A Gallery of Notable Figures · The Damery Family

The people in my story most worth knowing, with their dates, what they are remembered for, and how they stand to me. “Direct” = a direct ancestor; “cousin / collateral” = a relative off the direct line; “tradition / context” = a legendary or framing figure.

Person	Dates	Noted for	Relationship to me
Sir Roger d’Amory	d. 1322	Favourite of Edward II; fought at Bannockburn; m. Elizabeth de Clare; arms in Tewkesbury Abbey	Family tradition for the name; and now documented kin by marriage twice over: he married Elizabeth de Clare, sister of my ancestress Eleanor de Clare and first cousin of my ancestress Margaret
Sir Richard d’Amory	fl. 1300–40	Steward of the Household to Edward II; the male line ran on through him to the Damer Earls	Family tradition (likely root of the name)
Charlemagne	748–814	Emperor of the Romans; reached by three wholly independent roads and hundreds of braided ones; his father Pepin the Short stands above him	Direct: 36× great-grandfather
Louis the Pious	778–840	Emperor, Charlemagne's son; with him and his son Charles the Bald the Carolingian emperors stand wired, no longer note-only	Direct: 36× great-grandfather
Alfonso III the Great of Asturias	c.848–910	King of Asturias, the mountain kingdom that became León	Direct: 36× great-grandfather
Íñigo Arista	d. 851	Founder-king of Pamplona, the mountain kingdom that became Navarre; a genuine frontier, nothing wired above him	Direct: 39× great-grandfather
Kenneth MacAlpin	d. 858	Reckoned the first King of Scots; the king-lists kept note-only above him	Direct: 36× great-grandfather
Henry the Fowler	c.876–936	King of Germany, founder of the Ottonian dynasty; his son Otto the Great, first Holy Roman Emperor of the new line, is a collateral	Direct: 31× great-grandfather
Rhodri Mawr	d. 878	King of Gwynedd and Wales, who united the country against the Norse	Direct: 33× great-grandfather
Alfred the Great	d. 899	King of Wessex; his daughter married into Flanders	Direct: 34× great-grandfather
Rollo	d. c.930	The Viking who became Normandy; the ducal line above the Conqueror now runs to him	Direct: 32× great-grandfather
Hugh Capet	c.939–996	King of France, founder of the Capetian dynasty that reigned for eight centuries	Direct: 29× great-grandfather
Hywel Dda	d. 950	King of the Britons, the lawgiver of Wales; his law-books ran a country for centuries	Direct: 31× great-grandfather
Vladimir the Great	c.958–1015	Grand Prince of Kiev, who took the Rus into christendom at the Dnieper in 988	Direct: 29× great-grandfather
Robert II 'the Pious'	972–1031	King of France, of the Capetian house, son of Hugh Capet	Direct: 29× great-grandfather
Yaroslav the Wise	c.978–1054	Grand Prince of Kiev at its golden height; his daughters married half the kings of Europe	Direct: 28× great-grandfather
Sancho III the Great of Navarre	c.992–1035	Made Pamplona the dominant power of christian Spain; common ancestor of the royal houses of the peninsula	Direct: 31× great-grandfather
Eric the Victorious	d. c.995	King of Sweden, victor of Fýrisvellir; the saga-fathers above him stay unwired	Direct: 30× great-grandfather
Brian Boru	d. 1014	High King of Ireland; Chief of the Dál gCais; broke the Norse power and fell at Clontarf; the O'Briens of Thomond descend from him	Direct: 30× great-grandfather
Anne of Kiev	c.1030–1075	Rus princess and Queen of France; signed her name when the French court marked crosses	Direct: 27× great-grandmother
Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria	c.1050–1076	The last of the English earls, executed by the Conqueror; venerated at Crowland as a martyr	Direct: 28× great-grandfather
Judith of Lens	c.1054–after 1086	The Conqueror's niece, whose marriage to Waltheof joined the new England to the old	Direct: 28× great-grandmother
