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This page was set up by Robert Sewell in July 2006 to show the
descent of the Sewell Family from Charlemagne and his ancestors.
Robert Sewell graduated from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada) in 1967 with a B.Sc. degree in chemistry. After a year of
studies at the University of Toronto's College of Education, he taught
high school science in Collingwood, Ontario for a year and then taught
chemistry, physics and general science in Hamilton, Ontario for twenty-
nine years. Robert Sewell retired from teaching in June 1998.
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Sources
* Sewell Vincent Sample: Letters
* George E. Cokayne: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland,
Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Sutton Publishing,
August 24, 2000
* Frederick L. Weis and Walter L. Sheppard: Ancestral Roots, 7th
Edition, Baltimore, 1999
* World Book Millenium 2000 Deluxe Edition, (c) 1999 World Book Inc., (c)
IBM Corp.
* Microsoft Encarta Encyclopædia 99, (c) 1993-1998 Microsoft
Corporation
* Norman F. Cantor (ed.) The Encyclopædia of the Middle Ages, New
York, 1999
* Berhard Grun, The Timetables of History, New York, 1991
* Patrick J. Geary: Before France and Germany, Oxford University
Press, 1988
* George Andrews Moriarty: The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward
III and Queen Philippa, Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, Salt Lake
City, Utah, 1985.
* The Book of History (18 Volumes), London, 1914
* Richard Thomson: An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King
John (London, 1829)
* Edward Gibbon: The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman
Empire (1776 - 1788)
* Einhard: Vita Karoli Magni (ca. 830; The Life of Charlemagne,
translated by A.J.Grant, 1922)
* Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe,
http://www.euratlas.com * Mediæval History Guide,
http://historymedren.about.com/index.htm * Brian Tompsett, Royal Genealogical Data,
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/ * Catholic Online Saints and Angels,
http://saints.catholic.org/index.shtml * The Kings of France,
http://www.beyond.fr/history/kings.htmlThe Franks and their Kingdoms
Franks were members of a confederation of Germanic peoples that
attacked the Roman Empire beginning in the A.D. 200's. The Franks
were divided into two branches, the Salians and the Ripuarians. The
Salians settled in the Low Countries on the lower Rhine, near the
North Sea. The Ripuarians moved into the region around what are now
the cities of Aachen, Trier and Cologne, Germany, in the region of the
middle Rhine.
Frankish history is divided into two periods. These periods are
the Merovingian, from about 481 to 751, and the Carolingian, 751 to
987. Charlemagne, who was king of the Franks from 768 to 814, created
a vast empire. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned him emperor of the
Romans. After the time of Charlemagne, the Frankish empire began to
break up into what later became the kingdoms of France, Germany, and
Italy.
Our genealogical history begins with Clovis, a Ripuarian Frank who
was King of Cologne in the early 5th century. It should be noted that
many of the kings at this period of history were really just tribal
chieftans; and that this is not Clovis I (466? - 511) who founded of
the Merovingian Dynasty.
Generation One
Clovis, a Ripuarian Frank who was the King of Cologne circa 420 AD.
Frankish "kings" at this time were really just local tribal
chieftains.
fl. ca. 420 (flourished circa 420)
Clovis had a son:
* Childebert
Generation Two
Childebert who was a the King of Cologne circa 450 A.D.
fl. ca. 450
Childebert had a son:
* Siegbert
Generation Three
Siegbert the Lame who was the King of Cologne.
Murdered in 509
Seigbert was murdered by his son:
* Cloderic
Generation Four
Cloderic the Parricide who was briefly the King of Cologne. Cloderic
murdered his father in 509, and was himself murdered the same year by
Clovis I, the founder of the Merovingian Dynasty.
For more about Clovis I and the times in which he lived, click on The
Merovingians.
Cloderic married a kinswoman of Clothilda, the Burgundian Princess and
wife of Clovis I. They had a son:
* Murideric
Generation Five
Murideric, Lord of Vitrey
Murideric was "very young" in 509 when his father was murdered by
Clovis I.
Murideric revolted against Thierry (I), a son of Clovis (I), who
killed him.
Murideric married Perthois and they had the following sons:
* St. Gondulfus
* Duke Bodegisil (I) who died in 581. Bodigisil married first to
Palatina, a daughter of Gallus Magnus, a Gallo-Roman Senator and
Bishop of Troyes (elected 562). Bodigisil married second to Sancha, a
Gascow.
Generation Six
St. Gondulfus
Born in 524
Died on July 6, 607.
St. Gondulfus was Bishop of Tongres (consecrated in 599), Governor of
Marseilles in 581 and Mayor of the Palace to Theibert (I).
St. Gondulfus is almost certainly the father of Duke Bodegisil (II);
see F.L. Weis, Ancestral Roots, Baltimore, 1999, 190-6. Other earlier
works including George Andrews Moriarty: The Plantagenet Ancestry of
King Edward III and Queen Philippa, Mormon Pioneer Genealogical
Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1985, pages 5 and 241, show St.
Gondulfus' brother Duke Bodegisil (I) as the father of Duke Bodegisil
(II).
While it may seem strange to us to-day for a "saint" and a "bishop" to
have had children, this was not the case in early mediæval times.
Married clergy were the rule rather than the exception until Gregorian
reforms of the 11th century. By the late middle ages, there were
virtually no married clergy.
St. Gondulfus was a political figure; he was Governor of Marseilles
and Mayor of the Palace and was not consecrated until quite an old man
in 599. As well, it was very unusual among the early Franks for a son
to have the same name as his father as would be the case if Bodegisil
(I) had been the father of Bodegisil (II). The same name was used to
indicate a close kinship such as the uncle and nephew relationship
here.
St. Gondulfus had a son:
* Duke Bodegisil (II)
Generation Seven
Duke Bodegisil (II) was the Governor of Aquitane.
