Some descents are more than surprising. Somewhat like great paintings, or
architecture, or music, they inspire awe and wonder. Such reaction may be
suggested by the line treated herein. Eleanor Plantagenet, a daughter of the
English King John who was forced to sign the Magna Charta in 1215,
married Simon de Montfort, 2nd Earl of Leicester, who led the barons against
Henry III, his brother-in-law, and summoned in 1265 “the first modern
Parliament” of churchmen, barons, four knights from each shire and two citizens
from each borough. Guy de Montfort, a younger son of Eleanor and Simon, murdered
a cousin in revenge for his father’s death, was excommunicated by Pope Gregory X
but later pardoned by Pope Martin IV, served that pope and Charles I, King of
Naples, as a soldier, and was created Count of Nola. Guy’s daughter, Anastasia
de Montfort, a great-granddaughter of King John, married Romano Orsini, senator
of Rome in 1326, and brought her father’s title to this great Roman family. Due
to intermarriage between various branches of the Orsini, Anastasia and Romano
are ancestors of most Orsinis notable during the Italian Renaissance, Popes
Innocent XIII (1655-1724, Pope 1721-24, Michelangelo Conti, whose mother was an
Orsini) and Benedict XIII (1649-1730, Pope 1724-30, Pietro Francesco Orsini,
Duke of Gravina), Colonnas, dukes of Paliano, Barberinis, princes of Palestrina,
and undoubtedly many other major Italian noble families.
Most remarkably, however, Roberto Orsini, Count of Nola (d. ca. 1350), son of
Anastasia and Romano, was a great-great-great-grandfather of both Clarice
Orsini, wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as “Lorenzo the Magnificent,” virtual
ruler of Florence, 1469-92, and of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV of
England. The mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville was the French-born Jacquette
of Luxembourg, widow of John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford (son of the English
King Henry IV) when she married the “parvenu” Lancastrian, later Yorkist peer,
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (whose origin, and descent from the
Beauchamps of Lillesdon, Somerset and Ryme, Dorset. is authoritatively covered
by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson in The Coat of Arms, new ser.
9, #157 (Spring 1992):178-87). Jacquette’s mother, Margherita del Balzo of
Andria, was in turn the daughter of Sueva Orsini, a granddaughter of Roberto and
great-granddaughter of Anastasia and Romano. Clarice’s son, Giovanni de’ Medici,
Pope Leo X, patron of Raphael and other Renaissance artists, a worldly Papal
State defender against whose supposed excesses Martin Luther posted his 95
theses at Wittenberg and began the Protestant Reformation - this pope was thus a
fifth cousin of the Yorkist princes (Edward V and Richard, Duke of York)
murdered in the Tower of London ca. 1483, and a fifth cousin once removed of the
English King Henry VIII, whom Leo created “Defender of the Faith.”
Medici descendants of Clarice Orsini and Lorenzo the Magnificent ruled
Florence, and Tuscany until 1737. This family also produced two queens (and
regents) of France - the famed Catherine de’ Medici, a great-niece of Pope Leo
X, wife of Henry II and mother of French Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry
III; and Marie de’ Medici, granddaughter of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (a
second cousin of Catherine and great-nephew of Leo X) and wife of the first
Bourbon French king, Henry IV. Many later Catholic European sovereigns are
descended from these two queens, and many later Protestant sovereigns, plus many
English peers and gentry, are descended from sisters of Henry VIII (and
granddaughters of Queen Elizabeth Woodville). But “Bad King John” and Orsinis of
Rome are ancestors not only of the English Tudors, Florentine Medicis, later
European sovereigns, and English and Italian noblemen. Another major ruling
family of Renaissance Italy and over 15 colonial immigrants who left American
descendants share this line as well.
