DR. RENALD RENE DE LA FORCE #FamilyHistoryFriday

FOUND a new blog, to me at least, about my newly found bloodline the De La Force line from LaForce, France...
and the father or grandfather of my seventh great grandmother Sarah LaForce,,,,

Dr. Rene LaForce was apparently a Hugeonot who lead a group from France to Virginia and settled his family in America. His daughter or granddaughter married Booth Napier and had a daughter named Mary who married Sgt. William Vaughan, a revolutionary soldier and my sixth great grandfather.  

Perhaps the force is with me after all.  



LINKS

https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Rene-de-la-Force/6000000011187511675
https://thelaforces.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/dr-renald-rene-la-force-i/ 
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42636033 
http://catorfamily.com/genealogy/leforcemeadors.html 
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/i/d/Norman-Ridgley/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0563.html 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/LaForce-176 

Waldron, Count of Saint-Clair #52ancestors

Walderne, Count de Santo Claro came to England with William the Conqueror.   
Waldron de Saint-Clair AKA Walderne AKA Waldonius, count of Saint-Clair came from Saint-Claire Normandy to England with William the Conqueror. He was the founder of the Sinclair family in England


http://www.geni.com/people/Waldonius-count-of-Saint-Clair/6000000018894090509  

Waldonius, Count of Saint-Clair is my 25th great grandfather.
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his father →  Sir William Sinclair of Roslin 
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his father →  Henry Sinclair of Roslin 
his father →  William "the Seemly" Sinclair of Roslin 
his father → Waldonius, count of Saint-Clair 
his father

Saint Ramon the Holy, Count of Barcelona #52ancestors

Ramon Berenguer IV (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmom bəɾəŋˈɡe]; c. 1113 – 6 August 1162, Anglicized Raymond Berengar IV), sometimes called the Holy, was the Count of Barcelona who brought about the union of his County of Barcelona with theKingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Aragon.  

Ramon Berenguer IV inherited the county of Barcelona from his father Ramon Berenguer III on 19 August 1131. On 11 August 1137, at the age of about 24, he was betrothed to the infantPetronilla of Aragon, aged one at the time. Petronilla's father,Ramiro II of Aragon, who sought Barcelona's aid against Alfonso VII of Castile, withdrew from public life on 13 November 1137, leaving his kingdom to Petronilla and Ramon Berenguer, the latter in effect becoming ruler of Aragon, although he was never king himself, instead commonly using the titles "Count of the Barcelonans and Prince of the Aragonians" (Comes Barcinonensis et Princeps Aragonensis), and occasionally those of "Marquis of Lleida and Tortosa" (after conquering these cities). He was the last Catalan ruler to use "Count" as his primary title; starting with his son Alfonso II of Aragon the counts of Barcelona styled themselves, in the first place, as kings of Aragon.

The treaty between Ramon Berenguer and his father-in-law, Ramiro II, stipulated that their descendants would rule jointly over both realms, and that even if Petronilla died before the marriage could be consummated, Berenguer's heirs would still inherit the Kingdom of Aragon.^[1] Both realms would preserve their laws, institutions and autonomy, remaining legally distinct but federated in a dynastic union under one ruling House. Historians consider this arrangement the political masterstroke of the Hispanic Middle Ages. Both realms gained greater strength and security and Aragon got its much needed outlet to the sea. On the other hand, formation of a new political entity in the north-east at the time when Portugal seceded from León in the west gave more balance to the Christian kingdoms of the peninsula. Ramon Berenguer successfully pulled Aragon out of its pledged submission to Castile, aided no doubt by his sister Berengaria, wife of Alfonso the Emperor, who was well known in her time for her beauty and charm.

In the middle years of his rule, Ramon Berenguer turned his attention to campaigns against the Moors. In October 1147, as part of the Second Crusade, he helped Castile to conquer Almería. He then invaded the lands of theAlmoravid taifa kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia. In December 1148, he captured Tortosa after a five-month siege with the help of Southern French, Anglo-Norman and Genoese crusaders.^[2] The next year, Fraga, Lleida andMequinenza in the confluence of the Segre and Ebro rivers fell to his army. The reconquista of modern Catalonia was completed.

Ramon Berenguer also campaigned in Provence, helping his brother Berenguer Ramon and his infant nephewRamon Berenguer II against the Counts of Toulouse. During the minority of Ramon Berenguer II, the Count of Barcelona also acted as the regent of Provence (between 1144 and 1157). In 1151, Ramon signed the Treaty of Tudilén with Alfonso VII of León and Castile. The treaty defined the zones of conquest in Andalusia as an attempt to prevent the two rulers from coming into conflict. Also in 1151, Ramon Berenguer founded and endowed the royal monastery of Poblet. In 1154, he accepted the regency of Gaston V of Béarn in return for the Bearnese nobles rendering him homage at Canfranc, thus uniting that small principality with the growing Aragonese empire.

