Family Tree

Spent some time on my family tree this weekend.
All going well loooking at the Kekewich's and Pendarves's of Cornwall when my wife spots a wife called Catherine Courtenay in the early 1500's - married to John Kekewich who was MP for Saltash and Sheriff of Cornwall. She mentioned that Courtenay was the family name of the Earls of Devon. Followed up said Catherine and found a lineage all the way back to Alfred the Great!

Lineage



Me born 1968 in Totnes
Son of:

Bryan Watkins born 1926 in Exeter
Died 2009 Torbay
Son of:

Elsie Heard born 1905 in Exeter
Married Claude Watkins
Died 1996 in Brixham
Daughter of:

Katie Kekewich born 1873 in Exeter
Married Alf Heard
Died 1966
Daughter of:

Robert Burton Kekewich born 1831 in Cape Town
Lived in Southford House, Staverton. Went off with and married Caroline Jarman the scullery maid from Newton Abbot. Lived on Exe Island on what is now Shooting Marsh St.
Lived off the income of his relatives.
Died 1898
Son of:

George Kekewich born 1778 in Islington
Graduated Cambridge in Law, 1800
1809 was Judge and Commissioner-General of Vice-Admirality Court of the Cape
1812 married Catherina deWaal descended from original Dutch.
Died 1862
Son of:

William Kekewich Born 1736 Bowden House
Died 1799
Son of:

Pendarves Kekewich Born 1697 in Hackney
A director of Royal Exchange Assurance in 1759
Died 1775 in London
Son of:

Samuel Kekewich Born 1657 in London
Was a merchant based mostly in El Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz
Married Mary Pendarves in 1694, from a family of merchants from Padstow / Penryn
1698-1700 MP for Sudbury
1698 on the Committee of the Old East India Company
Died 1700
Son of:

Peter Kekewich Born 1605
Died 1680
Son of:

Edward William Kekewich Born 1561
Died 1621
Son of:

Catherine Courtenay Born 1532 in Landrake, Cornwall
Married George Kekewich 1560 (MP for Saltash 1553, 1576 Sheriff of Cornwall)
Died 1571
Daughter of:

Edward Courtenay Born 1495
Died 1555
Son of:

Edward Courtenay Born 1453 at Powderham
Fought alonside Henry VII at Bosworth
Died 1509
Son of:

Sir William Courtenay Born 1400 at Powderham
Married Margaret Bonville dau. of William Bonville of Shute (nr Axminster) and Margaret Grey. (She was daughter of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, a powerful Welsh Marcher lord, who was the implacable enemy of Owain Glyndŵr)
Died 1485
Sir William was son of:

Philip Courtenay Born 1404 at Powderham
Married Elizabeth Hungerford in 1425
Died 1463
Son of:

Sir John Courtenay Born 1384 at Powderham
Married to Joan Champernowne
Died 1406
Son of:

Sir Philip Courtenay Born 1346 Exeter
Was knighted by Edward the Black Prince, along with his brothers Hugh and Peter, in Spain the day before the Battle of Najera.
Imprisoned in the Tower in November 1402 for clerical abuses against the Church.
Suppressed Owain Glyndŵr’s Welsh revolt in 1399/1400
Died 1406
Son of:

Margaret de Bohun 2nd Countess of Devon Born 1311
Married Sir Hugh de Courtenay the 2nd Earl of Devon in 1325
Powderham was in her dowry.
Son William was Archbishop of Canterbury 1381-1396
Died 1391 aged 80. Buried in Exeter Cathedral.
Daughter of:

Elizabeth Plantagenet “of Rhuddlan” Born 1282
She first married John I, Count of Holland, who in 1299 died of dysentery
On 14 November 1302 Elizabeth was married to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, 3rd of Essex, also Constable of England. On the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn Humphrey was one of the first to lead the cavalry charge. In the melee and cavalry rout between the Bannock Burn and the Scots' camp he was not injured although his rash young nephew Henry charged alone at Robert Bruce and was killed by Bruce's axe.
At the battle of Boroughbridge in 1322 Humphrey led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panicked rout.
Elizabeth died 1316
Daughter of:

Edward 1st “Longshanks” Born 1239 Palace of Westminster

Hammer of the Scots.Died 1307
Son of:

Henry 3rd 1207-1272
Son of:

King John 1166-1216

A rubbish king.Son of:

Henry 2nd 1133 Le Mans - 1189
Married Eleanor of Aquitaine

I've seen their tombs at the Abbey of Fontevraud near SaumurHenry’s mother was the Empress Matilda
Son of:

Empress Matilda 1080-1118
She was married to Geoffrey, Count of Anjou
Her father was Henry 1st Her mother was:

Matilda of Scotland 1080-1118
Daughter of Malcolm 3rd of Scotland and:

Saint Margaret of Scotland 1045-1093
Also known as Margaret of Wessex
Born in Exile in Hungary
Her father was :

Edward Aetheling 1016-1057
Son of:

Edmund 2nd (Ironside) 988-1016
Son of:

Aethelred the Unready 968-1016
Son of:

King Edgar (the Peaceful) 943-975
Son of:

Edmund 1st 922-946
Son of:

Edward the Elder 874-924
Son of:

Alfred the Great 848-899
Who burnt the cakes...