Hugh De Courtenay

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Born the son of Sir Hugh de Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon and Agnes de St. John. He married Margaret de Bohun in August 1325 and with her had ten children. He was invested as a Knight Banneret in 1327. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Courtenay in April 1337 during his father's lifetime. In 1339 he repulsed a French raid on Cornwall, and succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Devon the following year. He held the office of Joint Warden of Devon and Cornwall in 1352 and the office of Chief Warden of Devon in 1373. He died four years later at age 73.

Family/Spouse: Margaret De Bohun. Margaret (daughter of Humphrey De Bohun and Elizabeth Plantagenet, of Rhuddlan) was born on 3 Apr 1311 in Caldecott, East Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 Dec 1391 in Norfolk, Exeter, Devon, England; was buried in Exeter, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Andrew Luttrell in 1359. Andrew died in 1381 in Chilton-Luttrell, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Sir Hugh Luttrell was Seneschal of Normandy, Northern France having fallen into the hands of King HENRY V after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Sir married Catherine de Beaumont in 1359. Catherine died in 1435. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Stratton, Esq Lord of Tyes Hall in 1421. John died on 14 Jun 1448 in Weston-sur-Mere, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Andrews, Lord of Baylham and Stoke. John (son of James Andrewe and Alice Weyland) was born in 1415 in Bayleham, Suffolk, England; died in 1456 in Bayleham, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Thomas Windsor, Lord Constable of Windsor Castle. Thomas was born on 8 Nov 1441 in Stanwell Manor, Bradenlove, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 29 Sep 1485 in Stanwell Manor, Bradenlove, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Andrew WINDSOR (B. Windsor of Bradenham)
Born: ABT 1466
Died: 30 Mar 1543
Buried: Church of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow, Middlesex, England

Of Stanwell, co. Middlesex and Boardsley Abbey, Worcestershire. Knight of the Bath upon the coronation of Henry VIII; Member of Parliament; Knight Banneret for valor at the Battle of Spurs in 1513. He was summoned to Parliament in 1529 as Baron Windsor of Bradenham, Buckinghamshire. In Jun 1520, he attended King Henry VIII during the summit with Francois I held between Guisnes and Ardres, known as "Field of the Cloth of Gold". In his will, dated 26 Mar 1543, he lists: His entire well beloved late wife, Elizabeth lady Wyndsore, His late son George Windsor, His loving father, Thomas Wyndesore, Sir William Windsor his son and heir apparent, His son Edmund, His son Thomas, His daughter dame Elizabeth wife of Peter Vavasour, His daughter Anne wife of Roger Corbet, His daughter Edith wife of George Ludlow, His sister Margaret Windsor late prioress of Syon, His brother Sir Anthony Windsor, Edith daughter of said Sir Anthony, His loving mother dame Elizabeth Litton, Agnes Windsor, daughter of his son Thomas, Ursula Windsor, daughter of his son Thomas, Peter Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas, Miles Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas, Andrew Windsor (probably) son of his son Thomas.

Father: Thomas WINDSOR (Constable of Windsor Castle)
Mother: Elizabeth ANDREWS
Married: Elizabeth BLOUNT (B. Windsor of Bradenham) ABT 1490, Rock, Worcester, England

Children:
1. Elizabeth WINDSOR
2. George WINDSOR
3. Eleanor WINDSOR
4. William WINDSOR (2° B. Windsor of Bradenham)
5. Andrew WINDSOR (b. ABT 1492)
6. Edmund WINDSOR (b. ABT 1494 - d. AFT Jan 1553)
7. Anne WINDSOR
8. Edith WINDSOR
9. Thomas WINDSOR

FACT:
Lord Andrew, 1st Baron Windsor, Baron of Bradenham, Earl of Plymouth Windsor

