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UV]M ONV ] 2016 January uoptoS. 3u r3r Anderson David Rodger’s Chicago Ancestors Ancestors of the the of Ancestors of of Forbearers Scottish Scottish Volume II: English English II: Volume Selected Selected 2 Selected Ancestors of the Chicago Rodger’s Volume II: English Forbearers of Scottish Ancestors Plantagenet Royals are amongst those leading us to Our Scottish family David Anderson December 3, 2015 Abstract Early on, our motivation for studying the ancestors of the Chicago Rodger’s was to determine if, according to rumor, they are descendants of any of the Scottish Earls of Bothwell. We relied mostly on two resources on the Internet: Ancestry.com and Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. We have been subscribers of both. To a lesser extent we also benefited from the Mormon operated FamilySearch.Org website. Finding the ancestral lines connecting the Chicago Rodger’s to one or more of the Scottish Earls of Bothwell was the most time consuming and difficult undertaking in generating the results shown in the last book of this series of three books. It shouldn’t be very surprising that once we found Earls in Scotland we would also find Kings and Queens, which we did. The ancestral line that connects to the Earls of Bothwell goes through Helen Heath (1831-1902) who was the mother and/or grandmother of the Chicago Rodger’s She was the paternal grandmother of my grandfather, Alfred Heath Rodger. Within this Heath ancestral tree we found four lines of ancestry without any evident errors though there are ambiguities. Three of those four lines reach just one Earl of Bothwell, the 1st, and the fourth line reaches the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. All four Heath lines also extend to Scottish King James the 1st and many other monarchs related to him. We were surprised, but should not have been, to find connections to royalty in much of what is now called Western Europe. There is also a mathematical aspect to ancestral trees: Once you have 20 generations separating recent ancestors from the more distant ones, the math suggests you’ll have about 2 to the 20th power distant “grandparents” or somewhat over 1 million such folks. If one allows for historical levels of distant (and not so distant) cousin marriages that number drops to about 600,000. This 2nd volume, of the three we have produced, covers the English ancestors of the Chicago Rodger’s. Starting with an early King of England, Alfred the Great, we trace a line of English ancestors until Margaret of Wessex marries the King of Scotland to produce Matilda of Scotland who marries English King Henry I. He, in turn, was the son of William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda of Flanders. They start a royal line, involving many of the Kings in the House of Plantagenets, until it reaches the Stewart line in Scotland. It ends with the parents of Joan Beaufort who married King James I of Scotland. Of the seven kings in our English line, six of them were of the House of Plantagenet. These relatives lived in a range of 16 to 26 generations prior to Helen Heath. Unlike the situation in Volume I where almost all currently living persons of European descent also descend from the historic individuals, here in Volume II the probabilities of having its listed ancestors decline as we go forward towards the more recent generations. We estimate that less than 10% of Americans with Scottish ancestry will have James I of Scotland as an ancestor. Table of Contents SELECTED ANCESTORS OF THE CHICAGO RODGER’S 1 VOLUME II: ENGLISH FORBEARERS OF SCOTTISH ANCESTORS 1 ABSTRACT 1 SELECTED ANCESTORS OF THE CHICAGO RODGER’S ALONG THE HELEN HEATH LINE 5 HOW TO READ THESE VOLUMES 5 HIGHLIGHTS OF VOLUME II: 6 ON OUR ROYAL COUSINS IN ENGLAND 8 PART I: ENGLISH LINE FROM ALFRED THE GREAT 9 ALFRED THE GREAT (849 – 899) 9 EALHSWITH (874 – 902) 18 EDWARD THE ELDER (874 – 924) 19 EADGIFU OF KENT (903 – 966) 22 EDMUND I (921 – 946) 23 ÆLFGIFU OF SHAFTESBURY (921 – 944) 25 EDGAR THE PEACEFUL (943 – 975) 27 ÆLFTHRYTH, WIFE OF EDGAR (945 – 1001) 28 ÆTHELRED II, THE UNREADY (968 – 1016) 30 ÆLFGIFU OF YORK (970 – 1002) 36 EDMUND II, IRONSIDE (988 – 1016) 38 2 EALDGYTH (992 – 1016) 40 EDWARD THE EXILE (1016 – 1057) 41 AGATHA, WIFE: EDWARD - EXILE (1025 – 1070) 42 SAINT MARGARET OF SCOTLAND (1045 – 1093) 44 MALCOLM III OF SCOTLAND (1031 – 1093) 48 PART II: INVENTING & FOLLOWING PLANTAGENETS 51 MATILDA OF SCOTLAND (1080 – 1118) 51 HENRY I OF ENGLAND (1068 – 1135) 54 EMPRESS MATILDA (1102 – 1167) 69 GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET, OF ANJOU (1113 – 1151) 83 HENRY II OF ENGLAND (1133 – 1189) 86 ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (1122 – 1204) 101 JOHN, KING OF ENGLAND (1166 – 1216) 114 ISABELLA OF ANGOULÊME (1188 – 1246) 131 HENRY III OF ENGLAND (1207 – 1272) 134 ELEANOR OF PROVENCE (1223 – 1291) 147 EDWARD I OF ENGLAND (1239 – 1307) 151 ELEANOR OF CASTILE (1241 – 1290) 164 EDWARD II OF ENGLAND (1284 – 1327) 171 ISABELLA OF FRANCE (1295 – 1358) 182 EDWARD III OF ENGLAND (1312 – 1377) 192 3 PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT (1314 – 1369) 198 JOHN OF GAUNT (1340 – 1399) 201 KATHERINE SWYNFORD (1349 – 1403) 210 JOHN BEAUFORT (1373 – 1410) 213 MARGARET HOLLAND (1385 -1439) 214 CONNECTION TO THE RODGER SCOTTISH LINE 216 4 Selected Ancestors of the Chicago Rodger’s Along the Helen Heath Line Volume II: English Forbearers of Our Scottish Ancestors of this three volume series is presented in this book. It covers • The English ancestors of Joan Beaufort (1402 – 1445) who was the wife of Scottish King James Stewart I (1394 – 1436). We follow those ancestors in two segments: First we describe the old English Kings and their relevant descendants beginning with King Alfred the Great (849 – 899) and then in the 2nd segment start from William the Conqueror (1024 – 1087) onward through the kings and other nobility of the House of Plantagenets up to the time of Joan Beaufort’s immediate ancestors. The other two books in this three-volume series cover this: • In Volume I, Continental Ancestors Before Hastings, we describe the historic ancestors of William the Conqueror (1024 – 1087) and his wife Matilda (1030 – 1083). They lived during the five centuries preceding the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Volume I ends with descriptions of the lives of William and Matilda. But it begins telling how we descend from a nun and a bishop! And how that was done quite legally within the Roman Catholic Church laws. Of all our ancestors, Charles Martel (686 – 741) may be the most important. Many historians credit him with saving western (Christian) civilization from being over-run by the Muslim caliphates. Their descendants include the Chicago Rodger’s and some of the persons described in Volumes II and III. • In Volume III, Royal Scottish Ancestors and Intermediaries, we study our Scottish ancestors beginning with Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scotland (810 – 858). Farther along this line of our ancestors is a cousin: King Macbeth (1005 – 1057). He fought our ancestors (winning once and dying once!). Several kings are encountered on our way down to Scottish King James I (1394 – 1436). His descendants in the Helen Heath line then include (or are cousins to) the first three Earls of Bothwell. After them we find the more recent ancestors of Helen Heath (1831 – 1901), who, for the most part, have escaped the attention of historians and news media. At the end we show the descendants of Helen Heath, including the Chicago Rodger’s. How To Read These Volumes Normally an author would not try to tell readers how to read their writings. It would be embarrassing to all concerned. But these books are not normal writings. They are not my writings except for some light editing I did.
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    Clan RIDDELL ARMS Argent, a chevron Gules between three ears of rye, skipped and bladed Proper CREST A demi greyhound Proper MOTTO I hope to share SUPPORTERS Two greyhounds Argent collared Gules One theory for the origin of this name suggests that a family from Gascony may have come to Scotland via Ryedale in Yorkshire. It is much more likely, however, that the name is of Norman origin. Gervase Ridale was a witness to a charter of David I in 1116, and his son, Walter, received a charter of the lands of Lillesleaf in Roxburghshire. One of his nephews was hostage for William the Lion who had been taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Alnwick in 1174. Riddells also acquired Swinburn in Northumberland. The lands were subsequently erected into a barony of Riddell. Sir William Riddell of Riddell swore fealty to Edward I of England for his lands in the Ragman Roll in 1296. Sir John Riddel was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia on 14 May 1628, and his lands were erected into the barony and regality of New Riddell. Sir John’s third son of the second Baronet, was a minister of the reformed church in Edinburgh who was persecuted and imprisoned because he would not renounce his Covenanter beliefs; unlike many others, however, he escaped with his life. Sir John Buchanan Riddell, MP for Selkirk, married in 1805 the eldest daughter of the Earl of Romney. His successors in the title still live in the Borders, although in that part now claimed by England.