pages 1-9 pages in ANCIENT ANCESTORS

Part 1 – INTRODUCTION

 

                “Bernard of Chartres (d ca 1130) used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”

John of Salisbury, 1159, who witnessed Thomas à Becket’s murder

 

This compilation is similarly built upon researches of many previous historians and genealogists, providing paths to the most prominent ancient and early medieval families who have putative lines of descent to millions of present day Europeans and Americans. It is mainly based upon the ancestries of the Stuart and earlier British ruling dynasties, to which have been added some other notable families selected to broaden the coverage of other European ancestral lines and prominent historical figures. Some thirty thousand individuals in over three thousand families are mentioned.

As this study progressed it became clear that a fully referenced text would cover several thousand pages and thus have a very limited circulation. The choice was therefore made to provide instead a select bibliography of the most useful and readily available texts in which references can be found to the primary information sources and which may help to connect recent genealogies with the more ancient ancestries listed in the following pages.

While it may now be difficult to extend this network of recorded ancient and medieval family inter-relationships much further backwards, it is quite easy to trace forward most of the families listed in bold capital underlined format (e.g. ABERNETHY - Barons Saltoun) to many of their present day descendants. The author hopes that some will use their personal copies in this way, adding to the printed pages not only such extended entries but also their historical notes, critical commentaries and alternative conclusions. Time and again such hand-written notations in pre-loved second-hand books and occasionally even in library copies have opened up new lines of enquiry in compiling the present work.

The destruction of many British monastic and other religious records stemming from the marital and associated problems of King Henry VIII now makes it difficult for most British family history studies to get back past the late sixteenth century unless they encounter forebears who were substantial landowners or members of the peerage. This has the paradoxical effect that many who can trace even one or more of their British ancestors back to the mid-sixteenth century may then find it relatively easy to discover many lines of putative ancestry extending back another thousand or more years, and probably including many of the earliest ancestral families to be found in this book.

Some major genealogical compilations, such as those of Stokvis (1888-93), Stuart (1992) and Wagner (1975) have been presented as lines of putative direct descent, making it difficult to reassemble the whole family groupings. There has also been a tendency in historical records to whitewash the disreputable affairs of contemporary and powerful local families who might otherwise have forcibly objected, and to this was added a wholesale Bowdlerising of the historical record in many major nineteenth century British and American publications. The present compilation however has no such inhibitions and includes, particularly in the post-Norman conquest families, many off-line siblings, husbands, wives and other lovers who intimately shared the main line ancestors’ ups and downs and who in many cases have also left present day albeit sometimes illegitimate descendants.

The primary records currently available for ancient and early medieval genealogy present many problems for researchers, including their rarity and difficulty of access, the languages in which they were first written requiring highly expert interpretation, the original recording in some cases of events long after they had occurred with reliance upon the transmission of unreliable memorised information, and the ready acceptance by some ancient authors of what in the light of modern and more sceptical historicity may now be regarded as myths.  For example, we would now question the parenting of humans by gods or bears, the deaths of sons a century or more after deaths of their fathers, and very long lines of direct father to eldest son transmission of titles or ownership of estates. And however much genealogists would like to ignore it there must always be some doubt about recorded paternity in the pre-DNA era because women, like hen hedge sparrows, have not always been faithful to their husbands. Nevertheless, while some ancient and medieval genealogy remains highly contentious and is still being raked over in the specialist journals, there remains much ancient family history we can readily accept.

 

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Sir Isaac Newton, 1676. (Could he have read John of Salisbury?)

 


 

Part II – HINTS on USAGE

 

As a companion to studies in history

 

   Texts on ancient and medieval European history tend to refer to individuals who were important in shaping events, while giving minimal if any information on their spouses and others with whom they lived, made love and died. Some of these texts do include a few schematic family trees, almost invariably with simplified formats. The information that can be incorporated in such two-dimensional graphical stemmata is necessarily very restricted and can only rarely convey the complexity of these family inter-relationships.

