbury), Pope Adrian IV, Frederick
I (Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, 1152-1190). Henry II,
first of the Angevin kings, was one of the most effective of all
England's monarchs. He came to the throne amid the anarchy of
Stephen's reign and promptly collared his errant barons. He refined
Norman government and created a capable, self-standing bureaucracy.
His energy was equaled only by his ambition and intelligence.
Henry survived wars,
rebellion, and controversy to successfully rule one of the Middle
Ages' most powerful kingdoms. Henry was raised in the French
province of Anjou and first visited England in 1142 to defend his
mother's claim to the disputed throne of Stephen. His continental
possessions were already vast before his coronation: He acquired
Normandy and Anjou upon the death of his father in September 1151,
and his French holdings more than doubled with his marriage to
Eleanor of Aquitane (ex-wife of King Louis VII of France). In
accordance with the Treaty of Wallingford, a succession agreement
signed by Stephen and Matilda in 1153, Henry was crowned in October
1154. The continental empire ruled by Henry and his sons included
the French counties of Brittany, Maine, Poitou, Touraine, Gascony,
Anjou, Aquitane, and Normandy. Henry was technically a feudal vassal
of the king of France but, in reality, owned more territory and was
more powerful than his French lord. Although King John (Henry's son)
lost most of the English holdings in France, English kings laid
claim to the French throne until the fifteenth century. Henry also
extended his territory in the British Isles in two significant ways.
First, he retrieved Cumbria and Northumbria form Malcom IV of
Scotland and settled the Anglo-Scottishborder in the North.
Secondly, although his success with Welsh campaigns was limited,
Henry invaded Ireland and secured an English presence on the island.
English and Norman barons in Stephen's reign manipulated feudal law
to undermine royal authority; Henry instituted many reforms to
weaken traditional feudal ties and strengthen his position.
Unauthorized castles built during the previous reign were razed.
Monetary payments replaced military service as the primary duty of
vassals. The Exchequer was revitalized to enforce accurate record
keeping and tax collection. Incompetent sheriffs were replaced and
the authority of royal courts was expanded. Henry empowered a new
social class of government clerks that stabilized procedure - the
government could operate effectively in the king's absence and would
subsequently prove sufficiently tenacious to survive the reign of
incompetent kings. Henry's reforms allowed the emergence of a body
of common law to replace the disparate customs of feudal and county
courts. Jury trials were initiated to end the old Germanic trials by
ordeal or battle. Henry's systematic approach to law provided a
common basis for development of royal institutions throughout the
entire realm. The process of strengthening the royal courts,
however, yielded an unexpected controversy. The church courts
instituted by William the Conqueror became a safe haven for
criminals of varying degree and ability, for one in fifty of the
English population qualified as clerics. Henry wished to transfer
sentencing in such cases to the royal courts, as church courts
merely demoted clerics to laymen. Thomas Beckett, Henry's close
friend and chancellor since 1155, was named Archbishop of Canterbury
in June 1162 but distanced himself from Henry and vehemently opposed
the weakening of church courts. Beckett fled England in 1164, but
through the intervention of Pope Adrian IV (the lone English pope),
returned in 1170. He greatly angered Henry by opposing the
coronation of Prince Henry. Exasperated, Henry hastily and publicly
conveyed his desire to be rid of the contentious Archbishop - four
ambitious knights took the king at his word and murdered Beckett in
his own cathedral on December 29, 1170. Henry endured a rather
limited storm of protest over the incident and the controversy
passed.
Henry's plans of dividing his myriad lands and titles evoked
treachery from his sons. At the encouragement - and sometimes
because of the treatment - of their mother, they rebelled against
their father several times, often with Louis VII of France as their
accomplice. The deaths of Henry the Young King in 1183 and Geoffrey
in 1186 gave no respite from his children's rebellious nature;
Richard, with the assistance of Philip II Augustus of France,
attacked and defeated Henry on July 4, 1189 and forced him to accept
a humiliating peace. Henry II died two days later, on July 6, 1189.
A few quotes from historic manuscripts shed a unique light on Henry,
Eleanor.
From Sir Winston Churchill Kt, 1675: "Henry II Plantagenet, the very
first of that name and race, and the very greatest King that England
ever knew, but withal the most unfortunate . . . his death being
imputed to those only to whom himself had given life, his ungracious
sons. . .