Among second cousins of Jacquette of Luxembourg (Duchess of Bedford and
Countess Rivers) was Giovanella Orsini, wife of Giacomo IV Caetani, Lord of
Sermoneta and grandmother of Giovanella Caetani, wife in turn of Pier Luigi
Farnese and mother of both Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III, and Giulia
Farnese, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). Pope Paul III was the
founder, through an illegitimate son, of the ducal house of Parma, which reigned
there from 1545 to 1731; its eventual heiress, Elisabetta Farnese, married
Philip V, King of Spain, and was also an ancestress of numerous later Catholic
sovereigns. Pope Paul III also approved the decree establishing the order of the
Jesuits, introduced the Inquisition into Italy, convened the Council of
[149] Trent (and thus initiated the Counter-Reformation), was a major
patron of Michelangelo, and excommunicated Henry VIII of England, his fifth
cousin, after Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, break with Rome and
declaration of himself as “Supreme Head” of the Church of England. Thus Pope
Paul III, known for his nepotism, is a contributing figure to Anglicanism, the
Renaissance, the Counter-Reformation, and the Jesuits.
I shall conclude this year-long NEXUS tribute to Italy,
Italian-Americans, and the “discovery of America” in 1492 by Genoese native
Christopher Columbus, by noting the Woodville, and thus Orsini, descents of over
15 immigrants to the American colonies. These descents are, I believe, the
closest genealogical ties between Renaissance Italy and pre-nineteenth century
America. Among major sponsors of American colonies, Sir Ferdinando
Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine and generally known as its founder even though
he never immigrated, was a seventh-generation descendant, via Gorges and Poyntz,
of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, brother of the queen. Before her marriage
to Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville married Sir John Grey, son of the heiress of
the barons Ferrers of Groby, and left a son, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset
(d. 1501). Dorset’s immigrant descendants to New England included Elizabeth
Bosvile, wife of Roger Harlakenden and Harvard treasurer Herbert Pelham (via
Bosvile and Greville); and John Jones of Boston (via Jones, Bluet, and Blount).
Among the American progeny of these last, Elizabeth Pelham, a
great-granddaughter of Herbert and Elizabeth, married colonial architect Peter
Harrison, designer of King’s Chapel, Boston (1749-54), Christ Church, Cambridge
(1761), the Redwood Library in Newport, R.I. (1748-50), and the Synagogue, also
in Newport (1762-63); and Isabella Pratt Welles, a great-granddaughter of John
Jones, married Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, noted Boston banker, railroad
executive, horticulturalist and benefactor of Wellesley, Massachusetts, named
for his wife’s family. Among the great-grandchildren, in turn, of H. H. and
Isabella Hunnewell is former Massachusetts governor Francis Williams Sargent
[III].
Jacquette, wife of John Strange, 8th Baron Strange of Knokyn,. was said by
the great antiquarian Sir William Dugdale to be a sister of Queen Elizabeth
Woodville and the fourth daughter of their parents, a claim generally accepted
since. Joan Strange, Jacquette’s daughter, married George Stanley, generally
known as Baron Strange, eldest son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. New
England immigrants descended from Joan and George include Joshua Henshaw of
Dorchester (very probably, although his line may go through one
illegitimacy, noted below) and John Nelson of Boston, noted fur trader and
proponent of English rule in Canada. A nephew of Nova Scotia governor Sir Thomas
Temple, Nelson had a sister Margaret who is alleged to have married Rev. Thomas
Teackle of Accomack County, Virginia. Among Henshaw’s descendants was a
great-great grandson, David Henshaw, Jr., Massachusetts Democratic politician
and Secretary of the Navy, 1843-44. Nelson himself was noted in a previous
“Notable Kin” column (NEXUS 5[1988]:208-10) as an ancestor of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Finally among immigrants to New England of Woodville
and Orsini descent I list below Robert Traill of Portsmouth, N. H.,
brother-in-law of “signer” Matthew Whipple, Jr. and matrilineal
great-grandfather of James Russell Lowell. Trail’s likely descent - a
full monograph would be welcome - from James V, King of Scots, a great-grandson
of Queen Elizabeth Woodville of England, is covered in NEXUS 6(1989):203,
205-6, and summarized below.