          The secondary title of the present compilation, A Companion to Studies in European History and Genealogy, indicates how it can be used as a ready reference to flesh out these family details of broader historical interest.

 

Making connections with ancient and medieval ancestors

 

          Of course this is dead easy for those who already have so-called “proven” lines of descent from King CHARLES II of Britain or most of the earlier notable individuals listed in BOLD CAPITALS in Part III of this book; they can simply follow the family relationships shown in Part III to extend their ancestral lines back a thousand years or more. However for most of us plebes the tracks backwards to such auspicious ancestors often peter out before such patrician connections with the medieval period can be established. Those who have studied their European family histories with the help of  their local and national genealogical societies, the Church of Latter Day Saints Family History Centres, public libraries, the internet and other genealogical advisory services will know that baptismal and marriage records were very incomplete prior to national registrations of birth, marriages and deaths, and few such enquirers can now trace their families in this retrospective way back beyond the 17th century unless they find ancestors who were members of the European nobility or other large landholders.

          Ancient Ancestors starts in a different way, identifying as many as possible of the prominent ancient and early medieval Europeans who have putative present day descendants, and then tracing their lineages forward to points where other readily available standard and traditional reference systems can be used, first to narrow and sometimes then to close the gap between the prospective and retrospective studies.  The first step is simply to consult the index in Part V and if any of the family names sought appear there they can be found in Part III and then usually may be followed forward by reference to such standard texts such as those listed in Part IV.  To make connections between these later families and their earliest known ancestors in Part III it is often easiest to work from both ends; for example to follow the Merovingian dynasty forward from the 5th century CE and the later families backwards from recent times until some names are found in common.

          It should be noted that many of the individuals listed in lower-case unbold type also have present day descendants though not confirmed and listed in this compilation.

          For those of British descent whose family names do not appear in the Part V index, a particularly useful source may be “The Norman People” (see Part IV). This will often give connections between current family names and precursors listed under other families or different spellings in Ancient Ancestors.

          In progressively attempting to close the gaps between medieval families and their possible modern day descendants, special attention should be given to location of domicile, the ownership or tenancy of land, and wills for the distribution of property after death. Such information is often much easier to track down by prospective than by retrospective studies.


 

Part III - ANCESTRAL FAMILIES and INTER-RELATIONSHIPS

 

The following abbreviations and printing conventions are used in this Part. Except where otherwise noted, all the individuals shown in BOLD CAPITALS are thought to have present day descendants; b = born; d = died; jure uxoris = acquired in right of his wife (although in some cases the title had to be confirmed by the relevant monarch); dsp = decessit sine prole (died childless): dvp = decessit vita patris (died during lifetime of father); ca = at about the time; m = married; dau = daughter; a date such as (1302-1325) = period of rule or exercise of a title; text in italics = notes about uncertainties in families’ structures.

 In some families the correct orders of children’s births have not been determined with certainty, and in many of the families only those children with listed descendants are shown. It should be noted that the dates given by different authoritative sources for medieval births, marriages, deaths and the holdings of particular titles sometimes varied by a year or more. In some cases this was due to the common use of dates based on regnal rather than calendar years.

There were often several different spellings for specific names of people and places, and in addition an individual might be known under different given names. Thus in medieval times the first or given names of men and women were sometimes changed during life, commonly for example from Margaret to Maud; and children sometimes acquired new family names, not only through marriage, but also patronimically or perhaps reflecting their physical and behavioural characteristics, their titles, their occupations, or places where they were born or their parents had land. Thus it may sometimes be difficult at first glance to recognise that two or more apparently different names may refer to a single individual. This compilation has not attempted to force any spurious uniformity for names and follows the often variable spellings given in the primary and secondary sources consulted.

