John Herrick

John Eyrick or Heyrick of Leicester, born 1513;died April 2, 1589; twice mayor of that corporation, 1559 and 1572; married Mary, daughter of John Bond, Esq., of Ward End in Warwickshire, who was born in 1514 and died Dec. 8, 1611.

The following epitaph on the tombstone of John Heyrick,Esq., and Mary Bond, his wife, is found in St. Martin's Church,Leicester, at the last end of the north aisle, in a part thereof called "Heyrick's Chancel," being appropriated as a burying place for that family: "Here lieth the body of John Heyrick late of this Parish, who departed this life ye 2d of April, 1589, being about the age of 76. He did marry Marie, ye daughter of John Bond of Wardende, in the County of Warwicke, Esquire, and did live with said Mary, in one house, full fifty-two yeares; and in all that tyme, never buried, man, woman, or child, though they were sometimes twenty in household. He had yssue by ye said Marie five sonnes and seven daughters. The said John was mayor of this towne in anno 1559, and again in anno 1572. The said Marie departed this life ye 8th of December, 1611, being of the age of 97 years. She did see before her departure, of her children, and children's children, and their children, to the number of 142."

John, second son of Thomas Eyrick, was born in 1513, died April 2, 1589, at Leicester. In St. Martin's Church is a part thereof called "Heyrick » Chancel," used as a place of burial long ago by this family. On the tomb-. stone of John Heyrick, Esq., and Mary Bond his wife, is found the following epitaph : "Here lieth the body of John Heyrick, late of this parish, who departed this life 2d of Aprill, 1589, being about the age of seventy-six. He did marry Marie, daughter of John Bond of Wardende, in the Countie of Warwicke, Esquire, and did live with the said Mary, in one house, full fifty-two yeares; and in all that time, never buried man, woman, or child, though they were sometimes twenty in household. He had yssue by said Marie, 5 sonnes and seven daughters. The said John was Mayor of this town in anno 1559, and again in anno 1572. The said Marie departed this life ye 8th clay of December, 1611, being of the age of ninety-seven years. She did see before her departure, of her children, and her children's children, and their children to the number of 142." Their children were: Ursula, Agnes, Robert, Mary, Nicholas, Elizabeth.

Sir William Herrick

Sir William Herrick (1562 – 2 March 1653) was an English jeweller, courtier, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622.

Herrick was the son of John Heyrick of Leicester and was baptised on 9 December 1562. His father was an ironmonger at Leicester. He was sent to London in about 1574 to be apprenticed to his elder brother Nicholas Herrick, a goldsmith in Cheapside. After six years he set up in business on his own in Wood Street on premises leased from the Goldsmith’s Company. He also became a moneylender and in a few years he had made himself a fortune and was able to purchase Beau Manor Park from the Earl of Essex, and obtained a right to arms. He came to the notice of Queen Elizabeth, who sent him on a mission to the Ottoman Porte and on his return he was rewarded with a lucrative appointment in the Exchequer. He was made a freeman of Leicester in 1601 when he presented the corporation with a dozen silver spoons in lieu of a fee.

In 1601, Herrick was elected Member of Parliament for Leicester. He became principal jeweller to the King, Queen and Prince of Wales in 1603 and held the post until 1625. He became a freeman of the City of London in May 1605 and was knighted in the same year. He served as MP for Leicester for part of the 1604–1611 parliament. He was prime warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company from 1605 to 1606. In 1607 he took as apprentice his nephew Robert the future poet. In 1621 he was elected MP for Leicester again.

Herrick died at the age of about 90 and was buried at St Martin’s Church, Leicester.

Herrick married Joan May, daughter of Richard May of London and of Mayfield Place, Sussex on 6 May 1596, and had at least one son. His brother Robert was also an MP.

From Wikipedia

"Famous London Merchants," by H.R. Fox Bourne. [New York; Harper & Brothers, 1869.]:..."Of his son Henry Heyrick, Sir William Heyrick wrote thus: "Thursday, 16th of August, 1604, my wife were brought a bead of a fifthe sonne; Sir David Murray, Mr. John Spilman, and my Lady Aston, his gossips. He is nursed at Thissilworth, at 2s.6d. a week. His name is commanded by Prince Henry to be Henry; and Sir John Spilman would need have him John. And that he was named Henry." Lady Aston was wife to Sir Roger Aston, master of the great wardrobe of his majesty.

Ephraim Herrick Sr and Henry Herrick

Source: http://web.me.com/ingrahamsusan/The_Herricks/Ephraim_Herrick_and_Mary_Cross.html

Ephraim follows in his father’s footsteps

Ephraim Herrick was born in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts on 11 Feb 1638. He was the fourth son born to Henry Herrick and Editha Laskin . Ephraim’s father had come to Salem, Massachusetts, in about 1629 with a large group of English settlers, probably including Francis Higginson, minister of the Salem Church in 1629-1630. Ephraim’s father was a landowner and a farmer; it is assumed that Ephraim did the same thing. Ephraim took the Oath of a Freeman in 1668, at the age of 30.

 Marriage and Family

Ephraim married Mary Cross on 3 July 1661 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. He was 23; she was 21.

Ephraim and Mary would live out their lives in Beverly, a small town across the water from Salem, Massachusetts. Originally part of Salem, Beverly was first settled in 1626 by Roger Conant, but because of religious differences with the governor, it would be set off and officially incorporated in 1668 when it was named after a famous Yorkshire minister.

Mary Cross was born on 14 Jun 1640 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Robert Cross (1613-1693) and Anna Jordan (1617-1669).

Ephraim and Mary had at least eight children:

1. • John b. 31 May 1662 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

2. • Ephraim b. 13 Aug 1664 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

3. • Mary b. 14 Jun 1667 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

4. • Stephen b. 15 Mar 1670 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

5. • Sarah b. 1673 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

6. • Samuel b. 4 Jun 1675 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

7. • Timothy b. 4 Jan 16831 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

8. • Ann b. 20 Nov 1683 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts

 The Herricks and the Salem Witch Trials

The Herrick family was destined to become a significant part of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. At the time, Ephraim was 54 years old and Mary was 52. Their children ranged in age from twenty-years-old to nine. Their oldest son, John, was married to Bethia Solart, whose sister, Sarah Solart Poole Good, became one of the accused witches. Having Bethia’s sister accused of being a witch must have sent chills through all of the Herricks. Though not blood related to Sarah, she was an in-law, and they must have been concerned and possibly frightened: Who would be next?

Ephraim’s brothers were also heavily involved in the trials. His older brother, Zachariah, had refused to give aid to Sarah when she was down-and-out and in need of a home and food for her children. Another brother, Henry, was a member of the jury and would eventually sign the apology for their decisions. Finally, Ephraim’s brother, Joseph, was the local constable and arrested most of the people charged with witchcraft.

Four years after the last of the trials, the jury finally realized their folly. The following is the text of their signed "Confession of Error" (January 14, 1696), published after Ephraim’s death so he never knew of his brother’s apology:

“We whose names are under written, being in the year 1692 called to serve as jurors, in Court at Salem, on trial of many who were by some suspected guilty of doing acts of witchcraft upon the bodies of sundry persons:

“We confess that we ourselves were not capable to understand, nor able to withstand, the mysterious delusions of the Powers of Darkness and Prince of the Air; but were, for want of knowledge in ourselves and better information from others, prevailed with to take up such evidence against the accused, as on further consideration and better information we justly fear was insufficient for the touching the lives of any (Deut.xvii.6).

“Whe reby we fear we have been instrumental with others, though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon ourselves and this people of the Lord the guilt of innocent blood -- which sin the Lord saith in Scripture he would not pardon (II Kings xxiv.4), that is, we suppose in regard of his temporal judgments.

