Descents from Magna Carta Sureties to Elizabeth (Brooke) Wyatt with additional descents to Benjamin and Susan (Wildsmith) Dowdey

William Richard de John de Lacy John Fitz Saher de d'Aubeney of Clare, 3rd of Robert of Quincy, 1st Robert de Roger le Belvoir. Earl of Pontefract, Warkworth. Earl of Roos of Bigod, 4th Hertford. Earl of Winchester. Helmsley Earl of Lincoln. (Hamlake). . William Robert de William de Henry de Bohun, Malet of Vere, 3rd Gilbert de Mowbray of 5th Earl of

Curry Earl of Clare, 4th Thirsk. Hereford. Hugh le Mallet. Oxford. Earl of Sir Robert Margery la Bigod, 5th Hertford. Fitz Roger of Zouche. Earl of Warkworth;

b. ca. 1247, Norfolk. Sir Robert de Isabel

Sir Richard 2 Maud de d. 1310. Roos of d'Aubeney; de Clare, Lacy; Sir Thomas 2 2 Elizabeth Fitz Helmsley; b. ca. 1233, 5th Earl of d. in or Mowbray, Alan; dau. of b. bef. 1237, d. 1301. Hertford; before K.G., 1st Duke Richard Fitz Alan d. 1285. Sir John de Neville, K.G., 3rd 1 Maud de Sir John Margaret de b. 1222, 1288/9. of Norfolk; and Elizabeth de Lord Neville of Raby, joint Percy; d. in Cobham, Courtenay; d. 1262. b. 1367, Bohun, 3rd Lord d. 1395. ambassador to France, Admiral of or before d. 1399. b. ca. 1371, d. Cobham; the North; d. 1388. 1378/9. 1425. d. 1407/8. Sir William de Roos, 2nd Lord 1 Margery de Badlesmere; dau. of

Roos of Helmsley; b. ca. 1288, d. Bartholomew de Badlesmere and 1342/3. Margaret de Clare, b. ca. 1306, d. 1363. Sir Edward Neville, Lord Bergavenny; d. 1476. 2 Katherine Howard, dau. of Robert Howard and Margaret 1 Sir Edward Brooke, 6th Lord Elizabeth Audley (or Tuchet); daughter of Sir James Tuchet (or Audley), Mowbray; d. aft. 1477. Cobham; b. ca. 1415, d. 1464. 5th Lord Audley, and Margaret Roos.

Sir John Brooke, 7th Lord Cobham; b. ca. 1450, d. 1511/12. Margaret Neville; d. 1506.

Sir Thomas Brooke, 8th Lord Cobham; d. 1529. He was at the Field of the Cloth 1 Dorothy Heydon; daughter of Sir Henry Heydon of , of Gold in 1520. Norfolk, by Elizabeth or .

Sir 1 Elizabeth Brooke; of Allington Castle d. 1560. and Boxley Abbey, Kent, poet to King Henry VIII, Esquire of the Body, Marshal of Calais, Sheriff of Kent, Thomas Wyatt Ambassador to the by Holbein Emperor; b. 1503, d. 1542.

Facsimile of the beginning of the Magna Carta. Seal of Humphrey de Bohun, 1300-1. Humphrey King John's unsuccessful military efforts were descended from the surety Henry de Bohun (upper right of expensive and required heavy taxes. The barons of chart) and was the grandfather of Elizabeth de Bohun, given

the realm finally rebelled and in June 1215 forced above as the mother of Elizabeth Fitz Alan. Humphrey's the king to accept the Magna Carta or Great mother was descended from a half-brother of Godfrey of Charter. This charter limited the king's powers in Bouillon, first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Godfrey various ways, declaring that he was not above the became identified fairly soon after his death with the legend law. It was reissued later in several modified of the swan knight, and some 200 years later many versions. The chart above shows descents from 13 descendants of this family began using swans in their coats of the 25 barons who were sureties, responsible for of arms. In the counter seal (above, right) the shield of guaranteeing that the king followed the charter. Bohun is hung by a loop enclosing the Bohun swan.

Magna Carta Surety Ancestors of Audrey (Barlow) Almy, and hence of Magna Carta Surety Ancestors of Jane (Finch) Wyatt, and hence of Susan (Wildsmith) Dowdey: Geoffrey de Say, Henry Benjamin Dowdey: William de Huntingfield and William Malet. de Bohun, William Malet, Roger and Hugh le Bigod, Robert de Vere, Saher de Quincy, and Richard de Clare.

Notation: Magna Carta Sureties are displayed in boxes with a red inner border. A Magna Carta Surety Ancestors of Barbara (Mitford) Wyatt, and hence of Susan (Wildsmith) Dowdey: Roger le Bigod, dotted line segment indicates one or more omitted generations. Saher de Quincy, and John Fitz Robert.

Prepared by LineageCharts.com 19 March 2013 version of chart