 

AACHEN - Comtes 

 

ARNOUL III, Comte de Chaumontois, d 820, (see under Chaumontois for ancestors)

son, Comte de Saônnois 

      VOIRY

 

VOIRY (WIGERIC), Comte Palatine d’Aachen & Comte d’Ardennes & Comte Palatine d’Aix-la-Chapelle, Count of Triesgau & Ardennesgau, 2ndly m KUNIGUNDE, dau of ERMENTRUDE dau of King LOUIS II “the Stammerer (see under Carolingian dynasty for ancestors)

SIEGFRIED, Comte de Luxemburg & Moselgau (see under Luxemburg for descendants)

                FREDERICK I, Comte de Bar & Duc de Lorraine (see under Lorraine for descendants)

                Adalberon, Bishop of Metz, d 964

                LUITGARD, m EBERHARD III, Count of Lahngau (see under Lahngau for descendants)

                GOZELIN, Count of Bidgau (see under Bidgau for descendants)

               

ABERNETHY - Barons Saltoun  

 

EDELRAD, Earl of Fife & Abbot of Dunkeld, son of King MALCOLM III (see under Scotland, Kings, for ancestors)

                GILLEMICHEL MacDUFF

 

GILLEMICHEL MacDUFF, Earl of Fife, d ca 1133-6

                EOGHIN (HUGH)

 

EOGHIN (HUGH), Abbot of Abernethy

                ORM

 

ORM, had a charter as Feudal Abbot and Lord of Abernethy 1172/3 XE "Abernethy - Lords of"

                LAURENCE

 

LAURENCE, hereditary Abbot of Abernethy, m DEVORGULLE

                Patrick

                HUGH ABERNETHY of that Ilk, d ca 1292, m as 3rd husband of  MARY, dau of EWEN of Argyle and widow 1stly of MAGNUS, King of the Isle of Man and 2ndly of MALISE, 5th Earl of Strathearn  (she 4thly m as 2nd wife of William FitzWarin)

                                ALEXANDER ABERNETHY of that Ilk, d 1315-17

                                                MARGARET, m JOHN STEWART, 1st Earl of Angus

                               MARY, 1stly m in 1313 Sir ANDREW de LESLIE (see under Leslie for descendants); she 2ndly m Sir DAVID de LINDSAY of Crawford (see under Lindsay

                                     for  descendants)

                     WILLIAM

 

WILLIAM ABERNETHY, 1st Laird of Saltoun, d by 1290, m MARGARET

                WILLIAM

 

WILLIAM ABERNETHY, 2nd Laird of Saltoun

                WILLIAM

 

WILLIAM ABERNETHY, 3rd Laird of Saltoun, killed at Battle of Halidon Hill 1333

                son 1

                GEORGE

 

GEORGE ABERNETHY, 4th Laird of Saltoun, m ALICIA WISHART 

                GEORGE

 

GEORGE ABERNETHY, 5th Laird of Saltoun, killed at Battle of Otterburn 1388

                WILLIAM

 

WILLIAM ABERNETHY, 6th Laird of Saltoun, d 1420, m 2nd dau of ROBERT STEWART,1st Duke of Albany (see under Fife, Earls, for ancestors)

                WILLIAM

 

WILLIAM ABERNETHY, killed 1411 at Battle of Harlaw, m MARGARET, dau of Sir WILLIAM BORTHWICK (see under Borthwick for ancestors)

                William, 7th Laird of Saltoun, dsp

                LAURENCE

 

LAURENCE ABERNETHY, d 1460/1, 1445 created 1st Lord Saltoun of Abernethy, m MARGARET

                William, 2nd Lord Saltoun, killed 1488, 1stly m  anon

                                dau 1, m Walter Ogston of that Ilk

                                Christian, m Sir John Wemyss of that Ilk

                   William, 2ndly m Isabella Borthwick

                 JAMES

                 George

                 Archibald             

                 + 2 daus

 

JAMES ABERNETHY, 3rd Lord Saltoun, d 1504/5,

                ALEXANDER, ancestor of subsequent Lords Saltoun

                Margaret, m James Stirling of Craigbernard 

                JANET, m ALEXANDER OGILVY of Deskford and Findlater (see under Ogilvy for descendants)

