Descent of P.G. Wodehouse from Edward III: 

By Oliver Pereira


Sources: 

1. "The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal being a Complete Table of all
the Descendants now living of Edward III, King of England" by the Marquis
of Ruvigny and Raineval: The Mortimer - Percy Volume, Part I.  (London,
Melville & Company, 1911)

2. "Who Was Who 1971-1980" published by A & C Black, London, 1989 [for
information on P.G. Wodehouse after 1911; also confirmed who his father
was]


X =(n) Y means that Y was the nth spouse of X;
X (n)= Y means that X was the nth spouse of Y.


Descent: 

(Generations 0-2 are the same as for Dodgson and Dawkins.) 

0. Edward III., King of England, 1312-1377. 
   = 1328 Philippa of Hainault, c.1309-1369. 

1. Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, K.G., 1338-1368. 
   =(1) Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, d.1363. 

2. Philippa of Clarence, 1355-1382. 
   = 1368 Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, 1352-1381. 

3. Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, 1371-after 1417 (?1444). 
   =(1) Sir Henry Percy, Lord Percy, K.G., called "Hotspur," 1364-1403. 

4. Henry, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, 1393-1455. 
   = 1414 Lady Eleanor Nevill. 

5. Henry, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 1421-1461. 
   = c.1446 Eleanor, Lady Poynings, c.1420-1473. 

6. Henry, 4th Earl of Northumberland, K.G., c.1449-1489. 
   = 1476 Lady Maud Herbert. 

7. Lady Eleanor Percy, d.1530. 
   = Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, K.G., 1478-1521. 

8. Lady Elizabeth Stafford. 
   (2)= c.1513 Thomas, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, K.G., 1473-1554. 

9. Henry, Earl of Surrey, K.G., 1517-1547. 
   = 1532 Lady Frances Vere, d.1577. 

10. Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk, K.G., 1536-1572. 
    =(2) 1557 Hon. Margaret Audley, d.1564. 

11. Lord William Howard, d.1640. ("Belted Will Howard") 
    = 1577 Hon. Elizabeth Dacre. 

12. Margaret Howard, d. a.1640. 
    (1)= c.1620 Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Bt., M.P., 1594-1662. 

13. Lucy Cotton, d.1684. 
    = Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Bt., M.P., 1608-1681. 

14. Sir Thomas Wodehouse, d.1671, v.p. 
    = Anne Armine. 

15. Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Bt., M.P., 1669-1754. 
    =(1) Hon. Mary Fermour, d.1729. 

16. Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Bt., M.P. for Norfolk (1737-68), b.1714, d. 21 May 1777.
    = 3 Oct. 1738 Letitia Bacon, da. and co-h. of Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th and Premier Bt., bur. 7 Ap. 1758. 

17. Rev. the Hon. Philip Wodehouse, M.A., Preb. of Norwich, b. 1 May 1745, d. 14 Feb. 1811. 
    = 29 July 1775 Apollonia, da. and co-h. of John Nourse of Woodeaton, co. Oxon., d. 21 Mar. 1817. 

18. Philip Wodehouse, Col. in the Army, b. 6 Aug. 1788, d. 15 Dec. 1846. 
    = 13 June 1832 Lydia, da. of Joseph Lea, d. 8 May 1892. 

19. Henry Ernest Wodehouse, C.M.G., formerly Hong-Kong C.S. and a Member of Executive Council, and Pol. Magistrate there, b. 14 July 1845. 
    = 3 Feb. 1877 Eleanor, da. of the Rev. J. Bathurst Deane, M.A. 

20. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Author and Journalist, Hon. LittD Oxon 1939,
 became American citizen 1955, KBE 1975. b. 15 Oct. 1881, d. 14 Feb. 1975.