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Phillis Mary Wright
F, #15827, Deceased, b. 12 July 1908, d. July 1955
| Consanguinity | Partner of Henry Stanbridge Egerton Snelson (2nd cousin 2 times removed of Adrian John Snelson) |
Family: Henry Stanbridge Egerton Snelson (b. 23 April 1910, d. 2 July 1991)
| Person References | Descendents of William Snelson c.1670 William Snelston bef 1668 - aft 1707 |
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| Also Known As | Phillis Mary Wright was also known as Phillis Snelson. |
| User Reference Number | She; 16187 |
| Birth | She was born on 12 July 1908. |
| Marriage | Phillis Mary Wright and Henry Stanbridge Egerton Snelson were married before 1947. |
| Death | She died in July 1955, at age ~47. |
| Burial | Phillis Mary's remains were buried in July 1955 in the cemetery, Ampthill. |
| Her husband Henry Stanbridge Egerton Snelson died on 2 July 1991 in Berkhamstead, Herstfordshire. |
Otgiva Unknown1,2
F, #15832, Deceased, b. about 984, d. 21 February 1030
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Parents
| Father | Frederick I Unknown (b. about 965, d. 1019) |
| Mother | Nn Unknown |
Family: Baldwin IV Unknown (b. about 980, d. 30 May 1036)
| Son | Baldwin V Unknown+ (d. 1 September 1067) |
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| Also Known As | Otgiva Unknown was also known as Otgiva Unknown. |
| User Reference Number | She; 18705 |
| Birth Reg | She; Baldwin IV Unknown; 5th cousins1 |
| Birth | She was born about 984.1 |
| Marriage | Otgiva Unknown and Baldwin IV Unknown were married about 1012.2,1 |
| Her father Frederick I Unknown died in 1019. | |
| Death | She died on 21 February 1030, at age ~46, in Flanders, France.2,1 |
| Her husband Baldwin IV Unknown died on 30 May 1036 in Flanders, France. |
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Margery Saunders
F, #15834, Deceased, b. 1486
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Parents
| Father | William Saunders (b. 1456) |
Family: William Snelson (b. about 1486)
| Son | Robert Sneston |
| Son | Jeremiah Sneston |
| Daughter | Jane Sneston |
| Son | John Snelston+ (b. about 1516) |
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| Also Known As | Margery Saunders was also known as Margery Sneston. |
| Marriage | Margery Saunders and William Snelson were married.1,2 |
| User Reference Number | She; 4956 |
| Birth | She was born in 1486. |
| Her son John Snelston was born about 1516. | |
| Residence | She resided about 1525.3 |
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Gisela Unknown1,2
F, #15841, Deceased, b. 821, d. 1 July 874
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Parents
| Father | Louis I the Pious Unknown (b. August 778, d. 20 June 840) |
| Mother | Judith Unknown (b. 800, d. 19 April 843) |
Family: Evrard Unknown (b. 819, d. 16 December 867)
| Daughter | Judith Unknown+ |
| Daughter | Ingeltrude Unknown+ (b. about 837, d. 870) |
| Son | Berengar I Unknown+ (b. about 840, d. 7 April 924) |
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| Also Known As | Gisela Unknown was also known as Gisela Unknown. |
| Residence | She resided Gisela (821) was the youngest daughter of Louis the Pious and his second wife, Judith of Bavaria. She married the powerful and influential Evrard, Duke of Friuli, later canonized as Saint Evrard, with whom she had several children including Berengar, King of Italy and Margrave of Friuli. Gisela was renowned her piety and virtue, much like her namesake (Gisela), the beloved sister of Charlemagne, who had chosen the religious life from girlhood. Her dowry consisted of many rich domains including the fisc of Cysoing; located at the center of the country of Pèvele, Cysoing was one of the most beautiful fiscs in the region and became one of her and Evrard's regular residences. They founded a monastery there, which was not completed until after their deaths. The nunnery San Salvatore was given to her after Ermengarde, wife of Lothair I. For a time she served as both abbess and rectrix. Also, she presented to the Church the mosaics which still exist in the cathedral at Aquileia. They contain (what is most remarkable for that time) a Crucifixion, the Virgin, St. George, the portrait of Gisela, and various allegorical figures. She dedicated herself to the education of her and Evrard's many children.1 |
| User Reference Number | She; 18580 |
| Birth Reg | She; Evrard Unknown; half 1 cousins 1 removed1 |
| Birth | She was born in 821.2,1 |
| Marriage | Gisela Unknown and Evrard Unknown were married about 836.2,1 |
| Her daughter Ingeltrude Unknown was born about 837. | |
| Her son Berengar I Unknown was born about 840. | |
| Her father Louis I the Pious Unknown died on 20 June 840. | |
| Her mother Judith Unknown died on 19 April 843. | |
| Her husband Evrard Unknown died on 16 December 867. | |
| Her daughter Ingeltrude Unknown died in 870. | |
| Death | Gisela Unknown died on 1 July 874, at age ~53.1 |
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William Pritchard
M, #15842, Deceased
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Family:
