Maternal Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother (Tracy) and beyond.

Henrietta Susanna Tracy (d1839) Tracy of Rathcoole (Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother) married 1798 Charles Hanbury, 1st Baron Sudeley, of Toddington.

The Tracy Family Line - Extracted from 'Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'

Walter I, Count of Amiens and probably of Vexin, and Valois, married Adela, probably daughter of Fulk I, Count of Anjou. He died sometime between 992 and 998. He was followed by his son, Walter II, (the White) Count of Vexin, Valois and Amiens who built the castle at Crespy in Valois and founded the monastery of St. Arnulf there in 1008. He married Adela and died between 1017 and 1024. Among his children was Drogo (Dreux), Count of Vexin and Amiens who married Godgifu (who later married Eustace II, Count of Boulogne) sister of King Edward the Confessor, and daughter of Ethelred II, the Redeless, King of England, by his second wife, Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1035. Among his children was his second son, Ralph (Comes/Earl) (de Sudeley) who married Getha. He died in 1057. Their son Harold de Sudeley had a son.

John de Sudeley (d. ca. 1136) m. Grace de Tracy, the daughter of William de Tracy (a natural son of King Henry I).

 

About Sudeley family and Sudeley Castle

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" (said by Henry II.)

 

Historical Note:

Sir William de Sudeley - who assumed the name Tracy in the reign of Henry II - was one of the four knights, party to the murder of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury - 30th December 1170. He is said to have struck the first blow. A curse is supposed to have hung over the family to the effect that the lineage would cease - which, in effect, it did, in the late 18th Century ...

 

Children:

 

i. RALPH de SUDELEY (d.1192) - held three knights fees. He married Emma, daughter of William de Beauchamp. (Ancestor of the Barons Sudeley. Extinct in the male line 1473.)

 

ii. William de Tracy - took his mother's name. He held the manor of Toddington (Sudeley). In 1171, he was created "Justiciary" of Normandy. During the reign of King John, he appeared in arms against the king and his lands were confiscated. They were returned to him 18 Nov. 1218 during the reign of King Henry III. He died and was buried at Morthoe, Devonshire in 1224.

His children:

i. Henry de Tracy - married Hawise.

ii. Alard de Tracy

The child of Henry de Tracy and Hawise:

Oliver de Tracy - occurs among the knights of Gloucestershire who paid scutage to King John.

His sons:

i. Henry de Tracy - known to have petitioned (1230) the Abbot of Malmesbury for masses to be said for his father and grandparents at Pilton.

ii. William de Tracy - was appointed one of the Justices to deliver the gaol at Gloucester April 1260. Appointed Constable of Gloucester by the King 1264. Married Margery.

Their son:

John de Tracy - d. before 1287 - married Margery - who is named in a deed granting the wardship of their children to Master Thomas de Sodinton, who was to pay her dower.

Their sons:

i. John de Tracy - named in the above deed - enrolled in King's Bench 1287

ii. William de Tracy - granted in ward, indicating that his father had died shortly before that date. He was present at a tournament held at Barnstaple by Edward II and was made high sheriff in 1319. Married Joan, kinswoman of Edmund de Rivers.

Children:

 

i. Sir John de Tracy - Lord of Doynton - Sheriff of Gloucester 1363, '65, '69, '70 and '78.

ii. William de Tracy - Rector of Toddington 1351.

His son:

Sir William Tracy - Lord of Toddington - Sheriff of Gloucester 1394 and 1417. Married Alice de la Spine who later married Edmund Giffard.

Their sons:

i. William Tracy - (The Younger) - Sherriff of Gloucester 1420 and 1443. Married Margaret.

ii. John Tracy - married Agnes and had 3 sons and 2 daughters. William, John, Roger, Florence and Joyce.

iii. Thomas Tracy

iv. Robert Tracy

Their son:

Henry (Harry) Tracy - married Alice Baldington, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Baldington of Adderbury, Oxon.