From Sir Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England:
Concerning endowments of mind, he was of a spirit in the highest
degree generous . . . His custom was to be always in action; for
which cause, if he had no real wars, he would have feigned . . . To
his children he was both indulgent and hard; for out of indulgence
he caused his son Henry to be crowned King in his own time; and out
of hardness he caused his younger sons to rebel against him . . . He
married Eleanor, daughter of William Duke of Guienne, late wife of
Lewis the Seventh of France. Some say King Lewis carried her into
the Holy Land, where she carried herself not very holily, but led a
licentious life; and, which is the worst kind of licentiousness, in
carnal familiarity with a Turk. "King Henry II Plantagenet, had many
illegitimate children one of which was William de Longespee.
More About King Henry II Plantagenet:
Notes for Eleanor of Aquitaine:
aka;
Rosamond De Clifford
More About Eleanor of
Aquitaine:
Burial:
Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou
Children of King Henry
II, Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine are:
3 i.
Eleanor 7. She married Alphonse IX.
4 ii. William, born Abt. 1153; died
Abt. 1157.
5 iii. Henry, born February 28, 1154/55;
died July 11, 1183.
6 iv. Richard, born Abt. 1157. He married
Perengaria May 12, 1191.
Notes for Richard:
Reigned as King of England from 1189 to 1199. He was the most
prominent leader on the Third Crusade to regain Jerusalem for the
Christians from the Mohammedans. He had greater military genius, but
less statesmanship than his father. His great power was in his
physical and mental capacity as a soldier, and in his strenuous and
irrepressible courage. Richard was proud, cruel and treacherous. He
left the government of England in the hands of his Justiciars, and
was in his English Kingdom but twice in his reign of ten years; four
months at the time of his coronation, and two months, five years
later. The Third Crusade was a failure. Richard fell out with the
French King, and refused to marry his sister Alice, to whom he had
been betrothed since early childhood, but on 12 May 1191, he married
Perengaria of Navarre. HE DIED WITHOUT ISSUE.
+ 7 v. Geoffrey, born Abt. 1160.
+ 8 vi. King John, Lackland, born December 24, 1166 in Beaumont
Palace,
Oxford, England; died October 19, 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark,
Nottinghamshire, England.
Child of King Henry II, Plantagenet and Ida is:
+ 9 i. William De7 Longespee, born 1173 in England; died March 07,
1225/26 in Salisbury, Wilts, England.
Generation No. 3
7. Geoffrey7
(King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey
II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born Abt. 1160.
Child of Geoffrey Plantagenet is:
10 i. Aurthur8, born
Abt. 1185; died 1203.
8. King7 John, Lackland
(King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey
II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born December 24, 1166 in
Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England, and died October 19, 1216 in
Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. He married Isabell
August 24, 1200 in Bordeaux, daughter of Aymer de Tallifer and
Alice. She was born Abt. 1188 in Angouleme, and died May 31, 1246 in
Fontevraud.
Notes for King John, Lackland:
KING JOHN, LACKLAND, the fifth son of Henry II and Eleanor of
Aquitaine, born at Oxford, 24 Dec. 1166, died at Newark Castle,
Notts, 19 Oct. 1216, married, first on 29 August 1189, Isabel,
daughter of William, Earl of Gloucester; married, second, in 1200,
Isabel, daughter of Aymer de Taillefer, the Swordsmith. She was the
mother of all his children. John S. Wurts, in his Magna Charta,
pages 6 to 17, inclusive. Page 6; "In case we have forgotten our
English History, let us be reminded that King John was a horrid
person, an arbitrary and mercenary ruler, who threw people into
dungeons at the drop of a hat; married off wards of the crown, young
widows and pretty girls, to foreign adventurers and then collected a
nice percentage of the ward's fortunes from their husbands....... he
greatly increased the royal taxes and replenished his exchequer with
the confiscated property of the clergy". Shortly after he became
King, he quarreled with the Pope, who deposed him and proclaimed him
no longer King. John ignored the deposing, and made a gift to the
Pope of all the realm, crown and revenue, by written indenture,
dated Monday, 13 May 1213. John then received the crown back as the
Pope's tenant and vassal, at a rental of a thousand marks for the
whole kingdom, 700 for England and 300 for Ireland.