In addition to the above immigrants to New England, Roman Orsinis and English
Woodvilles were also ancestors of various immigrants to the South. Those I wish
to consider include Mrs. Ursula St. Leger Horsmanden, whose granddaughter
married the first William Byrd of Westover and left a sizable number of notable
descendants associated with Virginia’s “plantation aristocracy”; Ursula’s
sister, Mrs. Katherine St. Lager Colepepper (Culpeper), whose daughter Frances
married three colonial governors, including Sir William Berkeley; St. Leger Codd
of both Virginia and Maryland, a nephew of Ursula and Katherine; and Governor
Edward Digges of Virginia, a second cousin of the St. Leger sisters and also an
ancestor of numerous “planter-derived” notables, including Roman Catholic
prelate John Carroll and the wife of “signer” Charles Carroll of Carrollton. The
mutual great-grandmother of the St. Leger sisters and Digges was herself the
great-granddaughter of another Woodville sister, Catherine, wife of Humphrey
Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Another Southern immigrant descendant of the
Duchess of Buckingham was Mrs. Alicia Arnold Ross of Maryland, wife of John
Ross, cousin (via Lowes) of the Calverts, and great-grandmother of Francis Scott
Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and of his sister, Anne Phoebe
Charlton Key, wife of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. John Alston of South
Carolina, a first cousin once removed of John Nelson and also descended from
Jacquette Woodville, Lady Strange, was a great-grandfather of both “signer”
Thomas Lynch, Jr., of that state and painter and poet Washington Allston, a
great-great granddaughter, Rebecca Motte Alston, married U.S. senator Robert
Young Hayne, the orator who debated Daniel Webster in 1830. William Bladen,
colonial publisher and attorney-general of Maryland, also descended from Lady
Strange - via Fairfaxes and Sheffields - was an ancestor of Taskers, Lowndeses,
Stodderts, Ewells, Gantts, Bowies, Dulanys and Ogles of Maryland. James Kinloch
of South Carolina, son of a Scottish baronet and also descended from an
illegitimate son of James V of Scots, was an ancestor of Kinlochs, Hugers, and
Middletons among the “rice planters” of Charleston, and of Nelsons of Virginia.
Ancestors of much smaller groups of noted Southerners include Thomas Wingfield
of Virginia, a descendant of Queen Elizabeth Woodville via Greys, Willoughbys,
Paulets and Cromwells; and another Scottish immigrant (also the son of a baronet
and descendant of an illegitimate son of James V) - George Home of Virginia, the
surveyor who trained George Washington.
[150] Thus we outline below a descent that links the Magna Charta
and baronial opposition to English kings, the Italian Renaissance (Florence,
Parma, the papacy, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the Jesuits),
late Plantagenet and Tudor kings, Anglicanism, the founding of Maine, and
colonists to both New England and the South, whose own progeny includes
“signers” (or their wives), statesmen, and one U.S. president (FDR). A bit of
awe and wonder may not be amiss. In the following outline the descents from King
John to the Cromwells, Farnese and Medici, including the two queens of France,
follows the format used in the column on J. E. Oglethorpe and the kings of Italy
(NEXUS 9:62-65). Dates are in years only (note that a few marriages were
contracted when both parties were children), and generation numbers are from
King John. The lines from colonial immigrants to Queen Elizabeth Woodville or
her siblings follow the usual format of this column - the name and colony of the
immigrant, together with a brief description of his career, if notable, followed
by parents, one set of grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., back to the
Woodville; as always, semi-colons separate generations.
1. John (“Lackland”), King of England (1167-1216, King 1199-1216) = (2) 1200 Isabel of Angoul#me(d. 1246)
2. Eleanor Plantagenet (ca. 1215-75) = (2) 1239 Simon de
Montfort, 2nd Earl of Leicester (ca. 1208-65), the rebel leader and
commander
3. Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola (ca.
1243-ca. 1288) = (1) Margherita Aldobrandeschi
4.
Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola = 1293 Romano Orsini,
Count of Nola, Senator of Rome 1326
5. Roberto Orsini,
Count of Nola (d. ca. 1350) Sueva del
Balzo
6. Nicola Orsini, Count of Nola
(1331-99) (1) Gorizia Sabrano
7. Sueva Orsini = 1381
Francesco del Balzo, Duke of Andria (ca. 1330-1404 or
1422)
8. Margherita del Balzo (1394-1469) = 1405 Pierre I of
Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol (1390-1433)
9. Jacquette of
Luxembourg (1415/6-72) = (2) ante 23 March 1436/7 Richard
Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (d. 1469)
10. Elizabeth Woodville
(1437-92) = (1) Sir John Grey, d. 1460/1, (2) 1464
Edward IV, King of England (1442-83, King 1461-70, 1471-83). By
(2) she was the mother of 11. Edward V, King of England
(1470-83, King 1483) and 11. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
(1473-83), the princes murdered in the Tower of London, and of 11.