“We do, therefore hereby signify to all in general, and to the surviving sufferers in especial, our deep sense of, and sorrow for our errors, in acting on such evidence to the condemnation of any person. And we do hereby declare that we justly fear that we were sadly deluded and mistaken, for which we are much disquieted and distressed in our minds; and do humbly beg forgiveness, first of God for Christ's sake for this error, and pray that God would not impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor others. And we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with, and not experienced in matters of that nature.

“We do heartily ask forgiveness of you all whom we have justly offended, and do declare according to our present minds we would none of us do such things again on such grounds for the whole world; praying you to accept of this in way of satisfaction for our offense; and that you would bless the inheritance of the Lord, that he may be entreated for the land.“

Signed by: Thomas Fisk, Foreman, William Fisk, John Batcheler, Thomas Fisk, Junior, John Dane, Joseph Evelith, Thomas Perly, Senior, John Pebody, Thomas Perkins, Samuel Sayer, Andrew Elliot, Henry Herrick, Senior. 

Despite the Trials, Ephraim and Mary remained in Beverly

Ephraim Herrick died on 18 Sep 1693 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. He was 55 years old and he and Mary had been married for 32 years. The cause of his death is unknown, but one can certainly speculate that the stresses of the trials may have placed a heavy burden on Ephraim’s heart. Shortly after his death, his son, John, and daughter-in-law, Bethia, would leave the area and try to start a new life in New York.

Mary lived for another seventeen years, apparently never leaving the area, and dying in Salem at the age of 70 in the year 1710.

Henry Grosmont

Also known as Henry of Lancaster. Earl of Derby, 1st Duke of Lancaster. Steward of England, Founder of the Knight of the Garter. Captain General and King's Lieutenant in Aquitane, Admiral of the Western Fleet, Captain and Lieutenant of Brittany. 

Eldest of seven children and only son and heir of Henry Plantagenet and Matilda de Chaworth. Grandson of Edmund Crouchback of England and Blanche de Artois, Sir Patrick de Chaworth and Isabel de Beauchamp.

Born about 1299 at Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales. Husband of Isabella de Beaumont, daughter of Sir Henry de Beaumont and Alice de Comyn, daughter of Sir Alexander. They were married before 23 June 1330.

They were the parents of two daughters; Matilda who married Sir Ralph de Stafford and Blanche Plantagenet, wife of John of Gaunt. He allegedly had an illegitimate daughter, Juliane.

Henry entered the public when his father became blind in 1330, and was granted, by his father, the castle and vill (tithing) of Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, Wales, the castles of Ogmore, Glamorgan and Grosmont, Skenfirth, and Ebboth, Monmouthsire. Henry became the Earl of Derby on 16 March 1337, summoned to Parliament in April, fought at the King Edward III's side at the Battle of Buironfosse in 1339., then directed by Edward at the Battle of Sluys. He continued to be active in multiple excursions, then at the Battle of Calais in 1647. Henry helped create the Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1348, was created Earl of Lincoln in 1349, and the Duke of Lancaster in 1352, and created Earl of Moray by David, King of Scotland. 

He died at Leicester Castle, Leicester of the Bubonic plague. 

Sir Roger de Herdeburgh

His line, per LDS and ancestry records, unverified:
Hugh de Gerdeburgh b 1224 Willey, Warwickshire d 1296, wife Isabel de Craft b 1225 (daughter of Lord Roger de Craft m Lady Cecily de Turville)
Roger de Herdeburgh b 1198 Willey, Warwickshire d 1243, wife Petronilla de Craft b 1198 (daughter of Lord Roger de Craft m Lady Cecily de Turville???)
Hugh de Herdeburgh b 1166 Salo, Shropshire
Roger de Herdrburgh b 1140 Magna Harborough, Warwickshire

Heinrich I "The Fowler" Henry I King of Germany

His name came from a story when supposedly the messengers announcing his election found him hawking.

Allied with Charles III The Simple

Lorraine restored to German rule when his daughter Gerberga married  Giselbert Count of Hainault and Duke of Lorraine.

Duke of Saxony from 912 and king of the Germans from 919 until his death in 936. First of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors, he is generally considered to be the founder and first king of the medieval German Empire, known until then as the East Franconian Kingdom. An avid hunter, he obtained the epithet "the Fowler" because he was allegedly fixing his birding nets when messengers arrived to inform him that he was to be king.

Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, a great-granddaughter of Charlemagne, and a daughter of Carloman of Bavaria. In 906 he married Hatheburg, daughter of the Saxon count Erwin, but divorced her in 909 after she had given birth to his son Thankmar. Later that year he married Matilda of Ringelheim, daughter of Dietrich, count in western Saxony (Westfalia). Matilda bore him three sons and two daughters and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.

Henry became duke of Saxony upon his father's death in 912 and, an able ruler, continued to strengthen Saxony, frequently in conflict with his neighbors to the South, the dukes of Franconia.

In 918 king Conrad I of the East-Franconian Empire, and duke of Franconia, died and recommended Henry as his successor as king, despite the fact that they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia. Conrad's choice was conveyed by duke Eberhard III of Franconia, Conrad's brother and heir, to the assembled Franconian and Saxon nobles at the Reichstag of Fritzlar in 919, which duly elected Henry to be king. Henry refused to be anointed by a high church official, the only king of his time not to undergo that rite – allegedly because he did not wish to be king by the church's but by the people's acclaim. Duke Burkhard I of Swabia soon swore fealty to the new king, but duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit until Henry invaded Bavaria in 921 and Arnulf swore fealty to him.

Henry regarded the kingdom as a confederation of tribal duchies rather than a feudal kingdom and himself as primus inter pares. Rather than seeking to administer the empire through counts, as Charlemagne had done and his successors had attempted, Henry allowed the dukes of Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to maintain complete internal control of their holdings. In 925, he defeated Giselbert, duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine), and brought that realm, which had been lost in 910, back into the German kingdom as the fifth tribal duchy (the others being Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria), but allowing Giselbert to remain in power and marrying his daughter Gerberga to his new vassal in 928.

Henry was a very able military leader. Germany had been repeatedly raided by the Magyars (Hungarians), and in 924 Henry paid them a tribute to secure a ten-year truce so that he could fortify towns and train a new elite cavalry force. With his new army, he conquered the Havelli and the Daleminzi in 928 and put down a rebellion in Bohemia in 929. When the Magyars began raiding again, he led an army of all German tribes to victory over them at the battle of Riade in 933, stopping one of their advances into Germany. He also pacified territories to the north, where the Danes had harried the Frisians off to the sea. The monk and historian Widukind of Corvey in his Rex gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler. Henry incorporated territories held by the Wends, who together with the Danes had attacked Germany, into his kingdom and also conquered Schleswig in 934.

When Henry died on 2 July 936, all German tribes were united in a single kingdom. Henry I is therefore considered the first German king and the founder of the eventual Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation).

His son Otto succeeded him as Emperor Otto I ("the Great"). His second son, Henry, became duke of Bavaria. A third son, Brun (or Bruno), became archbishop of Cologne. His son from his first marriage, Thankmar, rebelled against his half-brother Otto and was killed in battle in 936. His daughter Gerberga married Duke Giselbert of Lorraine and subsequently King Louis IV of France. His youngest daughter Hedwige of Saxony married Duke (Hugh the Great) of France and was the mother of Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king of France.

Active and brave king but rule was marked by lowest point of Capetian dynasty. Rebellion led by his brother Robert I the Old and Eudes of Chatres and Troyes, Henry was aided by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy at the time.