Under this condition the Barons of England were only yeoman, or
free-holders, or copy-holders of King John, the free-holder of the
Pope, and tiring of John's tyranny, they called a conference, and
one, after King John had left the Abbey at Saint-Edmundsbury (where
he had been asked to attend the conference, which had been called by
Stephen Langston, Archbishop of Canterbury), at which meeting
nothing was accomplished, the barons took a solemn oath on the high
altar, that they would stand united until they could compel the King
to confirm their liberties, or they would wage war against him to
the death. They did wage war, "a holy crusade against John to
recover the liberties their forefathers had enjoyed". Virtually
powerless, and with nearly his whole Baronage and the majority of
his subjects of all degrees in arms against him, he finally called
his Barons to a conference. They said, "let the day be the 15th of
June and the place Runnemede". (which is in sight of Windsor Castle,
and was used as "the field of council").
In this way was brought about the GREATEST EVENT OF KING JOHN'S
REIGN, the veritable wresting from him of MAGNA CARTA, granting
rights to the people of his realm, "an expression in written words
of the principles of human life", which had been either grossly
neglected or altogether forgotten by the King. Section 61 of the
Chart authorized the election of twenty five Surety Barons, who
would see that the previsions of the Charter were carried into
effect. Their names are not recorded in the Magna Charta, "but we
learn them from Matthew Paris' "Chronilca Majora"."
These Barons were astonishingly inter-related. Among them were
several instances of father and son, of father-in-law and
son-in-law, of brothers and cousins. Twenty of the twenty five were
related in the degree of second cousin, or nearer. Of these twenty
five, only seventeen have descendants surviving to the present day.
They had a common descent from Charlemagne. On the 15th day of June,
1215, more than two thousand Knights and Barons were encamped on the
field of Runnemede to await the coming of King John and secure from
him the rights of the people of England, although John had
previously sworn by "God's teeth", his favorite oath, that he would
never agree to such demands or any part of them. (Runnemede was the
"ancient meadow of council", and is within sight of Windsor Castle.
For ages, this had been crown land and rented for pasturage. When it
was proposed a few years ago ((from Crown Edition of Magna Carta,
Reprint 1945)), to sell the field of Runnemede to the highest
bidder, a great outcry arose. (The former Cara Rogers, now Lady
Fairhaven, an American girl, a member of the 'Magna Carta Dames',
bought and presented to the British people the field of Runnemede,
as a memorial to her husband, to be kept for all time as a sacred,
historic spot).
On 15 June 1215, before the day passed, the King affixed his seal to
the original, but preliminary draft known as the "Articles of the
Barons", which contained forty nine articles, setting forth the
principles of the Charter. The exact terms of the Charter were
decided upon during the four days that followed. On the 19th of June
1215, the great seal was affixed, presumably to twenty five
duplicate copies, perhaps one for each of the twenty five Surety
Barons, who were to see that King John kept his promises. Neither
the King, the Barons, nor the Knights could read or write, except a
few, but a scholar, who was the Secretary of the Baron of Kendal,
had accompanied him to Runnemede.
DESCENT OF ISAREL DE TAILLEFUR, second Wife of KING
JOHN OF ENGLAND from CHARLEMAGNE:
More About King John, Lackland:
Burial: Worcester, Cathedral
Notes for Isabell:
She was the mother of all his children. John S. Wurts, in his Magna
Charta,
pages 6 to 17, inclusive.
More About Isabell:
Burial: Fontevraud Abbey
Child of King John and Isabell is:
+ 11 i. King8 Henry III, born October 01, 1207 in Winchester,
England;
died November 16, 1272 in Westminster, Palace, London, England.
9. William De7 Longespee (King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5,
Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was
born 1173 in England, and died March 07, 1225/26 in Salisbury,
Wilts, England. He married Ela Fitzpatrick. She was born 1191 in
Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, and died August 24, 1261 in Lacock,
Wiltshire, England.
Notes for William De Longespee: According to Gary Boyd Roberts'
'Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants...' pp. 345 -347, the mother of
William LONGESPEE (natural son of King Henry II of England) was Ida,
who married Roger BIGOD, 2nd Earl of Norfolk. One source of this is
evidently a charter of William LONGSWORD published in the 'Cartulary
of Bradenstoke Priory' ed. Vera C. M. Longdon, in which Countess Ida
is explicitly named as his mother. The fact that William named a
daughter Ida does lend credence to this, of course.
Child of William Longespee and Ela Fitzpatrick is:
+ 12 i. Stephen De8 Longespee, born Abt. 1216 in Sutton,,co.