| Daughter | Catherine Pritchard+ (b. about 1841) |
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| Occupation | William Pritchard was a Joiner. |
| User Reference Number | He; 23708 |
| His daughter Catherine Pritchard was born about 1841. |
Henry II Curmantle Unknown1,2,3
M, #15850, Deceased, d. 11 June 1183
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Parents
| Father | Geoffrey V Unknown (b. 24 August 1113, d. 7 September 1151) |
| Mother | Matilda Unknown (b. 1101, d. 10 September 1167) |
Family 1: Ykenai Unknown (b. about 1131)
Family 2: Eleanor Unknown (b. 1122, d. 1 April 1204)
| Son | John I 'Lackland' Unknown+ (d. 19 October 1216) |
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| Birth | Henry II Curmantle Unknown was born Person Source, Y.2 |
| Marriage | Henry II Curmantle Unknown and Ykenai Unknown were married Unknown GEDCOM info: Mistress Unknown GEDCOM info: had a child with Unknown GEDCOM info: Mistress Unknown GEDCOM info: had a child with.2,1 |
| Burial | Henry II Curmantle's remains were buried in Fontevrault Abbey.1 |
| Residence | He resided See notes.1 |
| User Reference Number | He; 18435 |
| Note | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Residence Henry II of England (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189) ruled as Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, and as King of England (1154–1189) and at times controlled parts of Wales, Scotland, eastern Ireland, and western France. His sobriquets include 'Curt Mantle' (because of his short cloak), 'Fitz Empress,' and sometimes 'The Lion of Justice,' which had also applied to his grandfather Henry I. He ranks as the first of the Plantagenet or Angevin Kings. Following the disputed reign of King Stephen, Henry's reign saw efficient consolidation of England. Henry II has acquired a reputation as one of England's greatest medieval kings. Prior to coming to the throne he already controlled Normandy, Aquitaine, Gascony and Anjou on the continent, Anjou and Normandy were held through paternal heritance and Aquitaine/Gascony through wedding with Eleanor of Aquitaine on 18 May 1152. He subsequently became king of England in 1154 replacing King Stephen. He thus effectively became more powerful than his nominal liege-lord, the king of France — with an empire (the Angevin Empire) that stretched from the Solway Firth almost to the Mediterranean and from the Somme to the Pyrenees. As king, he would make Ireland a part of his vast domain. He was born on 5 March 1133 at Le Mans to the Empress Matilda and her second husband, Geoffrey the Fair, Count of Anjou. Brought up in Anjou, he visited England in 1149 to help his mother in her disputed claim to the English throne. He married Eleanor of Aquitaine on 18 May 1152, but from May to August he was occupied in fighting Eleanor's ex-husband Louis VII of France and his allies. In August Henry rushed back to her, and they spent several months together. Around the end of November 1152 they parted: Henry went to spend some weeks with his mother and then sailed for England, arriving on 6 January 1153. Some historians believe that the couple's first child, William, Count of Poitiers, was born in 1153. Henry's succession was established by the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153, after he had challenged Stephen's forces at Wallingford Castle. It was agreed that Henry would become king on Stephen's death. During Stephen's reign the barons had undermined the monarch's grip on the realm; Henry II saw it as his first task to reverse this shift in power. For example, Henry had castles torn down which the barons had built without authorization during Stephen's reign, and by 1159, scutage, a fee paid by vassals in lieu of military service, had become a central feature of the king's military system. Record keeping improved dramatically in order to streamline this taxation. Henry II established courts in various parts of England and first instituted the royal practice of granting magistrates the power to render legal decisions on a wide range of civil matters in the name of the Crown. His reign saw the production of the first written legal textbook, providing the basis of today's 'Common Law.' By the Assize of Clarendon (1166), trial by jury became the norm. Since the Norman Conquest, jury trials had been largely replaced by trial by ordeal and 'wager of battel' (which English law did not abolish until 1819). Provision of justice and landed security was further toughened in 1176 with the Assize of Northampton, built on the earlier agreements at Clarendon. This reform proved one of Henry's major contributions to the social history of England. Shortly after his coronation, Henry sent an embassy to the newly elected Pope Adrian IV. Led by Bishop Arnold of Lisieux, the group of clerics requested from Adrian a privilege authorising Henry to invade Ireland. Most historians agree that this was the papal bull Laudabiliter. W.L. Warren asserts that Henry acted under the influence of a 'Canterbury plot'; Archbishop Theobald of Bec, John of Salisbury, and other Canterbury clergy wished to assert their