A member of the Capetian Dynasty, Henri was born in Reims, France, the son of King Robert II (972–1031) and Constance of Arles (973–1032). He was crowned King of France at the Cathedral in Reims on May 14, 1027.

The reign of Henri I, like those of his predecessors, was marked by territorial struggles, including joining his brother Robert in a revolt against his father. In a strategic move, Henri 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 Henri secured the dukedom for William in their decisive victory over the vassals at a battle near Caen.

A few years later, when William, who was cousin to king Edward the Confessor of England, married the daughter of the count of Flanders, King Henri I feared William's potential power. In 1054 and again in 1058 Henri went to war to try to conquer Normandy from William, but on both occasions he was defeated. Despite his efforts, Henri's thirty-year reign saw feudal power in France reach its pinnacle.

King Henri I died on August 4, 1060 in Vitry-en-Brie, France, and was interred in Saint Denis Basilica. He was succeeded by his son, Philippe I, who was 7 at the time of his death; for six years Henri'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 was betrothed to Matilda, the daughter of the Emperor Conrad II, but she died prematurely in 1034. Henri then married Matilda, daughter of Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia, but she died in 1044, following a Caesarean section. Casting further afield in search of a third wife, Henri married Anne of Kiev on May 19, 1051.

Helped Casimir I restore the Polish empire

Henry III (29 October 1017 – 5 October 1056), called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela and his father made him duke of Bavaria (as Henry VI) in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V. Then, on Easter Day 1028, his father having been crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Henry was elected and crowned King of Germany in the cathedral of Aachen by Pilgrim, Archbishop of Cologne. After the death of Herman IV, Duke of Swabia in 1038, his father gave him that duchy (as Henry I) as well as the kingdom of Burgundy, which Conrad had inherited in 1033. Upon the death of his father on June 4, 1039, he became sole ruler of the kingdom and was crowned emperor by Pope Clement II in Rome (1046).

Henry's first tutor was Bruno, Bishop of Augsburg. On Bruno's death in 1029, Egilbert, Bishop of Freising, was appointed to take his place. In 1033, at the age of sixteen, Henry came of age and Egilbert was compensated for his services. In 1035, Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia, was deposed by Conrad, but Egilbert convinced Henry to refuse this injustice and the princes of Germany, having legally elected Henry, would not recognise the deposition unless their king did also. Henry, in accordance with his promise to Egilbert, did not consent to his father's act and Conrad, stupefied, fell unconscious after many attempts to turn Henry. Upon recovering, Conrad knelt before his son and exacted the desired consent. Egilbert was penalised dearly by the emperor.

In 1036, Henry was married to the daughter of the king of England, Denmark, and Norway, Canute the Great, named Gunhilda (or Cunigunda), born around 1020. Early on, Henry's father had arranged with Canute to have him rule over some parts of northern Germany (the Kiel) and in turn to have their children married. After the marriage took place in Nijmegen at the earliest legal age, Henry was called to aid his father in Italy (1038) and Gunhilda died on the Adriatic Coast, during the return trip (during the same epidemic in which Herman IV of Swabia died). In 1039, his father, too, died and Henry became sole ruler and imperator in spe.

Henry spent his first year on a tour of his domains. He visited the Low Countries to receive the homage of Gothelo I, Duke of Upper and Lower Lorraine. In Cologne, he was joined by Herman, Archbishop of Cologne, who accompanied him and his mother to Saxony, where he was to build the town of Goslar up from obscurity to stately, imperial grandeur. He had an armed force when he entered Thuringia to meet with Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen, whose advice and counsel he desired on the recent successes of Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia in Poland. Only a Bohemian embassy bearing hostages appeased Henry and he disbanded his army and continued his tour. He passed through Bavaria where, upon his departure, King Peter Urseolo of Hungary sent raiding parties and into Swabia. There, at Ulm, he convened a Fürstentag at which he received his first recognition from Italy. He returned to Ingelheim after that and there was recognised by a Burgundian embassy and Aribert, Archbishop of Milan, whom he had supported against his father. This peace with Aribert healed the only open wound in the Empire. Meanwhile, in 1039, while he was touring his dominions, Conrad, Adalbero's successor in Carinthia and Henry's cousin, died childless. Henry being his nearest kin automatically inherited that duchy as well. He was now a triple-duke (Bavaria, Swabia, Carinthia) and triple-king (Germany, Burgundy, Italy).

Henry's first military campaign as sole ruler took place then (1040). He turned to Bohemia, where Bretislaus was still a threat, especially through his Hungarian ally's raiding. At Stablo, after attending to the reform of some monasteries, Henry summoned his army. In July, he met with Eckhard at Goslar and joined together his whole force at Regensburg. On 13 August, he set out. He was ambushed and the expedition ended in disaster. Only by releasing many Bohemian hostages, including Bretislaus's son, did the Germans procure the release of many of their comrades and the establishment of a peace. Henry retreated hastily and with little fanfare, preferring to ignore his first great defeat. On his return to Germany, Henry appointed Suidger bishop of Bamberg. He would later be Pope Clement II.

In 1040, Peter of Hungary was overthrown by Samuel Aba and fled to Germany, where Henry received him well despite the enmity formerly between them. Bretislaus was thus deprived of an ally and Henry renewed preparations for a campaign in Bohemia. On 15 August, he and Eckard set out once more, almost exactly a year after his last expedition. This time he was victorious and Bretislaus signed a peace treaty at Regensburg.

He spent Christmas 1041 at Strasbourg, where he received emissaries from Burgundy. He travelled to that kingdom in the new year and dispensed justice as needed. On his return, he heard, at Basel, of the raids into Bavaria being made by the king of Hungary. He thus granted his own duchy of Bavaria to one Henry, a relative of the last independent duke. At Cologne, he called together all his great princes, including Eckard, and they unanimously declared war on Hungary. It wasn't until September 1042 that he set out, after having dispatched men to seek out Agnes de Poitou to be his new bride. The expedition into Hungary successfully subdued the west of that nation, but Aba fled to eastern fortresses and Henry's installed candidate, an unknown cousin of his, was quickly removed when the emperor turned his back.

After Christmas at Goslar, his intended capital, he entertained several embassies: Bretislaus came in person, a Kievan embassy was rejected because Henry was not seeking a Russian bride, and the ambassadors of Casimir I of Poland were likewise rejected because the duke came not in person. Gisela, Henry's mother, died at this juncture and Henry went to the French borders, probably near Ivois to meet King Henry I of France, probably over the impending marriage to the princess of Aquitaine. Henry next turned to Hungary again, where he forced Aba to recognise the Danubian territory donated to Germany by Stephen I of Hungary pro causa amiticiae (for friendship's sake). This border remained the border between Hungary and Austria until 1919.

After this victory, Henry, a pious man, who dreamed of a Peace and Truce of God being respected over all his realms, declared from the pulpit in Constance in October 1043 a general indulgence or pardon whereby he promised to forgive all injuries to himself and to forgo vengeance. He encouraged all his vassals to do likewise. This is known as the "Day of Indulgence" or "Day of Pardon".

Henry was finally remarried at Ingelheim in 1043 to Agnes, daughter of duke William V of Aquitaine and Agnes of Gévaudan. Agnes was then living at the court of her stepfather, Geoffrey Martel, count of Anjou. This connection to the obstreperous vassal of the French king as well as her consanguinity—she and Henry being both descended from Henry the Fowler—caused some churchmen to oppose their union, but the marriage went as planned. Agnes was crowned at Mainz.

Much more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor

Fourth and youngest son of William the Conqueror. Beauclerc means "fine scholar", first Norman king that could read and write.

