_Charles MARTEL ________________+
| (0689 - 0741)
_Carloman MARTEL ____|
| |
| |_Rotrude (Chrotrude) AUSTRASIA _+
| (0690 - 0724)
|
|--Rotrude (Rotrou)
|
| ________________________________
| |
|_Chrotrude __________|
|
|________________________________
_Guillaume IX DE AQUITAINE __________+
| (1071 - 1127)
_Guillaume X DE AQUITAINE __|
| (1099 - 1137) m 1121 |
| |_Philippa (Mathilde) of DE TOULOUSE _+
|
|
|--Eleanore DE AQUITAINE
| (1121 - 1204)
| _Aimeri I DE CHASTELLERAULT _________+
| | (1075 - 1151)
|_Eleanor DE CHASTELLERAULT _|
(1103 - 1130) m 1121 |
|_Dangereuse DE L'ISLE BOUCHARD ______
[346]
The origin of the liaison between Eleanor and Henry of Anjou must
have been formed in August of 1151 in Paris, when the tow had met.
Like his father, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Henry took on a woman several
years his senior. Like him, he also acquired great prospects through
his wife: in this case, the ducy of Aquitaine which was Eleanor's
inheritance. At a stroke Henry, who had become duke of Normandy in
1150 and count of Anjou after his father's death in 1151, became far
more powerful than his lord, King Louis.
News of the marrige provoked Louis to make war. He was joined by
Henry's younger brother, Geoffrey, who must have realized that marriage
with Eleanor meant that Henry would not relinquish Anjou to him, as he
was supposed to do under their father's will. In England, King Stephen
and his son Eustace also joined Louis.
But Henry's success in the war, easily achieved, established his
dominance throughout all his French territories. A continuous bloc of
land was now in his power, from Normandy in the norht, through Anjou to
Aquitaine in the south. A famous and turbulent marriage had been made,
and the greatest period in Plantagenet history had beg
_Louis DE BOURBON _______________________+
| (1729 - 1765)
_Charles X DE BOURBON ___|
| (1757 - 1836) |
| |_Marie Josephe Caroline VON SACHSEN _____+
|
|
|--Marie Therese Louise Sophie DE BOURBON
| (1783 - 1783)
| _Vittorio Amadeo III DE SAVOIE __________+
| | (1726 - 1796)
|_Maria Teresa DE SAVOIE _|
(1756 - 1805) |
|_Maria Antonietta Ferdinanda DE BOURBON _+
(1729 - 1785)
[709] Gethyn of Glyn of Glyn T
_John KNIGHT ________+
| (1668 - ....)
_John KNIGHT ________|
| (1680 - 1762) m 1729|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Peter KNIGHT
|
| _Daniel EPPS ________
| | m 1681
|_Elizabeth EPPS _____|
(1712 - 1863) m 1729|
|_Elizabeth JORDAN ___+
(1690 - ....) m 1681
_____________________
|
_Henry LAMB _________|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Lee LAMB
|
| _Harvey MEADOWS _____+
| | (1844 - 1903) m 1867
|_Helen MEADOWS ______|
(1878 - ....) |
|_Margaret COLE ______+
(1848 - 1893) m 1867
_Zucchilo of LOMBARDS _+
|
_Wacho of LOMBARDS __|
| |
| |_______________________
|
|
|--Waldrada of LOMBARDS
|
| _Elemund of GEPIDAE ___
| |
|_Ostrogotha GEPIDAE _|
|
|_______________________
_Thomas MEADOR ______+
| (1638 - 1664) m 1658
_John, MEADOWS ______|
| (1658 - 1721) m 1694|
| |_Sarah HOSKINS ______
| (1637 - 1672) m 1658
|
|--Mary J. MEADOWS
| (1700 - ....)
| _Henry AUBREY _______+
| | (1623 - ....)
|_Miss AUBREY ________|
(1678 - 1721) m 1694|
|_Mary _______________
[186]
Of Mary Meador, the second daughter of (3) John Meador and
his second wife, nothing is known except for the bequest by
her father of a gold ring. At her father's death, she was
as yet unmarried, though probably in her early 20's. No
record of her possible marriage has been found, and she is
not mentioned in any documents by her siblin
_Algernon PERCY _____+
| (1602 - 1668)
_Josceline PERCY ____|
| (.... - 1670) |
| |_Elizabeth __________
|
|
|--Elizabeth PERCY
| (.... - 1722)
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
[626]
Was only four when her father Josceline died. She was married as a
child, first to Lord Ogle, who died shortly afterwards, and then to
Thomas Thynne of Longleat, a man of the worst character, from whom she
fled shortly after the marriage to Holland. He was murdered by a
Swedish adventurer, Count K6nigsmark, in 1681, and his widow thereupon
married, in 1682, Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset, popularly known
as 'the Proud Duke'. She was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Anne. The
Duke played a considerable part in public affairs, and was one of those
largely responsible for the Revolution of 1688 and for the accession of
the Hanoverian dynasty in 1714. The Duchess died in 1722 and the Duke
in 1748.
His son Algernon 7th Duke of Somerset succeeded him.
Alnwick Castle had at this period fallen into considerable decay. In
1677 it is described as having "some part of it in repair", and it
continued to be the residence of the Baronial officials. In 1691 part
of it was a school.
Algernon, 7th Duke of Somerset (1722 - 1750) who as Lord Hertford had
had a distinguished career in the Army under Marlborough, only lived
two years after he succeeded to the Dukedom of Somerset in 1748.
He had, however, on his mother's death in 1722, succeeded to the Barony
of Percy, and was afterwards made Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
His father repaired and fitted up a portion of the Castle for his
residence, and he frequently stayed at Alnwick during the reign of
George 11. He was the first of his family to live there after an
absence of over one hundred years. He had an only daughter, Elizabeth,
who was heir to the Barony and Northumbrian estates. She had married
Sir Hugh Smithson, a Yorkshire baronet. The title of Earl of
Northumberland had been conferred upon the 7th Duke of Somerset, with
remainder to his son-in-law, Sir Hugh Smithson and his heirs, and
accordingly on the death of the Duke Sir Hugh became Earl of
Northumberland, and through his wife owner of the Northumbrian estates.
He took the surname of Percy
_Samuel WIMBISH _____+
| (.... - 1790) m 1763
_John D. WIMBISH ______|
| (1790 - 1863) m 1809 |
| |_Mildred MARTIN _____+
| m 1763
|
|--Harriett B. WIMBISH
| (1810 - ....)
| _David BRIDGES ______
| |
|_Anna Jane C. BRIDGES _|
m 1809 |
|_Martha _____________