hierarchical supremacy over the newly created Irish diocesan structure. Other historians have argued instead that Henry intended to secure Ireland as a lordship for his younger brother William, Count of Poitou. Shortly thereafter, Henry's continental affairs distracted him. William died, and the English ignored Ireland. It was not until 1166 that it came to the surface again. In that year, Dermot MacMurrough, having been driven from his kingdom in Leinster, followed Henry to Aquitaine. He asked the English king to help him reassert control; Henry agreed to allow Dermot to gather supporters from among his Norman vassals. The most prominent of these was a Welsh Norman, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, nicknamed 'Strongbow'. In exchange for his loyalty, Dermot offered Earl Richard his daughter Aoife (Eve) in marriage and made him heir to the kingdom. The Normans quickly restored Dermot to his traditional holdings, and he even toyed with the idea of challenging for the title of Ard Ri, or High King. However, in 1171, Henry arrived from France to assert his overlordship. All of the Normans, along with many Irish princes, took oaths of homage to Henry, and he left after six months. He never returned, but he later named his young son, the future King John of England, Lord of Ireland. In 1172, at the Synod of Cashel, Roman Catholicism was proclaimed as the only permitted religious practice in Ireland. As a consequence of the improvements in the legal system, the power of church courts waned. The church naturally opposed this and found its most vehement spokesman in Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formerly a close friend of Henry's and his Chancellor. The conflict with Becket effectively began with a dispute over whether the secular courts could try clergy who had committed a secular offence. Henry attempted to subdue Becket and his fellow churchmen by making them swear to obey the 'customs of the realm', but controversy ensued over what constituted these customs, and the church proved reluctant to submit. Following a heated exchange at Henry's court, Becket left England in 1164 for France to solicit in person the support of King Louis VII of France and of Pope Alexander III, who was in exile in France due to dissension in the college of Cardinals. Due to his own precarious position, Alexander remained neutral in the debate, although Becket remained in exile loosely under the protection of Louis and Pope Alexander until 1170. After reconciliation between Henry and Thomas in Normandy in 1170, Becket returned to England. Becket again confronted Henry, this time over the coronation of Prince Henry. The much-quoted, although probably apocryphal, words of Henry II echo down the centuries: 'Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?' Although Henry's violent rants against Becket over the years were well documented, this time four of his knights took their king literally and travelled immediately to England, where they assassinated Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170. For this act Henry was excommunicated but obtained his rehabilitation thanks to the efforts of Robert de Torigny, abbot of Mont St Michel. As part of his penance for the death of Becket, Henry made a pilgrimage in sackcloth to his tomb, and agreed to send money to the Crusader states in Palestine, which the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar would guard until Henry arrived to make use of it on pilgrimage or crusade. Afterwards, on the 21 May 1172, he was flogged in public, naked, before the door of the cathedral at Avranches, which was his capital city in Normandy. Henry delayed his crusade for many years and in the end never went at all, despite a visit to him by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem in 1184 and being offered the crown of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1188 he levied the Saladin tithe to pay for a new crusade; the cleric and courtier Gerald of Wales suggested his death was a divine punishment for the tithe, imposed to raise money for an abortive crusade to recapture Jerusalem, which had fallen to Saladin in 1187. Henry and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, had five sons and three daughters: William, Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, John, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joan. The first son, William, Count of Poitiers, died in infancy. In 1170, Henry and Eleanor's fifteen-year-old son, Henry, was crowned and became known as Henry the Young King, although he never actually ruled. (A nephew, born 25 years after young Henry's death, became known as Henry III of England.) Henry's notorious liaison with Rosamund Clifford, the 'fair Rosamund' of legend, probably began in 1165 during one of his Welsh campaigns and continued until her death in 1176. However, it was not until 1174, at around the time of his break with Eleanor, that Henry acknowledged Rosamund as his mistress. Almost simultaneously he began negotiating the annulment of his marriage in order to marry Alys, daughter of King Louis VII of France and already betrothed