1091 Brothers Robert (ruled Normandy) and William (King of England) tried to overcome each other but agreed that the survivor (with children) would take over both kingdoms, leaving Henry out of line for either kingdom, who inherited his mother's estates in England, bequeathed to him on her death in 1083. His father believed Henry was destined for the church and received an education.
1096 Robert had joined the Crusades, pledging Normandy to William
1100 summer - reports received that Robert was returning with  a new bride (plot for William's death stepped up?)
1100 Aug 2 William Rufus killed in a hunting expedition in New Forest, supposedly killed by Walter Tirel, who fled to France but reappeared well married in Henry's favor. Reports indicate Henry rode off to secure the royal treasures the instant William was killed.
The council quickly elected Henry as successor and was crowned  Aug 5 by a mere bishop by the time Robert returned the first week of September.
Henri had committed perjury by taking throne since he had sworn allegiance to Robert.
One of Henry's first actions was to recall Anselm from exile to the archbishopric of Canterbury to solidify his position.
Anselm and William came to heads as William would not recognize Rome's authority.
1100 Nov 11 married  Matilda Eadgyth Atherling (formerly Edith) daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and niece of Edgar Atheling, cementing ties with the old Saxon royalty and Scotland.
1101 June Robert invaded England, misleading Henry to Arundel while Robert landed at Portsmouth and asked for negoiations at Alton near London.
Henry agreed to pay Robert 3,000 marks annually, recognize Robert as true claimant to the throne but Henry would remain king for his life.
Robert returns to Normandy.
1103 Anselm back to exile, unable to convince Henry of papal authority in appointing clergy.
The pope threatened to excommunicate Henry who recalled Anselm and they compromised, the church would recognize secular authority over lands, thusly keeping revenue he used heavily to support his army in Normandy.
1105 Normandy becomes unhappy with Robert, Henri allies with Count of Flanders and king of France
1106 Battle of Tinchebrai secured Normandy as Henry invaded normandy and took Robert captive, imprisoned for the rest of his life in Cardiff Castle in Wales, 28 more years until he died in 1134
1114 Married his oldest daughter Adelaide (Matilda) to Heinrich V, Emperor of Germany. She was 11, he was 32.
1119 Defeated Louis VI of France for (Normandy ?) and cemented alliance to France by marrying his oldest son, WIlliam (15 years old) to Alice (changed to Matilda and eleven years old) to Fulk V Count of Anjou and Maine.
1120 William made Duke of Normandy.
1120 Nov Sons William and Richard drowned on the White Ship returning from the battle of Bremule in Normandy.
1125 Matilda became a widow, Henry recalled to his court
1126 Made his barons swear loyalty to Matilda, fearing no male heir
1127 Henry married Matilda (24 years old) to Geoffrey Plantagenet (14 years old).
The Normans did not like the idea of his becoming king and turned to William, son of Robert, now Count of Flanders and he married Giovanna making him Count of Burgundy as well, but William was killed in skirmish in Omer July 1128. The barons turned back to Matilda.
1129 Geoffrey became Count in Anjou, wanted Normandy and asked Henry for the custody of Franch coast castles, Henry refused, Matilda deserted Geoffrey and came home.
1130 Henri had awarded his favorite nephew, Count Steven of Blois, estates on both sides of the Channel, making him one of the richest men in England and Normandy
1135 Henry and Geoffrey openly at war, Henry sailed to Normandy, ate bad lampreys, got ptomaine poisoning and died in 6 days.
The throne was promptly claimed by Henry's nephew, Stephen.

Henry's children

By unmarried spouse Sybil Corbet of Alcester:
Child: Robert Earl of Glouchester (abt 1090 to 1147) m Maud FitzHamon. Grand daughter Isabella of Gloucester (1175-1217) was the first wife of King John Lackland
Child: Reginald Earl of Cornwall (abt 1110-1175) m Beatrice (Mabel?) FitzRichard, 4 dtrs and 2 ilegitimate sons, one was Henry FitzEarl who died on the Crusades
Child: William IV Atherling Duke of Normandy (abt 1105 to after 1187) m Matilda of Anjou (born Alice)
Child: Sybil m Alexander I of Scotland (no issue)
Child: Gundrada
Child: Rohese (died after 1176) m Henry de la Pomerai, 2 sons, Henry and Joscelin

By unmarried spouse: Ansfrede, widow of Sir Anskill
Child: Richard of Lincoln (abt 1100 to 1120) no children, drowned on the White Ship
Child: Fulk, a monk, died young
Child: Juliana (abt 1090 to 1136) m Eustace de Pacy, Lord of Bretuil. 2 sons, 2 dtrs held hostage, blinded and disfigured (by whom??). She later became a nun.

By unmarried spouse: Nest of Wales, Princess of Dehubarth, daughter of Rhys Tewdwr (line to Owain Hywel)
Child: Henry FitzHenry (abt 1103 to 1157) 2 sons, Robert (d aft 1183) and Meiler (d 1220) Justiciar of Ireland. Killed during Henry's invasion of Angelesy
By unmarried spouse: Edith Sigulfson of Greystoke
Child: Robert FitzEdith, Baron of Okehampton m Maud A'vanranches, dtr Maud died 1224

By unmarried spouse: Isabel de Beaumont, daughter of the Earl of Leicester
Child: Isabella, died unmaried after 1120
Child: Matilda, abbess of Montivilliers

By unmarried spouse: Edith
Child: Matilda FitzHenry m Routrou II Count de Perche, 2 dtrs, Phillipa m Helias, brother of Geoffrey V Plantagenet

By unknown mothers:
Child: Gilbert, b abt 1130, died after 1142
Child: William de Tracy, died abt 1135
Child: Matilda m Conan III Duke of Brittany, son Hoel (disowned) and dtr Bertha m Alain the black
Child: Constance m Roscelin Viscount of Maine
Child: Eustacia m William Gouet III, Lord of Montmiril, son William Gouet IV, sole heir
Child: Alice m Matthew de Montmorenci, Constable of France, 5 sons
Child: Elizabeth, son Uchtred of Galloway, son Roland, grandson Alan Galloway
Child: Emma m Guy de Laval
Child: Sybillia m Baldwin de Bouliers
Child: unk daughter bethrothed to William de Warrene (not married)
Child: unk daughter betrothed to Hugh Fitzgervais (not married)
Good grief.

1151 Became Duke of Normandy, Count of Maine and Anjou at his father's death
1152 Married Eleanor of Aquitane, became Duke of Aquitane. Eleanor was divorced from Louis, king of France based on charges of adultery with her uncle, Raymond of Antioch and for not being able to produce a son for Louis.
Louis warred on Henry and Eleanor along with Henry's brother Geoffrey who wanted Anjou.
Henry II kingdom was England, Anjou, Aquitane, Brittany, Normans in Wales, Ireland, Scotland
Henry continued to fight Stephen and his son Eustace for the throne of England.
1153 Eustace died, Henry invaded and won the Treaty of Willington whereas Stephen signed Henry as heir and king.1153 Henry II to England to take the throne, Stephen's son, Eustace died.
1154 Stephen died Oct 25 in Dover of appendicitis and Henry II Curtmantle was crowned Dec 19 at Westminster Abbey, first Angevin king.
Henry II made Anglo Saxon law common, opposed to Roman law, and continued grandfather's policy of limiting noble's powers.
1154 - Thomas Becket assigned as chancellor
1157 - Treaty of Chester, Henry II forced Malcolm IV to give up northern territories of Northumbria and Cumbria, settled Scottish-English borders.
1161 - Theodore died, Becket became Archbishop, opposing Henry on all matters.
1162 - Thomas Becket assigned Archbishop of Canterbury
1164 - Becket exiled to France
1170 Dec 29 - Becket returned from exile, opposed coronation of Prince Henry, excommunicated bishops who coronated Henry's son. King Henry had four knights murder Becket while at vespers in his cathedral.
Europe was outraged, Canon law put into full affect. Henry's four sons went into rebellion, aided by the Queen who spent the remainder of her life in imprisonment. Richard, heir to Aquitane was closest to the Queen.