Northampton, England; died 1260 in Sutton,,co. Northampton,England.
Generation No. 4
11. King8 Henry III (King7 John, Lackland, King Henry II6
Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais,
Geoffrey I de1) was born October 01, 1207 in Winchester, England,
and died November 16, 1272 in Westminster, Palace, London, England.
He married Queen Eleanor of Provence January 04, 1235/36 in England.
She was born Abt. 1217 in Aix-en-Provence, and died June 24, 1291 in
Amesbury, Wiltshire.
Notes for King Henry III:
Brother of King Richard. King of England. He was crowned king 28
Oct. 1216, when
only nine years of age. On 14 January 1236, he married Eleanor of
Provence. A Plantagenet King; House of Anjou.
More About King Henry III:
Burial: Westminster, Abbey, London, England
Notes for Queen Eleanor of Provence:
Queen Eleanor took the veil at Ambresbury in Wiltshire, and died
there 24 June 1291. Their elder sons, John and Henry died young.
QUEEN ELEANOR'S GENEALOGY
(1) CLOVIS, King of the
Franks, married Clothilde, his son; (2) Clothaire I, born 497, died
561, married Ingolde, their son; (3) Chilperice I, born 523, died
584, married Fredegonde, born 543, died 598, his son; (4) Clothaire
II, born 584, died 628, married Bertrude, who died 618, his son; (5)
Claribert II, born 608, died 631, married Gisela, daughter of Arnoud,
of Gascony, his son; (6) Boggis, Duke of Aquitaine, died 688,
married Oda, his son; (7) Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine, married Valtrude,
daughter of Valtrude and her husband, Walchigise, Count of Verdon,
son of St. Arnolph, Bishop of Metz and his wife, Dodo, his son; (8)
Hunold, Duke of Aquitaine, died 774, his son; (9) Waifir, Duke of
Aquitaine, died 768, married his cousin, Adele, daughter of Loup I,
Duke of Gascony, his son; (10) Loup II, Duke of Gascony, died 778,
his son; (11) Adelrico, Duke of Gascony, died 812, his son; (12)
Ximeno, Duke of Gascony, died 816, married Munia, his son; (13)
Inigo Arista, first King of Navarre married Iniga Ximena, his son;
(14) Careia II, of Navarre, married Urracca of Gascony, daughter of
a cousin, Sancho II, his son; (15) Sancho I, became King of Navarre
in 905, married his cousin Toda, daughter of Aznzr Galindez, Count
of Aragon, his son; (16) Garcia III, became king in 921, died 970,
married Teresa Iniquez of Aragon, and had (17) Sancho II Abarca,
died 994. He married Urracca Clara, daughter of Fortuna Ximenez, of
Navarre, his second cousin, his son; (18) Garcia V, King of Navarre,
died 999, married Ximena, daughter of Consslo, Count of Asturias and
his wife, Teresa. They were the parents of the earlier of the two
kings, both called Sancho III, this one; (19) Sancho III King of
Navarre from 1000 to 1035, married Munia, daughter of Sancho of
Castile, and thus united the two important Houses of Castile and
Navarre, to which that of Aragon was later added, his son; (20)
Ramirez I, founded the kingdom of Aragon, was killed in battle by
the Moors 8 May 1063. By his wife Gisberge, he had; (21) Sancho-Ramirez,
died 4 June 1094, King of Aragon, married, first, Felice, who died
14 April 1086, daughter of Hildouin, Count of Rouci, his son; (22)
Ramirez II, King of Aragon, married Agnes, daughter of William IX,
Duke of Aquitaine.
His daughter; (23) Petronella was only two years old when her father
abdicated the throne in her favor. He had arranged that Raymund
Berenger V, Count of Barcelona, should govern the realm as Prince of
Aragon, and that he should, at the proper time, marry Petronella.
