The Royal Lines Thirteen royal houses — twelve sovereign crowns — in the ancestry of Aynsley Norman Damery Each shown with the line by which it descends to me · from 5th-century Ireland to Plantagenet England · documented in the family GEDCOM, July 2026 THE BRITISH ISLES Alfred the Great King of Wessex — the Anglo-Saxons c.848 – 899 · my 34× great-grandfather via the Counts of Flanders → the de Clares → the de Veres William the Conqueror Duke of Normandy; King of England 1066 c.1028 – 1087 · my 27× great-grandfather via the de Clares → the de Veres (and via the Plantagenets) Edward I ‘Longshanks’ King of England — the Plantagenets 1239 – 1307 · my 22× great-grandfather via the Butlers of Ormond → the O’Briens of Thomond Kenneth MacAlpin First King of Scots — House of Alpin d. 858 · my 36× great-grandfather via Matilda of Scotland → the Plantagenets → the Butlers Rhodri Mawr King of Gwynedd and Wales d. 878 · my 33× great-grandfather via Nest ferch Rhys → the Kildare FitzGeralds → the Butlers Dunlaing mac Enda Niada King of Leinster — the Uí Dúnlainge 5th century (founder) · my 44× great-grandfather via Sadb Ní Fáeláin → Orlaith → the O’Briens of Thomond his son Ailill and eight further kings of Leinster follow him Diarmait Mac Murchada King of Leinster — the Uí Cheinnselaig c.1110 – 1171 · my 25× great-grandfather via his daughters Aoife (→ the de Clares) and Orlaith (→ the O’Briens) Brian Boru High King of Ireland — Munster (Dál gCais) c.941 – 1014 · my 30× great-grandfather via the O’Briens of Thomond → the FitzMaurices of Kerry the O’Briens also carry the MacCarthy kings of Desmond and the lords of Thomond THE CONTINENT Charlemagne King of the Franks; Holy Roman Emperor 748 – 814 · my 36× great-grandfather via the Vermandois → the de Veres (and via Flanders → the de Clares) above him, Pepin the Short — my 37× great-grandfather Pepin of Italy King of Italy — son of Charlemagne 777 – 810 · my 35× great-grandfather via the Counts of Vermandois → the de Veres Hugh Capet King of France — the Capetians c.939 – 996 · my 29× great-grandfather via Hugh de Vermandois → the de Veres Vladimir the Great Grand Prince of Kiev — Kyivan Rus c.958 – 1015 · my 29× great-grandfather via Anne of Kiev → the Vermandois → the de Veres the line runs up to Igor of Kiev — my 31× great-grandfather Olof Skötkonung First King of Sweden c.980 – 1022 · my 29× great-grandfather via Ingegerd → Yaroslav of Kiev → the de Veres How they all reach me These houses did not arrive together. Each came in by its own door, and nearly all of them through women’s lines, converging at last in the Hunt family and descending through White, Jones and Damery: · the de Clares carry Ireland, and through Henry the First and the Counts of Flanders, Alfred the Great, Robert the Second of France and Charlemagne; · the de Veres (via Jane Vere) carry Charlemagne a second time by a different road, the Vermandois, and with him Italy, France, Kiev and Sweden; · the Butlers, with the Kildare FitzGeralds, carry Edward the First, and behind him Scotland and Wales; · Sadb Ní Fáeláin carries the Uí Dúnlainge kings of Leinster, the deepest chain of all; · the O’Briens carry Brian Boru and Munster. That two independent roads arrive at the same Emperor is a check on both. Damery Family History · damery.family · a record of blood, honestly graded — deep and compressed lines documented in full in the family tree
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