_Muhammad I (Kadi Abu'l-Kasim) BEN ISMAIL _+
|
_Muhammad II (Abu Amr Abbad) AL-MUTAMID _|
| |
| |___________________________________________
|
|
|--Muhammad III (Abu-l-Kasim) AL-MUTAMID
| (1040 - 1095)
| ___________________________________________
| |
|_________________________________________|
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|___________________________________________
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_Bartholomew DE BADLESMERE _|
| (1181 - 1256) |
| |__
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|
|--Guncelin DE BADLESMERE
| (1205 - ....)
| __
| |
|____________________________|
|
|__
_Louis DE BOURBON ________________+
| (1661 - 1711) m 1680
_Louis DE BOURBON _________|
| (1682 - 1712) m 1697 |
| |_Maria-Anna Christine VON BAYERN _
| m 1680
|
|--Louis DE BOURBON
| (1704 - 1705)
| _Vittorio Amedeo II DE SAVOIE ____+
| | (1666 - 1732) m 1684
|_Marie Adelaide DE SAVOIE _|
(1685 - 1712) m 1697 |
|_Anne Marie D'ORLÉANS ____________
m 1684
_William II DE FERRERS _________+
| (1162 - 1247)
_William III DE FERRERS _|
| (1193 - 1254) |
| |_Agnes of Chester DE MESCHINES _+
|
|
|--Maud DE FERRERS
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| ________________________________
| |
|_Sybil MARSHALL _________|
|
|________________________________
_Roger DE MORTIMER __+
| (1221 - 1282) m 1247
_Sir Edmund DE MORTIMER _|
| (1252 - 1304) m 1285 |
| |_Maud DE BRAOSE _____+
| (1226 - 1301) m 1247
|
|--Roger DE MORTIMER
| (1287 - 1330)
| _____________________
| |
|_Margaret DE FIENNES ____|
(1262 - 1334) m 1285 |
|_____________________
[53]
Roger was the Lover of Isabelle, Queen of England, wife of Edward II.
Together, they deposed Edward and Roger commissioned Edward's murder at
Berkeley Castle. They became guardians and regents of Edward III who
soon took matters into his own hands and arrested Roger and executed
him by hanging, drawing and quartering.
t the termination of the Scottish wars Edward and his queen, according
to FROISSART "one of the fairest ladies of the world," resided chiefly
at Nottingham. The voluptuous and inconstant Isabella preserved a
liking for the castle, even after the enterprising Roger de MORTIMER
had supplanted the king in her favor. Here, after the deposition and
murder of her wretched husband, she resided with her paramour till the
termination of his inglorious career. The fortress was jealously
protected by the guilty pair; a guard was kept, suited for safety as
well as state; and every night the keys of the castle were delivered
into the hands of MORTIMER, some historians say into the hands of the
queen. The last appointment to the command of the castle, before the
deposition of the king, was that of Richard de GREY, of Codnor, a
nobleman who had rendered valuable services to his country.
The youthful Edward III., now in his eighteenth year, was justly
indignant at the conduct of the queen-mother and her favorite, and,
having assembled the court and parliament at Nottingham, he issued
warrants on the 20th October, 1330, for the apprehension of MORTIMER,
now Earl of March, Sir Oliver de INGHAM, and Sir Simon de BEREFORD. The
plot being nearly ripe, it was found that the inaccessible nature of
the rock and the vigilance of the guards would prevent the
accomplishment of the king's design, unless he gained over the deputy
constable.
his plan was at once tested, and one of the old chronicles has quaintly
described the interview with that functionary: "And in hast ther came
unto kyng Edw. Sir William MONTAGUE, that he was in his castell and
pryvelyche told him, that he ne none of his companions shulde not take
the MORTIMER without counsaile and helpe of William ELAND, constabill
of the same castell. Now certis quod kyng Edward I love you full well,
and therefor I counsaill you that ye goo unto the saide constabill, and
commanunde him in my name that he be your friende and your helper for
to take the MORTIMER, all things left uppon peyne of lyfe and lymmbe.
Sir quod MONTAGUE my lorde graunte mercye. Tho went for the saide
MONTAGUE and came to the constabill of the castell and told him the
kyng's wille, and he answered, they kyng's wille shulde be done in all
that he myght, and he wolde not spare for no manner of deth and so he
swhore and made his othe. Tho saide Sir William MONTAGUE to the
constabill in herynge of all them that were helpyng to the quarrel. Now
certis dere ffrendes us behoveth for to worche and done by your
Queyntyse to take the MORTIMER, sith ye be the keeper of the castell
and have the kayes in your warde. Sir quod the constabill woll ye
understand that the yats of the castell beth loken with lokys, and
queen Isabell sent hidder by night for the kayes thereof, and they be
layde under the chemsell of her beddis hede unto the morrow, and so I
may not come into the castell by the yats no manner of wyse, but yet I
know another weye by an aley that stretchith oute of the ward under the
earthe into the castell that goeth into the west, which aley queen
Isabell, ne none of her meayne, ne the MORTIMER ne none of his companye
knowith it not, and so I shall lede you through the aley, and so ye
shall come into the castell without spyes of any man that beth your
enemies."
he castle was entered on the night of the Friday after the feast of St.
