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Encyclopedia Mythica. 2006. Anachies Family Tree Chart. You must see this one. Encyclopedia Mythica Online.
07 Mar. 2006

Anchises was born about11240 bc
Mentioned in Lukian's "The
Sentence of Paris" as being the
Father of Aeneas who was carried
out of Troy upon the back of his son A.k.a. Anchisa (Anchises) the
Dardanian.

Some more extensive source material on Aeneas "Aeneas." Encyclopedia Mythica. 2006. Encyclopedia Mythica Online.
07 Mar. 2006

Aeneas was a relative of King Priam- (son-in-law) and is best known from Vergil's "The Aeneid." Homer described him in "The Illiad" as the bravest of the Trojan heroes- next after Hector but he was also known for his piety. Aeneas was one of the few survivors of the siege of Troy after the Greeks gained their deceptive entrance into the City by means of the infamous Trojan horse.
According to the ancient legendary tales Aeneas escaped and was under the protection of Aphrodite and sailed across the sea with his son. He founded Rome and both Julius Caesar and Augustus were commonly known to have descended from this historic family.

Daughter of Priam (king of Troy) and Hecuba of Phrygia, Turkey(Priam also called Podarces)Creusa's brother Paris abducted or eloped with Helen of Troy (the face that launched 1,000 ships) (she was the wife of Menelaus the King of Sparta) Creusa died while following Aeneas through the burning city of Troy.
According to legend, Aeneas
was carrying his father on his back and holding his son's hand while his wife followed them in their escape from the burning city.

? Lucius Julius Caesar IV (who
Served as Consul in 63 B.C., he fought in Gaul under the dictator Julius Caesar but afterwards revolted to Pompey.)

Note: A Praetor was an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximatelythesamefunctions as a consul.

Mark Antony, born in 83 bc, died in 30 bc, was famous for military successes and for
stabilizing the Roman Republic after the murder, in 44 bc, of Julius Caesar, the dictator. He was engaged in a power struggle with Octavian, the adopted son of Julius Caesar. Beaten by Octavian, known
as Augustus, at the battle of Actium, Mark Antony fled into Egypt with Cleopatra,
where both committed suicide, he by falling on his sword, she by the poisoned bite of an
asp. His five wives were: (1) Fadia, (2) Antonia,(3) Fulvia, (4) Octavia the Elder,
(5) Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, called "one of the most beautiful women of all time."
According to some historians, the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra was not a legal marriage. His fourth wife, Octavia the Elder, died 11 bc, widow of Claudius Marcellus and sister of Augustus Octavius Caesar, born at Nola in Campania 62 bc, the first Roman Emperor,
was the grand nephew, adopted son, and successor of Julius Caesar and ruled from
27 bc to 14 ad He is called Caesar Augustus in the New Testament (Gospel of St. Luke
2:1). The Roman Empire, which he founded, lasted about 500 years, from 29 bc to 476 ad

This Mark Anthony was immortalized In Shakespeare's Play "Julius Caesar"With his famous speech phrase:
"Friends, Romans, Country men lend me
your ears"

Note: It was Mark Anthony who appointed The evil King Herod to rule over Israel.
(Herod was the son of an Egyptian father and an Arab mother.)

Octavia stands out as a virtuous woman in a time when every restraint was relaxed. No evil deeds about her were ever even hinted by anybody.
After she was abandoned by Mark Antony, Octavia bore her rejection silently, lived quietly in Antony's house at Rome, and brought up
faithfully his children by Fulvia and the two daughters that she herself had given him. Later, Octavia, after the death of Antony and Cleopatra,
reared the children of Antony and Cleopatra as if they were her own.
Octavia died in the year 11 B.C., and was buried with the highest state honors. Mark Anthony married Octavia in 40 BC
When Octavia married Mark Anthony III in 40 BC, she was the widow of Claudius Marcellus with two children.
Note: Octavia the Elder was a direct descendent of Julia II Caesar (Julius Caesar's sister) who was
married to Marcus Atius Balbius.

Thus Staffords are direct descendents of the sister
of the famous dictator Julius Caesar.

Octavia's famous brother Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian.) He is officially the first Roman Emperor was the grand nephew of the dictator Julius Caesar He took the name in 44BC after the murder of his
great uncle, Julius Caesar. In his will Caesar had adopted Octavian and made him his heir.

