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Submitted by Leo van de Pas
corrections/additions are welcome
 

The Ancestors of Robert Devereux,
2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Viscount Hereford
(6 generations)


        1. Robert Devereux
            2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Viscount Hereford
            Born 19 November 1566
            Died 25 February 1601 Tower Hill (beheaded)
 
        2. Walter Devereux
            1st Earl of Essex, 2nd Viscount Hereford
            Born 16 September 1539
            Died 22 September 1576 Dublin Castle
            Married circa 1560 /1565
        3. Lettice Knollys
            Born 1539
            Died 25 December 1634 Drayton Basset

         4. Sir Richard Devereux
            Died 13 October 1547
        5. Lady Dorothy Hastings
        6. Sir Francis Knollys, of Rotherfield
            Born circa 1514
            Died 19 July 1596
            Married circa  April 1540
        7. Catherine/Mary Cary
            Born circa 1524
            Died 15 January 1569 Hampton Court Palace
 
        8. Walter Devereux
            1st Viscount Hereford
            Born 1488 / 1489
            Died 17 February 1558
            Married circa 15 December 1503
        9. Lady Mary Grey
            Died 22 February 1538
       10. George Hastings
            1st Earl of Huntingdon
            Born 1488
            Died 24 March 1544
            Married December 1509
       11. Lady Anne Stafford
            buried Stoke Pagis
       12. Robert Knollys, of Rotherfield
            Died before 19 June 1521
       13. Lettice Penystone
       14. William Carey
            Born circa 1495
            Died 22 June 1528
            Married 31 January 1520 / 1521
       15. Mary Boleyn
            Born circa 1500 /1504
            Died 19 July 1543
 
       16. John Devereux
            2nd Lord Ferrers of Chartley
            Born 1464
            Died circa 7 May 1501
       17. Cecily Bourchier
            Died 9 February 1493 / 9 June 1493
       18. Thomas Grey
            1st Marquess of Dorset
            Born 1451
            Died 20 September 1501
            Married 18 July 1474 *
       19. Cecily Bonville
            Born 1461
            Died 12 May 1529 Shacklewell Hackney
       20. Edward Hastings
            Lord Hungerford and Hastings
            Born 26 November 1466
            Died November 1506
            Married before 18 February 1481
       21. Mary Hungerford
            Baroness Hungerford, Baroness Moleyns
            Born circa 1467
            Died before 10 July 1533
       22. Henry Stafford
            2nd Duke of Buckingham
            Born 4 September 1455
            Died 2 November 1483 Salisbury (beheaded)
            Married February 1466
       23. Catherine Widville
            Born 1449 ?
            Died 22 July 1525
       24. Robert Knollys
       25. Elizabeth
       26. Sir Thomas Peniston
       27. Alice Bulstrode
       28. Thomas Cary, of Chilton
            Born 1455
            Died 1500
            Married circa 1490
       29. Margaret Spencer
            Born circa 1472
       30. Sir Thomas Boleyn
            Earl of Wiltshire
            Born circa 1470
            Died 21 March 1538 / 13 March 1539 Hever
            Married circa 1500
       31. Lady Elizabeth Howard
            Died 3 April 1538 Castle Baynard
 
       32. Walter Devereux
            1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley
            Died 22 August 1485 Bosworth (in battle)
            Married before 26 November 1446
       33. Anne Ferrers
            Born November 1438
            Died 9 January 1469
       34. Sir William Bourchier
            Died 12 February 1483 / 4 April 1483
            Married before 15 August 1457
       35. Anne Widville
            Born circa 1439
            Died 30 July 1489
       36. Sir John Grey, of Groby
            Born 1435
            Died 17 February 1460 St.Albans (in battle)
            Married circa 1450
       37. Elizabeth Widville
            Born circa 1437 Grafton Regis
            Died 7 June 1492 Bermondsey Abbey
       38. William Bonville
            6th Lord Harington
            Born 1442
            Died 17 February 1461
            Married 1458
       39. Lady Catherine Nevill
            Died 22 November 1503 / 25 March 1504
       40. William Hastings
            1st Baron Hastings
            Born 1430
            Died 13 June 1483 Tower (beheaded)
            Married before 6 November 1462
       41. = 39
       42. Sir Thomas Hungerford
            Born 1442
            Died 17 January 1469
            Married before 16 October 1460
       43. Lady Anne Percy
            Born 3 February 1444 ? Dunganess
            Died 5 July 1522 London
       44. Humphrey Stafford
            Earl of Stafford
            Born 1428
            Died after 29 June 1457
            Married 1444
       45. Margaret Beaufort
            Died 1474
       46. Richard Widville
            1st Earl Rivers
            Born before 1408
            Died 12 August 1469 Edgecote (beheaded)
            Married circa 23 March 1436
       47. Jacquetta de Luxembourg
            Born circa 1415 /1416
            Died 30 May 1472
       48. Richard Knollys
       49. Margaret D'Oilly
       50.
       51.
       52. Sir Richard Penystone, of Howridge
       53. Margaret Herris
       54. Richard Bulstrode, of Hedgerley
            Died 19 May 1502
       55. Alice Kniffe
       56. Sir William Cary
            Born 12 August 1437
            Died 6 April 1471 (beheaded)
       57. Alice Fulford
       58. Sir Robert Spencer, of Spencercombe
            Died after 13 March 1492
            Married circa 1470
       59. Eleanor Beaufort
            Died 16 August 1501
       60. Sir William Boleyn, of Blickling
            Died 10 October 1505
            Married circa 1465
       61. Lady Margaret Butler
            Died 1539 / 1540
       62. Thomas Howard
            2nd Duke of Norfolk
            Born 1443 Stoke Neyland
            Died 21 May 1524 Framlingham Castle
            Married 30 April 1472
       63. Elizabeth Tilney
            Died 4 April 1497
 