Killed in 588
Duke Bodegisil (II) married Oda, a Suevian and they had a son:
* Arnoself
Generation Eight
St. Arnoself of Metz was the Bishop of Metz and is also known as
Arnold, Arnulf and Arnuiph.
He was a member of the court of the Frankish king Theodebert (II) of
Austrasia. A noble, Arnoself married Doda, and their son was
Ansegisel. Doda became a nun, and Arnulf made plans to enter a
monastery but was named the bishop of Metz around 616. He continued
his court services, making Clotaire of Neustria the king of Austrasia.
He also served as counsellor to Dagobert, King Clotaire's son. In 626,
Arnulf retired to a hermitage at Remiremont, France. His feastday is
July 18.
Born in 582
Died on August 16, 641
St. Arnoself married Clothilde (Doda) who became a nun at Trèves in
612
St. Arnoself and Clothilde had a son:
* Ansigise
Generation Nine
Duke Ansigise who was Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia in 632 and is
also known as Anchises, Ansegisel and Ansegilius.
Born circa 602
Died (murdered) in 685
Married: St. Bégue or Begga, daughter of Pépin the Old of Landen who
was Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia in 623 and a counsellor of
Dagobert (I), King of Austrasia. St. Bégue's mother was St. Itta, said
to be a daughter of Arnoldus, Bishop of Metz, said to be a son of
Ansbertus, the Gallo-Roman Senator and his wife Blithilda. On the
death of her husband in the year 691, St. Bégue built a church and
convent at Andenne on the Meuse River and died there. Her feast day is
December 17th.
Duke Ansigise and St. Bégue had a son:
* Pépin
Generation Ten
Pépin of Heristal who was Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia.
Born circa 635
Died on December 16, 714
Pépin married first to Plectrud, a daughter of Hugobert and Irmina,
and they had the following sons:
* Drogo, Duke of Champagne
* Grimoald (II), Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
Pépin was associated with Aupais (Aupaïs, Elphide or Chalpaida?) who
is said to have been be a concubine. Historically, this referred to a
secondary or inferior wife and may help explain why some sources claim
that Pépin and Aupais were married. They had a son:
* Charles Martel
Generation Eleven
Charles "The Hammer" Martel who was the Mayor of the Palace in
Austrasia, and as such, was the virtual ruler of France. Please click
on Charles Martel for further details.
Born in 676
Died on October 22, 741
Charles Martel married first to Rotrou or Chrotrud who was perhaps a
daughter of St. Liévin, Bishop of Trèves. Charles and Rotrou had the
following children:
* Carloman who ruled Neustria, Burgundy and Provence as Mayor of the
Palace from 741 until 747 when he retired from political life and
became a monk at the Monastery of Monte Casino. He was succeeded by
his younger brother Pepin the Short.
* Landrée who married Count Sigrand
* Jerome
* Pépin the Short
Charles Martel married second to Swanhilde or Sunnichilde, daughter of
Theodebert, Duke of Bavaria and they had the following children:
* Grifo, who was endowed with a portion of his father's land, but was
displaced and imprisoned by his half brothers Carloman and Pépin the
Short.
* Chiltrud, who married in 749 to Odilo, Duke of Bavaria. In 757,
their son Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria the magnates of Bavaria
acknowledged themselves as vassals of Pépin the Short.
Generation Twelve
Pépin the Short, King of the Franks who was Mayor of the Palace in
Austrasia and who had himself declared King of the Franks in 751.
Please click on Pépin the Short for further details.
Born circa 715
Died on September 24, 768
Pépin the Short married in 740 to Bertha or Bertrada II of Laon also
known as "Bertha Broadfoot". She was the daughter of Caribert (or
Herbert), Count of Laon and granddaughter of Bertha, a Merovingian
Princess who was in turn a daughter of Thierry (III), King of
Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy.
(George Andrews Moriarty: Plantagenet Ancestry Salt Lake City, Utah,
1985, page 232)
Please click on Bertha for this line.
Some sources, eg. World Book 2000, (c) 1999 IBM Corporation, suggest
that Bertrada or Bertha was known as "Queen Goose-Foot" or "Goose-
Footed Bertha", and is the original "Mother Goose". Hence, we can
also list "Mother Goose" among our illustrious forebears.
Pépin the Short and Bertha of Laon had the following children:
* Charlemagne, Emperor of the West
* Carloman of the Franks, King of Franks, born about 751, died in 771
* Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, who had a son Rowland, who had a
daughter Juliana who married her first cousin once removed,Charles the
younger, Duke of Ingelheim who was a son of Charlemagne.
* Pippin who died young
Generation Thirteen
Charlemagne, Emperor of the West ruled jointly with his younger
brother Carloman from 768 until 771, at which time Carloman died.
Charlemagne greatly extended his empire, and was crowned emperor by
Pope Leo III on December 25, 800. Charlemagne was predeceased by two
of his sons, and was succeeded by his sole surviving son, Louis the
Pious. Click on Charlemagne for further details.
Born on April 2, 742 at either Ingolheim or Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)
Died on January 28, 814 at Aachen
Charlemagne married in 771 at Aachen to Hildegarde of Vinzgau, and
they had the following children:
* Pépin (I), King of Italy
* Charles the younger, Duke of Ingelheim, born 772 and died 811
before his father. Charles married Juliana, who was his first cousin
once removed.
* Louis (I) the Pious of Aquitaine, King of France, whose 7X great
granddaughter Mathilda of Flanders married in 1053 to William the
Conqueror. Please click on Mathilda for this descent.
Charlemagne had additional wives, an abundance of girlfriends and many
more children.
Generation Fourteen
Pépin (I), King of Italy who was crowned King of Italy by his father
Charlemagne in 781.
Born in April 773
Died on July 8, 810, before his father Charlemagne.
