_Warnechin ENGERN ___
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_Witekind VON SAXONY _|
| (.... - 0807) |
| |_Kunhilde RUGEN _____
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|--Hasalda
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| _Eystein WESTFOLD ___
| |
|_Geva WESTFOLD _______|
|
|_Hild _______________+
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_Moses CANNON _______|
| |
| |__
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|
|--Nancy CANNON
| (1763 - 1834)
| __
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|_____________________|
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|__
[772]
Welsh Family History, Descendants of George & Nancy Cannon Welsh: The
Welsh Family from the Revolution to the Bicentennial, compiled by Mres.
Verne Chamberlin, (Georgiana Welsh) 8100 West Lincoln Way, Wooster, OH
44691
_Francois I DE VALOIS _+
| m 1514
_Henri II DE VALOIS __|
| (1519 - 1559) m 1533 |
| |_Claude DE VALOIS _____
| (1499 - 1524) m 1514
|
|--Henri III DE VALOIS
| (1551 - 1589)
| _______________________
| |
|_Catherine DE MEDICI _|
(1519 - 1589) m 1533 |
|_______________________
[599]
Henri was elected king of Poland in 1573 but returned to France in 1574
to succeed his brother Charles IX. His reign was almost continually
disturbed by the Wars of Religion. The death in 1584 of his brother
François made him the last male member of the House of Valois. His
recognition of Henri de Navarre (later Henri IV) as heir presumptive
was opposed by Henri, 3rd Duc de Guise, head of the Catholic League
(the "War of the Three Henrys" resulted). Having procured the murder of
Guise (1588), the king was faced with a revolt of the League and was
expelled from Paris. Henri de Navarre came to his aid, but Henri III
was assassinated in the siege by Jacques Clément, a fanatic monk.
--Columbia-Viking desk encyclopedia, 1953
Henri III is something of an historical enigma. The beautiful sketches
of the royal family by Clouet show a young man with compellingly
soulful eyes; later there is a certain haunted quality to them. He was
the military hero of Jarnac and Montcontour (notable royal victories
over the Huguenots), a keen blade and afficionado of the fence, who
occasionally dressed in women's clothing and whose taste for luxury was
considered the height of decadence. He kept a retinue of "mignons" --
his fanatically loyal courtiers, pretty boys with sharp swords who
picked duels with the retainers of his enemies. He was sincerely, if
intermittently, religious, establishing congregations of Penitents in
Paris and walking barefoot in their processions, flagellating himself
(there is a certain masochistic quality to his outbreaks of piety). In
1577 he gave the Protestants all the rights they would later have in
the Edict of Nantes in 1598, although these were annulled over the
years under pressure from the Catholic wing. In the end he valued blood
ties over religion, and named Henri de Navarre his heir on his
deathbed. History remembers him as an indolent "Prince of Sodom", but
he was the most intelligent and capable of Catherine's brood. Destined
to be the last of the Valois, he nevertheless kept his throne for 15
years in the face of chaos. --c. t. iannuz
_Ralph PERCY ________+
| (1425 - 1464)
_Peter PERCY ________|
| (1447 - 1569) |
| |_Catherine NEVILLE __
|
|
|--Richard PERCY
| (1535 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
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|_____________________
[38] Founded Pearce Hall in York, Englan
_Nobleman VISIGOTHS _
|
_Leuvigild VISIGOTHS _|
| (.... - 0572) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Hermangild of VISIGOTHS
| (.... - 0585)
| _____________________
| |
|_Theodosia ___________|
|
|_____________________