_Charles III DE BOURBON-PARME ____+
| (1823 - 1854)
_Robert I DE BOURBON-PARME __________|
| (1848 - 1907) m 1884 |
| |_Louise Marie Therese DE BOURBON _
| (1819 - 1864)
|
|--Sixte Ferdinando Maria DE BOURBON-PARME
| (1886 - 1934)
| __________________________________
| |
|_Maria Antonia Adelaide DE BRAGANÇA _|
(1862 - ....) m 1884 |
|__________________________________
_Gainfroi of SENS ___
|
_Giselbert in the MAASGAU _|
| |
| |_Theidlindis BLOIS __
|
|
|--Giselbert DE BRABANT
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Daughter HESBAYE _________|
|
|_____________________
_Robert II DE FERRERS _+
| (1100 - 1160) m 1135
_William I DE FERRERS _|
| (1140 - 1189) m 1162 |
| |_Margaret DE PEVEREL __+
| (1114 - ....) m 1135
|
|--William II DE FERRERS
| (1162 - 1247)
| _William II DE BRAOSE _+
| |
|_Sybil DE BRAOSE ______|
(1157 - 1227) m 1162 |
|_Bertha DE GLOUCESTER _+
_William I "The Conqueror" DE NORMANDY _+
| (1024 - 1087) m 1053
_Henry I, "Beauclerc" DE NORMANDY _|
| (1070 - 1135) m 1100 |
| |_Matilda DE FLANDERS ___________________+
| m 1053
|
|--Maud(Matilda) Augusta ENGLAND
| (1102 - 1169)
| _Malcolm III CANMORE ___________________+
| | (1033 - 1093) m 1067
|_Matilda "Atheling" of SCOTLAND ___|
(1089 - 1118) m 1100 |
|_St. Margaret "Atheling" of ENGLAND ____+
(1043 - 1093) m 1067
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Princess of England, Empress of Germany.
In 1128 Geoffrey the Fair, nicknamed Plantagent because of the sprig
of broom he wore in his cap, and soon to be count of Anjou, married the
haughty Empress Matilda, daughter and designated heiress of Henry I,
king of England and duke of Normandy. When Henry died in 1135, his
nephew Stephen of Blois seized the English kingdom. Over the next 19
years, the houses of Anjou and Blois fought for control of England and
Normandy. Matilda concentrated on the kingdom and Count Geoffrey on
the duchy,k where he became duke in 1144. In 1153, King Stephen was
persuaded to acknowledge Geoffrey and Matilda's son, Henry, as his heir
to England.
Geoffrey was a clever man, thought handsome by contemporaries. He
was tall, graceful and strong with a fair and ruddy complexion and
sharp eyes. Well educated, he gloried in recalling the deeds of his
ancestors and played up to the chivalric ideal. Yet, he was also cold
and cruel. His career as count was, for the most part, dominated by
the pursuit of his wife Matilda's inheritance of Normandy and England,
although he imposed limits on his participation: he was single minded
about his determination to conquer Normandy, but gave no help in
England.
Geoffrey and Matilda had been married when he was 15 and she was
26. Like so many marriages of the time, it was an arranged match,
planned by Henry I to detach Anjou from a hostile coalition of northern
French opponents and to assist Matilda's chances of succeeding him in
Normandy and England. Her first marriage had been to the German
emperor, Henry V, who had died in 1125. She had been despatched to
Germany at the age of 12 and brought back to her father's court 12
years later, in 1126 as his sole surviving legitimate child.
From the start she despiesed her sdolescent second husband as her
social inferior and seems never to have warmed to him.
Geoffrey equally disliked Matilda, yet both were tough and
calculating, able to scploit their loveless marriage for mutual
political gain. They produced the children necessary for the
continuation of their lines, then went their separate ways, never
deviating from personal political ambitions.
Matilda alienated all whom she ought to have wooed when she ruled
England for a short period in 1141-42. During that brief episode of
victory she refused to stand to greet her two chief supporters, her
uncle, King David of Scotland and her half-brother, Earl Robert of
Gloucester, and greatly angered them. She also insisted on levying an
unreasonably heavy tax on the citizens of Londond, and turned their
loyalty and cooperation into hatred and resistance; she was forced to
flee from the city. Driven by an iron will to gain what she regarded
as her inheritance, her personality was one of the chief obstacles to
the success of her cause.
Haughty, hard and inflexible, she was criticized by contemporaries
for her lack of feminine qualities. The enduring image of her is of a
daughter who was at war with her father, Henry I, when he died and who
made no effort at reconciliation in his last hours. But she was
handsome and brave, a powerful woman in an age dominated by men, and
could inspire great loyalty in others - if not in her husba
_John, MEADOWS ______+
| (1658 - 1721) m 1694
_Joshua Joel MEADOWS _|
| (1702 - 1777) m 1737 |
| |_Miss AUBREY ________+
| (1678 - 1721) m 1694
|
|--Jeremiah MEADOR
| (1750 - 1806)
| _____________________
| |
|_Judith GREEN ________|
(.... - 1768) m 1737 |
|_____________________
_____________________________
|
_Ethelred of MERCIA ____|
| (0865 - 0912) |
| |_____________________________
|
|
|--Elfwina of MERCIA
| (0920 - ....)
| _Alfred "The Great" ENGLAND _+
| | (0848 - 0901) m 0868
|_Ethelfleda of ENGLAND _|
|
|_Ethelswida of ENGLAND ______+
(0852 - 0905) m 0868
_Vologaeses IV PAHLAV _+
| (0115 - 0192)
_Vologaeses V PAHLAV _|
| (0145 - 0207) |
| |_______________________
|
|
|--Khosrov I *The Brave* PAHLAV
| (0175 - 0216)
| _______________________
| |
|______________________|
|
|_______________________
_Richard PERCY ______+
| (1570 - ....) m 1588
_Richard, Jr. PEARCE _|
| (1590 - 1677) m 1615 |
| |_Marguerite CONEY ___
| (1550 - 1572) m 1588
|
|--Hannah PEARCE
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Martha ______________|
(1593 - ....) m 1615 |
|_____________________
_Thomas PERCY _______+
|
_Thomas PERCY _______|
| (.... - 1572) |
| |_Eleanor HARBOTTLE __
|
|
|--Lucy PERCY
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Anne SOMERSET ______|
|
|_____________________