Foundations - Vol. 3, No. 3 - Contents & Abstracts
Abstracts: General comments, corrections, report of AGM, call for papers for the Charles FH Evans Award 2010.
Lost in Time:
The other daughter of Hamelin de Ballon
J Horace Round’s 1901 study of the descendants of Hamelin de Ballon, Lord of Abergavenny resulted in a documented pedigree from Hamelin’s daughter and heiress, Emmeline, which has met with general acceptance to this day. However, recently published fines for Gloucestershire have revealed that Hamelin had another daughter and heiress, whose existence is barely traceable in medieval record. Her modern day descendants arise from English families such as Wortley of Wortley, Wentworth of Woodhouse and Hazlerigg of Noseley, and are legion. This article attempts to investigate her existence and trace some of her progeny, as well as augment the genealogy of the Ballon family as originally developed by Round. Additional online material to supplement the article “The Early Tempests” in the January 2009 issue of Foundations (3(1): 37-60) Provides additional information about the Tempests up to the early 20th Century Notice of a free-to-use pilot database of medieval soldiers (1369 to 1453).
The Seymour
Family of Hatch, Somerset, and de la Mare Family of Little Hereford
This article begins the documentation of the Seymour family — ancestors of Henry VIII’s third wife — after they left Monmouthshire and settled in England. They gradually rose from relative obscurity through a series of advantageous matches to heiresses to become one of the leading families in Wiltshire (even so, it was only through the favour of Henry and his son Edward VI that they finally attained the peerage in the person of the queen’s brother, Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, Earl of Hertford, Baron Seymour and finally Duke of Somerset). Included with this article is a separate account that begins to chart out the maternal ancestry traced through the de la Mare family of Little Hereford.
Further Addendum to the Five Odards: Eva de Hodelholm and her stepchildren
In an addendum to an earlier paper (Foundations, 2: 54-73, January 2006) on Odard son of Hildred and his descendants, this article shows the descent from Odard’s great-granddaughter Eva de Hodelholm to Helwise the wife of Eustace de Balliol. Upon Helwise’s death her lands reverted to her aunts and their descendants. Of these several families in Scotland one branch led to the Carricks of Galloway and their probable descent to the Kennedys of Dunure. |