Pépin married in 795 to Bertha who may have been his cousin; a
daughter of his Uncle Carloman. Pépin and Bertha had a son:
* Bernhard, King of Italy, born circa 797
Generation Fifteen
Bernhard, King of Italy who revolted in July 817 when his uncle, Louis
(I) the Pious who had succeeded Charlemagne as Emperor, proceeded to
divide the empire among his sons, Bernhard's cousins.
Bernhard doubtless felt that his father Pépin had been crowned
King of Italy by Charlemagne and that he should follow his father as
the full fledged King of Italy. Louis the Pious, however, had a
different view of the situation. Seeing as Pépin had died before
Charlemagne, Louis the Pious felt that as Charlemagne's heir, he was
overall king or emperor; and that Bernhard was perhaps sort of a sub-
king. Bernhard's revolt didn't work, and he was forced to submit to
Louis in December 817.
Eventually, by the Treaty of Verdun in 843, the territory that had
been Bernhard's Kingdom of Italy was awarded to Louis the Pious' son
Lothaire who became Holy Roman Emperor.
Please click to see a Map of the Carolingian Empire after the
Treaty of Verdun of 843.
Born circa 797
Died on August 17, 818 at St. Amrosius, Mailand
Berhard married in 813 to Kunigunde (also Cunegonde or Cunigunde) and
they had a son:
* Seigneur Pépin (II), Count of Peronne
Generation Sixteen
Seigneur Pépin de Peronne
Born in 817
Died after 840
Seigneur Pépin was probably the Lord or Count of Peronne and St.
Quentin in the Vermandois; an area in Picardy in northern France.
Seigneur Pépin had the following children:
* Herbert (I), Count of Senlis
* a daughter who married Gui, Count of Senlis. Their children
included:
* Bernard, Count of Senlis was a friend and counsellor of Hugh Capet
"the Great" of Neustria.
* Poppa who married in 886 to Rolf, 1st Duke of Normandy. Click on
Rolf the Ganger for this line. For further details including an
excerpt from George Andrews Moriarty: The Plantagenet Ancestry of King
Edward III and Queen Philippa, Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1985, page 226; please Click Here.
Generation Seventeen
Herbert (I), Count of Senlis and Vermandois
Born circa 840
Died (murdered) circa 900 - 908
Herbert (I) married Bertha, a daugher of Guerri (I), Count of Morvois
and they had the following children:
* Sprota or Adela of Senlis who married William (I) Longsword 2nd
Duke of Normandy as his first wife. Click on William Longsword for
this line.
* Herbert (II), Count of Vermandois
* Beatrice de Vermandois, born in 880, who married Robert (I), King
of France. Please click on Robert (I), King of France for this
descent.
Generation Eighteen
Herbert (II), Count of Vermandois
Herbert (II) married Liegarde (or Hildebrante) a daughter of Robert
(I), King of France and his first wife Aelis. (See Capet, Generation
Nine), and they had the following children:
* Alice of Vermandois, born 910, who married Arnolph "the Great",
Count of Flanders. Please click on Alice of Vermandois for this line.
* Robert, Count of Troyes
* Albert, Count of Vermandois
* Luitgarda of Vermandois, born about 915 who married William (I)
Longsword 2nd Duke of Normandy as his second wife. See William
Longsword.
Generation Nineteen
Robert, Count of Troyes and Meaux
Born circa 910
Died circa 967/68
Robert married Adelaide, a daughter of Giselbert, Count of Burgundy
and his wife Ermengarde.
Robert and Adelaide had the following daughters:
* Adelaide de Vermandois who was born in 950 and died circa 975 -
978. Adelaide married Geoffrey (I) "Grisgonelle", Count of Anjou (died
July 21, 987), son of Fulk (II) "the Good", Count of Anjou. Adelaide
and Geoffrey had the following children:
* Fulk (III) "the Black", Count of Anjou (died June 21, 1040) who
married Hildegarde; they had a daughter:
* Ermengarde, heiress of Anjou (born circa 1010/1015 and died 21
March, 1076) who married Aubri-Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinaise.
* Ermengarde of Anjou who married in 980 to Conan "the Crooked" Duke
of Brittany who died in 992. Ermengarde and Conan had a daughter:
* Judith of Brittany (982 - 1017) who married Richard (II) "the
Good", Duke of Normandy.
Albert (I) "the Pious", Count of Vermandois
Born circa 915
Died in 987
Albert married Gerberga of Lorraine. Click on The Merovingians for
Gerberga's descent from Clovis and the Merovingian Kings.
Adalbert and Gerberga had a son:
* Herbert (III), Count of Vermandois
Generation Twenty
Herbert (III), Count of Vermandois
Born circa 954
Died about 1000
Herbert married Ermengard, a daughter of Reinald, Count of Bar and
they had a son:
* Odo
Generation Twenty-one
Odo, Count of Vermandois
Born circa 1000
Died May 25, 1045
Odo married Parvie, Parrie or Parrè, and they had a son:
* Herbert (IV) Count of Vermandois
Generation Twenty-two
Herbert (IV), Count of Vermandois
Herbert (IV) married Adela, daughter of Raoul (III) Count of Valois
and the Vexin, and they had a daughter:
* Adelaide of Vermandois
Generation Twenty-three
Adelaide of Vermandois
Died in 1123
Adelaide married to Hugh "the Great" de Crépi, Count of Vermandois,
son of Henry (I) Capet, King of France and brother of Philip (I), King
of France. Click on Hugh "the Great" for details.
Adelaide and Hugh had a daughter:
* Isabel or Elizabeth de Crépi of Vermandois
After Hugh's death, Adelaide married secondly to Reinald, Count of
Clermont.
