William de Huntingfield, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Surety of the Magna Carta

William de Huntingfield, Lord of East Brandenham is your 23rd great grandfather.

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his father →  James "Jim" Ira Nichols, R-CTS1751
his father → Ezekiel Hankin Nichols, R-CTS1751
his father →  John Nichols, R-CTS1751
his father →  Judith Nichols
his mother →  Richard Hatcher
her father →  William Hatcher, Jr.
his father →  William Hatcher, Sr.
his father →  Edward Hatcher, Sr.
his father →  Marian Mary Hatcher
his mother →  Capt. Christopher Newport, Admiral of Virginia
her father → Christopher Newport, Sr.
his father →  Christopher Richard Newporte
his father →  Mary Allington
his mother →  John Allington
her father →  Elizabeth Argentine
his mother → Isabel Kerdiston
her mother →  Cecily de Braose
her mother →  Sir John de Braose, Lord of Stinton
her father →  Giles De Braose
his father → Alice (Alicia) (le Rus) de Braose, Heiress of Stinton and Ludborough
his mother →  William le Rus
her father →  Alice de Huntingfield
his mother → William de Huntingfield, Lord of East Brandenham
her father

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Robert FitzWalter of Woodham, Baron of Little Dunmow, Surety of the Magna Carta

Robert FitzWalter of Woodham, Baron of Little Dunmow, Surety of the Magna Carta is your 23rd great grandfather.
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his father →  James "Jim" Ira Nichols, R-CTS1751
his father → Ezekiel Hankin Nichols, R-CTS1751
his father →  John Nichols, R-CTS1751
his father →  Judith Nichols
his mother →  Richard Hatcher
her father →  William Hatcher, Jr.
his father →  William Hatcher, Sr.
his father →  Edward Hatcher, Sr.
his father →  Marian Mary Hatcher
his mother →  Capt. Christopher Newport, Admiral of Virginia
her father → Christopher Newport, Sr.
his father →  Christopher Richard Newporte
his father →  Mary Allington
his mother →  Mary Ellen Cheney
her mother →  Elizabeth Cokayne
her mother →  Ida Cokayne, Baroness
her mother →  Alianore de Grey
her mother →  Ankaret le Boteler
her mother →  Ela de Herdeburgh
her mother →  Ida de Clinton
her mother → Ela FitzWalter de Longespee
her mother →  Walter FitzRobert, Lord of Little Dunmow
her father → Robert FitzWalter of Woodham, Baron of Little Dunmow, Surety of the Magna Carta
his father


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William III "Brito" d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir, Magna Carta Surety

William III "Brito" d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir, Magna Carta Surety is my 23rd great grandfather.
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his mother →  Martha CALLIE Collins
her mother →  Nancy Rachel Bartlett (KING)
her mother → Sarah Ann King (Bartlett)
her mother →  Reuben S. BARTLETT
her father →  John??? Garner Bartlett
his father →  WILLIAM BARTLETT
his father →  WILLIAM BERKLEY
his father →  Margaret Bartlett
his mother →  Margaret Brent
her mother →  Sir John Peshall, 1st Baronet
her father →  Thomas Pershall (Pearsall) (Persall)
his father → Isabella Pearsall
his mother →  Mary Rolleston
her mother →  Anne Talbot
her mother →  Lady Elizabeth Butler
her mother →  James 'the White Earl' Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond
her father →  Anne Butler, Countess of Ormond
his mother →  Maud de Ros, Lady Welles
her mother →  William de Ros, 2nd Lord de Ros of Helmsley
her father → William de Ros, 1st Lord de Ros of Helmsley, Joint Lord and Warden of Scotland
his father →  Isabel d'Aubigny, Heiress of Belvoir
his mother → William IV "The Lion" d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir
her father →  William III "Brito" d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir
his father

https://www.geni.com/people/William-III-d-Aubigny-Lord-of-Belvoir/6000000009255472189

Muirchertach Ua Briain, King of Munster and High King of Ireland #52ancestors

Muirchertach mac Toirdelbach Mor Ua Briain, (descendant of Brian Boru of the House of O'Brian) High King of Ireland is my 23rd great grandfather.... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirchertach_Ua_Briain

Muirchertach Ua Briain (c. 1050 – c. 10 March 1119), son of Toirdelbach Ua Briain and great-grandson of Brian Bóru, was King of Munster and later self declared High King of Ireland.

Background

Major political divisions of Ireland similar to those in Muircheartach's timeMuirchertach was a son of Toirdelbach Ua Briain, a previous Dalcassian king of Ireland. In 1086 his father died and the province of Munster from which he had claimed kingship of Ireland had been split between his three sons: Tadc, Muirchertach and Diarmait. Tadc died soon after, and Muirchertach banished Diarmait from Munster, claiming its kingship for himself.

King of Munster

Between 1086 and 1101, Muirchertach consolidated and strengthened his position as province-king of Munster. He went on forays into Mide and Leinster in 1089 and took the kingship of Leinster and fought for the Viking town of Dublin. In 1093, he accepted the submission of Domnall mac Flainn Ua Maíl Shechnaill, the Uí Néill king of Tara, and also made peace with his brother Diarmait at Cashel.