To secure, that Antonius and Octavian would not start a new civil war, Antonius (Mark Anthony) agreed to marry Octavian's sister Octavia.

(Her evil grandson Caligula
forced her to kill herself.)

Some wonderful history about this extraordinary woman: Boudicca's Revolt (Boadicea) Web Site Britain Express Online.
07 Mar. 2006

Note: Following the death of her husband, Boudica waged war against the Romans in England. Boudica and her two teen aged daughters Canosia and Chersia poisoned themselves with a poisoned dagger after being defeated in battle by a Roman legion ratherthan serving as slaves in Rome.

Julia (Victoria) verch Prasutagus
of the Iceni(44ad-91ad)
Daughter of:
Prasutagus Druid King Of The
Iceni died: 61 ad andBoudica (Victoria) the Warrior Queen Of The Iceni
(born abt 25ad-died 62ad
Also spelled Boadicia she was the
daughter of Mandubracius and
Anna (Enygeus) of Arimathea

Some amazing background on Anna Enygeus of Arimathea. From Genealogy My Tree Website 07 Mar. 2006

Father: Caribert de Laon
Mother: Bertrada

Daughter of:
Gerold I
Duke of Swabia and
Imma Duchess of Swabia

Duke Bernard was a younger brother of Pepin the Short,
thus an uncle of Charlemagne.

Note: Pepin's wife
was named Bertha

3. (Wife)Gunnora of Denmark
Duchess of Normandy children were:
Robert d'Evereux Archbishop Rouen
Richard II Duke of Normandy
Mauger of Normandy Count of
Corbeil (and Mortain?)
Emma of Normandy
Matilda (Mahaud) de Normandy
Guillaume Hieme de Brionne
Count of Eu (Exemes)
Hawise (Hedwig) De Bretagne
Beatrice de Normandy

Born: about 1003 Normandie
Died: July 22, 1035 Nicea,
Bithynia, Turkey
Interred Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey

Interred: Abbaye de St
Etienne, Caen, Normandie

Born: abt. 1031 Flanders

Married: 1050 Castle Angi,
Normandy, France

Died: November 2, 1083
Caen, Normandie

Interred: Eglise De La Sainte
Trinitâe, Caen, Normandie

Daughter of:
Baudouin V (Baldwin) Count
of Flanders
And mother:
*Adáele (Alix) Princess of
France

Granddaughter of:
King Robert II "The Pious"
of France
(Thus Matilda was a cousin of
William. Matilda was given a
Papal dispensation to marry
Duke William.)

Born: 1068 Selby, Yorkshire, England
Christened: 5 August 1100 Selby, Yorkshire, England Married: Nov. 11, 1100 Died: 1 December 1135
St. Denis, Seine-St. Denis, France
Reign: (1100-1135)
Interred: January 4,
1136 Reading Abbey,
Reading, Berkshire,
England
Note: the nickname Beauclerc means
"The Good Scholar"

Note: He died from overeating Lamprey eels. Henry was heartbroken when his son William drowned when the "White Ship" sank in the English Channel, he became the "Man who never smiled again"

Note: Henry I
Had 3 spouses:
1. (Concubine) of Henry I of England
Robert "The King's Son" de Caen Earl
of Meullent
Maud Princess of England

2. (wife) Matilda "Atheling" Princess of
Scotland (Children were )
Matilda (Maud) Empress of Germany
Richard Prince of England
William "Atheling" Prince of England
Son Prince of England
Elizabeth Princess of England
Constance Princess of England

3. (mistress) Sybilla Corbet (Children were)
Rainald de Dunstanville Earl of Cornwall
William Constable
Gundred of England
Rohese of England
Sibyl Elizabeth Queen of Scotland

Sister of:
Alexander I King of Scotland

Daughter of:
*Malcolm III "Ceanmor (Longneck)" I King of Scotland
And
Adeliza of Louvain

Granddaughter of:
Duncan I "the gracious" King of
ScotlandWas murdered by
Macbeth on August 14, 1040

Geoffrey V "le Bon" Plantagenet was the son of: Fulk V, Count of Anjou King of Jerusalem and Ermengarde Countess du Maine

Born: August 24,
1113 Anjou, France
Died: Sept. 7, 1151
Chateau, France
Married: May 22,
1127 Le Mans, Sarthe, France