                Elizabeth, m Alexander Hay of Delgaty and Ardendraught

                Helen, m Thomas Urquhart of Fischerie

   

ABRINCIS - Earls of Chester

 

RICHARD (Goz) d’AVRANCHES, (see under Avranches for ancestors) m EMMA de CONTEVILLE, half-sister of King WILLIAM I (see under Conteville for ancestors)

                HUGH d’AVRANCHES

                MAUD (Margaret), co-heir of her brother, m RANULPH Vicomte de Bayeux  

                                RALPH de MESCHINES (see under Meschines for descendants)

                                Helisende  who was 2nd wife of WILLIAM, Comte d’EU

                JUDITH, m RICHARD de l’Aigle (see under L'Aigle for descendants)

                GEVA, m GEOFFREY RIDEL, drowned in the White Ship disaster 1120, Lord of Witheringe, a  Baron of the Exchequer under King HENRY I, (see under Ridel for

                     descendants)  

 

HUGH d’AVRANCHES, “le Gros”(became so fat he could barely crawl), (orLupus” for his voracity), a companion of the Conqueror, d 1101, made Earl of Chester following the detention and death in 1071 of the 1st Earl Gherbod, a Fleming from the Abbey of St. Bertin XE "Companions of William the Conqueror" , m ERMENTRUDE, dau of HUGUES, Comte de Clermont, Comte de Bevois (see under Clermont for ancestors)

                Richard de Abrincis, his only legitimate son, succeeded to Earldom of Chester at age of 8. He m  Maud, dau of  STEPHEN, Comte de Blois by ADELA, dau of WILLIAM

                     the Conqueror.

                                Richard d in the White Ship disaster having no sons, but a dau m William FitzOsborne (see under  Tyson for  ancestors) and the title passed to RALPH de MESCHINES

                MAUD, m HAROLD de EWYAS, son of RALPH, Earl of Hereford (see under Ewyas for  descendants)

HUGH also had illegitimate children

                OTTIWELL (OTUEL), tutor to the children of King HENRY I, died in the White Ship disaster, m as 2nd husband of MARGARET, only dau and heiress of EUDO de

                     RIE, Daptifer of Colchester,,  a companion of the Conqueror, (see under Rie for ancestors)

                             William

                Robert, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds

                WILLIAM de ABRINCIS

 

WILLIAM de ABRINCIS

                LUCIA, m as 2nd husband of AUBREY de VERE, Earl of Ghisnes and 1st Earl of Oxford (see under Vere for descendants)

 

AGILOLFING DYNASTY  

 

THEODON I, lived between 420-511, Duke of Lower Bavaria

                THEODON II, Duke of Lower Bavaria, d 537

                                Theodon III, Duke of Lower Bavaria, d 565

                THEOBALDO I, Duke of Lower Bavaria, d 567

                                THEODEBERT, Duke of Lower Bavaria, d 584

……………………………………………………………………………………………..                                     

AGILULF, the Bavarian, b 470, m in 490 a sister of CHILDERIC (CLODERIC), King of the Franks (see under Merovingian dynasty for ancestors)

                GARIBALDO I

 

GARIBALDO I, Duke of Bavaria (560-90), m WALDERADA, dau of WACHO, King of the Lombards (see under Lombards for ancestors)

                THEODELINDA, Queen of the Lombards (see under Lombards for descendants)

                TASSILO I, Duke of Bavaria (590-610)

                                GARIBALDO II, Duke of Bavaria (610-40)

 

AGUILLON 

 

ROBERT AGUILLON, m AGATHA dau of FULK de BEAUFFOU of Norfolk

                JOAN, m RALPH FitzBERNARD (see under FitzBernard for descendants)

 

AILECH - Kings (See mainly under O’Neill) 

 

AINCOURT (See under Deincourt)

 

 

 ALAMANS - Dukes

 