Generation Twenty-four
Isabel de Crépi of Vermandois who is also know as Elizabeth de Crépi
of Vermandois
Died before July 1147
Isabel married first to Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan. Robert
de Beaumont, son of Roger, Seigneur de Beaumont, was present at the
Battle of Hastings.
Isabel and Robert had the following children:
* Waleran de Beaumont (1104 - 1166, twin brother of Robert de
Beaumont), Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester who married circa
1141 to Agnes de Montfort,a daughter of Amauri de Montfort, Count of
Évreux. They had a son:
* Sir Robert de Beaumont (died in 1207), Count of Meulan.
* Robert de Beaumont (1104 - 1168, twin brother of Waleran de
Beaumont), 2nd Earl of Leicester who married Amice de Montfort, a
daughter of Ralph de Gael de Montfort, Seigneur of Montfort de Gael in
Brittany. Their children:
* Hawise de Beaumont who married William Fitz Robert, Earl of
Gloucester
* Sir Robert de Beaumont (born before 1135, died at Durazzo, Greece,
1190), 3rd Earl of Leicester, married Petronilla de Grandmesnil, their
daughter:
* Margaret de Beaumont married Saher de Quincy.
* Hugh de Beaumont, Earl of Bedford.
* Adeline who married Hugh IV, Seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle.
* Aubrée who married Hugh II, Seigneur of Chateauneuf-en-Thimerais.
* Maud who married William Louvel, Seigneur of Ivri and Brevel.
* Isabel (or Elizabeth) de Beaumont who first "had an affair" with
King Henry I of England and later married Gilbert FitzGilbert de
Clare.
* a daughter whose name is not known.
Isabel married secondly circa 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of
Warren & Surrey and they had the following children:
* William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Warren & Surrey, born in 1119;
whose daughter married Hamlin Plantagenet. Click on Hamlin
Plantagenet for this line.
* Gundred de Warren
* Adelaide (or Ada) de Warren
* Ralph de Warenne
* Rainald de Warenne
Generation Twenty-five
Adelaide de Warren who is also known as Ada de Warren.
Died in 1178
Adelaide married in 1139 to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon who was the son
of David (I) "the Saint", King of Scotland and Matilda of
Nothumberland. Henry was next in line as King of Scotland, but he
died about a year before his father. When David (I) died in 1153, he
was succeeded Henry's son, Malcolm (IV).
Adelaide de Warren and Henry of Huntingdon had the following children:
* Malcolm (IV) "the Maiden", King of Scotland, born on March 20,
1141/42
* William (I) "the Lion", King of Scotland, born in 1143
* Margaret of Huntingdon, Countess of Hereford
* Ada
* David, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, born about 1144
* Maud
* Isabella
* Marjory
Generation Twenty-six
David, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
Please click on Earl of Huntingdon for the continuation of this line.
Scotland
This page was set up by Robert Sewell in JUne 2006 to show the
descent of the Kings of Scotland. Robert Sewell graduated from
McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) in 1967 with a B.Sc.
degree in chemistry. After a year of studies at the University of
Toronto's College of Education, he taught high school science in
Collingwood, Ontario for a year and then taught chemistry, physics and
general science in Hamilton, Ontario for twenty-nine years. Robert
Sewell retired from teaching in June 1998.
Click to Contact Robert Sewell
Please visit the Sewell Genealogy Site Map for other pages in this
series.
The material presented here has been drawn from numerous sources:
* Richard Thomson: An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King
John (London, 1829)
* The Book of History (18 Volumes), London, 1914
* Berhard Grun, The Timetables of History, New York, 1991
* Frederick Lewis Weis: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. Baltimore,
1999
* Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots, Baltimore, 1999
* Norman F. Cantor (ed.) The Encyclopædia of the Middle Ages, New
York, 1999
* Sewell Vincent Sample: Letters
* Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants, Baltimore,
2004
* Douglas Richarson: Magna Carta Ancestry, Balitmore, 2005
* Brian Tompsett, Royal Genealogical Data, University of Hull, 2005
* The British Monarchy Web Site, The Kings and Queens of Scotland
* Linda Bruce Caron, Scotland's Kings and Queens
A special ackowledgement is extended to
Sewell Vincent Sample
and
Carma Kathleen Wallace
who have provided much information and encouragement.
Some information came from sites which are no longer readily
accessable including:
* Encyclopædia Brittanica which is now a pay service.
In the early middle ages, Scotland consisted of four separate
kingdoms:
* Dalriada inhabitated by Scots,
* Strathclyde inhabited by Britons,
* The Kingdom of the Picts,
* Northumbria inhabited by Angles.
Scottish and Pictish families began intermarrying in the 8th
century, and their kingdoms were often ruled by the same king. The
monarchy of Scotland evolved from this union, known as the Kingdom of
Alba. By the late 9th century, the Kingdom of Alba began absorbing
the kingdoms of the Britons and Angles. Thus, through intermarriage
and conquest, the Scottish Kings of Dalriada emerged as the overall
Kings of Scotland.
The Scots of Dalriada claimed a legendary antiquity beginning with
Gaythelos, son of a King of Greece who went to Egypt during the time
of Moses where he married the eponymous Scoti, daughter of the
Pharaoh. Gaythelos, Scoti, and their family emigrated to Spain and
eventually several groups of their descendants emigrated to Ireland;
the final group under Simon Brek, whose grandson led a colony from
Ireland to northern Britain and named it "Scotia". In the year 330
BC, these Scots elected as their king Fergus, son of Ferehard; and
they remained in Scotland until 360 AD when they were driven back to
Ireland by the Picts and Britons. In the 5th century, they returned
to Scotia under the leadership of Fergus, son of Erc. Or so the story
goes.
History knows nothing of the Scots earlier than about 500 AD, but
at this point, the name of Fergus MorMacErc (Fergus, son of Erc)
emerges from the mists of legend as the King of Scots in Dalriada.
