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Mediaeval Families

The largest single work consulted has been "Complete Peerage" (G.E.C.).

Recommended reading includes: "The Plantagenet Encyclopedia" (ed: Elizabeth Hallam, 1996); "The Pimlico Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages" (ed: Norman F. Cantor, 1999).; "A History of Britain" (Simon Schama, 2000); "Medieval Britain" (John Gillingham & Ralph A. Griffiths), "My Ancestors Came with the Conqueror" (Anthony J. Camp, 1988); "Domesday Book" (transl. Penguin Books); "William the Conqueror" (David C. Douglas, 1964); "Europe in the High Middle Ages" (William Chester Jordon, 2001); "Stephen and Matilda" (Jim Bradbury, 1996); "Henry Plantagenet" (Richard Barber, 1964).

The generation numbers can be erratic, as many of the persons can be arrived at by a number of routes. A wide variation, though, is symptomatic of a discrepancy in the published sources.

This section includes certain families that also appear in other Contents. Generation numbers are relative to Maurice BODDY.