GODFRED, Duke of the Alamans, d 660

                THEUTBOLD

 

THEUTBOLD, d 710

                NEBI

 

NEBI, d 724

                EMMA, d 798, m GEROLD of Calw (see under Calw for descendants), son of ERLAFRIED I,     parents of HILDEGARDE who m as 2nd  wife of

                     CHARLEMAGNE (see under Carolingian  dynasty for descendants)

 

ALBERMARLE - Earls (See also under Fortibus)

 

ALBINI (d'AUBIGNY) - Earls of Arundel

 

ROGER de St. Sauveur (see under St. Sauveur for ancestors)

                NIEL II

 

NIEL II de St. Sauveur, d 1045

                NIEL III

                RICHARD de St. Sauveur (see under La Haie for descendants)

 

NIEL III de St. Sauveur, m ADELA dau of GEOFFREY d’Eu (see under Eu for ancestors)

                GUILLAUME (WILLIAM) d’ALBINI

                dau, m WILLIAM FREHELANDUS (see under Ridel for descendants)

 

GUILLAUME (WILLIAM) d’ALBINI accompanied the Conqueror to England, Butler to the King, m dau of GRIMOLT de Plessis (Plessetis)

                ROGER de ALBINI

                OLIVIA, m RALPH de la HAYE (see under La Haie for descendants)

                Nigil, Lord of Cainhoe

                Richard, Abbot of St Albans 1097-1119

 

ROGER de ALBINI, d 1138, m AVICIA de Mowbray, dau of Seigneur de Mowbray and sister of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland (see under Mowbray for ancestors)

                WILLIAM de ALBINI

                Nigil de Albini, d 1129, m MATILDA de l’AIGLE widow of ROBERT MOWBRAY (see under  L'Aigle for her ancestors and under Mowbray for her descendants)

                Oliver

 

WILLIAM de ALBINI, surnamed Pincerna, d 1139,  m MAUD (MATILDA), dau of ROGER BIGOD (see under Bigod for ancestors)

                WILLIAM de ALBINI

                Nigel

                Oliver

                OLIVA, m RALPHE de HAYE, a feudal baron of great power (see under La Haie for descendants)

                Adelise, m Jean, Comte d’Eu, Lord of Hastings

 

WILLIAM de ALBINI, d 1176, made Earl of Arundel 1141 in recognition of his glorious exploit when set up against a tiger by  Queen ELEANOR (d’Aquitaine) of France (who later m King HENRY II of England). He m in 1136 Queen ADELIZA, widow of King HENRY I, dau of GODFREY, Duke of Lower Lorraine (see under Lower Lorraine, Dukes, for ancestors)

                WILLIAM de ALBINI, 2nd Earl

           Ralph (Reyner) Aubigny, m as 3rd husband of SIBYL de VALOGNES, widow of  ROBERT de  ROS and WILLIAM de PERCY

                Henry

                Godfrey

                AGNES (ALICE), m WILLIAM de MOWBRAY (see under Mowbray for descendants)

                Olivia

                Agatha

 

WILLIAM de ALBINI, 2nd Earl, d 1193, also given Earldom of Sussex by King HENRY II, m MABILL, dau of HUGH de MESCHINES, 3rd Earl of Chester (see under Meschines for ancestors)

                WILLIAM de ALBINI

 

WILLIAM de ALBINI, 3rd Earl, one of the Barons named in the Magna Carta, d 1221 on Crusade, m MAUD, dau and heiress of JAMES de St. HILLARY and widow of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford (see under St. Hillary for ancestors)

                William, Lord of Belvoir Castle, his successor and a guarantor of the Magna Carta, dsp 1224

                Hugh, succeeded his brother, m Isabel, dau of WILLIAM de WARRENNE, but dsp 1243

                Mabel, m Sir Robert de Tateschal

                ISABEL, m 1stly JOHN FITZ-ALAN, Baron of Clun and Oswestry (see under FitzAlans for  descendants); and then m 2ndly ROBERT de ROS (see under Ros for

                     descendants)