Elizabeth Plantagenet of York (1465/6-1502/3), Queen of
Henry VII, King of England (1456/7-1509, King
1485-1509, the first Tudor monarch). 12. Henry VIII, King of England
(1491-1547, King 1509-47), son of these last, was created “Defender of
the Faith” by Pope Leo X, below, his fifth cousin once removed, and was
excommunicated (for declaring himself “Supreme Head” of the Church of England)
by Pope Paul III below, also a fifth cousin. For the descendants of Edward IV
and Elizabeth Woodville see the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval The Blood
Royal of Britain, Being a Roll of the Living Descendants of Edward IV and Henry
VII, Kings of England, and James III, King of Scotland (1903) and Arthur C.
Addington, The Royal House of Stuart, 3 vols. (1969-76).
10.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers = (1)
Elizabeth Scales; (2) Mary FitzLewis
10. Jacquette
Woodville = John Strange, 8th Baron Strange of
Knokyn
10. Catherine Woodville = (1) Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke
of Buckingham; (2) Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, uncle of Henry VII, King
of England; (3) Sir Richard Wingfield
7. Roberto Orsini, fl.
1372-89 (brother of Sueva) = Margherita Sanseverino
8.
Piero Orsini, Count of Nola (d. 1420) =
9.
Giovanella Orsini (1400-25/6) = 1418 Giacomo IV Caetani, Lord of
Sermoneta (d. 1433)
10. Onorato III Caetani, Lord of
Sermoneta (1419-79) 1437 Caterina Orsini of Gravina
11.
Giovanella Caetani = Pier Luigi Farnese (d.
1487)
12. Alessandro Farnese, Pope Paul III
(1468-1549, Pope 1534-49), who approved the decree establishing the
Order of Jesuits (1540), introduced the Inquisition into Italy, and convened the
Council of Trent (1545); patron of Michelangelo; founder of the ducal family of
Parma (through his illegitimate son, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Piacenza and
Parma); d. unm.
12. Giulia (Julia) Farnese, mistress of Pope
Alexander VI (Rodrigo Lanzol y Borja, italianized to
Borgia, ca. 1431-1503, Pope 1492-1503) = Giulio
Orsini of Bracciano
6. Anastasia Orsini (sister of
Nicola) = 1342 Giordana Orsini, Lord of
Monterotando, fl. 1339-67
7. Francesco Orsini, Lord
of Manterotondo, fl. 1355-1404 = 1350 Costanza
Annibaldeschi
8. Orso Orsini, Lord of
Monterotondo, d. 1424 = Lucrezia Conti
9.
Giacomo Orsini, Lord of Montewtondo, fl. 1425-82 =
Maddalena Orsini, daughter of Carlo Orsmr, Lord of Bracciano
(fl. 1417-45) & Paola Orsini, daughter of Giacomo Orsini, Count of
Tagliacozzo (fl. 1398-1431) (& Isabella di Marzano), son of Giovanni
Orsini, Lord of Tagliacozzo (fl. 1347-90) & Nicoletta Orsini, daughter of
Genthe Orsini (fl. 1358) (& Gentilina ), son of Guido Orsini, Count
of Soana (d. ca. 1348) (& Agostina della Ghemtdesca), son of
Romano Orsini, Count of Nola & Anastasia de Montfort, above
10.
Clarice Orsini (1450/51-88), a fourth cousin of Queen Elizabeth Woodville
and her siblings = Lorenzo I de’ Medid, “the Magnificent”
(1449-92), virtual ruler of the Florentine Republic, 1469-92, Renaissance
patron
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11. Giovanni de’ Medici, Pope Leo X (1475-1521, Pope 1513-21, a fifth
cousin of Elizabeth Plantagenet, Queen of Henry VI), Renaissance patron, of
Raphael especially, during whose papacy Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses at
Wittenberg d. unm.