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn	d. 1063	The only king ever to rule the whole of Wales	Direct: 30× great-grandfather
Walter Giffard	fl. 1066	Lord of Longueville; named by William of Poitiers at the battle of Hastings	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
William IX of Aquitaine	1071–1127	'The Troubadour': the first poet of the vernacular whose songs survive, and Eleanor of Aquitaine's grandfather	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
Matilda of Flanders	d. 1083	Queen of England; her line climbs to Alfred and Charlemagne	Direct: 27× great-grandmother
William the Conqueror	d. 1087	King of England 1066, Duke of Normandy; reached through an acknowledged son of Henry I	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
Richard FitzGilbert de Clare	d. c.1090	Domesday tenant-in-chief of ~170 lordships; joint Justiciar of England; the uncautioned anchor at 1086	Direct: 26× great-grandfather
Fulk V of Anjou, King of Jerusalem	1092–1143	Gave Anjou to his son Geoffrey and sailed east to wear the Crusader crown; Henry II's grandfather	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
St Margaret of Wessex	d. 1093	Queen of Scots and saint; granddaughter of Edmund Ironside; brings the old Wessex royal line in a second way	Direct: 28× great-grandmother
Nest ferch Rhys	fl. 1100	Princess of Deheubarth, 'the Helen of Wales'; mother of Maurice FitzGerald the Invader; the Welsh royal line enters here	Direct: 25× great-grandmother
Owain Gwynedd	c.1100–1170	Prince of Gwynedd, the first to be styled Prince of Wales	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
The Empress Matilda	1102–1167	Lady of the English; her war for the crown put her son Henry II on the throne; Henry I's lawful line into this family	Direct: 26× great-grandmother
Alfonso VII of León and Castile	1105–1157	Crowned 'Emperor of All Spain' at León in 1135	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
Louis VII of France	1120–1180	King of France, crusader, first husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine; reached through his daughter Alys	Direct: 26× great-grandfather
Alan fitz Flaald	d. c.1120	Breton knight, sheriff of Shropshire, and progenitor of the House of Stewart: every Stuart monarch descends from his line	Direct: 27× great-grandfather
Eleanor of Aquitaine	c.1122–1204	Queen of France, then Queen of England; the most remarkable woman of the twelfth century	Direct: 25× great-grandmother
Isabel de Vermandois	d. 1131	Carried three royal streams at once, Capetian, Carolingian and Kievan, into the English baronage and so to the de Veres	Direct: 25× great-grandmother
King Henry I	d. 1135	King of England, youngest son of the Conqueror; the royal line passes through his acknowledged son Robert of Gloucester	Direct: 26× great-grandfather
Petronilla of Aragón	1136–1173	Queen of Aragón in her own right, betrothed at one year old; her marriage united Aragón with Barcelona	Direct: 27× great-grandmother
Aubrey de Vere	d. 1141	Master-Chamberlain of England; slain in a London riot; father of the 1st Earl of Oxford	Direct: via Jane Vere
Robert of Gloucester	d. 1147	Acknowledged son of King Henry I, created Earl of Gloucester; the Empress Matilda's champion	Direct: 25× great-grandfather
Alys of France	1160–c.1220	Betrothed to Richard the Lionheart for twenty-five years and never married to him; her actual marriage, to the Count of Ponthieu, leads here	Direct: 25× great-grandmother
Aoife MacMurrough	fl. 1170	'Eva' of Leinster; married Strongbow at Waterford; the Irish royal line enters here	Direct: 24× great-grandmother
