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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate This is one of the best genealogical resources I have found. I have been able to trace that branch of my family along with their titles and in some cases their history. User Review - Flag as inappropriate A wonderful source book covering a vast number of years and delving into the history of the Nobility of England. It gives you all the important descendants of families continuing onward to hold titles, but does not touch the full family in many instances. You have the current, the next title holder and a sibling mentioned due to the fact that the sibling's progeny will succeed the title next. When he arrives at the terminal end of a title, and the title is held in abeyance between surviving female inheritors, you do get a fuller view of the family. Some generations are skipped entirely as they do not succeed the title Related books
Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrases1st Earl 2nd baron 2nd Earl 2ndly 3rd Earl 4th Earl afterwards Alice ancestor Anglesey Anne April Baron baronet Bart became EXTINCT Bobert brother Castle Catherine Charles Chester co-heir co-heiress created dated decease December descended devolved dignity Dorset Duke dying Earl of Warwick Earldom EDWARD EDWARD III elder eldest dau Elizabeth England Essex estates father February France George governor grandson Grey heiress HENRT Henry HENRY III Hereford holy orders honours Hugh Ireland Isabel James Jane January Joan July June King king's knight Lady lands left issue Letters Patent lordship manor March Margaret Marquess marriage Mary Maud monarch nobleman Norfolk November October peerage peerage of Ireland Powys Prince Ralph reign Richard Scotland sheriff Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William sister Somerset sons Stafford successor Suffolk summoned to parliament Viscount Walter Warwick widow wife Writ of Summons Popular passagesPage 243 - In this battle, on the king's part, there were more officers and gentlemen of quality slain, than common men ; and more hurt than slain. That which would have clouded any victory... Page 143 - Whether did the King's pleasure lie among the men, or the women that acted '.." This was carried with great indignation to the court. It was said, Page 172 - Such was Roscommon, not more learn'd than good, With manners generous as his noble blood; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own. Such late was Walsh... Page 273 - My grandfather was noted to be a great enemy to the outlaws and thieves of his time, who robbed in great numbers in the mountains of Montgomeryshire, for the suppressing of whom he went often, both day and night, to the places where they were ; concerning which, though many particulars have been told me, I shall mention one only. Page 162 - Committee on the Dignity of a peer of the realm (3rd Rep. Page 2 - It happened that the Queen of France, being then a widow, and a very beautiful woman, became much in love with a knight of that country, who was a comely person, and in the flower of his youth ; and because she thought that no man excelled him in... Page 243 - ... taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent... Page 16 - ... with the aid of his four squires fought always in the chief of the battle. He was sore hurt in the body and in the visage : as long as his breath served him he fought. At last at the end of the battle his four squires took... Page 274 - Cardiganshire, and had power, in a marshal law, to execute offenders ; in the using thereof he was so just, that he acquired to himself a singular reputation ; as may appear upon the records of that time, kept in the Paper-chamber at Whitehall, some touch whereof I have made in my History of Henry the Eighth : of him I can say little more, than that he likewise was a great suppressor of rebels, thieves, and outlaws... Page 143 - This put the House of Commons in a furious uproar: they passed a bill of banishment against the actors of it; and put a clause in it, that it should not be in the king's power to pardon them ; and that it should be death to maim any person. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarTwo New (?) Lost Piers Manuscripts (?)Ralph Hanna - 2002 - The Yearbook of Langland Studies References from web pagesthepeerage.com - Person Page 11773 Royal & Noble Bibliography: Burke's and Debrett's International Genealogical Data - Trace Immigrant Ancestors A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and ... Sources Janet's Genealogy The Ancestry of Oliver Mainwaring Bibliographic information
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