Descent from King Alfred the Great

Through the alliance with Gatacre,

The Middlemores of Hawkesley and Birmingham are descended from King Alfred the Great;

the steps of the descent are as below

 

  1. ALFRED THE GREAT, d. 900, m. Elswith, dau. of Earl Ethelred.
  2. EDWARD THE ELDER, d. 925, m. Elfleda, dau. of Earl Ethelhelm.
  3. EDGINA, m. Charles IV (the Simple) of France.
  4. Lewis IV of France, d. 954, m. Gerberga, dau. of Henry Auceps, Emperor of the West.
  5. CHARLES, Duke of Nether Lorrain and Brabant, d. 992, m. Bona, Countess of Ardenne.
  6. GERBERGA, Duchess of Brabant, m. Lambert I, Count of Louvain.
  7. LAMBERT II, Duke of Brabant, d. 1054, m. Oda, dau. of Gothelo, Duke of Lorrain.
  8. HENRY II, Duke of Brabant, d. 1068, m. Adela, dau. of Otto, Count of Orlamunda.
  9. GODFREY  I, . Duke of Brabant, d. 1140, m. Ida, dau. of Albert, Count of Namur.
  10. ADELICIA (widow of King Henry I) m. William de Albini, Earl of Arundel, d. 1176.
  11. WILLIAM DE ALBINI, 2nd Earl of Arundel, d. 1196, m. Maud, dau. and h. of James de St. Hilary, and widow of Roger, Earl of Hertford.
  12. WILLIAM DE ALBINI, 3rd Earl of Arundel, d. 1221, m. Mabel, sister and coh. of Ranulf, Earl of Chester.
  13. CECILIA, m. Roger de Montalt, who died 1260.
  14. LEUCHA, dau. and coh., m. Philip de Orreby, s. of Sir Philip de Orreby, justice of Chester.
  15. AGNES, d. and h., m. Sir Walkelyn de Arderne, justice of Chester.
  16. SIR PETER DE ARDERNE, d. 1265, m. Margery.
  17. SIR JOHN DE ARDERNE, d. 1308, m. Margaret verch Griffith ap Madog.
  18. AGNES, m. Sir John de Wetenhale, Cheshire, living 1318. 19. MARGERY, m. Sir Adam de Bostock.
  19. SIR ADAM BOSTOCK, m. Jenet, dau. of Sir Henry Bradshaw.
  20. SIR RALPH BOSTOCK, m. Isabel, dau. and h. of William Lawton.
  21. SIR ADAM BOSTOCK, killed at Blackheath 1459, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Hugh Venables, Baron of Kinderton.
  22. ELIZABETH, m. John Gatacre of Gatacre.
  23. ROBERT GATACRE, of Gatacre, m. Joan, dau. of JohnHoord, of Hoord's Park, Bridgnorth.
  24. MARGERY, m. William Middlemore of Hawkeslowe, who d. 1549
  25. A quo the Middlemores of Hawkesley and Birmingham.