Ancestry charts of Diana Spencer and Catherine Middleton
All people are descended via various racial or ethnic lines of antiquity, but in most cases, records do not exist. The British Royal Family is one of the few families for which ancestry can be traced to many notable lineages of antiquity. Their lineage can be traced back to the Saxons, Scottish (Stuart dynasty), Welsh (Tudor dynasty), Irish, Germans (Hanover and Windsor), French (Norman and Angevin), Russians, Franks and perhaps even Byzantines.
Diana Spencer and Catherine Middleton
- Two granddaughters of Edward III, Philippa of Clarence and Joan Beaufort, were proven common ancestors of Diana Spencer, Catherine Middleton and George Washington.[1] The following chart incorporates data from research done by William Addams Reitwiesner.[2]
- Note: Diana Spencer had descended from not one, but four granddaughters of King Edward III: Philippa of Clarence, Philippa of Lancaster, Catherine of Lancaster and Joan Beaufort. All four lines are shown below. Eleanor Neville and Cecily Neville, shown in the chart, were daughters of Joan Beaufort by her second marriage. Sir William Gascoigne,[3] shown in the chart, descended from Mary (Margaret) Ferrers,[4] daughter of Joan Beaufort by her first marriage. Diana Spencer had also descended from Kings Charles II and James II as shown below. The chart shows Washington's descent through his father. His mother descended from Joan Beaufort through her son Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and from Constance of York (another granddaughter of Edward III) through her daughter Isabel le Despenser.[5]
| Edward III of England (1312–1377) | Philippa of Hainault (1314–1369) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368) | Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (1332–1363) | Blanche of Lancaster (1345–1368) | John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340–1399) | Constance of Castile (1354–1394) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355–1382) | Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352–1381) | Philippa of Lancaster (1359–1415) | John I of Portugal (1358–1433) | Catherine of Lancaster (1373–1418) | Henry III of Castile (1379–1406) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Mortimer (1371–1417) | Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364/1366-1403) | Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374–1398) | Alianore Holland (1373–1405) | John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz (1400–1442) | Isabella of Barcelos (1402–1466) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393–1455) | Eleanor Neville (c. 1397-1472) | Anne de Mortimer (1390–1411) | Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (c. 1375-1415) | Isabella of Portugal (1428–1496) | John II of Castile (1405–1454) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421–1461) | Eleanor Poynings (1422–1480)[6] | Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460) | Cecily Neville (1415–1495) | Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) | Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Margaret Percy (b. c. 1447) | Sir William Gascoigne (c. 1450-1486) | Edward IV of England (1442–1483) | Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437-1492) | Joanna of Castile (1479–1555) | Philip I of Castile (1478–1506) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Gascoigne (1470–1559)[7] | Sir George Tailboys, de jure 9th Baron Kyme (c. 1467-1538) | Anne Gascoigne (c. 1474-1504) | Sir Thomas Fairfax (c. 1475-1520) | Elizabeth of York (1466–1503) | Henry VII of England (1457–1509) | Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564) | Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Anne Tailboys (1510–1577)[8] | Sir Edward Dymoke (1508–1566) | Lucy Goodman[9] | William Fairfax (born 1496)[10] | Sir Nicholas Fairfax (1496–1571)[11] | Jane Palmes[12] | Joanna of Austria (1547–1578) | Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541–1587) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Frances Dymoke (1550–1610)[13] | Sir Thomas Windebank, Clerk of the Signet to King James I (1550–1607) | John Fairfax[14] | Mary Birch[15] | Margaret Fairfax[16] | Sir William Belasyse (c. 1523-1604) | Marie de' Medici (1575–1642) | Henry IV of France (1553–1610) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mildred Windebank (1580–1630)[17] | Robert Reade (1551–1626)[18] | Benjamin Fairfax (1592–1675) | Sarah Galliard[19] | Sir Henry Belasyse, 1st Baronet (1555–1624)[20] | Ursula Fairfax (died 1633) | Henrietta Maria of France (1609–1669) | Charles I of England (1600–1649) | |||||||||||||||||||
| George Reade, acting Governor of Virginia (1608–1671)[21] | Elizabeth Martiau (1620–1686)[22] | Benjamin Fairfax (died 1708)[23] | Bridget Stringer[24] | Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg (1577–1653) | Barbara Cholmley (d. 1619)[25] | James II of England (1633–1701) | Arabella Churchill (1648–1730) | Charles II of England (1630–1685) | Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640–1709) | |||||||||||||||||