Thus, it is with Fergus that we will begin this genealogical record.
Kings of Dalriada
Generation One
Fergus MorMacErc
Acceded circa 490
Died (killed) 501
Generation Seven
Domongart (II) macDomnaill
Did not reign.
Died (killed) circa 673
Generation Two
Domangart (I) macFergusso
Married Feldelm Foltchain
Died circa 506
Generation Eight
Eochaidh "Crook Nose"
Ruled for about three years
Died (killed) circa 697
Generation Three
Gabhran macDomangairt
Married to Ingenach or Lleian
Died circa 559
Generation Nine
Eochaidh (III) macEchdach
Acceded circa 721
Died circa 733
Generation Four
Aedan macGabhran
Acceded circa 574, Died circa 608
Consecrated by his cousin St. Columba
Generation Ten
Aedh Find "The White"
Ruled for 30 years
Died in 778
Generation Five
Eochaidh Buidhe macAidan
Died circa 630
Generation Eleven
Eochaid "The Venemous"
Acceded in 780
Married to Unuistice, Princess of the Picts.
Generation Six
Domnall Brecc
Died at the Battle of Strathcarron circa 642
Generation Twelve
Alpin of Kintyre
Acceded in 834
Died (killed fighting the Picts) circa 837
The information in the Generations One to Twelve is taken from
Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots, Baltimore, 1999 and from Brian
Tompsett, Royal Genealogical Data, University of Hull, 2005. Please
refer any additional sources, information, corrections and so on to
Robert Sewell.
It should be noted that in early mediæval Scotland, it was the
eldest and/or ablest male of the royal house, and not the heir of
line, that inherited the throne. This meant that any energetic male
connected with the royal line could assert a claim to the throne.
Thus, Kenneth (I) MacAlpin (838 - 858) was followed as king by his
brother Donald (I) (858 - 862). Kenneth's son Constantine (I) did not
become king until 862. The following is a genealogical record, and
not a list of Scotland's Kings. For the actual Kings and Queens of
Scotland, see:
Scotland's Kings and Queens, a brief sketch of each monarch from 843
to 1603.
Scottish Royal Lineage, a true genealogical account (from Burke's
Peerage) from 844 to date.
Scottish Royal Dynasties, a neat chart (using Adobe Acrobat Reader)
from 842 to 1625.
The History of the Scottish Crown, from the Queen's web site.
Generation Thirteen
Kenneth (I) MacAlpin who united the Scots and the Picts with the
establishment of the Kindom of Alba, which comprised Dalriada and the
Kingdom of the Picts.
Acceded: 839
Died: 859 at Forteviot, Perthshire and interred at the Isle of Iona,
Scotland
Kenneth MacAlpin had the following children:
* Constantine I
* Aedh (Ethus) "Swift-Foot" who was King of Alba 876 - 878
* Eochaid MacAlpin who married Rùn Macarthgail, King of Strathclyde.
Their son:
* Eocha ruled jointly with his cousin Giric as Kings of Alba 878 -
889
* a daughter who married Aed Findliath macNéill Caille O'Néill, King
of Ireland & Ailech
* a daughter who married Olaf, King of Dublin.
Generation Fourteen
Constantine (I) who was King of Alba and was beheaded or killed in a
battle against the Danes at Inverdorat, the Black Cove, Angus.
Acceded: 863
Died: 877 and interred at the Isle of Iona, Scotland
Constantine had a son:
* Donald (II)
Generation Fifteen
Donald (II) who was King of Alba and fought the Viking invaders
Acceded: 889
Died: 900 at Dun-fother in battle and interred at the Isle of Iona,
Scotland. To learn more about mediæval weaponry, click on Swords.
Donald had a son:
* Malcolm (I)
Generation Sixteen
Malcolm (I) who was King of Alba and was killed in battle by rebels
from Moray
Acceded: 943
Died: 954 in battle and interred at the Isle of Iona, Scotland
Malcolm had the following children:
* Dubh or Duf who was King of Alba 962 - 966, and was killed by his
third cousin Culen who then ruled as King of Alba 966 - 971. (Culen
in turn was killed by Ryderch, King of Strathclyde, whose daughter he
had kidnapped.) Dubh's great granddaughter was Gruoch who married
Macbeth who was King of Scotland 1040 - 1057. Gruoch was
Shakespeare's "Lady Macbeth".
* Kenneth (II)
Generation Seventeen
Kenneth (II) who was King of Alba. He acknowledged Edgar as King of
England, and was in return given Lothian. However, Kenneth invaded
Northumbria in 994, was defeated, and lost Lothian. He killed his
third cousin Culen and was in turn killed by Culen's son Constantine
(III) who then ruled as King of Alba 995 - 997.
Acceded: 971
Died: 995, killed at Finela's Castle, Fettercain and interred at the
Isle of Iona, Scotland
Kenneth married a princess of Leinster and had the following children:
* Malcolm (II)
* Dungal
Generation Eighteen
Malcolm (II) who was King of Alba. He formed an alliance with King
Owen the Bald of Strathclyde, and with Owen's help he regained Lothian
in 1018. Malcolm didn't have any sons; and to ensure the succession
of his grandson Duncan, he killed all the sons of his cousin Kenneth
(III) who had been King of Alba 997 - 1005.
Born: about 954
Acceded: March 25, 1005
Died: November 25, 1034 at Glamis Castle, Angus and interred at the
Isle of Iona, Scotland
Malcolm married an Irishwoman from Ossory, and they had the following
daughters:
* Dovada who married Finlay, Mormær (Earl or Thane) of Moray. They
had a son:
* Macbeth (of Shakespeare's "Macbeth")
* Bethoc or Beatrix, Heiress of Scone
* a daughter who married Sigurd the Stout, Earl of Orkney. Their son:
* Thorfinn, Earl of Orkney who married Ingibiorg Finnsdottir. After
Thorfinn's death circa 1056, Ingibiorg married second to Malcolm III
Cænnmor.
