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OYAL D ESCENT S SCOT T IS H R ECO RD S 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 H O W T O T RAC E By T h e R e ve re nd T W A D ES CEN . G . D . F L ET C H E R, L T Y A A M . P . F R RO Y . S A. O M , B L T H E S CO T T I S H l y J. B O AM JOHNSON RECO R D S J C . A. I I J , r " 1 908 . BER W - - . T O N H AM S E A CHAS . A NAU , AL ON T E , NGL ND . W h ol esale Agen ts M PK IN M R LL L N EN L C o . T D . , A SHA , HAMI TO . K T , , LONDON . P R IN T E RS , [AL L RI GH Z S LEEL BRARY H AROLD B . I BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROV O UT H , A H ow t o T rac e a Desce nt f m ro Royalty . Probably most families Most families that possess a ped igree of h ave Royal A seven or eight generations ncestry. e in the paternal line , hav at least on e descent from the Kings of Eng — land , perhaps many lines of descent even though they may be quite unaware of it . The difficulty is to trace out and prove your descent . The object of this chapter is to show from what kings and royal personages a descent can b e derived ; and to give some suggestions as to how it is possible to and e e e f R work out trac a d sc nt rom oyalty. 4 Royal The working out of a W hy Royal royal descent is , to my mind , Descents ar e a pursuit far more interest r in worth t ac g . ing than working out a ’ pedigree of one s paternal ancestors . The ordinary pedigree is to o often merely a string of of the names persons almost unknown . o f You get their names , their places abode , the dates and places of baptism , marriage and burial , the date and proof of their Wills or the grant O f Letters of Administration and that is all . Useful and excellent persons these ancestors were in their day , no doubt ; but still they were for the most part ” unknown to history . It is given to but few to h ave in the male line for an ancestor C a Marlborough , a Nelson , a live , a Fox Wellington , a Cromwell , a , a Burke , a Pitt, a Milton, a Tennyson , a Lely, or a h f R eynolds . T ose ew who have such paternal ancestors in their family tree are justly proud of them . D e scent s 5 Every royal descent necessarily implies th e possession of distinguished historical — personages as ancestors men and wome n whose doings we read about in the pages of — mot s history kings only , but warriors , tates O f men , knights the garter, canonized saints , and so forth . It gives a keener interest to the visitor to Westminster Abbey or W in C chester athedral , or to the student of English history , if he knows that he is de scended in a clear unbroken line from the kings and great men who lie buried in those sacred fanes and of whom he reads in history, and if he feels that he is united by the ties of blood to the Sovereign of these realms . It is sometimes urged Th e Blood that , after all , the quantity R a oy l . o f royal blood that flows ’ in any person s veins must be in fin itesi mally small ; but the same holds true of — the blood of our paternal ancestors we ’ e on e- only inh rit half of our parents blood , 6 Royal ’ one - - e fourth of our grandparents , one ighth ’ - of our great grandparents , and so on . Although we may have but little of their our blood coursing in veins , still we are of proud being descended from them , because they are our lineal ancestors . During the reigns of W h l the Plantagenet Kings i311 Desceiiis , e Becam e princes and princess s of i e the royal blood frequently Poss bl . intermarri ed with English n obles and knights , and it is from these unions that the strain of royal blood flows - in so many English families to day . The earliest monarch from whose younger children descent can be traced“ is King John , whose daughter Eleanor married of Simon de Montfort , Earl Leicester . The ‘ G un d r ad a wi f O f W l l d e W arren n u sed to b e c on , e i iam e , id e re d d au h r O f W ill a th e Con u er r b u t is n ow al o s s a g te i m q o , it m t on l us el ro e d h a sh e was n ot h is d au h er b u t h is s e c c v y v g , i p t t t ' t p th e l a e M r . R . Ch e ster W a er s s G d au gh ter . Se e t E t und rad a d c D scen fr G un d rad a is r n . W ar rm ne . e t om ve y commo D e scents 7 last monarch from whom descent can be t V IL w e d K n , d ht race is ing He ry hos aug er, w Mary Tudor, Queen Do ager of France , C e ff married harles Brandon , Duk of Su olk . No commoners can trace legitimate " descent from the Stuarts or the Guelphs, except through morganatic marriages , for, 1 1 since the year 5 5 until quite modern days , our princesses have intermarried only with i foreign royalties and pr ncelings . In our own time we have witnessed the marriages O fAr ll of the Princess Louise to the Duke gy , and of the Princess R oyal to th e Duke of we Fife , so perhaps are reverting to the happy custom that was in vogue in th e thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . R oy al De scen ts fr om Morgan atic Marriages an d Irregul ar Al li n e s o f En l sh S ere gn s h s e N o es on Le im a e a c g i ov i , wit om t git t ” R al e sc en s fr S o h W elsh an d Fren h K in s il l is oy D t om c tc , c g , w , it h o ed b e th e le o f an r cl e b e n cl ud e d in a ‘u re ol um e p , tit a ti to i tu v r o f th i s se ries . F or th is e ason I o m i t h ere all referen c e t o th e d h d d r f h ar e . an ill egitimate c h il en o C l s II t eir escen d an ts. F or th e r ese n sufli c e t o say h a a l s of th e 3 1 : l in g d es e n d an s p t , it t t i t iv c t o f N ell G wyn n is to b e fo un d in T h e Genea logical M agaz ine for an r 1 01 an d m a be n o ed h r h th e l u s O f h at J ua y , 9 , it y t e e t at vo me t a z n e c on n an ro al d e sc en s as well as so r g y y , e v y m a i tai m t . m e s f l d es n s of th e Pl n a ne s fr th e old Iri s S u e u ce t a t ge t om h and cotch in s etc . k g , 8 Royal Th e Twelve There are twelve royal ” Leaka es g personages , the younger Of th e children of Kings John , Ro al Bl OOd y . I . Henry III , Edward , E . V I L dward III , and Henry , from whom d escent can readily and usually be traced . 1 1 - 1 2 1 6 JOHN , 99 , was father of 1 ( ) Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester . 1 6 - 1 . 1 2 2 HENRY III , 2 7 , was father of ” ( 2) Edmund Crouchback , Earl of Lancaster and Leicester . - f D R I . 1 2 2 1 0 O E WA D , 7 3 7, was father of (3 ) Eleanor, wife of Henry, Count Bar, in France . O f G (4) Joan Acre , wife Of ilbert de C G . lare , Earl of loucester f O f ( 5) Elizabeth , wi e Humphrey de e ex . Bohun , Earl of Her ford and Ess D e sce n ts 9 Brotherton , Earl of Marshal of England .