allegedly 24th g-grandmother
Notes from https://www.biography.com/people/matilda-9402517
b. 1102 in London
d.
Father: King Henry I of England
Mother: Matilda of Scotland (wikipedia below)
Husband 1: Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V
Husband 2: Geoffrey Plantagenet.
Heir to the throne, but opposed. Elected "lady of the English" by clerical council
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matilda
*always question facts on here
b. 2/7/1102
d. 9/1167
Known as Empress Matilda and Empress Maude
Mother: Matilda of Scotland
Claim to thrown during the civil war era "the Anarchy"
Her brother William Adelin died in the White Ship disaster of 1120
Matilda's cousin, Stephen of Blois, too the throne.
Uncle is King David I of Scotland
Son with Geoffrey Plantagenet is Henry II.
Buried at Bec Abbey in 1167.
Granddaughter (maternal) of King Malcolm II of Scotland (West Saxon Royal Family)
"Queen of the Romans" by marriage to Henry V, King of the Romans
Betrothed at 8 years old to Henry V (24 years) but put in custody of Bruno, Archbishop of Trier
Married January 1114 (12 years old)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/matilda_queen.shtml
Married "Geoffrey of Anjou" who is Geoffrey Plantagenet
Died at Rouen in September 1167
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and German King
Born: Aug. 11, 1086
Died: May 23, 1125, Utrecht, Friesland, Netherlands
German King from 1099
Holy Roman emperor 1111-1125
Second son of Henry IV and Bertha of Turin
Married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England in 1114
Died in the Netherlands
Crowned by Pope Paschal II 4/13/1111 in St. Peters
Friesland is Frisia
According to biography, they have no children.
No relation to me.
First husband of 24th g-grandmother.
Falk, Fulk, Foulques, Geoffrey, Cantilupe Confusion
I have come across a stumbling block. Everything was matching up for the most part until I reached
Geoffrey V "Le Bon" Plantagenet. When I look at the "relationship to me" section of Ancestry it says that he is my 24th g-grandfather and Foulques le Jenue is his father. When I click on the "relationship to me" for Foulques le Jenue who is supposedly my 25th g-grandfather, I am presented with a tree for a person (child of Foulques) named Guarin de Cantilupe and it continues to the same end of the tree to my real maternal grandfather.
I am so confused. I tried going to history books and sometimes the name is Foulques and sometimes the name is Fulk. Sometimes it is different. The dates are the same, but sometimes the kids are different. I also have no idea who this Cantilupe person is and why they're showing up as it should a great-uncle and not g-grandther the way it is setup in Ancestry. I see nothing on google about a Guarin de Cantilupe; however, on Geni.com, some refer to Guarin as Walter de Cantilupe.
It doesn't help that a lot of the text is in French. Now I'm kicking myself for using Spanish in high school instead of French. I never use my Spanish nor am I any good at it.
The Geni web does not mention Canitlupe at all in the family tree of the Plantaganet family nor do I find it on trees at the LDS site. I suppose I will try to branch off, but I'm not sure Ancestry lets me do this. I might have to make a whole new file with a whole new tree. If anyone knows a way to take a portion of an ancestry gedcom file for testing and save it as another tree without rebuilding it, please let me know in the comments. Thank you.
Royal Blood
I don't get to work on this very often so I've been kind reluctant to do anything with the family history. Every once in a while, I get a bug to work on my project. I went back to figure out the Plantaganet timeline because it was confusing for a while, but I think I've figured it out. I know, Royal Blood seems a little pretentious, but I thought it was an amusing title. Obviously, something went a little awry somewhere as I sit here freezing my buns off at 3:00 AM looking up family history in an office designed from a closet.
With a little bit of cross-referencing with the Encyclopedia Britannica and some other sources, I was able to grab some details that I had no idea about such as monarchies, cool surnames, and nicknames. I have at least 26 ancestors to enter on the paternal side. This does not include all of the wives, brothers, sisters, and so on. I think I will start as far back as I information for and enter the tree in here. It will look like spaghetti code for a while until I have a decent index. I would love to do some creative writing with the work, but there is just so much information to gather. I would like to go on a rather long vacation and visit all of the sites, but I can't even afford the yearly Ancestry subscription or the DNA tests.
My mother did take the DNA test and it confirms that we are mainly from that whole area, mostly English, Irish, Scotish, Welsh, and then some other European areas. I will get down to all of that when I take my test one day and I'm able to explore different trees. I'll have my boys take the test too as well as my brother so we can see more info. I'm no expert on the DNA testing, but the male and female tests are different. I'll need to learn about that as well.
Anyway, I'm going to begin with this tree from my maternal father's side because it is the most interesting so far as it takes me back to the Plantagenets and King Henry I - III, I believe as well as the King of Jerusalem who had a French name that I can't think of at the moment.
