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Subject: Re: Descents From Edward III For Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, 3rd Baronet
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:28:51 EDT
Dear Brad and Leo,
You also have 1 (or 2) lines of descent from
Edward III via John of Gaunt and his 1st wife Lady Blanche de Lancaster.their
daughter Elizabeth de Lancaster (1363-1425) married 2nd John, 1st Duke of Exeter
(aft 1350- executed 1400) and had a daughter Constance de Holand(abt 1387-
1437), wife of Sir John Grey of Badmondisland ( d 1439), heir apparent to
Reynold de Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthin who were parents to Edmund de Grey, 1st
Earl of Kent (in the Grey line) (b 1416- d 1490) who was husband to Katherine
de Percy (Brad`s G 2), The Second descent is dependent on whether one
follows Faris (Mary le Scrope) or Richardson (Anne Neville) as to the maternity of
Christopher Conyers, 2nd Lord Conyers of Hornby. Anne Neville descends via
Constance`s brother John de Holand, 3rd Duke of Exeter (abt 1395/6- 1447) married
Anne de Stafford ( d 1432), daughter of Edmund de Stafford, 5th Earl of
Stafford by Anne, daughter of Edward III`s youngest son Thomas, Duke of Gloucester
and his wife Alianor de Bohun. John de Holand, 3rd Duke of Exeter and Anne de
Stafford had a daughter Anne de Holand d 1486 married Sir John de Neville
killed in battle at Towton 1481 (son of Sir John Neville (abt 1387- 1420) and
Elizabeth de Holand (1388- 1423)heir apparent of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of
Westmoreland and his 1st wife Margaret de Stafford, Sir John Neville and Anne de
Holand were the parents of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmoreland (abt 1456-
1499) who married Isabel Booth, They were the parents of Christopher Conyers
possible mother Anne Neville, 2nd wife of William Conyers, 1st Lord Conyers of
Hornby.
Sincerely,
James W Cummings
Dixmont , Maine USA
(Sources: Dr David Faris Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century
Colonists (1st edition) Gurdon, Haviland, Douglas Richardson Plantagenet Ancestry:
A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families Lancaster, Exeter, Stafford, and
Neville
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