11. Piero de’ Medici (1471-1503, elder brother of
Pope Leo X) = 1487 Alfonsina Orsini (1472-1520), daughter of
Roberto Orsini, Count of Pacentro (d. 1476) (& Caterina Sanseverino),
son of Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano & Paola Orsini of Tagliacozzo, see
above #9
12. Lorenzo II de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino
(1492-1519) = 1518 Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne (d. 1519), a
first cousin twice removed of both Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry IV, King of
France
13. Catherine de’ Medici (1519-89, Regent of France, 1560-63) =
1533 Henry II. King of France (1518-59, King 1547-59).
Catherine de’ Medici exerted considerable, often dominating influence during the
reigns of her three sons (Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III, 1559-89).
11. Lucrezia de’ Medici (1470-post 1550, elder sister of Pope Leo X) =
1488 Jacopo (Giacomo) Salviati (1461-1533)
12. Maria
Salviati (1499-1543) = 1516 Giovanni de’ Medici, “delle Bande
Nere” (1498-1526), a cousin, condottiere (soldier) in the
service of Florence and the papacy
13. Cosimo I de’ Medici,
Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519-74) = 1539 Leonora Alvarez
de Toledo (1522-62), first cousin of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd
Duke of Alba, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
14. Francesco I Maria
de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541-87) = (1) 1565
Joanna, Archduchess of Austria (1547-78), daughter of Ferdinand
I, Holy Roman Emperor, & Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
15. Marie de’
Medici (1575-1642 Regent of France 1610-17) = 1600 Henry IV, King of
France (1553-1610, King of Navarre from 1572 of France from 1589)
1. Sir Ferdinando Gorges (ca. 1565-1647), Lord Proprietor of the
Province of Maine: Edward Gorges & Cecily Lygon; Edmund
Gorges & Anne Walsh; Sir Edward Gorges & Mary Poyntz; Sir Anthony Poyntz
& Elizabeth Huddersfield; Sir Robert Poyntz & Margaret Woodville;
(illegitimate) Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, by Gwenlian
Stradling.
2. Elizabeth Bosvile of Mass., wife of Roger
Harlakenden and Herbert Pelham (ca. 1600-73),
first treasurer of Harvard College: Godfrey Bosvile & Margaret Grevile; Sir
Edward Grevile & Jane Grey; Lord John Grey & Mary Browne; Thomas Grey,
2nd Marquess of Dorset, & Margaret Wotton; Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of
Dorset, & Cecily Bonville; Sir John Grey & Elizabeth Woodville,
later Queen of Edward IV.
3. Joshua Henshaw (ca. 1643-post 1701)
of Mass.: William Henshaw & Katherine Houghton; Evan
Houghton & Ellen Parker, Richard Houghton & Margaret Stanley, who was
possibly illegitimate; Henry Stanley of Bickerstrath, Lancashire, whose wife was
Margaret Stanley; Sir James Stanley & Anne Hart (parents of Henry); George
Stanley, Baron Strange, & Joan Strange; John Strange, 8th Baron
Strange of Knokyn, & Jacquette Woodville.
4. John Nelson
(1654-1734) of Boston, fur trader, statesman, and his possible
sister, Margaret Nelson of Virginia, wife of
Rev. Thomas Teackle: Robert Nelson & Mary Temple, sister of
Sir Thomas Temple, proprietor and governor of Nova Scotia; Sir John Temple &
Dorothy Lee; Edmund Lee & Dorothy Browne; Hon. Anthony Browne & Mary
Dormer, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, & Jane Radcliffe; Robert
Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, & Margaret Stanley; Thomas Stanley,
2nd Earl of Deity, & Anne Hastings; George Stanley, Baron
Strange, & Joan Strange, see #3 above.
5. John Jones (1708-72) of
Boston: William Jones & Martha Smith; Cadwallader Jones & Elizabeth
Creswick; Cadwallader Jones & Anne Bluet; John Bluet & Elizabeth
Portman; Arthur Bluet & Joan Lancaster, Richard Bluet & Mary Chichester,
John Bluet & Dorothy Blount; William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy &
Dorothy Grey; Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, & Cecily Bonville, see #2
above.
