I have some royalty bloodlines in my family.

[imanamerican63]

From what I gathered from my grandma is quite interesting. My grandfather(who she married) told of how his great grandfather was rather a naughty king from central England. He had several wives which were my grandfather’s journey began. His grandmother was born in Hungerford, England(my namesake). She supposedly came across in the early 1800’s and settled in the Midwest (Iowa area). My grandfather never talked about his child, because he was orphaned and was split up with his siblings. He was kinda of a harsh man. Never spoke much. My grandma didn’t know everything about, but the stories were quite interesting. She was a talker, she was German. My sister looked up our family tree and found out there was a king with the name Hungerford. He was be headed for some reason.

[Doodley]

1. Thank you for sharing, Your Royal Highness!

[Igel]

5. Before Philip married, his issue was morganatic.

Whatever may be claimed by the ignoscenti claiming cognoscenti-hood.

Their false claim says a lot.

[Liberty Belle]

2. Lord Hungerford, perhaps? Not a king, but he was beheaded

for treason against the king and other offenses: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/lgbtq-history/walter-hungerford-and-the-buggery-act/

[imanamerican63]

3. I think so.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I have been to Hungerford.

Lovely little town.

Nice folks. I believe it is the scene of a rare occurrence in England…a mass shooting.

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I am a descendant of the first Christian kings of Ireland

including the one baptized by St. Patrick. Me and probably several million others.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Yeah? Well the Lady of the Lake held aloft Excalibur

signifying, by Divine Providence, that I, Arthur was to be King!

So, regrettably, we may have to battle this out at Court.

[imanamerican63]

10. Who's this Donald Trump?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. More or less ;) nt

[TxGuitar]

28. Look, strange women lying in ponds

Distributing swords is not a basis for a system of government.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

30. So what you're saying is ...

Supreme Executive Power must be wielded by a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony?

[TxGuitar]

31. Right,

Not some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

32. Yes, well I COMMAND you to BE QUIET!!! (tn)

[TxGuitar]

33. Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

Help help! I'm being repressed!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

34. Bloody peasant! (nt)

[TxGuitar]

37. Oh what a giveaway

Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?! That's what I'm on about

[BlackSkimmer]

8. A naughty king from central England?

Lol.

[CanonRay]

9. My wife is descended from the Plantagenet kings.

Richard III being the last one.

[DURHAM D]

12. Same. I am a Plantagenet.

Henry VIII beheaded my 12th or 13th great grandfather. He beheaded everyone who had more claim to the throne than he did.

[BlackSkimmer]

14. The last Plantagenet was executed by Henry VII.

Easy to research.

Before Henry VIII was even born.

[DURHAM D]

16. The dynasty died but many Plantagenets lived on.

Also, many moved to this country. Henry VIII killed hundreds of people he thought were a threat.

[BlackSkimmer]

18. He did not kill the last Plantagenet.

His father did that.

Please.

[DURHAM D]

19. You are off point.

Done

[BlackSkimmer]

22. You're wrong on this.

I’m sorry if your family told you that you were royalty.

Lol.

[DURHAM D]

25. Did I say I was royalty? NO

[BlackSkimmer]

27. Oh dear.

I know, you are the last of the Plantagenets, here posting on DU.

If there were only a bowing smilie…

[Celerity]

38. Actually Henry VIII did have a Plantagenet killed.

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Pole,_Countess_of_Salisbury#Family

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541) was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III (all sons of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York), by his wife Isabel Neville. Margaret was one of just two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right (suo jure) without a husband in the House of Lords. As one of the few members of the House of Plantagenet to have survived the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, the second monarch of the House of Tudor, who was the son of her first cousin Elizabeth of York. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Roman Catholic Church on 29 December 1886.

also

Alternative successions to the English and British Crown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_successions_to_the_English_and_British_Crown

Descendants of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence

This line's claim to the Crown is based upon the argument that Edward IV was not the son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and thus had no legitimate claim to the Crown. Therefore, when Richard was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, his claim passed first to his eldest legitimate son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, who was executed shortly after the battle, and then to George, Duke of Clarence. Another point is that Henry VI passed a law in 1470 that should both he and his son Edward of Westminster die without further legitimate male issue, the crown was to pass to Clarence, as Henry had placed an attainder upon Edward IV. When Henry VI and Edward both died in 1471, Clarence became the legal heir of the House of Lancaster.

The current descendant of this line is Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun. The line of succession is as follows:

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, third son (second "legitimate" son) of Richard, 3rd Duke of York
Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, first son of George
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, succeeded her childless brother Edward
Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, first son of Margaret
Henry Pole, second son of Henry, his elder brother Thomas died in childhood
Catherine Hastings, first daughter, succeeded her childless brother Henry
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, first son of Catherine
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, second son of Catherine, succeeded his childless brother Henry
Francis Hastings, first son of George
Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, only son of Francis
Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon, first son of Henry
Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, only son of Ferdinando
George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, second son of Theophilus, his elder brother died in childhood
Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, third son of Theophilus, his elder brother George had no legitimate children
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon, first son of Theophilus, 9th Earl
Elizabeth Rawdon, 16th Baroness Botreaux, daughter of Theophilus, her brother Francis had no legitimate children
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, first son of Elizabeth
George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings, eldest legitimate son of Francis
Paulyn Rawdon-Hastings, 3rd Marquess of Hastings, first son of George
Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings, second son of George, his brother Paulyn died in childhood
Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun, first daughter of George, succeeded her childless brother Henry
Charles Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun, first son of Edith, died without issue
Paulyn Abney-Hastings, second son of Edith, succeeded his childless brother Charles
Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun, first daughter of Paulyn
Ian Huddleston Abney-Hastings, Lord Mauchline, only son of Edith, died in World War II without issue
Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun, first daughter of Edith, succeeded her childless brother Ian
Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, eldest son of Barbara
Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun, eldest son of Michael



Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Abney-Hastings,_15th_Earl_of_Loudoun



Simon Michael Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun (born 29 October 1974), styled as Lord Mauchline until 2012, is a British aristocrat living in Australia who is the current holder of the ancient Scottish noble title of Earl of Loudoun. Based on the theory of alternative succession to the throne of England presented by the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, he would have become the 'rightful king' on the death of his father.