1. (Wife) Eleanor
Princess of Aquitane
(children)

John "Lackland" King of England
William Prince of England
Henry Prince of England
Richard I "The Lion Hearted"
King of England
Philip Prince of England
Eleanor Princess of England
Joanna Princess of England
Matilda Princess of England
Geoffrey Prince of England

2. (Concubine) Rosamond de Clifford
(children)

William "Longêpee" Prince of
England

Daughter of:
Guillaume X Duke of
Aquitane
And
Elâeanor de
Chatellerault

Born: December 24, 1166
Kings Manor House, Oxford,
Oxfordshire, England
Died: October 19, 1216
Newark, Nottinghamshire,
England
Interred: Cathedral,
Worcester, Worcestershire,
England
John received the nickname
"Lackland" because he was
the fourth eldest son. In those
days it was the tradition for a
father to divide his estate among his first three sons, thus it was assumed John would never manage to
control any of his father's vast
estates.

Daughter of:
Aymer I Taillefer Count
of Angouleme, France
And Alice Courtenay de Byzance

Born: June 17, 1239
Westminster, Middlesex,
England
Christened: 21 June 21, 1239
Westminster, Middlesex,
England
Died: July 7, 1307 Burgh-On-
The-Sands, Cumberland,
England
Interred: 28 October 28,
1307 Westminster Abbey,
Westminister, Middlesex,
England

Edward I was the king who
defeated "Braveheart"

? Joan "of Acre" Princess of England
? Isabel Princess of England
? Henry Prince of England
? Edward II King of England
? Beatrice Princess of England
? Joan Princess of England
? Eleanor Princess of England
? Juliana Or Katherine Princess of
England
? Alphonso Prince of England
? Margaret Princess of England
? Mary Princess of England
? Alice Princess of England
? Elizabeth Princess of England
? Blanche Princess of England

Edward was Called "Longshanks" because
he had very long gangly legs like his
ancestor, Hrolf the Ganger (Hrolf the Walker)
A.k.a. (Robert I Duke of Normandy)
A.k.a. (Rollo `the viking" Ragnvaldsson)

Daughter of:
Saint Fernando III King
of Castile & Leon
And
Jeanne De Dammartin

Murdered: 21 Sept. 21, 1327
at Berkeley Castle,
Gloucestershire, England
the murderer Roger de
Mortimer inserted a red-hot
poker into Edward's bowels
as Edward slept in bed.

Interred: St. Peter's Abbey
(Gloucester Cathedral),
Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Born: 13 NOV 1312, Windsor
Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Acceded: Feb. 1, 1327,
Westminster Abbey, London, England
Died: 21 JUN 1377, Sheen Palace, Surrey
Interred: Westminster Abbey,
London, England

Reigned 1327-1377. (an unusually long
period of time) Edward assumed effective
power in 1330 after imprisoning
his mother and executing her lover Roger
de Mortimer who had murdered his
father; thereafter his reign was dominated by military adventures. His victoryin Scotland, especially at Haildon Hill 1333 encouraged him to plan (1363) theunion of England and Scotland. Through his mother he claimed the French thronethus starting (1337) the Hundred years war. His son John of Gaunt dominatedthe government during his last years. Died of a Stroke.

Edward had two spouses & 18 kids

1. (Wife) Philippa of Hainault
(14 Children)

Edward The Black Prince, Prince of
Wales ( so called because, his armour
was jet black) Edward's son became
King Richard II
Isabella
John of Gaunt
Joan (Joanna)
William of Hatfield
Plantagenet, Lionel Duke of Antwerp
Clarence
Blanche de la Tour
Mary
Margaret
Thomas
William of Windsor
Thomas Plantagenet, of Woodstock,
Duke of Gloucester
Joan

2. (Mistress) Alice Perrers
(4 Children)
Sir John de Southeray
Joan
Jane
Lytlington, Nicholas
Abbot of Westminster

Born: 24 JUN 1311,
Hainault, Belgium
Married: JAN 24, 1328
Died: 14 AUG 1369,
Windsor Castle,Windsor,Berkshire
England
Died of a dropsy-like illness
Interred: Westminster
Abbey, London, England

Daughter of:
William III the Good of
Hainault, Count of Hainault & Holland.
and Jeanne de Valois,

It seems it was a dangerous time for
Stafford ancestors to go to bed, Thomas
like his grandfather, King Edward II was
murdered while sleeping in bed!