History has always fascinated me. I have two businesses to run and I'm doing this on the side just for a few hours on the month. I'll figure it out some time. :)
With a little bit of cross-referencing with the Encyclopedia Britannica and some other sources, I was able to grab some details that I had no idea about such as monarchies, cool surnames, and nicknames. I have at least 26 ancestors to enter on the paternal side. This does not include all of the wives, brothers, sisters, and so on. I think I will start as far back as I information for and enter the tree in here. It will look like spaghetti code for a while until I have a decent index. I would love to do some creative writing with the work, but there is just so much information to gather. I would like to go on a rather long vacation and visit all of the sites, but I can't even afford the yearly Ancestry subscription or the DNA tests.
My mother did take the DNA test and it confirms that we are mainly from that whole area, mostly English, Irish, Scotish, Welsh, and then some other European areas. I will get down to all of that when I take my test one day and I'm able to explore different trees. I'll have my boys take the test too as well as my brother so we can see more info. I'm no expert on the DNA testing, but the male and female tests are different. I'll need to learn about that as well.
Anyway, I'm going to begin with this tree from my maternal father's side because it is the most interesting so far as it takes me back to the Plantagenets and King Henry I - III, I believe as well as the King of Jerusalem who had a French name that I can't think of at the moment.
History has always fascinated me. I have two businesses to run and I'm doing this on the side just for a few hours on the month. I'll figure it out some time. :)
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Supposedly Nero is My 52-Great Grandfather
Supposedly Tiberius Claudius Nero is my 52-great grandfather on my mother's paternal side. I find this kind of amusing because his wife Livia Drusilla Julia Agusta is our 52-great grandmother. She was also Caesar's wife at one time and one of my kid's was born on the Ides of March.
I have all of this royalty and no money. LOL Isn't that the truth. I don't know if I believe any of this. I don't know how accurate the information is that I received, but I can tell you that so far it has matched up with what other relatives have found out on their own searches.
Apparently he had his own mother Julia Aggripina "The Younger" executed. More on that later.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Isabel Marshall, 21st Great-Grandmother
My 21st great-grandmother Isabel Marshal was born in 2013 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales to Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare and William Marshal I, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
**Notes from ancestry.com and wikipedia
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, My 22nd Great-Grandfather
According to Ancestry.com and the gedcom file put together for me, the 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal is my 22nd great-grandfather. He was born in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales and was the son of Sibyl de Salisbury and John Marshall de FitzGilbert.
In August 1189 he married Isabel FitzGilbert de Clare. They had 11 children in 16 years. Their daughter, Isabel Marshall, my 21st great-grandmother, was born in 1203 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Marshal was knighted in 1166. In 1189 he received the title of Earl of Pembroke.
In 1216 he was appointed protector for Henry III who was 9 years old at the time.
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| Tomb effigy of William Marshal in Temple Church, London Image - Michel wal |
He died on May 14, 1219 at 72 years old in Caversham, Berkshire, Kingdom of England. Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, eulogized him as the "best knight who ever lived." On his deathbed, he was invested into the order of the Knights Templar.
That's all for now, just a few notes from Wikipedia. There is so much more, but I do not have time to add all of it right now. It is all so fascinating so I plan to study more.
For the privacy of living family, I will only go back as far as my great-grandmother in the timeline below.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Richard Hyde the Pirate and the Indian Wives
There is a story about a pirate who retired when Blackbeard died. This pirate was named Richard Hyde. He was supposedly employed by James Colbert as a packhorseman after his retirement from piracy. The rumor is that he was escorting the Superintendent of Indian Affairs through Creek Territory and were severely beaten and disfigured by Indian warriors when caught in bed with their wives.
This is told in town history books in both North Carolina and Tennessee, although there is some speculation whether or not it is true due to the birthday of Colbert.
According to the GED file given to me, Richard Hyde is my 8th great-grandfather. He was born approximately 1652 and died around 1710 which doesn't make sense because Blackbeard supposedly died in 1718. It could have been his son, but the information for Richard Hyde IV is either wrong or that isn't his son because Richard Hyde IV was born in 1717, seven years after Richard Hyde the III died (according to my GED file.)
This is told in town history books in both North Carolina and Tennessee, although there is some speculation whether or not it is true due to the birthday of Colbert.
According to the GED file given to me, Richard Hyde is my 8th great-grandfather. He was born approximately 1652 and died around 1710 which doesn't make sense because Blackbeard supposedly died in 1718. It could have been his son, but the information for Richard Hyde IV is either wrong or that isn't his son because Richard Hyde IV was born in 1717, seven years after Richard Hyde the III died (according to my GED file.)
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