1171 Aug 18 Henry arrived at Waterford , took oaths of loyalty from the kings of Cork, Limerick, and Ossory, then to Dublin to organize the synod at Cashel for the ecclesiastical reform demanded by the Pope, left for his return to Wexford Feb 2, 1172. Accompanied by William fitz Audelin, Hugh de Lacy, Robert fitz Bernard, Philip de Braose, and Bertrum de Verdun.
1189 July 4 - Richard I conquered his father, Henry II with help of Philip II Augustus King of France and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitane
1189 July 6- Henry died II, Henry was to inherit England, Normandy and Anjou; Richard the Lionhearted was to gain Poitiou and Britany was to go to Geoffrey, John to get pittance when married

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Marriage 1 Ida Isabel Plantagenet b: 1164
Children
William Longespée Earl of Salisbury b: 1176 in Woodstock Manor

Marriage 2 Eleanor of Aquitane b: 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France
Married: 18 May 1152 in Bourdeaux, Gironde, France
Children
William De Longspee Prince of England b: 17 Aug 1152 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Henry The Young King of England b: 28 MAR 1155 in Bermandsey Palace, London, Middlesex, England
Matilda Princess of England b: 1156 in London, Middlesex, England
Richard I Lion-Hearted King of England b: 8 Sep 1157 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England
Geoffery Prince of England b: 23 Sep 1158 in England
Philip Prince of England England b: 1160
Eleanor Plantagenet Princess of England b: 13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France
Joanna Princess of England b: 1164 in Angers, Maine-Et-Loire, France
John Lackand I King of England b: 24 Dec 1167 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, England

1216 Oct 28 - Henry III, John Lackland's son was crowned King of England, 9 years old has Earl of Pembroke, William Marshall as guardian, lost Poitou (and Aquitane?)

London was in control of French Dauphin Louis, north in control of rebel barons

Knights developed, wanted charter reactivated, civil war over papal oaths.

Simon de Montfort, leader of reformation group with democratic ideas, started parliament.

1217 - Marshall rallied barons who expelled the Dauphin from London

1219 - William Marshall died, Hugh De Burgh, the last of the justiciars oversaw Henry until he was 25

1236 Jan 14 - Henry III married Eleanor, daughter of Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence, devoted marraige for 36 years

3 children:

Margaret of Princess of England b: 1238

Edward I "Longshanks" King of England b: 17 JUN 1239 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Edmund Plantagenet of ENGLAND b: 1240

Henry was crowned King at the age of nine after the death of his Father King John in 1216. The kingdom was ruled by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, the regent while Henry was growing up. When Marshall died in 1219, Hubert de Burgh ruled until 1232, when Henry assumed the throne. "The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages" Norman F. Cantor, General Editor

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272) is one of the least-known British monarchs, considering the great length of his reign. He was also the first child monarch in English royal history (after the Conquest in 1066).

He was born in 1207 at Winchester Castle, the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême. According to Nicholas Trevet, Henry was a thickset man of medium height with a narrow forehead and a drooping left eyelid (inherited by his son, Edward I).

Following John’s death in 1216, Henry, aged nine, was hastily crowned in Gloucester as the barons, who had been supporting an invasion by Prince Louis of France in order to depose John, quickly saw that the young prince was a safer option. Henry's regents immediately declared their intention to rule by Magna Carta, which they proceeded to do during Henry’s minority. Magna Carta was reissued in 1217 as a sign of goodwill to the barons and the country was ruled by regents until 1227.

Henry was extremely pious and his journeys were often delayed by his insistence on hearing Mass several times a day. He took so long to arrive on a visit to the French court that his brother-in-law, King Louis IX of France, banned priests from Henry's route. Henry's reign came to be marked by civil strife as the English barons, led by de Montfort, demanded more say in the running of the kingdom. French-born Simon de Montfort had originally been one of the foreign upstarts so loathed by many as Henry's foreign councillors; after he married Henry’s sister Eleanor, without consulting Henry, a feud developed between the two. Their relationship reached a crisis in the 1250s when de Montfort was brought up on spurious charges for actions he took as lieutenant of Gascony, the last remaining Plantagenet land across the English Channel. He was acquitted by the Peers of the realm, much to the King's displeasure.

Note: there is reason to doubt the existence of several attributed children of Henry and Eleanor. Richard, John, and Henry are known only from a 14th century addition made to a manuscript of Flores historiarum, and are nowhere contemporaneously recorded. William is an error for the nephew of Henry's half-brother, William de Valence. Another daughter, Matilda, is found only in the Hayles abbey chronicle, alongside such other fictitious children as a son named William for King John, and a bastard son named John for King Edward I. Matilda's existence is doubtful, at best.

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

Henry was six when his father died, leaving him the title of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire with only a vague, colourless and pious mother to guide him.

Henry was kidnapped in 1062 at age 12 by Anno, archbishop of Cologne in league with Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen and controlled in his name, dividing the monastaries between themselves. Henry was freed in 1066 by clergy and nobleman against Adalbert.

He was reconciled with his wife Bertha in 1069 who reformed this weak king and regulated his life and rule.

1076 - Synod of Worms, Henry vs Pope Gregory, Rudolph of Swabia ends up Emperor of HRE.

Henry IV (November 11, 1050 – August 7, 1106) was King of Germany (Holy Roman Empire) from 1056 and Emperor from 1084, until his abdication in 1105. He was the third emperor of the Salian dynasty.

Henry was the eldest son of the Emperor Henry III, by his second wife Agnes de Poitou, and was probably born at the royal palace at Goslar. His christening was delayed until the following Easter so that Abbot Hugh of Cluny could be one of his godparents. But even before that, at his Christmas court Henry III induced the attending nobles to promise fidelity to his son. Three years later, still anxious to ensure the succession, Henry III had a larger assembly of nobles elect the young Henry as his successor, and then, on July 17, 1054, had him crowned as king by Herman II, Archbishop of Cologne. Thus when Henry III unexpectedly died in 1056, the accession of the six-year-old Henry IV was not opposed. The dowager Empress Agnes acted as regent.

Henry's reign was marked by efforts to consolidate Imperial power. In reality, however, it was a careful balancing act between maintaining the loyalty of the nobility and the support of the pope. Henry jeopardized both when, in 1075, his insistence on the right of a secular ruler to invest, i.e., to place in office, members of the clergy, especially bishops, began the conflict known as the Investiture Controversy. In the same year he defeated a rebellion of Saxons in the First Battle of Langensalza. Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Henry on February 22, 1076. Gregory, on his way to a diet at Augsburg, and hearing that Henry was approaching, took refuge in the castle of Canossa (near Reggio Emilia), belonging to Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. Henry's intent, however, was to perform the penance required to lift his excommunication, and ensure his continued rule. He stood for three days, January 25 to January 27, 1077, outside the gate at Canossa in the snow, begging the pope to rescind the sentence (popularly portrayed as without shoes, taking no food or shelter, and wearing a hairshirt). The Pope lifted the excommunication, imposing a vow to comply with certain conditions, which Henry soon violated.