This was accomplished in accordance with his wish. Petronella died
18 October 1172, their son; (24) Alphonse II, King of Aragon, born
1151, died 25 April 1196, married his cousin Sanchia, who was
descended as follows; KING SANCHO III (Navarre) and his wife Munia,
as stated above, were the parents of (1) Ferdinand I, King of
Castile from 1033 to 1065, died in battle 27 Dec. 1065. In 1035, he
married Sanchia, daughter of Alphonso V, King of Leon, and thus
united the latter kingdom to his own; (2) Alphonso VI, King of
Castile and Leon, married a daughter of Robert, Duke of Burgundy,
his daughter; (3) Urracca, married first, Raimond of Burgundy, who
died in 1108, after which, Urracca married Alphonso I, King of
Aragon. Her only child, son of Raimond, was; (4) Alphonso-Raimond
VII, born 1103, died 1157. By his first wife, Berenguela, he had two
sons, Sancho III (or Alphonso), and Ferdinand II, King of Leon, died
1188. By his second wife, Richilda of Poland, he had; (5) Sanchia,
wife of Alphonso II, King of Aragon, as stated above. Her son; (6)
Alphonso II, King of Provence, who reigned from 1196 to 1209, his
son; (7)
Raimond-Berenger IV, King of Provence, married Beatrice (Beatrix),
daughter of Thomas, Count of Savoy, his daughter; (8) ELEANOR OF
PROVENCE, became the wife of HENRY III KING OF ENGLAND as stated
above.
More About Queen Eleanor of Province:
Burial: Convent Church, Amesbury
Child of King Henry and Queen Province is:
+ 13 i. King9 Edward I, born June 17, 1239 in Westminster, Palace,
London, England; died July 07, 1307 in Near Carlisle, England.
12. Stephen De8 Longespee (William De Longespee7, King Henry II6
Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais,
Geoffrey I de1) was born abt. 1216 in Sutton, Co. Northampton,
England, and died 1260 in Sutton, Co. Northampton, England. He
married Emaline De Ridlelisford, daughter of Walter De Ridlelisford.
Child of Stephen Longespee and Emaline Ridlelisford is:
+ 14 i. Ela9 Longespee, born Abt. 1244.
Generation No. 5
13. King9 Edward I (King8 Henry III, King7 John, Lackland, King
Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2
Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born June 17, 1239 in Westminster,
Palace, London, England, and died July 07, 1307 in Near Carlisle,
England. He married Princess Eleanor of Castile in Las Huelgas,
daughter of King Ferdinand III. She was born abt. 1244 in Castile,
and died November 24, 1290 in Herdeby, Near Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Notes for King Edward I:
EDWARD I, KING OF ENGLAND, (called Longshanks), Earl of Chester,
born at Westminster 17 June 1239, married Eleanor of Castile. In
1272 he went on a Crusade as far as Acre, where his daughter JOAN
(see later) was born, and although he inherited the crown that year,
he did not return to England until 1274, being crowned on August
19th. He was eminent as a ruler and as a legislator, and succeeded
in enacting many new laws. He determined to authorize no new
legislation without the counsel and acquiescence of those who were
most affected by it. Not until late in his reign did he call a whole
Parliament together. Instead he called the Barons together in any
matter that affected the Barons, and the representatives of the
townsmen together in any matter that affected the townsmen, and so
with other classes. Edward's first wife, ELEANOR OF CASTILE, whom he
married in 1254, died 20 Nov. 1290. Reign: 1272-1307; Of the
Plantagenets, House of Anjou. In 1270 Edward left England to join
the Seventh Crusade. The first years of Edward's reign were a period
of the consolidation of his power. He suppressed corruption in the
administration of justice, restricted the jurisdiction of the
ecclesiastical courts to church affairs, and eliminated the papacy's
overlordship over England. In 1290 Edward expelled all Jews from
England. In 1296, after invading and conquering Scotland, he
declared himself king of that realm. The conquest of Scotland became
the ruling passion of his life. He was, however, compelled by the
nobles, clergy and commons to desist in his attempts to raise by
arbitrary taxes the funds he needed for campaigns. In 1307 Edward
set out for the third time (at age 68) to subdue the Scots, but he
died en route near Carlisle on 7 Jul 1307.
More About King Edward I:
Burial: Westminster, Abbey, London, England
Notes for Princess Eleanor of Castile:
Of Castile and Leon Spain. Eleanor was only about ten years old when
married to the 15 year old Edward of Westminster at Las Huelgas in
1254. Such child marriages were commonplace in Europe in the Middle
Ages and the brides were usually consigned to their husbands'
families to complete their education. The marriages were not
consummated until the bride reached a suitable age (usually 14 or
15) and in Eleanor's case it seems to have been 18 or 19.