Ancestry

Through his grandmother Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun, he is directly descended from, and heir-general of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III.

[Trueblue1968]

39. WRONG. HENRY VIII beheaded an old lady. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury Earl of Salisbury

She was daughter of Edward VI's brother- GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE.
HENRY VII beheaded her younger brother, EDWARD, Earl of Warwick.

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541) was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III (all sons of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York), by his wife Isabel Neville. Margaret was one of just two women in 16th-century England to be a peeress in her own right (suo jure) without a husband in the House of Lords.[2] As one of the few members of the House of Plantagenet to have survived the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, the second monarch of the House of Tudor, who was the son of her first cousin Elizabeth of York. Pope Leo XIII beatified her as a martyr for the Roman Catholic Church on 29 December 1886.[3]


I HAVE STUDIED THESE FOLKS FOR 40+ YEARS. Ask me anything.

[BlackSkimmer]

15. Completely wrong.

Was your ancient grandfather the Earl of Warwick?

I think you’ve got your Henrys mixed up.

[DURHAM D]

17. No

[BlackSkimmer]

21. You need to do some research.

The Earl of Warwick was executed by Henry VII. He was the last in the line.

Yes Henry VIII killed quite a few, but no, not that guy.

[DURHAM D]

23. You are totally missing the point.

Done with you.

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Maybe you can find him here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs

[Kaleva]

20. I am a descendent of a woman who fell out of a boat in the Baltic Sea and drowned

It was sometime in the 1800s when she met her demise.

To date, no other member of the family tree has matched her fame.

[BlackSkimmer]

24. My grandmother's hair stylist was on the Titanic.

She survived by clinging to a client’s large wig.

[frogmarch]

26. Someone somewhere in my family tree

decided we are descendants of the ancient English king Ethelred the Unready (c. 966 - 1016). I don't buy it, but when I showed this picture to my husband, he said, "Yeah, I can see it."

Thanks a bunch, darling.

[BlackSkimmer]

29. Love it!

My dad was English, my mom Welsh and she used to say that to him!

[Celerity]

35. for starters, you are conflating nobility with royalty

My sister looked up our family tree and found out there was a king with the name Hungerford. He was be headed for some reason.

Not a king, a baron, the lowest rank of peerage in England and then the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron#Britain_and_Ireland

In the Peerage of England, the Peerage of Great Britain, the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom (but not in the Peerage of Scotland), barons form the lowest rank, placed immediately below viscounts. A woman of baronial rank has the title baroness. In the Kingdom of England, the medieval Latin word barō (genitive singular barōnis) was used originally to denote a tenant-in-chief of the early Norman kings who held his lands by the feudal tenure of "barony" (in Latin per barōniam), and who was entitled to attend the Great Council (Magnum Concilium) which by the 13th century had developed into the Parliament of England. Feudal baronies (or "baronies by tenure" ) are now obsolete in England and without any legal force, but any such historical titles are held in gross, that is to say are deemed to be enveloped within a more modern extant peerage title also held by the holder, sometimes along with vestigial manorial rights and tenures by grand serjeanty.

Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hungerford,_1st_Baron_Hungerford_of_Heytesbury

Walter Hungerford was born in 1503 at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the only child of Sir Edward Hungerford (died 1522) of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, and his first wife, Jane Zouche, daughter of John, Lord Zouche of Harringworth (1459–1526).

Hungerford was nineteen years old at his father's death in 1522, and soon afterwards appears as squire of the body to Henry VIII. In 1529, he was granted permission to alienate part of his large estates. On 20 August 1532, John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, whose daughter, Elizabeth, was Hungerford's third wife, wrote to Sir Thomas Cromwell stating that Hungerford wished to be introduced to him. A little later, Hussey informed Cromwell that Hungerford desired to be sheriff of Wiltshire, a desire which was gratified in 1533. Hungerford proved useful to Cromwell in Wiltshire, and in June 1535 Cromwell made a memorandum that Hungerford ought to be rewarded for his well-doing. On 8 June 1536, he was summoned to parliament as Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury.

In 1540, he, together with his chaplain, a Wiltshire clergyman named William Bird, Rector of Fittleton and Vicar of Bradford, who was suspected of sympathising with the pilgrims of grace of the north of England, was attainted by act of parliament. Hungerford was charged with employing Bird in his house as chaplain, knowing him to be a traitor; with ordering another chaplain, Hugh Wood, and one Dr. Maudlin to practise conjuring to determine the king's length of life, and his chances of victory over the northern rebels; and finally with committing offences forbidden by the Buggery Act 1533.

He was beheaded at Tower Hill on 28 July 1540, along with his patron Cromwell. It has been stated that before his execution Hungerford "seemed so unquiet that many judged him rather in a frenzy than otherwise."

[Raine]

36. King & Queen William and Mary ran my ancestors out of England

they just managed to escape with their lives.