Our relationship to William the Conquerer

From: Info Seeker
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 8:20 AM

Subject: Our relationship to William the Conquerer

Hi everyone!  Hope you’ve been having a good week…

On my last email I illustrated how William the Conquerer bestowed a LOT of land on Ritchard fitzGilbert (de Clare), son of Gilbert of Brionne, our ancestors, after he conquered England in 1066.

I had read they were cousins, and I wanted to get William on my tree, since he was such an important person in history.  I finally figured out how to put him there accurately, and he is at http://person.ancestry.com/tree/47009625/person/48579253507/facts   I haven’t filled in the facts of his life, as he’s rather ancilliary, and I’m rather busy, but you can see his bio at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror . 

Attached is a chart I’ve marked up that shows how he was related to Gilbert, our 30^th great grandfather.  The solid yellow highlight is our line, the dashed is the line to William.

Here is how Ancestry shows my lineage – yours should be nearly identical, with the of times ‘removed’ varying a little depending on how many generations we all are from him:

William I "The Conquerer" King of England (1024 - 1087)
2nd cousin 31x removed

Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of Normandy (1000 - 1035)
father of William I "The Conquerer" King of England

Richard II "the Good" Duke of Normandy (958 - 1027)
father of Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of Normandy

Richard the Fearless Duke of Normandy (933 - 996)
father of Richard II "the Good" Duke of Normandy

Geoffrey Earl of Eu and Brione (962 - 1010)
son of Richard the Fearless Duke of Normandy

Gilbert Earl of Brione and Clare (1000 - 1040)
son of Geoffrey Earl of Eu and Brione

Gilbert Lord of Tellieres 
son of Gilbert Earl of Brione and Clare

Ralph De Telliers (1038 - 1124)
son of Gilbert Lord of Tellieres

Robert de Tellieres Giffard (1096 - 1187)
son of Ralph De Telliers

I’ve been very busy preparing a presentation I’m giving to the North San Diego County Genealogical Society’s DNA Interest Group in a couple of weeks on the topic of “How to Use Genome Mate”, so I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to our lineage….

BUT, I hope you enjoy this little tidbit….

Cousin Teri