More About Princess Eleanor of Castile:
Burial: Westminster, Abbey, London, England
Children of King Edward and Princess Eleanor of Castile are:
+ 15 i. Edward10 II, born April 25, 1284 in Caernarvon, Castle,
Wales;
died September 21, 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
+ 16 ii. Princess Joan Plantagenet, born 1272; died 1305.
14. Ela9 Longespee (Stephen De Longespee8, William De Longespee7,
King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey
II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born abt. 1244. She married
Roger La Zouche, son of Alan Zouche and
Helen Quincy. He was born abt. 1242.
Child of Ela Longespee and Roger Zouche is:
+ 17 i. Alan De La10 Zouche, born abt. 1263; died March 25, 1314 in
Brackley, England.
(Mary)
Generation No. 6
15. Edward10 II (King9, King8 Henry III, King7 John, Lackland, King
Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2
Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born April 25, 1284 in Caernarvon,
Castle, Wales, and died September 21, 1327 in Berkeley Castle,
Gloucestershire. He married Isabella January 28, 1307/08 in Boulogne.
She was born 1292 in Paris, and died August 22, 1358 in Castle
Rising, Norfolk, England.
Notes for Edward II:
Edward was the first heir apparent in English history to be
proclaimed Prince of Wales. He was a Plantagenet King of England
(the House of Anjou) whose incompetence and distaste for government
finally led to his deposition and murder. In January 1327,
Parliament forced Edward to resign and proclaimed the Prince of
Wales king as Edward III. On September 21 of that year Edward II was
murdered by his captors at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
More About Edward II:
Burial: Gloucester, Cathedral
More About Isabella:
Burial: Grey Friars Church, London, England
Child of Edward and Isabella is:
+ 18 i. Edward11 III, born November 13, 1312 in Windsor Castle,
Berkshire, England; died June 21, 1377 in Sheen Palace.
16. Princess Joan10 Plantagenet (King9 Edward I, King8 Henry III,
King7 John, Lackland, King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4
V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born
1272, and died 1305. She married Gilbert de Clare, son of Richard de
Clare and Amicia Muellent. He died 1295 in England.
Notes for Princess Joan Plantagenet:
PRINCESS JOAN OF ACRE, born in 1272, when her father, King
Edward I went on a crusade as far as Acre, where she was born. In
1290, Joan married, as his second wife, Earl Gilbert de Clare, The
"Red Earl", Crusader, Knight, ninth Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford
and Gloucester, born 2 September 1243, died 7 December 1295. The
"Red Earl" was descended from four of the twenty-five Magna Carta
Surety Barons chosen by the Barons and Knights of England as
Sureties to enforce the provisions laid down in the "Articles of the
Barons", (the forerunner of Magna Carta,) which contained the first
constitutional rights ever granted the subjects of a monarch. (No
one signed Magna Carta, as neither King John nor the Barons could
write, and at common law, sealing was sufficient to authenticate any
formal document).
Notes for Gilbert de Clare:
9th Earl of Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, and 3rd Earl of
Gloucester. He was of
Royal descent. The "Red Earl".
Child of Princess Joan Plantagenet and Gilbert de Clare is:
+ 19 i. Lady Margaret11 de Clare, born 1292; died 1342.
(Mildred)
17. Alan De La10 Zouche (Ela9 Longespee, Stephen De Longespee8,
William De Longespee7, King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4
V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born abt
1263, and died March 25, 1314 in Brackley, England. He married
Eleanor Seagrave, daughter of Nicolas Seagrave and Maud Lucy. She
was born in Seagrave, England, and died 1314.
Child of Alan Zouche and Eleanor Seagrave is:
+ 20 i. Maud De La11 Zouche, born 1284 in Ashley, England.
Generation No. 7
18. Edward11 III (Edward10 II, King9, King8 Henry III, King7 John,
Lackland, King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV,
Geoffrey II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born November 13,
1312 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, and died June 21, 1377
in Sheen Palace. He married Philippa January 28, 1327/28 in York
Minster. She was born June 24, 1311 in Valenciennes, and died August
14, 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
More About Edward III:
Burial: Westminster, Abbey, London, England
More About Philippa:
Burial: Westminster, Abbey, London, England
Child of Edward and Philippa is:
+ 21 i. John12, born March 1339/40 in Ghent; died February 03,
1398/99
in Leicester Castle.
19. Lady Margaret11 de Clare (Princess Joan10 Plantagenet, King9
Edward I, King8 Henry III, King7 John, Lackland, King Henry II6
Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais,
Geoffrey I de1) was born 1292, and died 1342. She married Baron d '
Audley.
