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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: NESTA of Wales
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:36:44 -0500


Richard Borthwick wrote:
>
> Brian Tompsett's Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
> ( http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html)makes Amabel
> dau. of Henry fitz Henry (b. about 1103 d.1157) the wife of Walter de
> Ridelsford. Turton indicates that there were two Walters, father and son. If
> the account given by Tompsett is correct then Amabel was most likely the
> wife of Walter I.

That is how it is shown in Weis/Sheppard

> Is this the picture of the Ridelsford descent?

[Note, this chart did not come through right on my system, a common
problem with posted charts.)

This is correct, except for one connection:

>HENRY II # Rosamund
> de Clifford
> |
>William Longespee

Rosamund was not mother of William Longespee. This has long been
known. More recently, charter evidence has been produced in which
William calls his mother "Countess Ida", who has been identified with
the wife of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.

ta

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