6. Robert Traill (post 1715-1785) of N. H.:
William Traill & Isabel Fea; William Traill & Barbara Balfour; George
Balfour & Marjorie Baikie; Patrick Balfour & Barbara Moodie; Francis
Moodie & Margaret Stewart, James Stewart of Graemsay & ___
(illegitimate) Robert Stewart. 1st Earl of Orkney, by Janet Robertson;
(illegitimate) James V, King of Scots, by Eupheme Elphinstone; James IV, King of
Scots & Margaret Tudor of England; Henry VII, King of England &
Elizabeth Plantagenet of York.
7-9. Ursula St. Leger (ca. 1609-72) of Virginia, wife
of Rev. Daniel Horsmanden Sir Warham St. Lager & Mary
Hayward; Sir Anthony St Lager & Mary Scott; Sir Warham St Lager & Ursula
Neville; George Neville, 3rd Baron Abergavenny, & Mary Stafford; Edward
Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, & Eleanor Percy; Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke
of Buckingham & Catherine Woodville. Warham Horsmanden of Charles
City Co., Va., Ursula’s son, married Susanna Beeching and was the father of Mary
Horsmanden, wife of Samuel Filmer and William Byrd I. Katherine St.
Leger (d. ca. 1658) of Virginia, Ursula’s sister,
married Thomas Colepepper (Culpeper) among
their children was Frances Colepepper (Culpeper), wife of Samuel Stephens,
governor of N.C., Sir William Berkeley, governor of Va., and Philip Ludwell,
governor of N.C. and S.C. Mary St. Leger, another sister of
Ursula, married William Codd and was the mother of St. Leger
Codd (d. 1706/7) of Va. and Md.
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10. Edward Digges (1621-75/6), governor of Virginia:
Sir Dudley Digges, diplomat and judge, & Mary Kempe; Thomas Digges,
mathematician, & Anne St. Lager, Sir Warham St Leger & Ursula Neville,
see #7 above.
11. Thomas Wingfield (ca. 1670-1720) of
Virginia: John Wingfield & Mary Owen; Sir John Wingfleld
& Frances Cromwell; Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, & Frances
Rugge; Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell & Mary Paulet; John Paulet~, 2nd
Marquess of Winchester, & Elizabeth Willoughby; Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron
Willoughby de Broke, & Dorothy Grey, who = (2) William Blount, 4th Baron
Mountjoy, see #5 above.
12. George Home (1698-1760) of
Virginia: Sir George Home, 3rd Bt., & Margaret Home; Sir
Patrick Home, 1st Bt. & Jean Dalmahoy (parents of Margaret); Sir John Home
& Margaret Stewart, John Stewart & Margaret Home; Francis Stewart, 1st
Earl of Bothwell, & Margaret Douglas; John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham,
& Jean Hepburn; (illegitimate) James V. King of Scots, see #6 above, by
Elizabeth Carmichael.
13. William Bladen (1673-1718), colonial
publisher, attorney-general of Maryland: Nathaniel Bladen &
Isabella Fairfax; Sir William Fairfax Parliamentary general in the English Civil
War, & Frances Chaloner; Sir Philip Fairfax & Frances Sheffield; Edmund
Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave & Ursula Tyrwhit; John Sheffield, 2nd Baron
Sheffield, & Douglas Howard; Edmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield, &
Anne Vere; Sir Robert Sheffield & Jane Stanley; George Stanley, Baron
Strange, & Joan Strange, see #3 above.
14. Alicia Arnold (1700-46)
of Maryland, wife of John Ross: Michael Arnold, Jr. & Anne
Knipe; Rev. Thomas Knipe, headmaster of Westminster School, & Anne Wolseley;
Sir Thomas Wolseley & Elizabeth Zouche; Sir John Zouche & Isabel Lowe;
Sir John Zouche & Mary Berkeley; Henry Berkeley, Baron Berkeley, &
Catherine Howard; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, the poet & Frances Vere;
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk & Elizabeth Stafford; Edward Stafford,
3rd Duke of Buckingham, & Eleanor Percy, see #s7-9 above.
15. John
Alston (1668-1719) of S.C.: William Alston & Thomasine
Brooke; John Alston & Dorothy Temple; Sir John Temple & Dorothy Lee, see
#4 above.