In 1088, Henry of Luxembourg, an antiking, died and Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen, a longtime enemy of the emperor's proclaimed himself the antiking's successor. Henry had him condemned by a Saxon diet and then a national one at Quedlinburg and Regensburg respectively, but was defeated by Egbert when a relief army came to the margrave's rescue during the siege of Gleichen. Egbert was murdered two years later (1090) and his ineffectual insurrection and royal pretensions fell apart.

In his last years Henry faced rebellions from his eldest son and his wife. He died at Liège in 1106, "like one falling asleep", after nine days of illness. He was interred next to his father at Speyer.

In 1089 Henry married Eupraxia of Kiev, a daughter of Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev, and sister to his son Vladimir Monomakh (Russian: ???????? ???????) (1053 -- May 19, 1125), prince of Kievan Rus. She assumed the name "Adelaide" upon her coronation. In 1094 she joined a rebellion against Henry, accusing him of holding her prisoner, forcing her to participate in orgies, and attempting a black mass on her naked body.

Adils Ottarsson ruled the Swedes after the death of his father, a very rich man who went on many expeditions. One journey was to Jutland when the king, Geirthjof, and his wife, Alof the Great. Nothing is known of their children. A young woman, Yrsa, was beautiful, intellgent and loved. Adlis took her for his wife and she became the queen of Sweden.
Heimskringla, Ynglinga Saga, Section 32

Note: the story goes that Olaf/Alof had an affair with the Helgi Halfdansson, the King of Denmark while Geirthjof was away, and Yrsa is their daughter.

Count of Portugal from 1093 to his death. He was the son of Henry of Burgundy, heir of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, and brother of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy and Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. His name is Henri in modern French, Henricus in Latin, Enrique in modern Spanish and Henrique in modern Portuguese.

As a younger son, Henry had little chances of acquiring fortune and titles by inheritance, thus he joined the Reconquista against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. He helped king Alfonso VI of Castile conquer modern Galicia and the north of Portugal and in reward he married Alfonso's daughter Teresa of León in 1093, receiving the County of Portugal, then a fiefdom of the Kingdom of León, as a dowry.

From Teresa, Henry had several sons. The only one to survive childhood was Afonso Henriques, who became the second Count of Portugal in 1112. However, the young man Afonso was energetic and expanded his dominions at the expense of Muslims. In 1139, he declared himself King of Portugal after reneging the subjugation to Leon, in open confrontation with his mother.

Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal and Teresa of León, the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León. He was proclaimed King on July 26, 1139, immediately after the Battle of Ourique, and died on December 6, 1185 in Coimbra.

At the end of the 11th century, the Iberian Peninsula political agenda was mostly concerned with the Reconquista, the driving out of the Muslim successor-states to the Caliphate of Cordoba after its collapse. With European military aristocracies focused on the Crusades, Alfonso VI called for the help of the French nobility to deal with the Moors. In exchange, he was to give the hands of his daughters in wedlock to the leaders of the expedition and bestow royal privileges to the others. Thus, the royal heiress Urraca of Castile wedded Raymond of Burgundy, younger son of the Count of Burgundy, and her half-sister, princess Teresa of León, wedded his cousin, another French crusader, Henry of Burgundy, younger brother of the Duke of Burgundy, whose mother was daughter of the Count of Barcelona. Henry was made Count of Portugal, a burdensome earldom south of Galicia, where Moorish incursions and attacks were to be expected. With his wife Teresa as co-ruler of Portugal, Henry withstood the ordeal and held the lands for his father-in-law.

From this wedlock several sons were born, but only one, Afonso Henriques (meaning "Afonso son of Henry") thrived. The boy, probably born around 1109, followed his father as Count of Portugal in 1112, under the tutelage of his mother. The relations between Teresa and her son Afonso proved difficult. Only eleven years old, Afonso already had his own political ideas, greatly different from his mother's. In 1120, the young prince took the side of the archbishop of Braga, a political foe of Teresa, and both were exiled by her orders. Afonso spent the next years away from his own county, under the watch of the bishop. In 1122 Afonso became fourteen, the adult age in the 12th century. He made himself a knight on his own account in the Cathedral of Zamora, raised an army, and proceeded to take control of his lands. Near Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede (1128) he overcame the troops under his mother's lover and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, making her his prisoner and exiling her forever to a monastery in León. Thus the possibility of incorporating Portugal into a Kingdom of Galicia was eliminated and Afonso become sole ruler (Dux of Portugal) after demands for independence from the county's people, church and nobles. He also vanquished Alfonso VII of Castile and León, another of his mother's allies, and thus freed the county from political dependence on the crown of León and Castile. On April 6, 1129, Afonso Henriques dictated the writ in which he proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal.

Afonso then turned his arms against the everlasting problem of the Moors in the south. His campaigns were successful and, on July 26, 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers. This meant that Portugal was no longer a vassal county of León-Castile, but an independent kingdom in its own right. Next, he assembled the first assembly of the estates-general at Lamego, where he was given the crown from the archbishop of Braga, to confirm the independence.

Independence, however, was not a thing a land could choose on its own. Portugal still had to be acknowledged by the neighbouring lands and, most importantly, by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. Afonso wedded Mafalda of Savoy, daughter of Count Amadeo III of Savoy, and sent Ambassadors to Rome to negotiate with the Pope. In Portugal, he built several monasteries and convents and bestowed important privileges to religious orders. In 1143, he wrote to Pope Innocent II to declare himself and the kingdom servants of the Church, swearing to pursue driving the Moors out of the Iberian peninsula. Bypassing any king of Castile or León, Afonso declared himself the direct liegeman of the Papacy. Thus, Afonso continued to distinguish himself by his exploits against the Moors, from whom he wrested Santarém and Lisbon in 1147 (see Siege of Lisbon). He also conquered an important part of the land south of the Tagus River, although this was lost again to the Moors in the following years.

Meanwhile, King Alfonso VII of Castile (Afonso's cousin) regarded the independent ruler of Portugal as nothing but a rebel. Conflict between the two was constant and bitter in the following years. Afonso became involved in a war, taking the side of the Aragonese king, an enemy of Castile. To ensure the alliance, his son Sancho was engaged to Dulce Berenguer, sister of the Count of Barcelona, and princess of Aragon. Finally, in 1143, the Treaty of Zamora established peace between the cousins and the recognition by the Kingdom of Castile and León that Portugal was an independent kingdom.

In 1169, Afonso was disabled in an engagement near Badajoz by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner by the soldiers of the king of León. Portugal was obliged to surrender as his ransom almost all the conquests Afonso had made in Galicia in the previous years.

In 1179 the privileges and favours given to the Roman Catholic Church were compensated. In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as an independent land with the right to conquer lands from the Moors. With this papal blessing, Portugal was at last secured as a country and safe from any Castilian attempts of annexation.

In 1184, in spite of his great age, he had still sufficient energy to relieve his son Sancho, who was besieged in Santarém by the Moors. He died shortly after, in 1185.

The Portuguese revere him as a hero, both on account of his personal character and as the founder of their nation.

In July 2006, the opening of the tomb of the King, with scientific proposes, provoked widespread preoccupation among some sectors of the Portuguese society, with the government halting the opening due to the importance of the king in the nation’s formation by requesting more protocols from the scientific team.

She was a sister of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, Gerberga of Saxony and Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne.

After her brother Otto I came to power, an alliance and marriage was arranged with Hugh the Great in 936. Her son, Hugh Capet, was crowned King of France in 987.

