a detail of Decker genealogy
The English King, Henry II (top photo) has an illegitimate son, William Longespee (Longspear) (second photo) either by Rosamond de Clifford (poisoned by Eleanor of Aquitaine) OR more probably Ida, Countess of Norfolk but either way, his father is undisputedly Henry II and Longespee is made 3rd Earl of Salisbury. Subsequently, he's the first person buried in Salisbury Cathedral.
It's possible to discover upstream that Henry II descends from Charles Martel, Pipin the Short, and Charlemagne as well as Henry I and the Dukes of Burgundy. Just what that may mean is a fog of one's own making (excuse the pun). Even so, personal genaeology offers a vector along which we wander the thicker fog of total human history. Selecting an ancestor as attentional clue, it's possible to focus on particular paths through history. Memory being an active, rather than passive faculty, remembering subjects are willing to assert relevance, if only by literal sequence of events, to ourselves. We let ourselves into labyrinths infested with minotaur.
In this instance, one vector through the genetic rhizome of Decker lineage extends to Edward II and his illegitimate son William Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
William Longespee's grandaughter Ela (Isabella) marries Roger LaZouche (1267) (see Robin Hood's 1st murder)
whose grandaughter Ela (Helene/Elena) LaZouche marries Alan Charlton (1317)
...six generations of Charlton boys before one has a daughter, Anne...
Anne Charlton marries Randall Grosvenor (1500)
their daughter Elizabeth Grosvenor marries Edward Bulkeley (1566)
their daughter Frances Bulkeley marries Richard Welby (4 Jun 1596) and immigrate to Chelmsford, MA
their daughter Olive Welby marries Henry Farwell (16 Apr 1629)
whose greatgrandaughter Mary Farwell marries Edmund Hovey (8 Feb 1727)
their grandaughter Olive Hovey marries Elijah Freeman (27 Dec 1781)
their daughter Olive Hovey Freeman (photo) marries Winslow Farr (5 Dec 1816) and comes to Utah
whose grandaughter Tirzah Farr (photo) marries John Franklin Gay (19 Jan 1869)
their daughter, my great grandmother, Nancy Pearl Gay (photo) marries Feramorz (Fera) Decker (24 Feb 1892)
===some details on the details===
King Henry II has illegit son named William de Longespie "Longsword" 3rd Earl of Salisbury with Mistres Rosamond "the fair" de Clifford (posioned by Eleanor of Aquitain). Their romance is set in A Man for all Seasons in Woodstock royal forest 8mi NW of Oxford)
William Longespie marries Ela (or Isabella) Devereux (d. 1261, descended from Dukes of Burgundy via Robert, Archbishop of Rouen 989-1037) son of Richard I {Duke of Normandy}) According to Britannica 1955 v.8 p.934 "first family of Counts of Evereaux descended from an illegit son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Became extinct with death of Count William in 1118. Countship passed in right of Agnes, William's sister, wife of Simon Demontfort (d.1087) to the house of the Lords of Montfort l'Amaury. Amoury III of Montfort ceded the peerage in 1200 to King Philip Augustus. Philip the Fair presented it (1307) to his brother Louie for whose benefit Philip the Long raised the countship of Evreux into a peerage of France (1317)
Ela (Isabella) is the daughter of William Longespie and Ela Devereux's 3rd son Stephen Longeseppe (Earl of Ulster)
King Henry II has illegit son named William de Longespie "Longsword" 3rd Earl of Salisbury with Mistres Rosamond "the fair" de Clifford (posioned by Eleanor of Aquitain). Their romance is set in A Man for all Seasons in Woodstock royal forest 8mi NW of Oxford)
William Longespie marries Ela (or Isabella) Devereux (d. 1261, descended from Dukes of Burgundy via Robert, Archbishop of Rouen 989-1037) son of Richard I {Duke of Normandy}) According to Britannica 1955 v.8 p.934 "first family of Counts of Evereaux descended from an illegit son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. Became extinct with death of Count William in 1118. Countship passed in right of Agnes, William's sister, wife of Simon Demontfort (d.1087) to the house of the Lords of Montfort l'Amaury. Amoury III of Montfort ceded the peerage in 1200 to King Philip Augustus. Philip the Fair presented it (1307) to his brother Louie for whose benefit Philip the Long raised the countship of Evreux into a peerage of France (1317)
Ela (Isabella) is the daughter of William Longespie and Ela Devereux's 3rd son Stephen Longeseppe (Earl of Ulster)
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