Family/Spouse: Baroness Elizabeth, (m. Windsor) Blount. Baroness was born on 28 Apr 1485 in Baylham, Suffolk, England; died in 1485 in Hounslow, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FACT:
Lady Edith Windsor Ludlow (Descendant of Charlemagne and Rurik (Northman and founder of Russian Monarchy)) Ludlow

Edith married Sir George Ludlow, Sheriff of Wiltshire on 26 Mar 1543 in Wiltshire, England. Sir was born in 1505 in Ludwell, Wiltshire, England; died on 4 Feb 1581 in Hill Deverill, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Jane Eliza Pyle in 1581. Jane was born in 1561 in Dinton, Wiltshire, England; died on 6 Jul 1650 in Dinton, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshall/esmd128.htm

Gabriel Ludlow Esq. (Thomas6, George5, William4 Ludlowe, John3,
John2, William1); baptized 10 Feb 1587 at Dinton, Wiltshire, England m. Phyllis; d. circa 1639. He was a lawyer.

Phyllis was born circa 1589. She left a will on 12 Sep 1657 proved 18 Dec 1657. She died in 1657. Known children of Gabriel Ludlow Esq. and Phyllis were as follows:
i. Gabriel Ludlow; baptized 18 Jun 1622 at
Warminster, Wiltshire, England; baptized 13 Aug
1622 at Warminster, Wiltshire, England; d. 1644 at
Battle of Newbury, Newbury, England.
ii. Lt. Col. Thomas Ludlow; baptized 1 Nov 1624 at
Warminster, Wiltshire, England; m. Mary; 1st
husband; d. 1660.
He resided at York Co., VA.
iii. Francis Ludlow; b. 10 Sep 1626 at Warminster,
Wiltshire, England; d. before 11 May 1670.
He resided at Lancaster Co., VA.
iv. Anne Ludlow; baptized 4 Dec 1628 at Warminster,
Wiltshire, England.
v. Elizabeth Ludlow; baptized 18 Oct 1632 at Maiden
Bradley, co. Wilts, England.
vi. John Ludlow; b. circa 1634; d. before 15 Sep 1664.
He resided at Virginia.
vii. Sarah Ludlow, b. circa 1635; m. Col. John Carter.

Gabriel married Phyllis Wakelyn in 1607. Phyllis was born in 1589 in Dinton, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 12 Sep 1657 in , , Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Colonel John Carter in 1662 in Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA. John (son of John William "The Vintner" Carter and Elizabeth Bridget Benion) was born in 1613 in Newgate Christ Church, Middlesex, London, England; died on 10 Jun 1669 in Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA; was buried in Weems, Lancaster, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Robert King Carter son of John Carter and Sarah Ludlow

Robert King Carter married 1680 Virginia, to Judith Armistead.
From the "ENCYCLOPEDIA of VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY" Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D., VOLUME V, 1915, pages 848-849

The epitaph on his tomb in Christ Church, records his virtues and achievements. Translated from the Latin, it says:
Here lies Robert Carter an honorable man who by noble endowments and pure morals gave luster to his gentle birth. Rector of William and Mary College, he sustained that institution and its most trying times. And he was Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer under the most serene princes, William, Ann, George I. and George II. Elected by
the House of Burgesses its Speaker six years and Governor of the Colony for more than a year he upheld equally the regal dignity and the public freedom. Possessed of ample wealth, blameless acquired, he built and endowed this sacred edifice, a signal monument of his piety towards God. He furnished it richly. Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal nor a parsimonious host.

His first wife was Judith, daughter of John Armistead, Esq. His second, Betty, a descendant of the noble house of Landon. By these wives he had many children and whose education he expended large sums of money. At length, full of honors and of years, when he had well performed all the duties of an exemplary life he departed from this world on the 4th of August, 1732, in the 69th year of his age.

This man's grandson had Washington himself as neighbor, and Robert E. Lee's mother was the great granddaughter of his grandfather, Robert "King" Carter. "It was 230 years ago that Robert Carter III, the patriarch of one of the wealthiest families in Virginia, quietly walked into a Northumberland County courthouse and delivered an airtight legal document announcing his intention to free, or manumit, more than 500 slaves.