                NICOLA, m ROGER de SOMERIE (see under Somerie for descendants)

                Cecilia, m Roger de Montalt

 

ALBON - Comtes 

 

ROSTAING I, Seigneur in the southern Viennois, b ca 800, d 844, m SUFFICIA

                ROSTAING IIxe "Annonay - Seigneurs"

 

ROSTAING II, Seigneur d’Annonay, b ca 838, m BERTHILDE

                GUIGO I

 

GUIGO I, Seigneur d’Annonay, d 940, m GALMODA

                GUIGO II

 

GUIGO II, Seigneur de Vion, b 885/95, d ca 960, m 1stly WANDELMODIS, dau of HUMBERT I, Seigneur de Salins (see under Salins for ancestors)

                GUIGO IIIxe "Vion - Seigneurs"

 

GUIGO III, Seigneur de Vion, d 996, m FREDEBURGA, dau of RICHARD, Prince of Provence (see under Vienne for ancestors)

                GUIGO IV

 

GUIGO IV, Comte d’Albon, d 1030, m GOTHELINE, dau of SILVION, Seigneur de Clerieu and his wife WILLA

                GUIGO V

 

GUIGO V “le Vieil”, Comte d’Albon & Grenoble, d 1063, m as 1st husband of ADELAIDE, dau of OTTO, Comte de Maurienne (see under Savoie and Maurienne for ancestors)

                GUIGO VI

                Humbert

 

GUIGO VI, “le Gros”, Comte d’Albon & Grenoble, m in 1050 PETRONILLE of Turin, dau of ARTAUD, Seigneur d’Annonay and his wife PETRONILLE of Grenoble

                GUIGO VII

GUIGO VI 2ndly m Agnes, dau of RAMÓN BERENGER I, Conde de Barcelona

 

GUIGO VII, Comte d’Albon & Grenoble, d 1125, m 2ndly MATILDE, dau of EADGAR “the Exile” (see under England, Kings, for ancestors)

                GUIGO VIII

                MATILDA, m AMADEO III, Comte de Maurienne (see under Savoie for descendants)

                GERSENDE, m GUILLAUME III, Comte de Forcalquier (see under Forcalquier for  descendants)

 

GUIGO VIII, Comte d’Albon, d 1147, m MARGUERITE, dau of ÉTIENNE I, Comte de Mâcon (see under Mâcon for ancestors)

                GUIGO IX, 1st Comte de Viennois (see under Viennois for descendants)

 

ALBRET - Seigneurs & Ducs

 

XIMENÈS, Seigneur d’Albret, d 830

                IÑIGO, Seigneur d’Albret, d 868

                                GARCÍAS, Seigneur d’Albret, d 888

                                                VEREMOND, Seigneur d’Albret, d 900

                                                                AZENAIRE, Seigneur d’Albret, d 955

                                                                                FORTUN, Seigneur d’Albret, d 985

                                                                                                BÉRARD, Seigneur d’Albret, d 995

                                                                                                                Guitard, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1003

                                                                                                                Arnaud, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1055

                                                                                                                AMANIEU I, Seigneur d’Albret

 

AMANIEU I, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1060

                AMANIEU II, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1100

                                AMANIEU III, Seigneur d’Albret

                                                BERNARD, Seigneur d’Albret

                                                                AMANIEU IV, Seigneur d’Albret

                                                                                AMANIEU V, Seigneur d’Albret, d ca 1255

                                                                                                AMANIEU VI

 

AMANIEU VI, Seigneur d’Albret

                Bernard-Ezi I, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1281

                                Mathe, Seigneur d’Albret, d ca 1295

                                Isabelle, Madame d’Albret, d 1298

                AMANIEU VII, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1324

                                BERNARD-EZI II, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1358

                                                ARNAUD, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1401

                                                                CHARLES I, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1415

                                                                                CHARLES II, Seigneur d’Albret, d 1471

                                                                                                JEAN

                                                                                                                ALAIN

                                                                                                Gilles, Seigneur de Castelmoron

                                                                                                Arnaud-Amanieu, Seigneur d’Orval

 