Following her husband's murder
Thomas's wife Lady Eleanor Lived as a Nun at Barking (a convent in Essex, England).

Daughter of:
Humphrey de Bohun,
Earl of Hereford and
Joan Fitzalan

A.k.a. Anne of Woodstock
Ann was the granddaughter
of King Edward III,
through the king's son
Thomas of Woodstock.
Thus her Stafford offspring
by pedigree automatically
were in line for the throne of
England!

Born: Apr. 1383
Married:1390
Widowed: July 4, 1392
Married: June 28, 1398
Died: Oct. 16, 1438
Interred: Llanthony Priory,
Monmouthshire

The Prince arranged for Anne to marry
two Staffords!
At the age of 7 she was married to
Thomas de Stafford. But he died just two
years later (the marriage was never
consummated) then on June 28, 1398 at
the age of 15 she married Thomas's
brother Edmund II Stafford the 5th Earl
of Stafford.
(Children)
Anne Stafford,
Humphrey Stafford
Philippa Stafford

(Great Grandson of King
Edward III)

Born: Aug. 15, 1402
In Stafford, England
Acceded: 1403
Died: July 10, 1460, Battle of
Northampton
Interred: Grey Friars
Monastery Northampton,
England

English nobleman. He
succeeded his father as earl of
Stafford in 1403. He inherited
the title of earl of
Buckingham through his
mother, Anne, countess of
Buckingham, who was a
daughter of Thomas of
Woodstock, duke of
Gloucester (son of Edward
III). He served in France in
the Hundred Years War as
soldier and administrator.
Made duke in 1444, he was
later granted some of the
estates of Humphrey, duke of
Gloucester, whose policies he
had opposed.

He was present at the trial of
Saint Joan of Arc

Note: Humphrey died three
years after the first battle of
saint Albans in 1458 (he died
not from battle wounds but
from the Plague) this was two
years before the death of his
father in 1460, thus the
Dukedom of Buckingham
passed to Lord Humphrey's
son Henry. (See Below)

See above children of
Anne Neville and
Humphrey Stafford the 1st Duke of
Buckingham (1402-1460) to see the
name of Sir Henry Stafford]

(Two Children)

Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of
Buckingham
Humphrey Stafford

Note: Margaret's father died at
the first battle of saint Albans
May 22, 1455 the same year she
married Lord Humphrey Stafford.
Margaret was the granddaughter ofJohn of Somerset, de Beaufort,
The 1st Earl Somerset
The illegitimate son of John of
Gaunt and his mistress
Catherine Roet, Swynford
members of the Beaufort family
were Regally declared to be
legitimate. By King Edward III
And King Richard III
reaffirmed the legitimacy by
charter in 1397. The original
charter granted by King Edward
III gave all "civil rights" to the
Beauforts with the exception
that they could make no
ancestral claims upon the throne of England.
[Note "Gaunt" is a corruption of
the name Ghent.
The city of Ghent, Belgium
was John of Gaunt's birthplace
John of Gaunt was a son of King
Edward III ] ( John eventually
married his mistress ; Catherine
Roet, Swynford who became his
3rd wife)

Daughter of:
Richard Woodville
And
zu St. Pol, Jacquetta
of Luxembourg

Note:
To upgrade his
"commoner" in-laws
King Edward IV
named Richard
Woodville as the
1st Earl of Rivers

Note: After the death
of Henry Stafford she
married:
Jasper Tudor , Earl of
Pembroke

Later she married a
3rd time to:
Sir Richard Wingfield

The sham trial and
execution of Edward
Stafford is a classic
example of
"Judicial Murder" a
situation where jurors in
fear of their own lives
render a guilty verdict
they know is desired by a
tyrannical ruler,
regardless of the evidence
offered at a trial. They
rule the accused to be
guilty even though they
know he is innocent.

Lady Mary Stafford
Stafford, Catherine

Daughter of:
Countess Eleanor
Poynings and
Sir Henry Percy
3rd Earl of
Northumberland
Note: he was the
grandson of the
Shakespearean
character "Hot
Spur"
In the play Henry
IV.