He titled it the "deed of gift." It was, by far, experts say, the largest liberation of Black people before President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act and Emancipation Proclamation more than seven decades later.

Ancestor of William Henry Harrison - 9th US President.

Robert Carter was born 4 August 1663 at Corotoman plantation, Lancaster County, Virginia, a son of John Carter and Sarah Ludlow.[3] His father died when Robert was a young boy, in 1669. So his half-brother, Lt. Col. John Carter (15 years older than Robert), took on the parental role.[3] Per their father's specific instructions, Robert was educated well in England. He had a tutor for English and Latin, and lived with Arthur Bailey who was a family friend and merchant.[3]

He married 1) in 1688 at Heese, Lancaster, Virginia to Judith Armistead (died 1699).[4] She died in 1699.
He married 2) in 1701 to Elizabeth (Landon) Willis (marriage contract written April 9, 1701), widow of Richard Willis, and daughter of Thomas Landon.[3]
Robert "King" married in 1688 to Judith Armistead, daughter of John Armistead of "Hesse," Gloucester County. Their children were:[4]

John, born ca 1689, died 1742; mar Elizabeth Hill of Shirley
Elizabeth born 1692; mar Nathaniel Burwell
Judith died in infancy,
Sarah died at age 15
Judith born 1695 (the second named Judith); mar Mann Page[3]
Note: Some sources, including the Foundation for Historic Christ Church, place the birth date of John Carter III at 1696,[4]while others place it at 1689/90.[5][3]

Little is known about the intimate family life of Robert and Judith during these years.[3] Judith died February 23, 1699, and only three of her children survived to adulthood.[5]

Robert's second wife was Elizabeth Landon Willis, (mother of ten of Robert Carter's children) married in 1701:[4]

Anne Carter (1702–1743) married Benjamin Harrison IV; (parents of Benjamin Harrison V and grandparents of President William Henry Harrison).
Robert Carter II (1704–1734) married Priscilla Churchill.
Sarah Carter (~1705–1705)
Betty Carter (~1705–1706)
Charles Carter (1707–1764) married Anne Byrd, daughter of Col. William Byrd II.
Ludlow Carter (born ~1709)
Landon Carter (1710–1778) married Maria Byrd, daughter of Col. William Byrd II.
Mary Carter (1712–1736) married George Braxton; (parents of Carter Braxton).
Lucy Carter (1715–1763) married Henry Fitzhugh
George Carter (1718–1742)[3]

The first actual land grant found on record in the Northern Neck section of Virginia is to Col. Robert "King" Carter, as the agent of Lord Fairfax and to his sons and grandsons. As the agent of Lord Fairfax, the Proprietor of the Northern Neck of VA, Col. Carter handled vast bodies of land and by his will left over 300,000 acres of land to his children.[6]
Robert was known as "King" Carter due to his immense wealth. He had a remarkable reputation as a Colonial Official and an agent for Lord Fairfax, V. At the age of 28, Robert entered the Assembly as a Burgess from Lancaster County, serving five consecutive years. In 1726 he served as acting governor of Virginia after the death of Governor Drysdale. He served two terms as agent for the Fairfax proprietary of the Northern Neck of Virginia, the first being, 1702-1711, and the second term, 1722-32. During his first term, he began to acquire large tracts of land for himself in the Rappahannock region of Virginia. After acquiring some 20,000 acres for himself, he was succeeded by Edmund Jennings. When he became representative of Fairfax's interests again in 1722, he succeeded in securing for his children and grandchildren some 110,000 acres in the Northern Neck. He also had additional acquisitions beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Robert's gifted and productive life centered around the original Christ Church, a smaller wooden structure. His parents were buried within the chancel of the church. A historic marker outside of the Church reads: "Christ Church was built in 1732, on the site of an older Church by Robert ("King") Carter, who reserved one quarter of it for seating his tenants and servants. It is one of the very few colonial churches in America that have never been altered, a typical early eighteenth-century structure.[7]

