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  • Medieval Genealogy for the Medievally-Challenged (Like Me) by Martin E. Hollick: This online article by a professional genealogist details various sources on the matter.
  • Jewels of the Crown, issue 4, Fall 2009: online newsletter; compares common ancestry of Presidents Madison and Obama and discusses the afore-mentioned sources.
  • Ancestors of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Twenty-second Generation): This webpage with its linked pages gives details about the royal ancestry of the Roosevelt family; President Van Buren descends from a branch of this line (chart 2 above).
  • Descent of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison from Edward I (Longshanks): This RootsWeb page traces royal ancestry of Presidents Harrison (chart 3 above).
  • Ancestors of Paul Bailey McBride: This RootsWeb page details the Courtenay line of descent from Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall, an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England. This line leads to Presidents Jefferson and Harrison (chart 2 above).
  • Greene family pages: This is a descent from Fergus of Galloway who possibly married one of the illegitimate daughters of Henry I of England. This pagegroup contains pages on Hutchinson-Lillie line and Fay-Bush line leading to Presidents Bush and Hutchinson-Lyman line leading to Franklin Roosevelt (chart 2 above).
  • Ferrers, Earls of Derby: This line bifurcates from the Galloway line and leads to George Washington (chart 2 above).
  • Presidents of the United States: This RootsWeb page gives royal lineages of various presidents.
  • Ancestors of Michael Anthony Thompson (Seventeenth Generation): This page, with linked pages, describes the Savage line, having descent from Henry II, Henry III and Edward I and leading to James Madison (chart 4 above).
  • Presidential Ancestry: This page gives detailed royal lineages of several presidents, but a bit erroneous.
Gives descent of Washington's paternal grandfather from Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I (chart 3 above);
descent of John Quincy Adams from Cardinal Henry Beaufort, grandson of Edward III (chart 5 above);
erroneous descent of Mary Isham (ancestress of Thomas Jefferson) from William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, illegitimate son of Henry II
(erroneous because, his granddaughter Emmeline, w/o Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, died childless)
(However, Mary Isham did have valid royal descent: her ancestors were Sir William Hopton and his wife Margaret Wentworth (d/o Margery le Despencer); husband descendant of King William the Lion of Scotland through his illegitimate daughter Isabella, w/o Robert de Ros, one of the Magna Carta sureties, and wife descendant of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, through Eva of Leinster and Isabella de Beauchamp)
although her husband, William Randolph, did descend from Longespée, through the Mowbray line (shown in chart 4);
and descent of Franklin Roosevelt and the Bush duo from Henry I through the Galloway line (chart 2 above).
Isabella de Beauchamp, descendant of Brian Boru, was an important ancestress of American presidents. The above line to Thomas Jefferson was through her son by second marriage, Philip Despencer . Another son by her second marriage, Hugh Despenser the Younger, was ancestor of Presidents Washington, Bush and Franklin Roosevelt (chart 3). Her daughter by first marriage, Maud Chaworth, had six daughters, out of which, Joan of Lancaster was ancestress of Thomas Jefferson through the Mowbray line mentioned above (chart 4); Eleanor of Lancaster was ancestress of George Washington's paternal grandfather through the Sutton line (chart 3) as well as his mother through Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (chart 5) and a possible ancestress of John Quincy Adams through Alice FitzAlan, Lady Cherleton (chart 4) and also ancestress of Theodore Roosevelt and James Monroe through John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (chart 5); Mary of Lancaster was ancestress of Washington through the Percy-Gascoigne line (chart 4). Isabella's brother's descendant, Philippa de Beauchamp, was ancestress of George Washington and William Taft (see chart 2).
  • Kyme, Baron (E, 1295 - abeyant 1577) on Cracroft's Peerage: This lineage descends from Henry I through the Galloway line; leads to Washington through William Tailboys (chart 2) and to Presidents Bush and Franklin Roosevelt through Sir John Tailboys (chart 2).
  • Descendants of Edward III: most American presidents descended through lineages described in this document.
  • Descent of Martin Van Buren: shows descent from Godfrey, Lord of Gaesbeek (descendant of Stephen, King of England through his daughter Marie I, Countess of Boulogne) through Isabelle van Horne and the Burchgraeff family (chart 3). From Godfrey's brother, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, descends Theodore Roosevelt (chart 3).
  • Ancestry of Barack Obama by William Addams Reitwiesner: shows ancestry up to Martha Eltonhead (chart 4).
  • Descent from Henry II: shows descent of Martha Eltonhesd from Henry II through w/o Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (shown in chart 4), citing Douglas Richardson as source (see here for original).
  • Maud (Matilda) de Swynnerton: This page, with its linked pages, gives biographical details about ancestors of Martha Eltonhead.
  • Ancestors of Pres. George Walker Bush: shows ancestry up to generation 23. as ancestor, thereby making the Bushes descendants of Henry Beaufort; correct ancestor was Sir Edmund Stradling of Winterbourne (1429-61), Sheriff of Wiltshire; see here for discussion. Further error in generation 19: shows Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley (chart 3) as son of James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley and Elizabeth Ferrers, 6th Baroness Ferrers of Groby, thereby showing a descent from Joan of Acre through Isabel de Verdun and Elizabeth of England through Sir Henry de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby; in effect, Maurice Berkeley was Lady Ferrers's half-brother.]
  • Daniel T. Rogers(b. 1943) - all my relatives: This page, with linked pages, gives ancestry of James Monroe.

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