Gateways to Royal Descents c1150

This page lists people, who were born in about 1150, and have well documented descents from Alfred the Great that are shown in Wikitree. Other pages do the same for 1050, 1150, 1250, 1350, 1450 and 1550.

One can show, with statistics, that, if one has any UK based ancestors atall, then one is almost certainly (more than 99% probability) descended from King Edward 1 (sometimes referred to as the father of the nation). Tracing back from him takes one to many interesting historical figures such as William the Conquerer, Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Clovis, numerous saints, El Cid, etc.

A corollory of the above statistics tells us that, given any 20 people who were born in about 1350 and who are known to have left descendants, one is almost certainly (more than 99% probability) descended from one of these 20. Similar results are true for later dates but with larger groups than 20. For instance, 200 people is sufficient for 1450, 2000 for 1550 and 20,000 for 1650.

The ultimate aim of later pages, is to produce a list of at least 2000 people, who were born in the British Isles in about 1550, who left descendants, and who were descended from Alfred the Great. This list of people is arranged according to the counties (of the British Isles) in which the people were born. The list provides a useful gateway into medieval descents - if researchers can trace a descent from one of the 2000 in the list, they will have an entry point into medieval descents.

It would be nice to produce the list of 20,000 people for 1650, but this would be a daunting task. 1650 would be desirable, because it would reach people who lived after the chaos of the Civil Wars and would reach the time when record keeping was improving.

Each entry, in the lists points to the Wikitree page, for the relevant person, and to the Wikitree family tree that shows his or her descent from an earlier person in the lists.

The following 28 people were descended from Alfred the Great, were born in about 1150, and left descendants (other pages will provide similar lists for 950, 1050, 1250, 1350, 1450 and 1550).

John Plantagenet, King of England was great-great-grandson of Margaret (Aetheling) Dunkeld

William Plantagenet was great-great-grandson of Margaret (Aetheling) Dunkeld

Eleanor (Plantagenet) of Castile was great-great-granddaughter of Margaret (Aetheling) Dunkeld

David Dunkeld was great-grandson of Margaret (Aetheling) Dunkeld

William Dunkeld, King of Scots was great-grandson of Margaret (Aetheling) Dunkeld

Margaret (of Huntingdon) Bohun was great-granddaughter of Margaret (Aetheling) Dunkeld

Patrick Dunbar was great-great-grandson of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Eleanor (Fleming) Deincourt was great-great-granddaughter of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Roger Merlay was great-great-grandson of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Agnes (Merlay) Gobion was great-great-granddaughter of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Roland of Galloway was great-grandson of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Patrick Curwen was great-great-grandson of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Richard Lucy was great-great-grandson of Gospatrick of Dunbar

Robert FitzMaldred of Raby was great-great-grandson of Maldred

Ralph Sudeley was great-great-grandson of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

Godfrey Louvaine was great-grandson of Godfrey of Louvaine

William Aubigny was great-grandson of Godfrey of Louvaine

Henry Percy was grandson of Godfrey of Louvaine

Roger Toeny was great-great-grandson of Baldwin of Hainault

William Fiennes was great-great-grandson of Geoffrey of Boulogne

Roger Zouche was great-great-grandson of Hawise of Brittany

Amice (FitzWilliam) Clare was great-granddaughter of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

Agnes (Meschines) Ferrers was great-great-granddaughter of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

Amice (Meschines) Mainwaring was great-great-granddaughter of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

Mabil (Beaumont) Redvers or Vernon was great-granddaughter of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

Walter Riddlesford was great-grandson of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

Constance (Beaumont) Toeni was great-granddaughter of Henry 1 of Normandy, King of England

William Blount was great-grandson of Gilbert le Blount

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