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Plantagenets Gone Wild
February 5, 2013
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House of York
The British royals married as many people as possible, I think, and procreated with yet others. There were battles and schemes to take power from each other which I had never studied. I knew my maternal great grandmother from Selma Alabama was a descendant of these Plantagenet people. My brother once saw QE II in a convertible in Tobago in 1966 when he was less than 3 years old. The Queen and Price Philip stayed very near my parents at the Crown Point Hotel, right next to the airport. Little Ricky formed a highly unnatural interest the Queen. He had a little flag from that royal moment that he kept forever. None of them knew as they waved at Her Highness that both my parents are historically royally mixed up with the crown of Britain. Now that Richard III has been exhumed I looked into my relationship with him. On my mother’s side he is my uncle:
Richard III King of England Plantagenet (1452 – 1485)
is my 13th great grand uncle
Richard Plantagenet (1411 – 1460)
Father of Richard III King of England
Anne Plantagenet (1490 – )
Daughter of Richard
Henry Holland (1527 – 1561)
Son of Anne
John Holland (1556 – 1628)
Son of Henry
Francis Gabriell Holland (1596 – 1660)
Son of John
John Holland (1628 – 1710)
Son of Francis Gabriell
Elizabeth Holland (1652 – 1737)
Daughter of John
Richard Dearden (1645 – 1747)
Son of Elizabeth
George Dearden (1705 – 1749)
Son of Richard
George Darden (1734 – 1807)
Son of George
David Darden (1770 – 1820)
Son of George
Minerva Truly Darden (1806 – )
Daughter of David
Sarah E Hughes (1829 – 1911)
Daughter of Minerva Truly
Lucinda Jane Armer (1847 – 1939)
Daughter of Sarah E
George Harvey Taylor (1884 – 1941)
Son of Lucinda Jane
Ruby Lee Taylor (1922 – 2008)
Daughter of George Harvey
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Ruby Lee
Than again Richard III is my 14th great grandfather. I shudder to think how many different ways I may find to be his relative….I found another version in which he is my 1st cousin 17 x removed..He may well be all those things…
Richard Yorke (1430 – 1508)
is my 14th great grandfather
Son of Richard
Son of John
Son of Gilbert
Daughter of Edmund
Daughter of Dorothy
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
I am the daughter of Richard Arden
If you are looking into your Brit family history be prepared to be educated on such things as Hundred Years War, War of the Roses, Magna Carta, Northern Ireland, House of Orange and a host of events we have perhaps studied but never took personally. Once you find your own people are running around being knights and kings and princesses the story gets real, as well as very confusing. Notice also how he is Richard York, Richard Plantagenet, and sometimes just plain old Richard, King of England. I am happy they kept good records to help me figure out what happened.
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