Ramon Berenguer IV died on 6 August 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy, leaving the title of Count of Barcelona to his eldest surviving son, Ramon Berenguer, who inherited the title of King of Aragon after the abdication of his mother Petronilla of Aragon two years later in 1164. He changed his name to Alfonso as a nod to his Aragonese lineage, and became Alfonso II of Aragon. Ramon Berenguer IV's younger son Pere (Peter) inherited the county of Cerdanya and lands north of the Pyrenees, and changed his name to Ramon Berenguer.

LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_IV,_Count_of_Barcelona 
http://www.geni.com/people/Ramon-Berenguer-IV-el-Sant-comte-de-Barcelona/6000000010463529059

Ramon Berenguer IV el Sant, comte de Barcelona is your 24th great grandfather.
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his father

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence and Forcalquier #52ancestors

Ramon Berenguer IV (1198 – 19 August 1245), Count of Provence and Forcalquier, was the son of Alfonso II of Provence and Garsenda de Sabran, heiress of Forcalquier.

He was the first Count of Provence to live in the county in more than one hundred years.^[1]

After his father's death (1209), Ramon was imprisoned in the castle of Monzón, in Aragon until he was able to escape in 1219 and claim his inheritance. He was a powerful and energetic ruler who addedForcalquier to his domain.

He and his wife were known for their support of troubadors, always having some around the court. He was known for his generosity, though his income did not always keep up. He wrote laws prohibiting nobles from performing menial work, such as farming or heavy labor.^[2]

Ramon had many border disputes with his neighbors, the Counts of Toulouse. While the Albigensian Crusade worked in his favor, Ramon was concerned that its resolution in the Treaty of Paris left him in a precarious position. When Blanche of Castile sent her knight to both Toulouse and Provence in 1233, Ramon entertained him lavishly, and the knight left well impressed by both the count and his eldest daughter, Margaret. Soon after, Blanche negotiated the marriage between Margaret and her son, Louis, with a dowry of ten thousand silver marks. Ramon had to get contributions from allies for a portion, and had to pledge several of his castles to cover the rest. Ramon and Beatrice travelled with their daughter to Lyon in 1234 to sign the marriage treaty, and then Margaret was escorted to her wedding in Sens by her uncles from Savoy, William and Thomas^[3]

On 5 June 1219, Ramon married Beatrice of Savoy, daughter of Thomas I of Savoy. She was a shrewd and politically astute woman, whose beauty was likened by Matthew Paris to that of a second Niobe. Their children included four daughters, all of whom married kings.

1. stillborn son (1220)
2. Margaret of Provence (1221–1295), wife of Louis IX of France
3. Eleanor of Provence (1223–1291), wife of Henry III of England
4. stillborn son (1225)
5. Sanchia of Provence (1228–1261), wife of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
6. Beatrice of Provence (1231–1267), wife of Charles I of Sicily

His daughters were all educated and literate.^[4]

Ramon Berenguer IV died in Aix-en-Provence. At least two planhs (Occitan funeral laments) of uncertain authorship (one possibly by Aimeric de Peguilhan and one falsely attributed to Rigaut de Berbezilh) were written in his honour.

Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica had this to say about Raymond:

Count Raymond was a lord of gentle lineage, and kin to them of the house of Aragon, and to the family of the count of Toulouse, By inheritance Provence, this side of the Rhone, was his; a wise and courteous lord was he, and of noble state and virtuous, and in his time did honourable deeds, and to his court came all gentle persons of Provence and of France and of Catalonia, by reason of his courtesy and noble estate, and he made many Provençal coblas and canzoni of great worth.^[5]

*Raymond was a member of the House of Barcelona although his county was in France. Raymond was the grandfather of Edward the first of England.

LINKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Berenguer_IV,_Count_of_Provence
http://alturl.com/mf3u3



Raymond Bérenger IV, comte de Provence is my 25th great grandfather.
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her father

Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy #52ancestors

Richard I of Normandy (933–996), also known as Richard the Fearless (French, Sans Peur), was the Duke of Normandy from 942 to 996.^{[1][dubious – discuss]} Dudo of Saint-Quentin, whom Richard commissioned to write his De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Latin, On the Customs and Deeds of the First Dukes of Normandy), called him a dux, but this use of the word may have been in the context of Richard's leadership in war, and not a reference to a title of nobility.^[2][a] Richard either introduced feudalism into Normandy, or he greatly expanded it. By the end of his reign, most important landholders held their lands in feudal tenure.^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I,_Duke_of_Normandy
http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-I-The-Fearless-Duke-of-Normandy/6000000010211396295

Richard I, 'The Fearless', Duke of Normandy is my 31st great grandfather.  
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her mother →  Gwenllian verch Philip 
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her mother →  Gwilym Sais Ap Madog 
her father →  Madoc . ap Hywel Vychan 
his father →  Sara le Sore 
his mother → Mabel FitzWilliam FitzRobert, Countess of Gloucester 
her mother →  William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester 
her father → Robert de Caen, Earl of Gloucester 
his father →  Henry I Beauclerc, King of England,'Dei Gratiâ Rex Anglorum, 
his father → William the Conqueror, King of England 
his father →  Robert "le Magnifique" fitz Richard, Duc de Normandie 
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his father

Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England #52ancestors

Henry Beaufort (c. 1375 - April 11th 1447), was an English clergyman.

The second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, was born in Anjou (France) in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church. In about 1390 their cousin Richard II of England declared him and his two brothers and one sister legitimate. (There is some confusion on this point; there seems to have been another such procedure in 1397, involving Parliament.) In 1398 Henry Beaufort was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln. When his half-brother deposed Richard and took the throne as Henry IV of England, he was made Bishop Beaufort Chancellor of England in 1403, but he resigned that position the next year to become Bishop of Winchester.

Between 1411 and 1413 Bishop Beaufort was in political disgrace for siding with his nephew, the Prince of Wales, against the king, but then when Henry IV died and the prince became Henry V of England, he made his uncle Chancellor again; however, Beaufort resigned the position in 1417. Pope Martin V offered the Bishop a cardinal's hat, but Henry V would not let him accept it. Henry V died in 1422, shortly after making himself heir to France by marrying the French king's daughter, and their infant son became Henry VI of England. Bishop Beaufort and the baby king's other uncles were regents, and in 1424 Beaufort became Chancellor once more, but was forced to resign again in 1426 because of disputes with the king's other uncles.

The Pope finally made him a Cardinal, and in 1427 made him Papal Legate for Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. Beaufort continued to be active in English politics for years, fighting with the other powerful advisors to the king and always managing to extricate himself from the snares they set for him. He died on April 11, 1447 and was laid to rest in a tomb in Winchester Cathedral. He suffered from delerium on his deathbed and, as he hallucinated, offered Death the whole treasury of England in return for living a while longer (according to legend).

During his youth, most likely while studying at Oxford, Henry had an affair with Alice Fitzalan (1378 - 1415), the daughter of Richard Fitzalan and Elizabeth de Bohun. The union produced an illegtimate daughter, Jane Beaufort, in 1402. In 1424, Jane Beaufort married Edward Stradling. 

Wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cardinal_Beaufort]        

      

Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester is my 16th great grandfather.

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her father →  Arthur Jarman 

his father → John Jarman 

his father →  Thomas Jarman 

his father →  Gwen Jarmen 

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his mother → Thomas Stradling Esq 

her father →  Sir Henry Stradling 

his father →  Jane [Joan] (Jane) Stradling 

his mother →  Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester 

her father

http://www.geni.com/people/Cardinal-Henry-Beaufort-Bishop-of-Winchester/4194842439740054741       

#52ancestors: Henri I, King of France

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

Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) was the King of the Franks from 1031 to his death. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. This is not entirely agreed upon, however, as other historians regard him as a strong but realistic king, who was forced to conduct a policy mindful of the limitations of the French monarchy.

Reign

A member of the House of Capet, Henry was born in Reims, the son of King Robert II (972–1031) and Constance of Arles (986–1034). He was crowned King of France at the Cathedral in Reims on 14 May 1027, in the Capetian tradition, while his father still lived. He had little influence and power until he became sole ruler on his father's death.

The reign of Henry I, like those of his predecessors, was marked by territorial struggles. Initially, he joined his brother Robert, with the support of their mother, in a revolt against his father (1025). His mother, however, supported Robert as heir to the old king, on whose death Henry was left to deal with his rebel sibling. In 1032, he placated his brother by giving him the duchy of Burgundy which his father had given him in 1016.

In an early strategic move, Henry came to the rescue of his very young nephew-in-law, the newly appointed Duke William of Normandy (who would go on to become William the Conqueror), to suppress a revolt by William's vassals. In 1047, Henry secured the dukedom for William in their decisive victory over the vassals at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes near Caen.