Generation Nineteen
Bethoc, Heiress of Scone
Bethoc married before 1008 to Crinan, Mormaær of Atholl and Abbot of
Dunkeld, and they had the following children:
* Duncan I
* Maldred, Lord of Allerdale
* two daughters
Generation Twenty
Duncan I the Gracious, King of Scotland, added Strathclyde to the
kingdom, and is thus considered to be the first king of a united
Scotland. His reign, however, was a period of disatrous wars and
internal strife; and ended in 1040 when he was defeated and killed in
battle by Macbeth, Mormær of Ross and Moray who then became king.
Despite Shakespeare's depiction to the contrary, Macbeth was an
honest monarch who was generous to the church; and as a grandson of
Malcolm (II), had as legitimate a claim to the throne as did Duncan.
As well, Macbeth's wife Gruoch was a greatX2 granddaughter of Malcolm
(I). Duncan's wife, on the other hand, was a relative of Siward, the
Viking Earl of Northumbria; which helps explain why Siward assisted
Duncan's sons in defeating Macbeth.
Click on Macbeth for Shakespeare's version of this period of
Scotland's history. In all fairness, it should be borne in mind that
Shakespeare based his work on Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles and that
he did not intend Macbeth to be an historical documentary, but rather
an entertaining play.
Born: circa 1001
Acceded: November 25, 1034
Died: August 14, 1040 at Bothganowan, Elgin in battle and interred at
the Isle of Iona, Scotland
Married circa 1030 to Ælflaed (Sybil) of Northumbria
Duncan and Ælflaed had the following children:
* Malcolm III Cænnmor
* Donald Bane who was King of Scotland (1093 - 1097) along with his
nephew Edmund. For the descent from Donald Bane to Robert the Bruce,
please click on Donald Bane.
* Margaret
* Mælmuir, Earl of Atholl, born circa 1035
* a daughter
Generation Twenty-one
Malcolm III Cænnmor, King of Scotland was also known as Malcolm
MacDuncan. "Cænnmor" means "big head" or "big chief". Malcolm
defeated and killed MacBeth in 1057, but Lulach, Lady MacBeth's son by
her first marriage, ruled for a few months before Malcolm killed him,
too. During Malcolm's reign the Norman Conquest of England ocurred,
and feudal society migrated northwards into Scotland.
Born: about 1031
Acceded: April 25, 1058 at Scone Abbey, Perthshire
Died: November 13, 1093 at Alnwick Castle and interred at Escorial,
Madrid, Spain
Malcolm married first about 1066 to Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, a daughter
of Jarl Finn Arnason and widow of Thorfinn, Earl of Caithness.
Malcolm and Ingibiorg had the following children:
* Duncan (II) who deposed Donald Bane briefly and was King of
Scotland May - November 1094
* Malcolm
* Donald
Malcolm married second in 1068 at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland to
St. Margaret the Exile who was descended from the Saxon Kings of
Wessex and England including Ælfred the Great. It is through this
marriage that later kings and queens of Scotland and England can claim
descent from the Saxon Kings of Wessex.
Click on Wessex and England for the descent of St. Margaret from the
Saxon Kings of Wessex.
Click on St. Margaret for details of the life of this remarkable
queen.
Malcolm and St. Margaret had the following children:
* Edward
* Edmund (I), King of Scotland (1094 - 1097) along with with Donald
Bane (1093 - 1097)
* Ethelred, Abbot of Dunkeld
* Edgar, King of Scotland (1097 - 1107)
* Alexander (I) the Fierce, King of Scotland (1107 - 1124)
* Matilda (Edith) of Scotland who married King Henry (I) of England
* David I the Saint of Scotland, King of Scotland (1124 - 1153)
* Mary
Generation Twenty-two
David (I) the Saint of Scotland, King of Scotland, under whose reign
and the reigns of his brothers Edgar and Alexander before him, the
Anglo-Norman feudal system and culture became more established in
Scotland. The traditional system of tribal land tenure was abolished
during the reign of David. He is known as "Saint David of Scotland",
and his feast day in May 24.
Click on St. David for more about David (I).
Born about 1084
Acceded on April 23, 1124
Died on May 24, 1153, at Carlisle, Cumbria and interred at Dunfermline
Abbey, Fife, Scotland
Married in 1113 to Matilda (Maud) of Huntington, a great niece of
William the Conqueror. Please click on Mathilda of Huntington for her
descent from the Dukes of Normandy. Mathilda had a previous marriage
to Simon de Saint Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton who died in
1111.
David and Matilda had the following children:
* Malcolm who died young.
* Henry, Earl of Huntingdon (1114 - 1152) who died before his father
* Claricia
* Hodierna
Generation Twenty-three
Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland who died before his
father, King David (I)
Born: about 1114
Died: June 12, 1152 and interrred at Kelso Abbey, Roxburghshire
Married in 1139 to Adelaide de Warren, daughter of William de Warenne,
Earl of Warren and Surrey. Click for Adelaide de Warren's descent
from the Carolingian and Capetian Kings of France, and on Warren for
that line.
Henry and Adelaide had the following children:
* Malcolm (IV) the Maiden, King of Scotland 1153 - 1165
* William I the Lion of Scotland, King of Scotland 1165 - 1214
* Margaret, Countess of Hereford
* Ada
* David, Earl of Huntingdon
* Maud
* Isabella
* Marjory who married Gilchrist, 4th Earl of Angus
* Beatrix who married Walter Stewart. Click on Walter Stewart for
this line.
* Margaret
Generation Twenty-four
David, Earl of Huntingdon, Northumberland, Lennox, Carlise, Doncaster,
Garioch and Cambridge.
