Our common family treeThese are the families that both my wife and I descend from.How to read my narrative family trees: The format I am using is a hypertext version of the Burke's Peerage narrative format. Basically, to move around the tree you click on the names in bold.
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Arms of Edward III and his sons, Trinity College, Cambridge.
SurnamesMy wife descends from the following families (see my wife's family tree). I may descend from them too, depending on how the Blennerhassett descent is proved (see my family tree). My wife descends from them anyway, whether I do or not. These will not be done in detail. Rather I will only show enough of the tree that is necessary to highlight and cement our particular lines of descent:
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Our most recent common ancestor
Depending on how the Blennerhassett descent is proved, our most recent common ancestor (MRCA) would be Sir William Sidney, who was granted Penshurst Place, Kent, in 1552, died in 1554, buried at Penshurst. This would make Penshurst our most recent common family home. He lived so recently that there is a portrait of him. That is, two random people in England and Ireland are related within 440 years. That is, two random people in England and Ireland are related after the Reformation. It is not impossible that some of my ancestors could have known some of her ancestors as relations as recently as 1700.
MRCA family MRCA individuals Fitz-Hugh Elizabeth Fitz-Hugh (died pre-1507) Herbert Sir William Herbert and Gwladys Gam (he died 1446) Neville Sir Edward Neville, Kt. (died 1538) Sidney Sir William Sidney and Anne Pakenham (he died 1554) Throckmorton Sir Robert Throckmorton (died 1519) Vaux Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden (died 1523) Windsor Eleanor de Windsor
Our common relations
Depending on how the Blennerhassett descent is proved, we get:
- Her ancestors and my blood relations:
- Garret Mor Fitzgerald.
- Garret Og Fitzgerald.
- The plotter Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
- The poet and translator Lady Mary Sidney.
- The 10th Earl of Pembroke.
- Richard of York (who "gave battle in vain").
- Our common ancestors:
- Everybody in the
Ancestors of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault,
including:
- Cerdic, Alfred the Great, etc, etc.
- Charlemagne, "El Cid", the original Harlot, William the Conqueror, King John, etc, etc.
- Edward II, his gay lover, his Queen Isabella and her lover.
- Edward III
- Many others, including:
- The Prophet Muhammad (possibly)
- Brian Boru
- Lady Godiva
- Alfonso VI, King of Leon and Castile, who reintroduced (with others) classical knowledge to the West, thereby ending the Dark Ages.
- Aoife and Strongbow
- Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, the astronomer.
- Robert the Bruce
- Everybody in the
Ancestors of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault,
including:
- Our common blood relations:
- Everybody who ever had a Royal Descent,
including:
- Just about all European Royalty ever, and a lot of its nobility.
- Everybody on my list of Royal Descents of famous people.
- Anybody else with a Royal Descent:
- The long-suffering Lady Pembroke.
- Hon Justice Robert Day.
- Rear-Admiral Richard Quin of Quinsborough.
- Dudley Colley.
- Brian Fitzelle (probably).
- Many others, including:
- The Prophet Muhammad (possibly).
- Anybody Descended from the Prophet Muhammad (possibly).
- Macbeth.
- St. Laurence O'Toole.
- The historian Giraldus Cambrensis.
- William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneer photographer.
- Standish Grady of Cappercullen.
- Everybody who ever had a Royal Descent,
including:
- Our common in-laws:
- Chaucer (ancestral uncle)