16. James Kinloch (ca. 1683-1757) of S.C.:
Sir Francis Kinloch, 2nd Bt., & Mary Leslie; David Leslie, 1st Baron Newark,
Parliamentary general in the English Civil War, & Joan Yorke; Patrick
Leslie, 1st Baron Lindores, & Jean Stewart; Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of
Orkney, see #6 above, & Janet Kennedy.
SOURCES
A. King John to Orsinis Medicis, the Famese, Popes Leo X and Paul III, and
Woodviles:
Burke’s Guide to the Royal Family, 1st ed. (1973),
pp. 195-96 (King John); Vicary Gibbs et al., eds., The Complete
Peerage, rev. ed., 14 vols. (1910-59, henceforth CP), article on
Simon de Montfort, 2nd Earl of Leicester (7 11929] :543-47); Dictionary of
National Biography, henceforth DNB, for Guy de Montfort, Count of
Nola esp.; Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant,
Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new ed. (1883), pp.
376-77 (an unreliable work, useful, however, for the Montforts), and W. H.
Turton, The Plantagenet Ancestry (1928, repr. 1968), pp. 3, 224 (also an
unreliable work, correct in the descent of Elizabeth Woodville from Orsinis
[“des Ursins” ]); The Genealogist (henceforth TG) 3(1982):176-77,
4(1983): 149, 5(1984):65, 6 (1985):150, 9 (1988):42 (Orsini to del Balzo,
Luxembourg, and Woodville); Conte Pompeo Litta, Famiglie Celebri Italiane,
vol. 7(1844), 62 (Orsini di Roma), tables 7,9-11, 16, 19, 23, vol. 9 (1868),
140 (Farnese, Duchi di Parma), tables 7, 10, vol. 2(1825), 17 (Medici di
Firenze), tables 9, 11-13; W. K., Prinz von Isenburg, Stammtafeln zur
Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten, vol.2 (1936, repr. 1953), tables 121)
and 127 (Medici, Famese); TG 2 (1981): 162-64, 166, 3 (1982): 28-29, 3940,
186-87, 5(1984):227, 236-37 (Orsini of Monterotondo to Marie de’ Medici);
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser, vol. 5 (1959), p. 396 (Caetani) and G.13.A.
Caetani, Caietanorum Genealogica (1920). Litta’s great set, the
bibliographical base for this column, is part of the superb collection of
continental works given to NEHGS by John Hutchinson Cook.
B. Immigrants to Woodville Siblings:
1. Gorges: Raymond Gorges, The Story of a Family Through
Eleven Generations, Being a History of the Gorges Family (1944), chart in
back esp.; Sir John MacLean, Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family
of Poyntz (1886, repr. 1983), pp. 65,95 esp.
2. Mrs.
Pelham: F. L. Weis, W. L. Sheppard, Jr., and David Fans, Magna
Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th ed. (1991, henceforth MCS4), line 95 and sources
cited therein; Sir Egerton Brydges, ed., Collins’ Peerage of England,
vol.4 (1812), p. 342 (Grevile) and any modem Burke’s Peerage,
henceforth BP (Grevile, later Earls of Warwick, and Greys, later
Earls of Stamford); CP (Grey of Groby, Dorset, Ferrets of
Groby).
3. Henshaw: Register 22(1868):105-15, repr.
in English Origins of New England Families, 2nd ser., henceforth E02
(1985): 2:329-39, esp. the pedigree on 115 (339), which cites a marriage
settlement between Richard Houghton and “Margaret, daughter of Henry Stanley of
Bickerstagh”; BP (Stanleys, Earls of Derby, Crosshall, Aughton and
Bickerstragh cadet line); CP (Derby, Strange and vol. 12 pt. 1, p. 356,
note g, on the origin of the identification of Jacquette, Lady Strange, as a
sister of Queen Elizabeth Woodville). In 1980 Michael J. Wood reported to W.