Their son:

Sir William Tracy - of Toddington - Sheriff of Gloucester 1512 - was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1513. He was one of the first to embrace the reformed religion of England. His last will was dated 22 Henry VIII (1530). This will was condemned and his body was exhumed and burned at the stake by order of Parker, Chancellor of Worcester, according to the law of the church. Parker was afterwards fined 400 pounds and removed from the chancellorship. Sir William married Margaret Throckmorton, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton and Margaret Ordney.

 

Their children:

 

i. William Tracy of Toddington - married Alice Digby

ii. Richard of Stanway - married and had 2 sons: Sir Paul Tracy of Stanway (Bt. 1611- line said to be extinct 1678) and Samuel Tracy of Clifford Priory. Great grandson of the latter, Paul Tracy (living/unmarried in 1683).

iii. Robert - became a monk.

Their son:

 

John Tracy of Toddington - married Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Chandos of Sudeley.

Their son:

 

John Tracy of Toddington - married Anne Throckmorton.

Their son:

 

Sir John (b. c1570) Tracy, 1st Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - knighted at the siege of Rouen 1591 - married c1590 Anne, 5th daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley and his wife, Anne (daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe).

Their son:

 

Sir Robert (b. c1592/buried 1662) Tracy, 2nd Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - knighted 1616 - married 1. (bf1617) Bridget Lyttelton , 3rd daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor. Married 2. Dorothy Cocks.

His children:

 

i. (Mother: Bridget Lyttelton) - Sir John (b1617/d1686/7) Tracy, 3rd Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - married c1665 Elizabeth Leigh (d1688) daughter and co-heir of Thomas Leigh, 1st. Bt. Leigh, and Mary, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Egerton.

ii. Horace Tracy

iii. (Mother: Dorothy Cocks) Robert Tracy - justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Their son:

 

Sir William (b1657/d1712) Tracy, 4th Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - married 1.1679 Frances Devereux (d1687/8) daughter of Leicester Devereux, 6th Viscount Hereford and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir William Withypoole. Married 2.1688 Jane Leigh (d1707/8) 3rd daughter of his uncle, Sir Thomas Leigh and his second wife, Jane, daughter of Patrick FitzMaurice, 18th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw.

 

His children:

 

i. (Mother: Frances Devereux) - Elizabeth Tracy - married 1. Robert Burdett (child(ren) of the marriage) - married 2 (1716) Robert Holden (child(ren) of the marriage).

ii. (Mother: Jane Leigh) Sir Thomas (b1690/d1756) Tracy, 5th Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - married 1. 1712 Elizabeth Keyt, sister of Sir William Keyt, 3rd.Bt. and eldest daughter of William Keyt and his wife Agnes, eldest daughter of Sir John Clopton. He married 2 - Frances Pakington, daughter of Sir John Pakington, 4th. Bt., of Aylesbury and his first wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Parker, 2nd. Bt. of Honington.

His children:

i. (Mother: Elizabeth Keyt) - William Tracy (1715) d1752.

ii. Sir Thomas Charles (b1719/d1756) Tracy, 6th Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - married 1755 Harriet Bathurst, daughter of Peter Bathurst and his second wife Selina, daughter of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. (No children).

iii. Jane Tracy - married 1743 Capel Hanbury M.P.

iv. (Mother: Frances Pakington) - Sir John (b1722/d1793) Tracy, 7th Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole - unmarried.

v. Robert Pakington Tracy b1725 d1748 in Bombay.

vi. Sir Henry Leigh (b1732/3 d1797) Tracy, 8th Bt. and Viscount Tracy of Rathcoole married 1767 Susannah Weaver

Their daughter:

Henrietta Susanna Tracy (d1839) of Rathcoole (Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother) - married 1798 Charles Hanbury, 1st Baron Sudeley, of Toddington. (qv)

Lineage Note - with gratitude to Ted Steele of St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A. for this information.

"Two Tracy genealogy books - "Tracy Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Tracy of Lenox, Mass." by Mattie Liston-Griswold, and "Ancestors and Descendants of Lieut. Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn." by Evert E. Tracy state the ancestry as follows:

This starts with Paul Tracy , the immigrant from England to America."