Robert owned many slaves. An inventory of his slaves, apparently made as part of the inventory of his estate, was taken in 1733.[8] There are 345 slaves listed with names like: Old Crabb, Old Gumby, and Old Fortune a Woman past Labour.[8]

Robert left quite a list of property, including the slaves above-mentioned. He held numerous plantations in eight different counties of Virginia:

INVENTORY, [1733] November ?, of the estate of Robert Carter comprising a detailed list of agricultural equipment, blacksmith tools, books, coaches, furniture, glassware, horses and other livestock, milling tools, silverware and utensils, and slaves at Carter's estates in
Caroline (Pewmond's End),
King George (Falls and Richland quarters),
Lancaster (Brick House Quarter, Changilins Quarter, Corotoman, Corotoman Quarter, Gibson's Plantation, Great Mill, Hills Quarter, Indian Town Quarter, Little Mill, Morattico Quarter, Office Quarter, Old House Quarter, Poplar Neck Quarter, and Wolf House Quarter),
Northumberland County (Blough Point Quarter, Feilding's Plantation, Jones's Plantation, and Old Plantation),
Prince William (Bull Run, Frying Pan Quarter, Lodge Quarter, Range Quarter, and Red Oak Quarter,),
Richmond (Brick House Quarter, Bridge Quarter, Dickinson's Mill, Fork Quarter, Thomas Glascock's, Gumfield's Quarter, Hickory Thickett, Hinson's Quarter, Old Quarter, and Totuskey Quarter),
Spotsylvania (Mount Quarter and Norman's Ford), Stafford (Hamstead Quarter, Hinson's Quarter, Park Quarter, and Poplar Quarter), and
Westmoreland (Brent's Quarter, Coles Point, Dick's Quarter, Forrest Quarter, Head of the River, Medcalf's Plantation, Moon's Plantation, The Narrows, Old Ordinary, and Pantico Quarter), counties, Virginia[9]

Robert Carter died 4 Aug 1732 at Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia and was buried at Christ Church.[4] "(see tombstone inscription and pictures). At his death in 1732, his obituary in Gentleman's Magazine described his estate to be "about 300,000 acres of land, about 1000 Negroes, 10,000 pounds in money." The tombstones of Robert and his two wives were placed at the east end of the old Christ Church.
The tombstones have been replaced by the church, and the inscription on his tombstone (taken from the original):

"Here lies buried Robert Carter, Esq., an honourable man, who by noble endowments and pure morals gave lustre to his gentle birth. Rector of William and Mary, he sustained that institution in its most trying times. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and Treasurer under the most serene Princes William, Anne George I and II. Elected by the House its Speaker six years, and Governor of the Colony for more than a year, he upheld equally the regal dignity and the public freedom. Possessed of ample wealth, blamelessly acquired, he built and endowed, at his own expense, this sacred edifice - a signal monument of his piety toward God. He furnished it richly. Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal nor a parsimonious host. His first wife was Judith, daughter of John Armistead, Esq.; his second Betty, a descendant of the noble family of Landons. By these wives he had many children, on whose education he expended large sums of money. At length, full of honours and of years, when he had performed all the duties of an exemplary life, he departed from this world on the 4th day of August, in the 69th year of his age. The unhappy lament their lost comforter, the widows their lost protector, and the orphans their lost father."

Robert married Judith Armistead in 1678 in Hesse, Mathews, Virginia, USA. Judith (daughter of Lt Colonel John Armistead and Judith Bowles Hone Robinson) was born on 23 Feb 1665 in Hesse, Gloucester, Virginia, USA; died on 23 Feb 1699 in Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Landon on 9 Apr 1701 in , , Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1683 in Credenhill, Hereford, England; died on 3 Jul 1719 in Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Died early and unmarried