King of Ireland with opposition

In 1094, Muirchertach fought the kings of Leth Cuinn and Gofraid, king of Dublin. He went with his army to Dublin and banished Gofraid, and brought about the killing of Domnall Ua Maíl Shechnaill. He asserted supremacy over the Uí Néill kingdom of Mide.

In 1101 he declared himself High King and travelled the island provinces. It was in this year that he gave the fortress at on the rock of Cashel as a gift to the Church.

Alliance with Arnulf de Montgomery

In an effort to gain military support against Henry I, Arnulf de Montgomery sent his steward, Gerald of Windsor, to Ireland to negotiate terms with Muirchertach. According to a Welsh chronicle (Sean Duffy, p. 45, 1997), Arnulf "though to make peace with the Irish and to obtain help from them. And he sent messengers to Ireland, that is Gerald the Steward (Gerald of Winsor) and many others, to ask for the daughter of King Murtart for his wife. And that he easily obtained; and the messengers came joyfully to their land. And Murtart sent his daughter and many armed ships along with her to his aid. And when the earls had exalted themselves with pride because of those events, they refused to accept any peace from the king."

De Montgomery and his brother Robert, were however defeated by Henry and fled to Ireland. He fought for Muirchertah, aiding his defeat of Magnus Barelegs, but when de Montgomery attempted to seize the kingship for himself, Muirchertach "took his daughter away from Arnulf and gave the wanton girl in an unlawful marriage to one of his cousins. He resolved to kill Arnulf himself as a reward for his alliance, but the latter ... fled to his own people and lived for twenty years afterwards with no fixed abode." (Sean Duffy, 1997, p. 46).

Magnus Barelegs

In 1102, Muirchertach cemented an alliance with Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway by marrying his daughter Blathmin Ua Briain to Magnus's son, Sigurd I Magnusson. Muirchertach now took part in a campaign with Magnus to assert control over Ulster, successfully defeating opposing Irish forces. After a year of campaigning, as his army was readying to depart back to Norway, King Magnus was ambushed and killed by an Irish army in Ulster. With Magnus's death, Muirchertach's daughters marriage was disavowed by the Norwegians, weakening Muirchertachs proclaimed position as High King.

In 1114 the king became sick to the point where "he became a living skeleton". In response to the king's misfortune, his brother Diarmait took control of the kingship of Munster and banished Muirchertach. The following year Muirchertach regained his strength and undertook a campaign to regain control of Munster and successfully captured Diarmait. Only later did the king regain control of Munster.

In 1119, Muirchertach Ua Briain died.

Assessments

Anthony Condon (1979, p. 398) remarked of Ua Briain:

"Muirchertach Ua Briain was an ambitious, modernizing and outward-looking king whose goal was to make himself king of Ireland as much as William Rufus and Henry I were kings of England; in reality his position was, perhaps, more analogous to that of Phillip I in France ... but his actual authority in Ireland, especially at the height of his power in the first years of the twelfth century, greatly exceeded that of Phillip in France. ... Ua Briain ... pursued a vigorous foreign policy which was to carry his activities beyond his own shores."

In the latter regard, Condon (1979, p. 415) views "Ua Briain's activities in the Irish Sea area [as] a mixture of old and new, of pragmstisim and idealism ... But they are invested with a modern purpose. Ua Briain makes one marriage with the king of Norway, and another with one of the most powerful non-royal families in Europe; he treats with the king of Scotland; his aid to the Welsh princes acts as a stabilizing influence in Welsh politics; he incurs trade sanctions from the king of England, and negotiates their suspension. Altogether, Muirchertach Ua Briain lifted his head above the domestic power struggle and sought to involve Ireland in the international politics of Europe, so that some sixty years later, these activities were still well remembered, and are reflected in the vitae of St. Flannan of Killaloe."

http://www.geni.com/people/Muirchertach-Ua-Briain/6000000004533048198 

Valdemar the Great #52ancestors

Valdemar I of Denmark (14 January 1131 – 12 May 1182), also known as Valdemar the Great, was King of Denmark from 1157 until his death in 1182.   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdemar_I_of_Denmark     

He was the son of Canute Lavard, a chivalrous and popular Danish prince, who was the eldest son of Eric I of Denmark. Valdemar's father was murdered by Magnus the Strong days before the birth of Valdemar; his mother, Ingeborg of Kiev, daughter of Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden, named him after her grandfather, Vladimir Monomakh of Kiev.

As an heir to the throne, and with his rivals quickly gaining power, he was raised in the court of Asser Rig of Fjenneslev, together with Asser's sons, Absalon and Esbern Snare, who would become his trusted friends and ministers.

In 1146, when Valdemar was fifteen years old, King Erik III Lamb abdicated and a civil war erupted. The pretenders to the throne were: Sweyn III Grathe, son of Eric II Emune, son of Eric I. Canute V, son of Magnus the Strong who was the son of King Niels, who was the brother of Erik I. Valdemar himself held Jutland, at leastSchleswig, as his possession. The civil war lasted the better part of ten years.