Alfonso IX of León	1171–1230	His Cortes of León of 1188 is reckoned Europe's earliest parliament; in one tree with the Magna Carta barons	Direct: 24× great-grandfather
Diarmait Mac Murchada	d. 1171	King of Leinster, 'Diarmait na nGall'; brought the Normans into Ireland; father of Aoife	Direct: 25× great-grandfather
Llywelyn the Great	c.1173–1240	Prince of Gwynedd, master of native Wales for forty years; his wife Joan was King John's daughter	Direct: 25× great-grandfather
Strongbow (Richard de Clare)	d. 1176	2nd Earl of Pembroke; led the Norman invasion of Ireland 1170	Direct: 24× great-grandfather
Berengaria of Castile	c.1180–1246	Queen of Castile in her own right; resigned the crown to her son and ruled beside him for thirty years	Direct: 24× great-grandmother
Donal Mór O'Brien	d. 1194	The last King of North Munster; founded the cathedral on the Rock of Cashel; married Órlaith, daughter of Diarmait of Leinster	Direct: 25× great-grandfather
St Ferdinand III of Castile and León	c.1199–1252	United the two Spanish crowns, took Córdoba and Seville; canonised 1671; a third saint in the direct line	Direct: 23× great-grandfather
Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland	d. 1205	Founder of the Butlers of Ormond; his brother Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, ran England and raised the Lionheart's ransom	Direct: 25× great-grandfather
William Marshal	d. 1219	1st Earl of Pembroke; 'the greatest knight that ever lived'; Regent of England; reissued Magna Carta	Direct: 23× great-grandfather
Robert FitzWalter	d. 1235	Leader of the barons who forced Magna Carta, 'Marshal of the Army of God'; one of nine sureties in the direct line	Direct: 22× great-grandfather
Edward I 'Longshanks'	1239–1307	King of England, the Plantagenets; reached by his daughter Elizabeth and the Butler Earls of Ormond, while the descent from his grandson Edward III stays disproven	Direct: 22× great-grandfather
Eleanor of Castile	c.1241–1290	Queen of England; the Eleanor Crosses, Charing Cross among them, mark where her body rested; her castle and lion sit on Lady Bardolf's seal	Direct: 22× great-grandmother
Gilbert de Clare, the Red Earl	1243–1295	Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, the mightiest baron of his day	Direct: 21× great-grandfather
Joan of Acre	1272–1307	Edward I's daughter, born on crusade at Acre; married Gilbert the Red Earl; a second daughter of Edward I in the direct line	Direct: 21× great-grandmother
Eleanor de Clare	1292–1337	Eldest of the three Clare sisters, wife of Hugh Despenser the Younger; through her the Raleigh road runs to Edward I	Direct: 20× great-grandmother
Elizabeth de Clare	1295–1360	Foundress of Clare College, Cambridge; married Roger d'Amory; sister of my ancestress Eleanor de Clare	My ancestress's sister (and the exact link to the d'Amory legend)
Margaret de Clare	d. 1333	Barred Queen Isabella from Leeds Castle 1321; reputedly the first woman jailed in the Tower	Direct: 19× great-grandmother
Owain Glyndŵr	c.1359–c.1415	The last Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales, leader of the great revolt of 1400; reached through his daughter Alys, who married a border knight in secret while her father was a hunted rebel	Direct: 18× great-grandfather
Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford	1385–1417	Commander at Agincourt, K.G.; tomb at Earls Colne	Direct: via Jane Vere
Thomas, Lord Camoys	d. 1421	Commander of the left wing at Agincourt; the second Agincourt ancestor	Direct: via Elizabeth Trussell
Margaret FitzGerald, Countess of Ormond	d. 1542	'The Great Countess'; daughter of the Great Earl of Kildare; the FitzGerald and Butler doors meet in her marriage	Direct: 14× great-grandmother
