FITZ RANDOLPH LINE


The following is from:
FITZ RANDOLPH TRADITIONS, A Story of a Thousand Years.
By Lewis V. F(itz) Randolph.
Published under the auspices of The New Jersey Historical Society, 1907. pp 117-121.


To the following ancestral story - here given in merest outline - any American Fitz Randolph, who has been at the trouble of tracing his lineage back to Edward the Pilgrim, may, we believe, safely and reasonably link his line.

1. ROLF - The Norseman Conqueror. Born about AD 860. Died AD 932. Married Gisela, daughter of King Charles of France.

2. WILLIAM "Longsword", Duke of Normandy. Died about 943.

3. RICHARD "The Fearless", Duke of Normandy. Reigned more than half a century. Died AD 996.

4. RICHARD "The Good", Duke of Normandy. Died AD 1026.

5. RICHARD Duke of Normandy, whose wife was Judith. He died AD 1028. He was father of Robert "The Magnificent" whose son was William "The Conqueror", and he was brother of Avicia, who married Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany.

6. GEOFFREY, Avicia

7. EUDO, Duke of Brittany. Married Agnes, daughter of Alan, and died in 1079.

8. RIBALD, Lord of Middleham. Brother to Alan Rufus, Duke of Richmond, and to Stephen and to Barfolf. Married Beatrice, and spent his last days in retirement at St. Mary's Abbey, York.

9. RANDOLPH, Lord of Middleham. Married Agatha, daughter of the first Robert of Bruce.

10. ROBERT FITZ RANDOLPH, Lord of Middleham. Who built the Castle of Middleham and married Helewisa de Gladstone. More

11. RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH, Lord of Middleham. Married Mary, daughter of Roger Bigot, Duke of Norfolk.

12. RANDOLPH FITZ RANDOLPH, Lord of Middleham. Who married Anastasia, daughter of William, Lord Percy.

13. MARY FITZ RANDOLPH, Daughter of Randolph and Anastasia, a rich, religious and benevolent woman who married Robert de Neville. She died AD 1320, having survived her husband 49 years.

14. RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE, Lord of Middleham. Whose second wife was Margaret, daughter of Marmaduke Thweng. Died 1332.

15. RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE, Lord of Middleham. Who married Alicia, daughter of Hugo de Audley. Died 1368.

16. JOHN DE NEVILLE, Lord of Middleham. Who married Matilda Percy. Died 1398. She was the second of this noble family to become allied with the Neville - Fitz Randolph line.

17. RANDOLPH DE NEVILLE, Lord of Middleham and first Earl of Westmoreland. Whose first wife was Margaret (daughter of Hugo), Lady Stafford - descended from Edward I - and whose second wife was Joan of Beauford, daughter of John of Gaunt and grand-daughter of Edward III. He died in 1435. By his second wife his posterity runs into and down the English royal line. We now follow the posterity of the Earl of Westmoreland by his first wife, Lady Stafford.

18. JOHN (the children of whose brother Randolph were all daughters) married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Canterbury. He died two years before his father, in 1433.

19. JOHN, heir presumptive to the dukedom of Westmoreland. (Hume speaks of him as Duke in fact at the time of the battle, and of his being slain with the great Percy, Duke of Northumberland, and a near kinsman, and with Sir John Neville, brother of Westmoreland, and Dares, another kinsman.) Was hero of the battle of Torton, in the year 1461, and bravely lost his life there on the Lancastrian side. He had married Anna, the widow of John de Neville.

20. RANDOLPH, Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of John and Anna) married Margaret, daughter of Booth de Barton of Lancaster.

21. RANDOLPH, heir presumptive. Died during his father's lifetime, married Edith, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich.

22. RANDOLPH, Duke of Westmoreland. (Son of Randolph and Edith), married Catherine, daughter of Edward, Duke of Buckingham. Died 1524. (This Buckingham was descended from Thomas Woodcock, Duke of Gloucester, uncle to Richard II. By this pedigree, he was not only allied to the royal family, but had claims for high dignities and extensive estates. Hume says Buckingham's mother was a daughter of Edmund, Duke of Somerset, descended from Edward III, and mentions "the power and splendor of his family." He was at first a partisan and then an enemy of Richard III.)

23. RANDOLPH, fifth son of Randolph and Catherine. The first son being Henry, whose son Charles was the last in the line of those dukes of Westmoreland, and the other sons being Thomas, Edward, Christopher and Cuthert. Died probably about 1565.

24. CHRISTOPHER FITZ RANDOLPH (son of Randolph, fifth son of Duke of Westmoreland). Married Joan, daughter and heiress of Cuthbert Langton of Langton Hall. Died 1588.

25. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH of Langton Hall. With whom was found and in whom was confirmed by the "Visitation" of 1614 the Fitz Randolph Arms substantially as borne by the Lords of Middleham and by the Specnnithorne branch of Fitz Randolph. Died probably about 1635.

26. EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH, Pilgrim. Married May 10, 1637, at Scintuate Mass, to Elizabeth Blossom, daughter of Thomas and Anne Blossom. Moved to Piscataway, N.J., 1669. Died 1675. His family


More information about some of our ancestors can be found in your encyclopedia.
And of course, we are also descended from the Father of all their wives and their progenitors.

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