Charles Barnard that Richard Houghton and his wife enfeoffed Edward, James and
William Stanley, sons of Henry of Bickerstragh, with lands in Great Carleton,
etc. (William Farrar and John Brownbill, eds., The Victoria History of the
County of Lancaster, vol. 3 [1907, repr. 1966], p. 278, note 8, vol. 7
[1913, repr. 19661, p. 230, rote 29). The 1598 will of Henry Stanley of
Bickerstragh (Chetham Society Publications 51 [1860]:95-97) mentions no
daughter Margaret, so perhaps, like her brother William and despite her
forename, she too was illegitimate.
4, 14. Nelson, Alston:
TG 2(1981):123-28 (Nelson) and Lineage Book Descendants of
the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain, #212 (Alston)
and sources cited in both; CP [153] (Derby, Strange, as per #3
above). For Margaret Nelson of Va., wife of Rev. Thomas Teackle and alleged
sister of John Nelson, see also John A.. Upshur, Upshur Family in
America (1955), pp. 24-25.
5. Jones: Register
113(1959):216-21 (repr. in E02:2: 570-75); J. L. Vivian, The Visitations
of the County of Devon (1895), pp. 93-94 (Bluet); 102 (Blount, Grey); CP
(Mountjoy, Dorset, Ferrers of Groby).
6. Traill:NEXUS 6(1989):21)6, Traill, Spence, Balfour, Moodie and Stewart sources
listed under J. R. Lowell (a thorough monograph on the Trail descent from James
V, King of Scots, would be welcome), plus TG2 (1981): 164-65,
3(1982):25-26, 33, 176-77.
7-9. Horsmanden, Colepepper (Culpeper),
Codd: V. M. Meyer and J. F. Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person,
3rd ed. (1987, henceforth AP&P), pp. 523-30, MCS4, line
47, DNB (Sir Warham St. Leger) and sources cited in all three; CP
(Abergavenny, Buckingham).
10. Digges: AP&P,
pp. 247-50; MCS4, lines 48, 47; CP as above, #7-9.
11.
Wingfield: Genealogies of Virginia Families from the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 5 (1981), pp. 822-26,
84041(1952 article by J. G. Herndon); CP (Cromwell, Winchester,
Willoughby de Broke, Dorset, Ferrers of Groby).
12. Home:MCS4, lines 41E and 92B, plus sources cited therein and TG
2-3(1981-82), as per above. See also E.E. Hume, A Colonial Scottish
Jacobite Family (1931) and Memorial to George Hume, Esquire
(1939).
13. Bladen: Maryland Genealogies, vol. 1
(1980), pp. 43-47 (1910 and 1913 articles by Christopher Johnson); Joseph
Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, vol. 1, West Riding
(1874), Fairfax pedigree; J.W. Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the
Northern Counties of England (1913), pp. 211)6-7 (Sheffield, but note the
CP correction as to the mother of the 1st baron); CP (Mulgrave,
Sheffield, Strange).
14. Mrs. Ross: AP&P, pp.
729-31 and sources cited therein, plus TG 5(1984):148-49, 152; John Smith
of Nibley (and Sir John MacLean, ed.), The Lives of the Berkeleys, vol.
2(1883), pp.402-3 esp.; CP (Berkeley, Norfolk Buckingham).
15. See #4
above.
16. Kinloch: South Carolina Genealogies, vol.
3 (1983), Pp. 58-59 and BP (Kinloch of Gilmerton, baronets); Sir J. B. Paul,
The Scots Peerage, vols. 5(1908), pp. 382-84 (Lindores), 6 (1909), pp.
44042 (Newark), 572-75 (Orkney); TG 2,3(1981-82), as per #6 above.
C. General:
For the descents of Popes Innocent XIII and Benedict XIII, for the Colonnas
of Paliano and Barberinis of Palestrina, plus the noted descendants of Mrs.
Pelham, John Jones, Joshua Henshaw, Governor Digges, Mrs. Ross, John Alston of
S.C., William Bladen, and James Kinloch see GB. Roberts, “The Mowbray
Connection” (23 vols., mss. at NEHGS, N.Y. Public Library, and the Society of
Genealogists in London), continental charts pp. 481-84, American charts pp.7,
1839, Q178, 509, 512 64, 65, 123-25, 61-63, 253, 1964, 2144, plus various
references in the bibliography of this work, notably the compendium by Conte
Pompeo Litta cited above, and sources listed for early descendants of American
immigrants of royal descent.