A few years later, when William married Matilda, the daughter of the count of Flanders, Henry feared William's potential power. In 1054, and again in 1057, Henry went to war to try to conquer Normandy from William, but on both occasions he was defeated. Despite his efforts, Henry I's twenty-nine-year reign saw feudal power in France reach its pinnacle.

Henry had three meetings with Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor—all at Ivois. In early 1043, he met him to discuss the marriage of the emperor with Agnes of Poitou, the daughter of Henry's vassal. In October 1048, the two Henries met again, but the subject of this meeting eludes us. The final meeting took place in May 1056. It concerned disputes over Lorraine. The debate over the duchy became so heated that the king of France challenged his German counterpart to single combat. The emperor, however, was not so much a warrior and he fled in the night; despite this, Henry did not get Lorraine.

King Henry I died on 4 August 1060 in Vitry-en-Brie, France, and was interred in Saint Denis Basilica. He was succeeded by his son, Philip I of France, who was 7 at the time of his death; for six years Henry I's Queen, Anne of Kiev, ruled as regent.

He was also Duke of Burgundy from 1016 to 1032, when he abdicated the duchy to his brother Robert Capet.

Henri I, roi de France is my 24th great grandfather.
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his mother →  William Grant, of Crichie 
her father →  Elizabeth Grant 
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his father →  John Leslie, Eighth Baron of Balquhain 
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his mother →  Sir Walter Ogilvie of Auchleven 
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his father → Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale 
his father →  Isabel of Huntingdon 
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her father →  Henri I, roi de France 
his father

http://www.geni.com/people/Henri-I-roi-de-France/6000000003645832264

Robert I "Robertian", roi des Francs #52ancestors

This one is for my French teacher in high school... 

*Robert I de France, roi des Francs (King of West Francia) is Queen Elizabeth II's 24th great grandfather.     

http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-I-King-of-France/4647274           

**Robert I was never a Capet (this was a family name created by Hugh Capet, based on a place name). The name of his family or dynasty was "Robertian" (from Robert Le Fort, his father). 

Robert I (15 August 866 – 15 June 923), King of Western Francia (922 – 923), was the younger son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, and the brother of Odo, who became king of the Western Franks in 888.

West Francia evolved over time into France; under King Odo, the capital was fixed on Paris, a large step in that direction. His family is known as the Robertians.

Robert was present at the Siege of Paris in 885. Appointed by King Odo ruler of several counties, including the county of Paris, the March of Neustria, and abbot in commendam of many abbeys, Robert also secured the office of Dux Francorum, a military dignity of high importance. He did not claim the crown of West Francia when his brother died in 898; but recognising the supremacy of the Carolingian king, Charles III the Simple, he was confirmed in his offices and possessions, after which he continued to defend northern Francia from the attacks of the Norsemen.

The peace between the king and his powerful vassal was not seriously disturbed until about 921. The rule of King Charles, and especially his partiality for a certain Comte Hagano had aroused some irritation (he was made into Charles' principle advisor and favorite - the French Wikipedia page suggests Hagano served merely as a pretext for a premeditated bid for power); and, supported by many of the clergy and by some of the most powerful of the Frankish nobles, Robert took up arms, drove Charles III into Lorraine, and was himself crowned king of the Franks (rex Francorum) at Rheims (crowned by Gautier Archbishop of Sens) on Sunday 30 June 922.

Collecting an army, Charles III marched against the usurper and, on 15 June 923, in the stubborn and sanguinary Battle of Soissons (near the city of the same name), Robert I was killed, according to one tradition in single combat with his rival (the French Wikipedia page says this was Fulbert, Faubert, or Foubert).

(The French Wikipedia continues the story, saying that Robert's son, Hugh the Great, denied Charles III the Simple his victory, preventing him from recovering the crown of Western Francia. The nobility instead elect Raoul Duke of Burgundy, stepson of Robert I; he was consecrated on 13 July 923.)

Robert was married twice. Through his first wife, Aelis/Adele du Maine, he had two daughters. Each married powerful lay vassals of their father: Emma of France (894–935) to Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy, and Hildebranda (895–931) to Herbert II of Vermandois.

Through his second wife, Béatrice of Vermandois, daughter of Herbert I of Vermandois, he had his only son, Hugh the Great, who was later dux Francorum and father of King Hugh Capet, and a daughter Richilda. He may have had other daughters.

References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

King of Western Francia (922–923) Preceded by Charles the Simple Succeeded by Rudolph -------------------- From the English Wikipedia page on the Battle of Soissons (923):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Soissons_(923)