Following the judicial murder of Henry's father and the confiscation of the Stafford family's vast
wealth by King Henry VIII, the social and political status of the
Stafford family in England plunged, in spite of their incredible
ancestry. Note that the Title of Baron was still retained by Henry.
And his daughter Dorothy retained the honorary title of "Lady"
but during the life of his
grandchildren the title of Baron was lost due to the terrible level of poverty to which the Stafford family descended. Note: Henry
is also referred to as the 1st Baron of Stafford because the title was
reinstituted to him after his father's attainment. I.e., loss of titles.

Henry and Ursula had 13 children, below is a list of 9 of them. (4 daughters who died prior to being christened thus, unnamed are not included on the list.)

(Children)
Richard Stafford (Died very poor, his
daughter Jane married a poor joiner his
grandson was a poverty level cobbler)
Walter Stafford
Lady Dorothy Stafford (see below)
Elizabeth Stafford
Henry Stafford
Edward Stafford
Thomas Stafford (executed by
Queen Mary Tudor for treason)
Anne Stafford
Humphrey Stafford

daughter of:

Richard Pole, the Duke of
Suffolk and Margaret
Plantagenet, The Countess
of Salisbury. Margaret
was literally the last of the
Plantagenets. (see
information in center
column for more data
regarding Margaret.)

Married: 1545( two years
after the death of sir
William Stafford's first
wife, Mary Boleyn

Died: September 23, 1604
Interred: St. Margaret's
Cemetery at Westminster.
There is a monument to
Lady Dorothy inside St.
Margaret's Church at
Westminster (presumably
paid for in advance by
Queen Elizabeth Tudor
who also paid in advance
for a memorial in St.
Margaret's Church at
Westminster to her
beloved childhood governess.)
Dorothy served Queen
Elizabeth Tudor as a Lady in Waiting with the special title of Mistress of the Robes for 40 years,
Dorothy was both a close
friend and confidant of the Queen, in fact she was a relative a "StepAunt" the second wife of the Queen's uncle Sir William Stafford.
Dorothy (only 7 years
older than her "niece" the
Queen) and her six children were the Queen's only legitimate living relatives during her long reign. Dorothy died just one year after the Queen's death. Note: Dorothy's husband sir William served in the
House of Commons in 1547.

Lady Dorothy & Sir William Stafford
had six children:
Ursula (b. 1546) Born in Bobbing
Court, Kent England
Dorothy (b. 1548) Born in Bobbing
Court, Kent, England
Elizabeth (b.1550) Born in Bobbing
Court
Edward (b.1552) Born in Grafton,
Northamptonshire, England
Note: Edward was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth Tudor and
appointed to serve as England's
ambassador to France. The Queen
arranged his marriage to Lady
Douglas Sheffield (who made the
mistake of being a rival with the
Queen for the affections of Lord
Essex.) The crafty Queen quickly
shipped Edward and his wife off to
Paris France.
William (b.1554) Born in Grafton,
Northampton, England
John (b. 1556) Geneva, Switzerland
(A knight lived in Thornbury, Glos.)

Because Lady Dorothy had a
legitimate claim to the throne of
England, when Queen Mary Tudor
(Bloody Mary) assumed the throne,
William and Dorothy fled for their
lives with their children along with all
their servants into exile to Geneva,
Switzerland where they befriended
the famous religious leader John
Calvin. John Calvin stood as the
Godfather on January 4, 1556 for the
baptism of Dorothy and William's
newly born son Sir William died on
May 5, 1556;Leaving his wife
Dorothy a penniless widow. John
Calvin asserted his rights as a
godfather and would not let Lady
Dorothy Stafford leave Geneva with
her children but with threatened aid
from William's younger brother in
France, she then managed to escape
to Basle, Switzerland and later home
to England.

Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887

"Northamptonshire, (or Northampton), south-midland county of England, bounded N. by Leicestershire, Rutland, and Lincolnshire, E. by Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire, S. by Bucks and Oxfordshire, and W. by Warwickshire.

Born in Grafton, Northampton, England Married abt 1593 in Grafton, Northampton, England

Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1887

"Northamptonshire, (or Northampton), south-midland county of England, bounded N. by Leicestershire, Rutland, and Lincolnshire, E. by Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire, S. by Bucks and Oxfordshire, and W. by Warwickshire.