       64. Sir Walter Devereux, of Bodenham
            Born 1387
            Died April 1459
            Married before 1433
       65. Elizabeth Merbury
            Born circa 1412
       66. William Ferrers
            7th Lord Ferrers of Chartley
            Died 9 June 1450
       67. Elizabeth Belknap
            Died 28 May 1471
       68. Henry Bourchier
            1st Earl of Essex, 2.Comte d'Eu
            Died 4 April 1483
            Married circa 1430
       69. Isabel of York
            Born 1409
            Died 2 October 1484
       70. = 46        71. = 47
       72. Sir Edward Grey
            Baron Ferrers of Groby
            Born circa 1415
            Died 18 December 1457
            Married circa 1445
       73. Elizabeth Ferrers
            Heiress of Groby
            Born circa 1419
            Died 23 January 1483
       74. = 46        75. = 47
       76. William Bonville
            Died 31 December 1460 Wakefield (in battle)
            Married before 1442
       77. Elizabeth Harington
       78. Richard Nevill
            1st Earl of Salisbury
            Born before 1400
            Died 31 December 1460 Pontefract (beheaded)
            Married after 1421
       79. Lady Alice Montagu
            Countess of Salisbury, Baroness Montagu
            Born 1406
            Died before 9 December 1462
       80. Sir Leonard Hastings, of Kirby
            Born circa 1396
            Died 20 October 1455
       81. Alice Camoys
       82. = 78        83. = 79
       84. Robert Hungerford
            3rd Lord Hungerford
            Born before 1429
            Died 18 May 1464 New Castle (beheaded)
            Married before 5 November 1440
       85. Eleanor Moleyns
            Born 11 June 1426 Stoke Poges
            Died 1476
       86. Henry Percy
            3rd Earl of Northumberland
            Born 25 July 1421 Leconfield
            Died 29 March 1461 Towton (in battle)
            Married circa 25 June 1435
       87. Eleanor Poynings
            Born circa 1422
            Died circa  February 1483
       88. Humphrey Stafford
            1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford
            Born 15 August 1402
            Died 10 July 1460 Northampton (in battle)
            Married before 18 October 1424
       89. Lady Anne Nevill
            Died 20 September 1480
       90. Edmund Beaufort
            Duke of Somerset
            Born 1406
            Died 22 May 1455 St.Albans (in battle)
            Married circa 1431
       91. Lady Eleanor de Beauchamp
            Born 1408
            Died 6 March 1468 Baynard's Castle, London
       92. Richard Wydeville
            Born in Grafton, Northamptonshire
            Died circa  December 1441
       93. Elizabeth (Mary) Bodulgate
            Died after 17 July 1448
       94. Pierre de Luxembourg
            Comte de St.Pol, Brienne and Conversano
            Born circa 1390
            Died 31 August 1433 Rambures, Somme (pest)
            Married 8 May 1405
       95. Margherita del Balzo
            Born 1394
            Died 15 November 1469
       96. Thomas Knollys, of North Mymms
       97. Jone
       98. William D'Oilly, of Hughenden
       99.
      100.
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      104.
      105.
      106.
      107.
      108. William Bulstrode, of Upton
            Died 1478
      109. Agnes Norreys
      110. Richard Kniffe, of Chalvey
      111.
      112. Philip Cary, of Cockington
      113. Christina Orchard
      114. Sir Baldwin Fulford
      115. Elizabeth Bozon
      116.
      117.
      118. = 90       119. = 91
      120. Sir Geoffrey Boleyn
            Lord Mayor of London
            Died 1463
      121. Anne Hoo
            Born circa 1425
      122. Thomas Butler
            7th Earl of Ormonde
            Died 3 August 1515
            Married before 11 July 1445
      123. Anne Hankeford
            Born circa 1431
            Died 13 November 1485
      124. Sir John Howard
            1st Duke of Norfolk
            Born circa 1420
            Died 22 August 1485 Bosworth Field (in battle)
            Married circa 1442
      125. Katherine Moleyns
            Born before 1425
            Died 3 November 1465 Stoke Neyland
      126. Sir Frederick Tilney, of Ashwellthorpe
      127. Elizabeth Cheyne
 
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