Born about 1144
Died on June 17, 1219
Married on August 26, 1190 to Matilda de Keveliock of Chester
David and Matilda had the following children:
* Robert of Huntingdon who is said to have "died young". Stories,
television programmes and movies suggest that this son of the Earl of
Huntingdon became the legendary outlaw Robin Hood. Click for details
of his equally legendary girlfriend Maid Marian. This story seems to
have its origin in a rare play: "The Downfall of Robert, Earl of
Huntingdon, afterwards called Robin Hood of merrie Sherwoode; with his
love to chaste Matilda, the Lord Fitz-Walter's daughter, afterwards
his fair Maid Marian." Black letter, 1601 4to. See Richard Thomson: An
Historical Essay on the Magna Charta, London, 1829, pages 505 - 507
for further details.
* Margaret who married in 1209 to Alan, Lord of Galloway who died in
1234. They had a daughter:
* Devorgilla of Galloway (d. January 28, 1289/90 who married (1233)
John de Baliol (d. 1269); their children:
* John Baliol, King of Scotland 1292 - 1296
* Alianora de Baliol who married Sir John Comyn, "The Black Comyn",
one of the 13 claimants to the throne of Scotland in 1291 based on
this marriage and his descent from Donald Bane. Their son:
* Sir John Comyn, "The Red Comyn #2", had a claim to the throne of
Scotland through both his mother and father. He was murdered by Robert
the Bruce on February 10, 1306 at the Church of the Grey Friars,
Dumfries.
* Isobella le Scot (continued below)
* John le Scot, Earl of Chester
* Maud
* Ada
* Henry
* Henry of Stirling
* Henry of Brechin
* Ada
* David
Generation Twenty-five
Isobella le Scot
Born: 1206
Died: 1251
Married to Robert de Bruce, Lord Annandale; and they had the following
children:
* Robert de Bruce, Lord of Annandale
* Edward de Bruce, King of Ireland
Generation Twenty-six
Robert de Bruce, Lord of Annandale who was one of the 13 claimants to
the Throne in 1291
Born: circa 1220
Died: 1295
Married first on May 12, 1240 to Isabel de Clare, daughter of Magna
Charta Surety Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.
Click on De Clare for the descent of Isabel de Clare.
Robert and Isabel had a son:
* Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick
Robert de Bruce married second to Christina de Ireby. They had no
issue.
Generation Twenty-seven
Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick and Lord of Annadale
Died: 1304
Married in 1271 at Turnberry Castle to Marjorie, Countess of Carrick,
daughter and heiress of Neil, 2nd Earl of Carrick and Margaret
Stewart. Click on Marjorie of Carrick for her descent.
Robert and Marjorie had the following children:
* Mary Bruce
* Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
* Edward Bruce, King of Ireland 1316 - 1318. In 1314, Robert the
Bruce won a major victory at Bannockburn over the English who had
drawn on Ireland for soldiers and supplies. The Bruces saw in the
invasion of Ireland a chance to weaken the English, free the Irish
people, and give Edward a kingdom. In May 1315 Edward Bruce landed in
Ireland with 6000 men and a year later he was crowned "King of
Ireland". However, there was neither unity nor stability among the
Irish. Some joined the Scots, but many more simply took advantage of
the general disorder to settle old scores. Finally, in October 1318,
excommunicated by the Pope, ill-supported or deserted by his Irish
allies and with his own forces depleted, Edward Bruce was overthrown
and killed.
* Sir Thomas Bruce
* Alexander Bruce, Dean of Glasgow
* Nigel Bruce
* Isabel Bruce
* Christina Bruce
* Margaret Bruce
* Maud (or Matilda) Bruce who married Hugh, 4th Earl of Ross. Their
children:
* William, 5th Earl of Ross
* Morjorie Ross who married Malise, 8th Earl of Strathearn, Earl of
Caithness and Orkney.
* Eupheme Ross who married first to John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
and secondly to her first cousin once removed King Robert (II) Stuart.
Generation Twenty-eight
Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland who was the victor of Bannockburn
in 1314, established Scottish independence from England and is revered
as one of Scotland's great national heroes.
Click on Robert the Bruce for more on Robert the Bruce and his
family.
Born on July 11, 1274 at Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex
Acceded on March 27, 1306 at Scone Abbey, Perthshire
Died on June 7, 1329 at Cardoss Castle, Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Interred at Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland
Robert the Bruce married first to Isabel of Mar, daughter of Donald,
Earl of Mar and granddaughter of Llwelyn Fawr "the Great" ap Iorwerth,
Prince of Wales.
Click on Wales for the descent of Isabel of Mar.
Robert the Bruce and Isabel of Mar had a daughter:
* Princess Marjorie Bruce
Robert the Bruce married second by licence dated September 19, 1295 to
Maud Fitz Alan, widow of Philip Burnell, Knight (died June 16, 1294)
of Holgate, Shropsire; and daughter of John Fitz Alan, of Clun and
Oswestry, Shropshire and his wife Isabel, daughter of Roger de
Mortimer, Knight. They had no issue; this being perhaps the reason why
this second marriage is not mentioned in some genealogies. This
marriage was dissolved by divorce or annulment, presumably on the
grounds of consanguinity as both Robert the Bruce and Maud Fitz Alan
were descended from William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de
Clare.
Robert the Bruce married third in 1302 to Elizabeth de Burgh and they
had the following children:
* Maud (or Matilda) Bruce married Thomas Isaac (or Ysac); their
daughter:
* Janet (or Joanna) Isaac married John de Ergardia, Lord of Lorn in
Argyll; their daughter:
* Isabel de Ergardia of Lorn married John Stewart of Innermeath;
their daughter:
* Christian Stewart who is reputed to have married John (or James) de
Dundas. This marriage and their daughter shown next are not mentioned
in J. Drummond: Histories of the Families of Dunbar, Hume and Dundas,
1844. However, the daughter of Christian Stewart and John (or James)
de Dundas is reputed to have been:
* (first name unknown) Dundas who married Sir Alexander Livingston of
Callendar.
