by Rosie Bevan

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.

Tempest family of Bracewell and Broughton (John R Schuerman)

Medieval Soldiers database (information from the FMG)

by Paul C Reed

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.

by  Michael Anne Guido, J C B Sharp and Jane Brankstone Thomas

In response to comments received from members of the FMG on our earlier article (Foundations, 3(2): 127-161, July 2009) we should like to present some clarifications and corrections. This paper encompasses other pertinent information concerning the early Levingtons that was not included in the original article. The inclusion of additional source material now links the heir of Eva de Hodelholm to Helwise de Levington as well as showing more information about the Levington descendants and their heirs. The article is presented in a fact-based chronology with each assertion footnoted as to source.