Charlemagne to Margaret de Clare The de Clare door — Wessex, Normandy and the Counts of Flanders, and a second road to Charlemagne The blood line runs straight down the middle; queens and their kin marry in from the sides — the same door as the Continental crowns Louis the Pious 36× · Charles the Bald 35× · Judith of France married the Counts of Flanders · 4 gen the Earls of Gloucester → the de Clares · 2 gen the de Vere Earls of Oxford · 6 gen the Hunts of Curragh → Lane → White → Jones → Damery · 12 gen Charlemagne King of the Franks; Emperor, 800 748 – 814 · 36× great-grandfather a second road — his first is the Continental sheet Alfred the Great King of Wessex · the Anglo-Saxons 848 – 899 · 34× great-grandfather Ælfthryth of Wessex his daughter · Baldwin II’s queen d. 929 · 33× great-grandmother Baldwin II of Flanders Count of Flanders d. 918 · 33× great-grandfather Baldwin V of Flanders Count of Flanders d. 1067 · 28× great-grandfather Matilda of Flanders Queen of England · Baldwin V’s daughter d. 1083 · 27× great-grandmother William the Conqueror Duke of Normandy; King of England 1066 1028 – 1087 · 27× great-grandfather her husband — not of the Flanders line Henry I King of England · son of William and Matilda 1068 – 1135 · 26× great-grandfather Robert of Gloucester 1st Earl of Gloucester · son of Henry I d. 1147 · 25× great-grandfather Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford 1180 – 1230 · 22× great-grandfather his wife Isabel Marshal came of Strongbow and Aoife Richard de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford 1222 – 1262 · 21× great-grandfather Thomas de Clare Lord of Thomond d. 1287 · 20× great-grandfather Margaret de Clare m. Bartholomew de Badlesmere d. 1333 · 19× great-grandmother Maud de Badlesmere m. into the de Vere Earls of Oxford d. 1366 · 18× great-grandmother Jane Vere of the de Vere Earls of Oxford; m. Henry Hunt fl. 1573 · 11× great-grandmother Aynsley Norman Damery Cork, Ireland living Generations are counted along the de Clare road drawn here; several of these reach me a step shorter by other roads (Charlemagne, for one, 35× via the Percy Earls).Damery Family History · damery.family · that a second, independent road reaches Charlemagne is a cross-check on the Continental descent
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