For further details of the line from Maud (or Matilda) Bruce ot Sir
Alexander Livingston, see:
Frederick Lewis Weis: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. Baltimore,
1999, Line 42.
Douglas Richarson: Magna Carta Ancestry, Balitmore, 2005, Scotland and
Stewart.
* Margaret Bruce who married William, 5th Earl of Sutherland.
* David (II) Bruce, King of Scotland 1329 - 1371, d.s.p. (died
without issue)
* John Bruce who died in childhood.
Robert the Bruce also had a number of natural children:
* Sir Robert Bruce
* Neil Bruce
* Christina Bruce
* Margaret Bruce who married Robert Glen
* Elizabeth Bruce who married Walter Oliphant, Knight
Note:
The marriages and children of Robert the Bruce, while generally agreed
upon, seem to vary slightly from source to source.
The details presented here are from Douglas Richarson: Magna Carta
Ancestry, Balitmore, 2005
and Frederick Lewis Weis: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. Baltimore,
1999
Generation Twenty-nine
Princess Marjorie Bruce
Died on March 2, 1316 at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland reputedly
after falling from her horse. Her only child, Robert, was born on
March 2, 1316 and it seems strange that Marjorie would be have been
out riding around on a horse on the same day.
Married in 1315 to Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, a
descendant of Magna Charta Sureties Roger and Hugh Bigod.
Click on Bigod and Stewart for the descent of Walter Stewart.
Princess Marjorie Bruce and Walter Stewart had a son:
* Robert (II) Stuart, King of Scotland
Generation Thirty
Robert (II) Stuart, King of Scotland who was in command of the second
division of the Scottish Army at Halidon Hill, and was one of the few
who escaped the carnage of that disastrous day.
Born on March 2, 1316 at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Acceded on March 26, 1371 at Scone Abbey, Perthshire
Died on April 19, 1390 at Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire
Robert Stewart married about 1347 to Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan and
they had the following children:
* Robert (III) (John) Stuart, King of Scotland, 1390 - 1406 John
Stuart felt that his name was too closely associated with John Baliol,
so he adopted the title of King Robert (III). He preferred to lead a
quiet life, and although he attended several parliaments, he handed
the reigns of government over to his brother Robert Stuart of Fife.
* Walter Stuart, Earl of Fife
* Robert Stuart of Fife, Duke of Albany
* Alexander Stuart, "The Wolf of Badenoch", Earl of Buchan. Alexander
was appointed King's Lieutenant in the North in 1372 and he imposed a
reign of terror from his island stronghold of Lochindorb in the Moray
moors. The savage highlanders understood his rough justice, and he
brought a certain level of control to the region.
* Marjory Stuart who married John Dunbar, Earl of Moray.
* Elizabeth Stuart who married Thomas Hay, Great Constable of
Scotland; and not to be confused with her half sister shown next.
* Isabel Stuart who married first to James Douglas, Earl of Douglas
and second to Sir James Edmonstone
* Jean (or Joan) Stuart
Robert Stuart married second to his first cousin once removed, Eupheme
Ross, widow of John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray and a daughter of
Hugh, Earl of Ross and his wife Maud Bruce. Robert and Eupheme had the
following children:
* David Stuart, Earl of Strathearn and Caithness (died before March
5, 1389/90)
* Walter Stuart, Earl of Brechin
* Elizabeth Stuart (also called Katherine, Joan or Jean) who married
(dispensation February 22, 1374/75) Sir David Lindsay (1360 - 1406/7),
1st Earl of Crawford and Admiral of Scotland. Their 4X great grand
daughter was Barbara Livingston who married circa 1570 to {Rev}
Alexander Livingston, Rector of Monyabroch. Please click on
Descendants of Elizabeth Stuart for details or see summary next.
Elizabeth Stuart and Sir David Lindsay had the following children:
* Sir Alexander Lindsay (1387 - 1438), Ambassador to England; his
great X6 grandson was {Rev} David Lindsay who came to Virginia circa
1640 (see F. L. Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore,
1999: Line 43.
* Elizabeth Lindsay who married soon after December 20, 1400 to
Robert Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine and 13th Earl of Mar (died in 1451
or 1452). They had a daughter:
* Christian Erskine who married to Patrick Graham, 1st Baron Graham
(died 1466) and they had a daughter:
* Elizabeth Graham who married in 1480 to William Livingston of
Kilsyth.
* Egidia Stuart who married Sir William Douglas of Nithdale, a son of
Archibald "the Grim", 3rd Earl of Douglas. Their daughter:
* Egidia Douglas married Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney.
Generation Thirty-one
Robert Stuart of Fife, Duke of Albany, Earl of Menteith, Atholl,
Buchan and Fife was the Governor of Scotland, Prime Minister to Robert
(III), and Regent to James I.
Born about 1339
Died on September 3, 1420 at Stirling Castle
Robert Stuart married first about 1361 to Mary (Margaret) Graham,
Countess of Menteith and they had the following children:
* Murdoch Stuart, 2nd Duke of Albany
* Isabel Stuart
* Joan Stuart
* Beatrix Stuart
* Mary Stuart
* Janet Stuart
* Margaret Stuart of Albany
Robert Stuart married second after May 4, 1380 to Muriella de Keith
and they had the following children:
John Stuart, Earl of Buchan
Andrew Stuart
Robert Stuart, Earl of Ross
Elizabeth Stuart
Marjory Stuart
Note: this gen work deems Majory/Majorie Stuart dau. of Robert, Earl
of Albany and Muriella de Keith
Which is it? With this Quebec background, maybe Will Johnson can
solve the puzze?
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