Also called Graf im Wormsgau (965/970 – 989/1000) was the father of the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II. He was the oldest son of Count Otto von Worms and married Adelheid of Alsace or Adelheid von Metz, the sister of the counts of Alsace. She outlived him by many years and died in 1046. Little is known of his life, since he died at around 20. He was buried in the Worms Cathedral along with his daughter Judith.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_of_Speyer"

Henry I (919/921 – November 1, 955) was Duke of Bavaria. He was the second son of the German King Henry the Fowler and his wife Matilda. He attempted a revolt against his older brother Otto I in 938 in alliance with Eberhard of Franconia and Giselbert of Lorraine, believing he had a claim on the throne. In 939 he was defeated at Birten and forced to leave Germany. He fled to the court of Louis IV of France, but returned after he and Otto were reconciled, and awarded the Duchy of Lorraine.

However, he could not assert his authority in Lorraine, and as a result he was stripped of his position. He plotted to assassinate Otto in Easter 941 in Quedlinburg, but was discovered and put in captivity in Ingelheim, being released after doing penance at Christmas of that year. In 948 he acquired the Dukedom of Bavaria through his marriage to the Bavarian noblewoman Judith. He first defended, and then enlarged his Duchy in wars with Hungary, and through the acquisition of Friuli in Italy. As matchmaker for his brother he brought Queen Adelaide to Pavia in 951. In 953–954 he put down a revolt by Ludolf and Conrad of Lorraine, and died in 955 in the monastery of Pöhlde. He was laid to rest in the Niedermünster in Regensburg, where his wife Judith is also buried.

Henry II (951–995), called the Wrangler or the Quarrelsome, in German Heinrich der Zänker, was the son of Henry I and Judith of Bavaria and a seventh generation descendant of Charlemagne.

He succeed his father at the age of four, under the guardianship of his mother Judith. Heinrich married Gisela of Burgundy, a niece of the empress Adelheid, and resolved in 974 to oust Otto II from the throne of Germany. However, he was taken captive in Ingelheim - he escaped and instigated a revolt in Bavaria, but was defeated in 976 and stripped of his Duchy, and, following the War of the Three Henries in 978, was placed under the custody of the Bishop of Utrecht. As a consequence of his revolt Bavaria lost her first southeastern marches including Austria.

After Otto's death he was released from captivity and tried once again to usurp the German throne, abducting the infant Otto III. Although he failed in his attempt to gain control of Germany, he did regain Bavaria.

His daughter Giselle of Bavaria married Saint Stephen I of Hungary, while his son became the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II.

Her father's holdings in the Domesday book: Rodden, Weston(Bath).  http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Somerset.htm

Ralph Hemingway

1. RALPH1 HEMENWAY was born 1603 in Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, England, and died June 1, 1678 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He met ELIZABETH HEWES July 5, 1634 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, daughter of JOHN HEWES and MARY FOOTE. She was born 1603 in Royston, Hertfordshire, England, and died February 2, 1686 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.Notes for RALPH HEMENWAY:

Unlike many American families of English origin all Hemenways and Hemingways in this country have a common ancestor in Ralph of Roxbury, Mass. The first US census taken in 1790 uses one spelling commonly in Massachusetts and in Connecticut the other spelling.

Ralph Hemenway came to America during the period termed the "Great Migration". In 1630, Gov. John Winthrop b. 1583 d. Boston 1649 came to America. With him came a fleet of fifteen vessels bringing one thousand people and within ten years twenty thousand came.

Several towns sprang up among them Roxbury.

During the life of Ralph Hemenway, the town of Roxbury was considered the retreat of the wealthy citizens of Boston and by them a part of the city rather than a village by itself. It is located about three miles south of Boston Common. Between Roxbury and Boston was a stretch of waste and marshy land commonly known as the Neck.

Willow trees on both sides outlined the road to enable travelers to avoid the mire of the marsh. At what is now Dover Street, the narrowest part of the isthmus a mud wall had been thrown up with a pair of strong gates and this fortification with various improvements remained until 1832 or nearly 200 years as a line between city and country.

None could enter after gates were closed at sun down. A history of the first church of Roxbury 1630-1904 has been published. Ralph was a member as early as 1633, and was admitted a freeman September 3, 1634. He was a proprietor of the town.

The oldest church in America still used as a "meeting house" is in Hingham, Mass. It was at that time in Plymouth Colony. It is termed the "Old Ship". There is also an old over-shot mill at New London, Conn. built during the life of Ralph still grinding corn and at Fairfield in the same state the post for the town bulletins stands where the whipping post stood in 1639.

Source: "Ralph Hemmenway of Roxbury, Mass. 1634. and His Descendants" compiled by Clair A. Newton, 1932.

It has been said that most of the Hemingways in America descended from Ralph Hemingway who settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts about 1633. We have found that there were several Hemingways in England before America was colonized and it is hard to believe that only one made the voyage to America. It is known that some came in the nineteenth century. However the Hemingways in America may all share a common ancestry, not from Ralph Hemingway of Roxbury but from inhabitants of the old parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, some seven hundred years ago.

Research of 15th century records shows the name Hemingway to be the most numerous in the Yorkshire area of England. Our genealogical researcher, Dr. Arlene Eakle, has been searching Yorkshire records back to 1309.

Ralph Hemingway was not a name found in the Yorkshire area in the 1600's or before. The Yorkshire Hemingways were landowners who left wills and gave to charities. These are the records our researcher has found.

Ralph is known to have been in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1633. He married Elizabeth Hewes in Roxbury in June or July 1634 and was a freeman there in September 1634. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Hewes and Mary Foote of Shelford, Essex, England. She had a brother, Joshua Hewes, who came to America and was a prominent man in Roxbury.

Ralph and Elizabeth had seven children: Maria (1635-1635; Samuel (1636-1711); Ruth (1638-1686); John (1641-1724), as Elizabeth's father; Joshua (1634-1716), as Elizabeth's brother; Elizabeth (1645-1719), as herself; and Mary (1647-1653), as Elizabeth's mother. With the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th child being named from Elizabeth's family one might expect that the 1st and 2nd were named for Ralph's family. Could his father be Samuel? A Samuel was found in the Yorkshire records, but no proven connection to Ralph has been found. Ralph died in 1677 at Roxbury. Elizabeth died in Roxbury 2 February 1685/6 at age 82. Their son, Joshua, moved to Framingham, Massachusetts and their son Samuel went to Connecticut.

Descendants of both Samuel and Joshua were involved in the development of Massachusetts and Connecticut colonies. There were numerous Hemingways and Hemenways active in the colonial period and in the American Revolution. The name was brought westward as the United States expanded inland.

Ralph Hemingway, the emigrant ancestor, was born c. 1603 near Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. Where Hemingborough and other related Place-names exist. Ralph probably indentured himself as a servant to get to New England, for John ELIOT's diary records him as such. He came over during the period termed the "Great Migration". In 1630 Governor John Winthrop came to America and with him came a fleet of 15 vessels bringing one thousand people. Ralph purchased 16 acres of land and settled in Roxbury, Mass. He was a member of the Roxbury Church as early as 1633 and was admitted a freeman September 3, 1634. By 1635 he was one of the largest property owners and tax payers in town and gave liberally to the Roxbury Free School. His will was dated May 4, 1677 and proved July 11, 1678. He d. June 1, 1678. m. July 5 1634 Elizabeth HEWES dau. John and Mary (FOOTE) HEWES (HEWS) see Hewes Family b. c. 1603 Royston, Hertfordshire, England; d. February 4, 1684 at 82 years in Roxbury, Mass.; Children born Roxbury.

