Our common family tree These are the families that both my wife and I descend from. How to read my narrative family trees: The format I am using is a hypertext version of the Burke's Peerage format. To move around the tree you click on the structural links. Arms of Edward III and his sons, Trinity College, Cambridge. Surnames My wife and I both descend from the following families. Our most recent common ancestors: Fitz-Hugh, Baron Fitz-Hugh Neville Throckmorton of Coughton, Warwickshire Vaux of Harrowden Anglo-Irish families: de Lacy, Lord of Meath Fitzgerald (The Geraldines) Luttrell Others: Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick Clifford de Audley de Bohun, Earl of Hereford de Braose de Courtenay, Earl of Devon de Vere, Earl of Oxford Despencer Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel FitzGeoffrey Herbert Holland, Earl of Kent Marshal, Earl of Pembroke Montacute, Earl of Salisbury Mortimer, Earl of March Mowbray West, Baron De La Warr Windsor Royalty etc: The English Royal family de Clare de Valence, Earl of Pembroke de Warenne Hastings Percy Roet Taillefer The Kings of Scotland The High Kings of Ireland O'Toole The Kings of Spain The Kings of Portugal

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Our most recent common ancestor

Our most recent common ancestor (MRCA) is Sir Edward Neville (beheaded 1538).

My wife and I, two random people in England and Ireland, turn out to be related within 457 years (we met in 1995). Two random people in England and Ireland are related as recently as the reign of Henry VIII, and after the Reformation started in England and Ireland.

Our most recent common ancestors are:

People	If they are generation no.1 what generation I am	If they are generation no.1 what generation my wife is	Our relationship
Elizabeth Fitz-Hugh (died pre-1507)	17	16	She is 14th cousin of my father
Sir Robert Throckmorton (died 1519)	17	17	15th cousins
Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux (died 1523)	17	16	She is 14th cousin of my father
Sir Edward Neville and Eleanor de Windsor (he died 1538)	16	16	14th cousins

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Our common relations

• Our common ancestors:
  • Edward III
  • Edward II, his gay lover, his Queen Isabella and her lover
  • King John
  • William the Conqueror and the original Harlot
  • Charlemagne
  • "El Cid"
  • Cerdic
  • Alfred the Great
  • Brian Boru
  • Lady Godiva
  • Aoife and Strongbow
  • Alfonso VI, King of Leon and Castile
  • Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, the astronomer.

• Our common blood relations:
  • Just about all European Royalty ever, and a lot of its nobility.
  • Everybody on my list of Royal Descents of famous people.
  • Anybody with a Royal Descent.
  • Millions of others.