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford	1550–1604	The Shakespeare-authorship candidate; first cousin of my ancestor Jane Vere	Cousin
Edmund Spenser	c.1552–1599	Poet of The Faerie Queene; seated at Kilcolman, Co. Cork	Brother of my 10× great-grandmother
Robert Freke	d. 1592	Auditor of the Exchequer under Henry VIII & Elizabeth I	Direct: 11× great-grandfather
Dr Henry Jones, Bishop of Meath	1605–1682	Cromwellian scoutmaster-general; gave the Book of Kells to Trinity College	Direct: via the Piers baronets
Adam Loftus	d. 1605	Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, first Provost of Trinity; built Rathfarnham Castle	Direct: via Gertrude Berkeley
Dr George Ryves	d. 1613	Warden of New College and one of the King James Bible translators	Cousin
Ambrose Wright	1617–1689	Earliest Suffolk yeoman ancestor, of Lawshall	Direct: 8× great-grandfather
John Travers	d. 1618	Settler at Ballynamona; m. the poet Spenser’s sister	Direct: 10× great-grandfather
Col. Richard Townsend	1618–1692	Cromwellian officer; commanded at Knocknanuss; founder of the Castletownshend Townsends	Direct: 8× great-grandfather
Elizabeth Freke	1641–1714	The celebrated diarist of Rathbarry	Cousin (collateral)
Sir Robert Travers	d. 1647	Knighted 1625; MP Clonakilty; killed at Knocknanuss	Direct: 9× great-grandfather
Francis Bernard	d. 1659	Settler who bought Castle Mahon (1639); ancestor of the Earls of Bandon	Direct: 9× great-grandfather
Francis Beamish	d. 1679	Garrisoned Kilmalooda in 1641; of the Elizabethan Beamish	Direct: 8× great-grandfather
Jane Lane	d. 1689	Carried the fugitive Charles II from Bentley to Bristol after Worcester, 1651; pensioned and honoured at the Restoration	Claimed kin: sister of the man my Lanes said was theirs (unproven, see Ch. 12)
Simon White	Mayor 1696	Mayor of Limerick; head of the White line	Direct: 8× great-grandfather
William Beamish & Co.	1760–1828	Founded Beamish & Crawford, long Ireland’s largest brewery	Cousin branch
Rev. Hugh Brady Huleatt	1783–1867	Rector of Ballyvaughan; source of the “Hugh Brady” name	Direct: 4× great-grandfather
Rev. William Hickey, "Martin Doyle"	1787 - 1875	Celebrated agricultural writer and improver (DIB); brother of Anne Hickey	Direct connection: 4× great-uncle
Ambrose Lane	c. 1791–1853	Soldier, then judge and executive councillor, Prince Edward Island	Direct: brother of Anne Hamilton Lane
Joseph Damer, Earl of Dorchester	d. 1798	Earl of Dorchester (title extinct 1808); documented male-line d’Amory	Tradition (same kindred)
Earls of Bandon	1800 →	Created Earls of Bandon; share Francis Bernard as ancestor	Cousins
Hugh Brady White	1847–1884	Army surgeon; died of cholera at Madras	Direct: 2× great-grandfather
Carin Göring (née Fock)	1888–1931	First wife of Hermann Göring; of the brewing Beamishes	Very distant collateral
Diana, Princess of Wales	1961–1997	Linked through the Spenser/Althorp tradition; see Chapter 14	Family tradition (not proven)
Justin Trudeau	b. 1971	Prime Minister of Canada 2015–25; descends from the Bernards of Castle Mahon	Cousin: via the Bernards (Ch. 6)
Elizabeth Hastings & Sir John Donne	fl. 1470s	Kneel opposite each other in Memling's Donne Triptych, National Gallery	Direct: via Elizabeth Trussell
Bridget Raleigh	fl. 1500s	Married Sir William Kingsmill; her line carries the Despenser and Clare blood down to the Kingsmills of Ballybeg, anchored by a will of 1509	Direct: 11× great-grandmother

This gallery opens with the two d'Amory figures the family surname has always pointed at, then runs in time from the deepest crown to the present. Many of the figures below the d'Amorys arrived with the deep ancestry proven in July 2026; their full stories are in Chapters 18 to 24 of the living edition. It is kept current on the website; the printed 2026 book holds its own roll.