Notes for Lady Margaret de Clare:
Married, first, Piers de Caveston, who was executed, married
second, Lord Hugh de Audley, Junior, Eight Earl of Gloucester in
1336, Ambassador to France in 1341, Sheriff of Rutland; died on 10
November 1347. By Lady Margaret's second husband, Hugh de Audley,
she had a daughter.
Notes for Baron d ' Audley:
Who was in 1337, Earl of Gloucester.
Child of Lady de Clare and Baron Audley is:
+ 22 i. Lady Margaret d12 'Audley.
20. Maud De La11 Zouche (Alan De La Zouche10, Ela9 Longespee,
Stephen De Longespee8, William De Longespee7, King Henry II6
Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4 V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais,
Geoffrey I de1) was born 1284 in Ashley, England. She married Sir
Robert De Holland. He was born abt. 1280 in Upholland, Lancaster,
England.
Child of Maud Zouche and Sir De Holland is:
+ 23 i. Sir Robert12 Holland, born Abt. 1312 in Lancaster, England.
Generation No. 8
21. John12 (Edward11 III, Edward10 II, King9, King8 Henry III,
King7 John, Lackland, King Henry II6 Plantagenet, Geoffrey5, Fulk4
V, Fulk3 IV, Geoffrey II de2 Castinais, Geoffrey I de1) was born
March 1339/40 in Ghent, and died February 03, 1398/99 in Leicester
Castle. He married Katherine Swynford January 13, 1395/96 in
Lincoln. She was born 1350, and died May 10, 1403 in Lincoln.
Notes for John:
Duke John of Gaunt
His eldest surviving son by his first marriage later became King
Henry IV.
Notes for Katherine Swynford:
Widow of Sir Hugh Swynford and dau. of Sir Payn (Payne) Roet.
She was Hugh Swynford's third wife. Catherine (or Katherine) was
also the sister-in-law of Geoffrey Chaucer. All her issue
legitimated by charter of Richard II, 1397.
Child of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford is:
+ 24 i. John 13, born 1410.
Vere of
Scotland and Eire
Their son John had a daughter - Lady Joan Beaufort - who was the
wife of King James I of Scotland. Their issue King James II married
Lady Mary, the daughter of the Duke de Geldres. They had a son King
James III and a daughter Princess Mary who married Thomas, Lord
Boyd. Their daughter - Lady Mary - married James 1st Lord Hamilton,
whose family were the heirs presumptive to the throne of Scotland.
Their daughter - Lady Euphemia - married the prince James, 7th Baron
Blackwood, de jure the Laird and Clan Chief of the Royal House of
Vere of Great Britain. James and Euphemia had a son- William Vere of
Stonebyers - and a daughter Margaret. From William Vere by Elizabeth
Hamilton - a son Thomas of Kirkton who by the Witch - Lady Jane
Somerville - had Major Thomas Weir of Edinburgh: Sorcerer, King of
the Witches of the Lallan and Elven Prince Consort to the Queen of
Faery or Elphame - or as some say - "The Queen of Hell".
The Somerville Badge was
the Fiery Dragon surmounting the Pentacle. Major Weir served with
his Irish cousins as a Captain Lieutenant in Sir John Hume's
Enniskillen regiment in Ulster in 1640 and by family tradition he
founded the Tyrone Branch of the family. From Major Weir - who was
burnt at the stake in Leith in 1670 - a son Thomas whose issue
decamped to Ireland during the witch craze, from whom John of
Kildress whose son Andrew had a daughter - Margaret Weir of Vere of
Kildress - who by Archibald Thompson had a son Archibald Weir of
Vere. Archibald married Rachael Stewart and had issue. The eldest
son Robert Weir of Vere married a Vere cousin - Sarah Graham - and
had a son John who moved back to Scotland and married Mary Logan of
Logan Manor in Galloway. Mary bore a son Thomas Weir of Vere who
married Anne Grant Macdonnell and had a son James Weir of Vere who
wed a Vere-Collison family cousin Natalie Hopgood and had their
eldest son Nicholas de Vere: By Gaelic Blood Descent the Head of the
Royal House of Vere in England. (See Avallon, Llewelyn, Dragon,
Angiers and Blackwood descents).
Ancient Alchemical Double Dragon
Seal of the Royal House of Vere
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