The name is an exceedingly ancient and historic one. It appears in the oldest Germanic epic, Beowolf recording in the late 600's events of the early 500's in the history of the [unreadable] a southern Scandinavian people, the Geats, Beowulf's people, and of the "Spear-Danes." The Angles set down these tales of fellow-tribes, before they migrated to England, or very shortly thereafter. In Part II, 27, King Offa is called "The Kingsman of Hemming" and "The Song of Hemming" is mentioned. The true and ancient spelling of this old Norse-Danish name is HEMINGWAY later used in America by the Boston Hemingways who continued to live in the Boston-Roxbury area and became affluent and by Samuel, eldest son of Ralph (no. 127) who moved to New Haven and together with the Pardees (see Wooster chart) owned the "largest number of slaves" there.

Ralph Hemenway came from near Bradford, 10 miles SW from Leeds, West of Riding of Yorkshire, where Hemingbrough and other related placenames exist. In 1967 the largest fashion-shop on Main St., Leeds, was "Hemingway's."

Ralph, 22, probably indentured himself as a servant to get to New England, for John Eliot's diary records him as such. In 1634 he became a freeman, purchased 16 acres in Roxbury, and married Elizabeth Hewes. By 1639 he was one of the largest property owners and tax payers in town and gave liberally to the Roxbury Free School. President William Howard Taft was a descendant of Ralph Hemenway (as he was also of our Aldrich, Albee, Chapin, Hayward, Osborn, and Thurston.)

Sources: Barry and Temple: Framingham, S. Sullivan Hist. of Gilsum (with picture of Luther Hemenway.) Evan L. Reid Ways and Means of Identifying Ancestors, F. S. Drake, Roxbury"; and http://www.hemingway.net/ralph.htm

The History of the Hewes Family by Eden Putnam show Elizabeth's parents (John and Mary Foote Hewes) came from London and the Footes Shalford, first settling in Providence R.I. Joseph Hewes signer for the Declaration of Independence was a great nephew to Elizabeth.

Source: "Ralph Hemmenway of Roxbury, Mass. 1634. and His Descendants" compiled by Clair A. Newton, 1932.

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RALPH HEMINGWAY

MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Ralph Hinningway a man servant" admitted to Roxbury church as member #96, among those admitted in 1633 [ RChR 79].
FREEMAN: 3 September 1634 (as "Ralfe Hiningway") [ MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: Made his mark to his will. Inventory included "Bible and other books" valued at 8s.
ESTATE: In the Roxbury land inventory of about 1652, "Ralph Hemmingway" held eight parcels of land, all of which were granted by the town: two and a half acres with house, barn and garden; three and a half acres in Black Neck; one acre in the Calve's Pasture; one acre and a half of salt marsh; eight acres of land; two acres of fresh meadow; twenty-four and a half acres "exchanged with John Roberts for so much of his lot lying in the Second Allotment in the Last Division being the second lot there"; and sixteen acres in the Thousand Acres near Dedham [ RBOP 28].
   In his will, dated 4 May 1677 and proved 11 July 1678, "Ralph Hemenway ... being aged ... and having bodily weaknesses and infirmities increasing upon me" bequeathed to "Elizabeth my wife" my whole estate during her natural life in the hand of "my son John Hemenway" to improve for her comfort; after her decease, to "my son Samuel Hemenway" 20s. paid by my son John Hemenway "and the reason why I do give him no more is because I look upon my self indebted and engaged unto my son John Hemenway who hath taken care of me and my wife in our age and knowing that God hath dealt bountifully with my son Samuel I desire him to accept my love in this legacy"; to "my son Joseway Hemenway" my piece of land in the upper Calf Pasture, also a piece of salt marsh in Black Neck; to "my son John Hemenway" all my other lands and housing and cattle and moveables after my wife's death; to "my daughter Elizabeth Holbrook" £8 in four years time, 40s. [a year]; to "my daughter Ruth" £12 in six years, 40s a year; son John Hemenway and "my loving friend Samuel Williams" executors [ SPR 6:239].
   The inventory of the estate of "Ralph Hemenway of Roxbury who deceased the month of June 1678" was taken 15 June 1678 and totalled £170 19s. 6d., of which £150 was real estate: "house and orchard & homelot," £50; "one acre and quarter of land in the upper calves pasture," £15; "three acres of land in the Black Neck," £18; "two acres of salt marsh," £20; "eight acres of woodland at the Eight Acre Lots," £8; "eight acres of pasture ground at the Great Lots," £20; "twenty-four acres of woodlands lying between Hollesen and the place commonly called Clapboard Hill," £12; "three acres of fresh meadows," £5; and "sixteen acres of land in the Thousand Acres," £2 [SPR 12:213-14].
BIRTH: By about 1609 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: Roxbury in June 1678 (inventory).
MARRIAGE: Roxbury 5 July 1634 Elizabeth Hewes [ RVR MS 128]; she was probably the "[blank] Hues a maid servant" admitted to Roxbury church as member #102, at the end of 1633 or beginning of 1634 [RChR 80]; she died Roxbury "Widow of Ralph Sr., 2 January 1684/5, age 82 years" and was buried as "old widow Hinningway" Roxbury 3 February 1685/6 [RChR 186]. (The burial as recorded by Eliot is a year, a month and a day after the date of death as given in the town records; Eliot's dates are usually more reliable. Pope, perhaps in an effort to resolve this discrepancy, erroneously states that wife Elizabeth d. Feb. 4, 1684, aged 82.)
CHILDREN (all born Roxbury):      i   MARY, b. 24 April 1635 [ RVR MS 1]; bur. 4 April 1634 [sic] [RVR MS 96].       ii   SAMUEL, b. __ June 1636 [RVR MS 1]; m. New Haven 23 March 1661/2 Sarah Cooper [ NHVR 1:19].       iii   RUTH, b. 21 September 1638 [RVR MS 2]; bur. Roxbury 18 July 1684 [RChR 185]. (On 28 July 1674 Edward Peggy was in Suffolk Court for "using indirect means by powders or other ways unlawful to engage the affections or desires of women kind to him & for begetting Ruth Henningway of Roxbury with child," and at the same court "Ruth Henningway is ordered to renew her bonds for her appearance at the next Court" [ SCC 1:485-6]. On 24 September 1674 Ruth Hemingway was excommunicated from Roxbury church [RChR 212]. "Ralph Henningway" and Joshua "Hews" Sr. went to court 27 October 1674 and declared that "Ruth Henningway" was "not yet delivered" and they desired the case be continued until next court [SCC 1:517].)       iv   JOHN, b. 27 April 1641 [RVR MS 3]; m. Dorchester 6 October 1665 Mary Trescott [ DVR 21].       v   JOSHUA, bp. 9 April 1643 [RChR 114]; m. (1) Roxbury 16 January 1667[/8] Joanna Evans; m. (2) Mary _____ (Mary, the wife of Joshua Hemingway Sr., d. Roxbury, 5 May 1703); m. (3) Roxbury 5 April 1704 Elizabeth Weeks.       vi   ELIZABETH, b. 31 May 1645 [RVR Ms 5]; bp. 8 June 1645 [RChR 116]; m. (1) Dorchester 24 November 1663 John Holbrook [DVR 21]; m. (2) Roxbury 22 May 1679 Richard Hall [ TAG 67:8-10].       vii   MARY, b. 7 April 1647 [RVR Ms 6]; bp. 18 April 1647 [RChR 117]; bur. Roxbury 21 December 1653.
ASSOCIATIONS: Elizabeth Hewes was the sister of Lt. JOSHUA HEWES, and of Phebe (Hewes) Gorde of Roxbury. The mother of these three Hewes children was Mary Foote [TAG 53:206].
COMMENTS: Pope gives a daughter Mary born 7 April 1644, but this daughter does not appear on the Roxbury records, and note that the second Mary born to Ralph Hemingway was born on 7 April three years later. The Great Migration Begins