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From: Shelley Parr Heilman <>
Subject: Re: William the Conqueror and the Weekes Line.
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:54:29 -0800


Capon wrote:
>
> >I have lurked on this list for some time and have enjoyed the
> correspondence over the last few weeks, particularly the significant amount
> of mail relating to William the Conqueror, his family and his knights.
> I can well understand the wish to be related, however remotely with this
> figure that seems almost more myth than fact in the genealogical world . He
> is a figure who appears at a watershed in English history who ovecame our
> island fortress for the first time since the Romans. My own direct line is
> not so ancient or noble and ends with sixteenth century french forresters,
> but there is a well documented line, related to me by marriage, that was
> investigated in the early part of this century, which links the modern
> Weekes family via Wyke, de Wyke etc, to the Earls of Mellent and Counts of
> Wigornia then to Bernard the Dane. It also goes through the wife of Robert,
> Earl of Mellent (d1207) called Mabel (d1220) to her father, Reginald Earl of
> Cornwall. He was one of 22 illegitimate children of Henry I whose father was
> William the Conqueror.
>
> Time passes, and nineteenth century research published in 1903 in an
> obscure journal in Cornwall may be more fanciful than truthful. If any
> contributors are interested in the Mellent, Wigornia, Wykes, Wyk Weeks line
> or the descendants of Robert or Roger de Bello Monte (= de Beaumont), who
> are reputed to have joined William in his little expedition across the sea
> to England, then I would be glad to compare notes and to extend my data in
> the light of more recent research.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
> 146 Butt Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3DR, UK
> Phone (044) 1206-564605Richard,

I am researching the de Beaumont lines. I would like to compare
information.

Shelley

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