| Mildred Reade (1643–1686)[26] | Col. Augustine Warner, Speaker of Virginia House of Burgesses (1642/43-1681) | Sarah Fairfax (1654–1688)[27] | John Meadows, Vicar of Ousden (1622–1697)[28] | John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse (1614–1689) | Anne Paulet (d. c. 1694) | Henrietta FitzJames (1667–1730) | Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave (1661–1689) | Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1661–1689) | Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington (c. 1668-1723) | |||||||||||||||||
| Mary Warner | John Smith[29] | Mildred Warner (1670/71-1701) | Capt. Lawrence Washington, High Sheriff of Virginia (1659–1698) | Philip Meadows, Mayor of Norwich (1679–1752)[30] | Margaret Hall (1691–1765)[31] | Barbara Belasyse (died 1740) | Sir John Webb, 3rd Baronet[32] | Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683–1757) | Henrietta Somerset (1690–1726)[33] | |||||||||||||||||
| Mildred Smith (born 1682)[34] | Robert Porteus (c. 1679-c. 1758)[35] | Augustine Washington (1694–1743) | Mary Ball (1708–1789) | Sarah Meadows (c. 1725-1800)[36] | David Martineau, surgeon (1726–1768)[37] | Mary Webb (d. 1718/19)[38] | James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave (1684–1741) | Isabella FitzRoy (1726–1782)[39] | Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (1718–1794) | |||||||||||||||||
| Reverend Robert Porteus (c. 1705-c. 1754)[40] | Judith Cockayne (1702–1789)[41] | George Washington, 1st President of the U.S.A. (1732–1799) | Thomas Martineau, manufacturer of camelots and bombazine (1764–1826)[42] | Elizabeth Rankin (1771–1848)[43] | James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715–1763) | Maria Walpole (1736–1807) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mildred Porteus (1744–1815)[44] | Robert Hodgson (b. 1740)[45] | Elizabeth Martineau (1794–1850)[46] | Thomas Greenhow, surgeon, sanitary reformer (1792–1881)[47] | Anne Waldegrave (1762–1801)[48] | Lord Hugh Seymour (1759–1801) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Very Rev. Robert Hodgson (c. 1766-1844) | Mary Tucker (c. 1778-c. 1844)[49] | Frances Greenhow, educationist (1821–1892)[50] | Francis Lupton, land owner, cloth merchant (1813–1884)[51] | Horace Seymour (1791–1851) | Elizabeth Palk (1797–1827)[52] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (1805–1891) | Oswald Smith (1794–1863)[53] | Francis Martineau Lupton, cloth merchant, politician (1848–1921)[54] | Harriet Albina Davis (1850–1892)[55] | Adelaide Seymour (1825–1877)[56] | Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798–1857) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Frances Dora Smith (1833–1922) | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1824–1904) | Olive Lupton (1881–1936)[57] | Richard Middleton, solicitor (1879–1951)[58] | Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer (1857–1922) | Margaret Baring (1868–1906)[59] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855–1944) | Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862–1938) | Peter Middleton, Pilot Instructor (1920–2010)[60] | Valerie Glassborow (1924–2006)[61] | Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892–1975) | Cynthia Hamilton (1897–1972) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) | George VI (1895–1952) | Michael Middleton, air line officer, businessman (born 1949) | Carole Goldsmith, stewardess, businessperson (b. 1955)[62] | John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924–1992) | Frances Ruth Roche (1936–2004) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth II (born 1926) | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles, Prince of Wales (born 1948) | Diana Spencer (1961–1997) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (born 1982) | Catherine Middleton (born 1982) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Rosalind Bingham and Sarah Ferguson descended from King Charles II of England through his mistress, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (this descent is shown below under Byzantine connection).
- Frances Roche (mother of Diana Spencer) had Irish descent, her father being an Irish peer.
- Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (ancestor of Diana Spencer), had a descent from King Charles II of England through his daughter Mary Crofts (Mary Stuart) by mistress Lucy Walter (This paternity was claimed by Mary Stuart but not acknowledged by the king) as well as from Rory O'Moore (Irish noble) through the brother of Patrick Sarsfield.[63]
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References
- ↑ "George Washington 1st US President Family's 12 Generation Line of Descent from (Sir) William 'Of Gawthorpe' GASCOIGNE Knight, High Sheriff of Yo". Washington.ancestryregister.com. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
- ↑ Reitwiesner, William Addams. The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011
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- ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Mary (Margaret) Ferrers". The Peerage.
- ↑ "John Tyler, 10th President of the USA is related to George Washington, 1st President of the USA!". Geni.com. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
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