In 1157, the three agreed to part the country in three among themselves. Sweyn hosted a great banquet for Canute, Absalon, and Valdemar during which he planned to dispose of all of them. Canute was killed, but Absalon and Valdemar escaped. Valdemar returned to Jutland. Sweyn quickly launched an invasion, only to be defeated by Valdemar in the Battle of Grathe Heath. He was killed during flight, supposedly by a group of peasants who stumbled upon him as he was fleeing from the battlefield. Valdemar, having outlived all his rival pretenders, became the sole King of Denmark.

Bishop Absalon topples the god Svantevit at Arkona

In 1158 Absalon was electedBishop of Roskilde, and Valdemar made him his chief friend and advisor. He reorganized and rebuilt war-torn Denmark. At Absalon's instigation he declared war upon the Wends who were raiding the Danish coasts. They inhabited Pomerania and the island of Rügen in theBaltic Sea. In 1168 the Wendish capital, Arkona, was taken, and the Wends became Christians and subject to Danish suzerainty. Danish influence reached into Pomerania.

Valdemar's reign saw the rise of Denmark, which reached its zenith under his second son Valdemar II.    

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Valdemar I of Denmark is my 23rd great grandfather.
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her father →  Mary Whitledge Grant 
his mother →  William Grant, of Crichie 
her father →  Elizabeth Grant 
his mother → William Leslie, X. Baron of Balquhain 
her father →  Janet "Jane" Forbes, Countess of Athlon 
his mother →  John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes 
her father → William "Gray Willie" Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes 
his father →  Egidia Forbes 
his mother →  Marjorie Fraser 
her mother →  Alexander Fraser of Lovat 
her father → Hugh Fraser, 3rd of Lovat 
his father →  Alexander Fraser, 3rd of Lovat & Brotherton 
his father →  Margaret of Orkney 
his mother →  Magnus Orkney, V 
her father → NN Magnusdatter (Orkney), Prinsesse av Norge 
his mother →  Dronning Ingeborg (Eriksdatter) 
her mother →  Konge af Danmark Erik IV Plovpenning 
her father → King Valdemar II of Denmark 
his father →  King Valdemar I of Denmark 
his father 

http://www.geni.com/people/King-Valdemar-I-of-Denmark/5305294636990124817  

Count Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans #52ancestors

"Richard of Cornwall (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272) was Count of Poitou (from 1225 to 1243), 1st Earl of Cornwall (from 1225) and German King (formally "King of the Romans", from 1257). One of the wealthiest men in Europe, he also joined the Barons' Crusade, where he achieved success as a negotiator for the release of prisoners, and assisted with the building of the citadel in Ascalon."

Richard Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Cornwall / "King of the Romans" is my 23rd great grandfather.

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his mother →  Martha Collins (BARTLETT) 

her mother →  Nancy Rachel Bartlett (KING) 

her mother → Sarah Ann King (Bartlett) 

her mother →  Reuben S. BARTLETT 

her father →  John Garner Bartlett 

his father →  WILLIAM BARTLETT 

his father →  WILLIAM BERKLEY 

his father →  Margaret (Brent) Bartlett 

his mother →  Richard Brent 

her father →  Elizabeth Brent 

his mother →  Katherine Reed 

her mother → Elizabeth Greville (Willoughby), Baroness Willoughby of Broke 

her mother →  Edward Willoughby 

her father →  Sir Robert Willoughby, KB 

his father → Blanche Champernon 

his mother →  John Champernon, Sir 

her father →  Sir Alexander Champernon, Kt. 

his father → Sir Richard Champernon, Knight and Sheriff of Devonshire 

his father →  Sir Thomas Champernon of Modbury, Knight 

his father → Sir Richard Champernowne, of Modbury 

his father →  Richard Champernoun, Knight 

his father →  Joan de Cornwall 

his mother → Richard Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Cornwall / "King of the Romans" 

her father

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James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley #52ancestors

James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley is my 23rd great grandfather.

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his mother →  David J. COLLINS 
her father →  JOHN H. COLLINS 
his father →  Elizabeth Boothe 
his mother → Abner Boothe 
her father →  Isaac Boothe, Sr. 
his father →  George Boothe, Sr. 
his father →  Stephen Boothe, I 
his father →  Rebecca Boothe 
his mother → Mary Morehouse (Hill) 
her mother →  Eliphalet Hill 
her father →  Elizabeth Hill 
his mother →  Rev. John Jones, I 
her father →  Elizabeth Bleythn Jones 
his mother → Thomas Morgan, Lord of Castell-Arnallt 
her father →  Rowland Morgan, Lord of Castell-Arnallt 
his father →  Elizabeth Vaughan 
his mother →  Jane Vaughn 
her mother → Constance Whitney 
her mother →  James Touchett, 5th Lord Audley 
her father →  John Touchet, 4th Baron Audley 
his father →  John Touchet, II 
his father →  Joan Audley 
his mother →  James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley 
her father

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