ALAIN “le Grand”, Seigneur d’Albret, Comte de Limoges, d 1522, m FRANÇOISE de Limoges

                JEAN d’Albret, Comte de Foix, King of Navarre (1483-1516), m CATHERINE of Navarre (see  under Navarre for ancestors)

                                HENRI I, Duc d’Albret, Comte d’Armagnac, King of Navarre (see under Navarre for  descendants)

                               

ALENÇON and PONTHIEU - Seigneurs, Comtes, Ducs

 

FULK, Comte de Corbonais, m ROLAIS

                IVRES I

 

IVRES I de Bellême, m GODCHILDE

                GUILLAUME I

 

GUILLAUME I, 1st Comte d’Alençon, m MAUD

                GUILLAUME II

                WARINE d’Alençon, m MELESINDE dau of GEOFFROY II de Dunois and had a son

                                GEOFFROY I, Vicomte de Châteaudun (see under Châteaudun for descendants)

 

GUILLAUME II, 2nd Comte d’Alençon, d 1048, m HILDEBURGE, dau of ARNOUL

                MABEL, m ROGER de MONTGOMERY, Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel (see under  Montgomery and Ponthieu for descendants)

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ANGILBERT, d 814, m BERTHA, dau of CHARLEMAGNE (see under Carolingian dynasty for ancestors)

                NITHARD “the Chronicler”, d 853

 

NITHARD “the Chronicler”

                HELIGAUD I

 

HELIGAUD I, d ca 866

                HERLOUIN I

 

HERLOUIN I, d 878

                HELIGAUD II

 

HELIGAUD II, Comte de Montreuil, d 926

                HERLOUIN II

 

HERLOUIN II, Comte de Ponthieu & Amiens, killed 945

                ROGER

 

ROGER, d 957

                GUILLAUME I

                HUGUES, d 961 (see under Ponthieu for descendants)

 

GUILLAUME I, d 965

                HILDOUIN

                ERNICULE, Comte de Boulogne (see under Boulogne for descendants)

 

HILDOUIN

                HUGUES I

 

HUGUES I, Comte de Ponthieu, m GISELE, dau of HUGH CAPET (see under France, Capetian dynasty, for ancestors)

                ENGUERRAND I

 

ENGUERRAND I, Comte de Ponthieu, d 1046, m ADÉLE of HOLLAND

                Enguerrand II, Comte de Ponthieu, m ADELAIDE, dau of Duke ROBERT I of Normandy

                HUGUES II

 

HUGUES II, Comte de Ponthieu, d 1052, m BERTA d’Aumâle (see under Aumâle for ancestors)

                GUY I

 

GUY I, Comte de Ponthieu, d 1101, m ADA

                AGNES de PONTHIEU, m ROBERT II de Bellême, Earl of Shrewsbury, Comte d’Alençon (see  under Bellême and Montgomery for descendants)

                GUILLAUME III

 

GUILLAUME III, Comte d’Alençon & Ponthieu, d 1192, m ALICE of Bourgogne, dau of EUDES I of Bourgogne (see under Bourgogne for ancestors) and MAUD de Bourge (see under Rethel for ancestors) 

                MARIE, Comtesse de Ponthieu, m SIMON de DAMMARTIN. Their dau JOANNE de  Dammartin (see under Dammartin for ancestors) m King FERNANDO III

                     of Castile under Spain, Kings for descendants)

                GUY II

                CLEMENCE m JUHEL II de Mayenne (see under Mayenne for descendants)

                ELA, m 1stly WILLIAM de WARRENNE (see under Warrenne for descendants). She 2ndly m  PATRICK D’ÉVEREUX, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (see under D’Évereux

                     for descendants and for further info on ELA)

 

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