to Henry's son Richard. Henry's affair with Alys continued for some years, and, unlike Rosamund Clifford, Alys allegedly gave birth to one of Henry's illegitimate children. Henry also had a number of illegitimate children by various women, and Eleanor had several of those children reared in the royal nursery with her own children; some remained members of the household in adulthood. Among them were William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, whose mother was Ida, Countess of Norfolk; Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, son of a woman named Ykenai; Morgan, Bishop of Durham; and Matilda, Abbess of Barking. Henry II's attempt to divide his titles amongst his sons but keep the power associated with them provoked them into trying to take control of the lands assigned to them, which amounted to treason, at least in Henry's eyes. Gerald of Wales reports that when King Henry gave the kiss of peace to his son Richard, he said softly, 'May the Lord never permit me to die until I have taken due vengeance upon you.' When Henry's legitimate sons rebelled against him, they often had the help of King Louis VII of France. After Henry the Young King died in 1183, there was a power struggle between the three sons that were left. Henry had wanted John to be the next king, but Eleanor favoured Richard. Henry had always loved John more than any of the other sons. A horse trampled to death his third son, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158–1186). Henry's second son, Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199), with the assistance of Philip II Augustus of France, attacked and defeated Henry on July 4, 1189; Henry died at the castle of Chinon on July 6, 1189, and lies entombed in Fontevraud Abbey, near Chinon and Saumur in the Anjou Region of present-day France. Henry's illegitimate son Geoffrey, Archbishop of York also stood by him the whole time and alone among his sons attended on Henry's deathbed. His last words, according to Gerald of Wales, were “Shame, shame on a conquered kingâ€. Richard the Lionheart then became King of England. This was unfortunate to Henry because he had always wanted John, his youngest son, to succeed him. John succeeded to the throne upon Richard's death in 1199, laying aside the claims of Geoffrey's children Arthur and Eleanor. 13th C: 'Book of the Civilized Man ' is a poem believed to have been written in Henry's court and is the first 'book of manners' or 'courtesy book' in English history, representing the start of a new awakening to etiquette and decorum in English culture. 1836: The struggle between Henry II and Dermot MacMurrogh for control of Ireland is the subject of an epic poem written by American president John Q. Adams. 1935: The assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket is the subject of the celebrated 1935 play Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot. 1964: A fuller account of the struggle between Henry II and Becket is portrayed in the film Becket (1964) made from the Jean Anouilh play and starring Peter O'Toole as Henry and Richard Burton as Becket. 1966: The treasons associated with the royal and ducal successions formed the main theme of the play The Lion in Winter (1966), which also served as the basis of a 1968 film with O'Toole reprising the role of Henry and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine. In 2003, the film was remade as a television film with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close in the leading roles. 1978: Henry II and his sons King Richard and King John also provided the subjects of the BBC2 television series The Devil's Crown. The 1978 book of the same title was written by Richard Barber and published as a guide to the broadcast series, which starred Brian Cox as Henry and Jane Lapotaire as Eleanor. 1989: The final chapters of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth concern the assassination of Thomas Becket and end with Henry's penance. 1994: The first decade of Henry's marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine is portrayed in the novel Beloved Enemy: The Passions of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a Novel (1994) by Ellen Jones. 1994: The battle for the English throne between, Henry, son of Empress Maude and King Stephen, her cousin is described in the novel When Christ and His Saints Slept (1994), by Sharon Penman. 2002: Time and Chance (2002) also by Sharon Penman describes the conflict between Henry and Becket. A further sequel The Devils Brood covering the end of Henry's reign is due to be published in 2008. |
| His wife Ykenai Unknown died. | |
| Birth | He was born on 5 March 1133 in le Mans, France.2,1 |
| His father Geoffrey V Unknown died on 7 September 1151 in Chateau-du-Loir, Pays de la Loire, France. | |
| Marriage | Henry II Curmantle Unknown and Eleanor Unknown were married on 18 May 1152.2,3,1 |
| His mother Matilda Unknown died on 10 September 1167 in Rouen, Normandy, France. | |
| Death | He died on 11 June 1183 in Chinon, Centre, France.2,1 |
| His wife Eleanor Unknown died on 1 April 1204 in Maine-Et-Loire, France. |