Cassandra Elizabeth Taylor's royal descents:

via Gov. Thomas Dudley of Boston (†1673):

via Dudley's mother John, King of England († 1216);
via Dudley's mother to (possibly) Affonso III, King of Portugal († 1279);
via Dudley's father to (possibly) Edward III, King of England († 1377) .


1. John, King of England (†1216)

2. (illegitimate by ___): Richard Fitz Roy ∞ Rohese of Dover (†1264/5)

3. Lorette de Dover ∞ Sir William Marmion († by 1276)

4. John Marmion, 1st Baron Marmion († 1322) ∞ Isabel

5. John Marmion, 2d Baron Marmion († 1335) % Maud de Furnival

6. Avice Marmion ∞ Sir John de Grey, K. G., 1st Baron Grey of Rotherfield († 1359)

7. Maud de Grey ∞ Sir Thomas de Harcourt (†1417)

8. Sir Thomas de Harcourt († 1420) ∞ Jane Frenceys

9. Sir Richard Harcourt († 1486) ∞ Edith St. Clair

10. Alice Harcourt ∞ William Bessiles († 1515)

11. Elizabeth Bessiles ∞ Richard Fettiplace († 1511)

12 . Anne Fettiplace (1496-1568) ∞ Edward Purefoy (1494-1558)

13. Mary Purefoy (d. aft. 1579) ∞ Thomas Thorne (d. 1589)

14. Susanna Thorne (1560-1588) ∞ Capt. Roger Dudley (d. 1585)

15. Gov. Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts Bay (1576-1653) ∞ Dorothy Yorke (-1643)

16. Mercy Dudley (1621-1691) ∞ Rev. John Woodbridge (1613-1695)

17. Martha Woodbridge (1658-1738) ∞ Capt. Samuel Ruggles Jr. (1658-1715)

18. Rev. Timothy Ruggles (1685-1768) ∞ Mary White (1688-1749)

19. Samuel Ruggles (1715-1802) ∞ Alice Sherman (1719-1801)

20 . Alice Ruggles (1748-) ∞ Simeon Nye (1737-1805)

21 . John Ruggles Nye (1776-1852) ∞ Nancy C. Caldwell

22 . David C. Nye (1805-1870) ∞ Eliza H. White (1809-1887)

23 . Charles Ruggles Nye (1831-1859) ∞ Mary Jane Boardman (1832-1900)

24 . Charles Henry Nye (1853-1887) ∞ Cora E. Stapleton (1860-1942)

25 . Mary Lillian Nye (1882-1965) ∞ William MacArthur Scott (1881-1948)

26 . Joseph Robertson Scott (1915-1986) ∞ Carolyn Ayer Harmon (1915-2000)

27. Joseph Robertson Scott, Jr. (1942-) ∞ Paula Louise Fitts (1945-)

28. Julie Harmon Scott (1968-) ∞ Nathaniel Lane Taylor (1965-)

29. Cassandra Elizabeth Taylor (2000–)

Sources:
Gens. 1-15: Weis, Ancestral Roots, 7th ed., lines 30, 50, etc.


1. Affonso III, King of Portugal (d. 1279)

2. (illegitimate by Mariana Pires de Enxara): Affonso Diniz († 1310) ∞ Maria Paes Ribeiro de Sousa

3. Diego Affonso de Sousa († 1344) ∞ Violante Lopes Pacheco

[two possible paths from here]:

4. Alvaro de Sousa († by 1377) ∞ Maria Telles de Meneses (†1378) 4. Lopo Dias de Sousa († 1373), senhor de Carresedo ∞ Beatriz
5. Lopo Dias de Sousa, master of the Order of Christ († 1435) 5. ???

[Planché suggests Beatriz may be granddaughter of the elder Lopo Dias and his wife Beatriz; F. A. Doria suggests that she may likely belong among the numberous bastard children of the younger Lopo Dias, Master of the Order of Christ]:

6. Beatriz (d. 1448) ∞ Sir Thomas Fettiplace (d. 1442/46)

7 . John Fettiplace (d. 1464) ∞ Joan Fabian

8. Richard Fettiplace (d. 1511) ∞ Elizabeth Bessiles (see above, gen. 11)

Sources:
Gens. 1-n: Europäische Stammtafeln, Neue Folge, ed. Detlev Schwennicke (Marburg 1978-), 3:462-467 (illegitimate descendants of Affonso III), cited as deriving from 'manuscripts of Rev. Heinzwolf Buck, Lindau, Bavaria'; J. R. Planché,"On the Monument of a Supposed Princess of Portugal in East Shefford Church, Berkshire," Journal of the British Archaeological Association 16 (1860), 145-57; 201-204 & fold-out. Also, some discussion on the Usenet group soc.genealogy.medieval with Chico Doria and others, and my manuscript “Beatrice Fettiplace: a Portuguese Lady in England.”

Comment:
This provisional line has been given some credence through experienced Portuguese genealogists' assessment of the armorial evidence and the chronology for Beatriz. More work needs to be done to solidify this conjectural descent.


1. Edward III

Sources:
Gens. 1-n: Unpublished work of Marshall K. Kirk, formerly of NEHGS in Boston, abstracted in Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, pp. ___; and Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, '1st Authoritative ed.', p. __. Conjectural only.

 

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