Luke. The king proceeded at the dead hour of midnight through a
subterranean passage in the rock, and came into his mother's apartment
accompanied by Sir William MONTACUTE, subsequently Earl of Salisbury,
Sir Humprey de BOHUN, Sir Edward and Sir William his brothers, Sir
Ralph de STAFFORD, Sir William de CLINTON, Sir John de NEVILL of
Hornby, Sir William ELAND, the deputy constable, and others "all bent
to loose their lives in his service."
n a chamber adjoining the queen's apartment they found her paramour in
deep consultation with the Bishop of Lincoln and others of his party.
He was instantly apprehended, notwithstanding the cries and entreaties
of the queen, and unceremoniously hurried down the subterranean passage
by which the party had entered. "Befitz, bel fitz, ayez pittie du
gentile MORTIMER." "Now, fair sirs, I pray you that you do no harm to
his body, for he is a worthy knight, our well-beloved friend and our
dear cousin." Such were the intercessions of the guilty queen.
wo of the castle guards, Sir Hugh TURPLINGTON and Sir Richard (or John)
MONMOUTH, having less respect for the king's presence than their
companions, resisted, but they were at once killed. So admirably was
the stratagem achieved that no murmur woke the guard pacing the
ramparts of the tower, and the town slumbered in profound
unconsciousness of the enterprise, of which the people only knew at the
dawn of day, when the arrest of MORTIMER's sons and the profligate
earl's adherents told that kingly authority had at length deprived the
royal adultress of her paramour and the realm of a tyrant.
OLLINSHED, in describing the event, affirms that "Sir Roger MORTIMER,
the earle of March, was apprehended the seventeenth day of October
within the castell of Nottingham, where the king with the two queens,
his mother and his wife, and diveres others were as then lodged." The
same chronicler observes: "But whosoever was glad or sorie for the
trouble of the said earle, suerlie the queene mother took it most
heaulie aboue all other, as she had loued him more (as the fame went)
than stood well with her honour. For, as some write, she was found to
be with child by him. They kept at it were house togither, for the
earle to haue his prouision the better cheape, laid his penie with
hirs, so that hir takers serued him as well as they did hir both of
vittels & carriages. Of which misysage (all regard to honour and
estimation neglected) euerie subject spake shame. For their manner of
dealing, tending to such euill purposes as they continuallie thought
vpon, could not be secret from the eies of the people. And their
offence heerein was so much the more heinous, bicause they were persons
of an extraordinarie degree, and were the more narrowlie marked of the
multitude or common people, --- (the page at this point is damaged, but
there is a three line Latin (I think) piece of poetry. I shall put down
what I can see, putting … for the words I cannot read.)
……. Tissima fati
Occultain nill.. sinit, latebrasq; per omnes
Intrat & obtusos explorat fama recessus."
BAKER, in his Chronicle, says that when the party came to the queen's
chamber they left the king without, and entering "found the queen with
MORTIMER, ready to go to bed." MORTIMER was executed at Tyburn on the
19th of November, while the queen received an allowance of a thousand
pounds a year, and was appointed to reside "in a certain place, and not
to go elsewhere abroad; yet the king to comfort her would lightlie
everie once come to visit hi
_David I "The Saint" SCOTLAND _+
| (1080 - 1153)
_Henry HUNTINGDON ___|
| (.... - 1155) |
| |_Matilda (Maud) HUNTINGDON ____
| (.... - 1131)
|
|--David HUNTINGDON
| (.... - 1219)
| _______________________________
| |
|_Ada DE WARRENNE ____|
|
|_______________________________
_Israel MEADOWS _____+
| (1755 - 1827)
_William MEADOWS __________|
| (1781 - ....) m 1814 |
| |_Barbara GREEN ______
| (1755 - 1845)
|
|--Rebecca MEADOWS
| (1817 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Sarah Ann (Sally) HANSON _|
(1800 - 1860) m 1814 |
|_____________________
_Ene EAST ANGLIA ____
|
_Anna EAST ANGLIA ___|
| (.... - 0654) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Sexburga of WESSEX
| (.... - 0674)
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
_John WILLCOX _______+
| (1777 - 1852) m 1798
_Thomas Lea WILLCOX _|
| (1812 - 1897) m 1830|
| |_Mary LEA ___________+
| (1780 - 1848) m 1798
|
|--Abigail WILLCOX
| (1848 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Abigail MCDUFFIE ___|
(1816 - ....) m 1830|
|_____________________
[281] Married Henry Marsh Boze