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Royal Lovers
October 23, 2012
— ancestry, John of Gaunt, royal lovers
Katherine Swynford
I found one woman from Manhattan who was my ancestor twice. When her first husband died, she married and had another child. Both a daughter from her first and her second marriages became my ancestors. I have been thinking how odd it was that the step sister’s issue married 5 generations later. I decided 5 generations was enough genetic mixing, and since they were Knickerbocking there were few other fancy Dutch reformers to marry. This is not so odd. The truly striking coincidence in my tree is a royal Brit named John of Gaunt ( born in Ghent).
I have discovered that John of Gaunt is my ancestor three different ways, with three different wives, and of both of my parents. He was involved in a famous royal love affaire more bizarre than Charles and Camilla. He had a mistress, Katherine Swynford, who later married him. They had four children together, and as his last wife she acted as step mother to the children of his two previous marriages. Katherine and John had a daughter Philippa, who is 6th great-grandmother to Gov. Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony, my 10th great-grandfather.
John Gaunt Lancaster PLANTAGENET (1340 – 1399)
is your 18th great grandfather
Daughter of John Gaunt Lancaster
Daughter of Philippa
Son of Beatrix
Son of John
Daughter of Richard
Daughter of Anne
Daughter of Mary
Son of Susanna
With his Spanish wife he had a son John who also became the 8th great grandfather of Gov Thomas Dudley, by way of Scotland
John Gaunt Plantagenet (1340 – 1399)
is your 19th great grandfather
Son of John Gaunt
Daughter of John Marquis Somerset
Daughter of Joan
Son of Joan
Son of John
Daughter of Robert Lord
Daughter of CATHERINE
Son of Lady Elizabeth
Son of Capt Roger
Daughter of Gov Thomas
Son of Anne
Daughter of John
Son of Mercy
Daughter of Caleb
Daughter of Mercy
Son of Martha
Son of Abner
Son of Daniel Rowland
Son of Jason A
Son of Ernest Abner
the daughter of Richard Arden
His first marriage was a happy one, that produced another ancestor, on my mother’s side. After 15 generations my parents met in Houston Texas and married. What are the chances of this happening?
John of Gaunt – Duke of Lancaster – Plantagenet (1340 – 1399)
is your 16th great grandfather
Daughter of John of Gaunt – Duke of
Daughter of Joan
Son of Duchess of York Lady Cecily
Son of Henry
Son of Henry
Son of John
Son of Francis Gabriell
Daughter of John
Son of Elizabeth
Son of Richard
Son of George
Son of George
Daughter of David
Daughter of Minerva Truly
Daughter of Sarah E
Son of Lucinda Jane
Daughter of George Harvey
the daughter of Ruby Lee
John of Gaunt is some kind of karmic common denominator of my genetic heritage. I think I need to study him and all of the grandmother wives. Maybe everyone has an ancestor like this, but I find it to be incredible. I have achieved the triple crown of ancestry…now what?
John Prince of England, King of Castile
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