Where the Two Families Meet

The combined ancestral tree of Will Davis and Kari Boren Davis — and the ancestors they share
Version 1.12  •  August 11, 2026  •  built from Will’s tree v28 and Kari’s tree v1.17
Where the two families meet
🔗 The Two Trees, Linked →
Both pedigrees on one canvas, with the thirty-seven shared ancestors joined
Will’s side of the family
← The Davis–Trenckmann Lines
Every documented branch, with verification badges on each person
Kari’s side of the family
The Boren–Farmer Lines →
Every documented branch, with verification badges on each person
The short version

Two sisters, seven centuries ago

Will and Kari were both born in Texas in the early 1980s and married in 2002. Neither family had any idea the other was related to it. But their two ancestries — traced independently, from opposite ends of the country — climb back through entirely different colonial lines and arrive at the same Kentish manor house in the reign of Edward II.

Bartholomew de Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare had several daughters. Will descends from Maud. Kari descends from Elizabeth. The sisters were born around 1310 and 1313; their descendants married each other 692 years later.

There is a second, separate meeting point too — both families descend from King Edward I, by different routes entirely. Which means Elia, Hannah and Sarah Grace carry that line from their father and their mother.

Will's descent Kari's descent Shared ancestor Hover over either chain to light up its path

Meeting point one · c. 1310

The nearer of the two convergences, and the more surprising — because it happens among ordinary sisters, not kings.
Bartholomew de Badlesmere & Margaret de Clare
Bartholomew, 1st Baron Badlesmere (1275–1322), steward of Edward II's household — dragged behind a horse, hanged and beheaded, his head left on Canterbury's Burgate for two years.
Margaret de Clare (c.1287–1333) refused Queen Isabella entry to Leeds Castle in 1321 and had her archers shoot into the royal party — becoming the first woman recorded imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Their daughters Maud and Elizabeth are the common ancestors of this family.
via MAUD →
← via ELIZABETH
Will's descent — through Maud de Badlesmere
Maud married into the de Vere earls of Oxford; the line reaches the Davises through the Bullocks of Virginia and North Carolina.
Maud de Badlesmere c. 1310 – 1366 — married John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, a commander at Crécy and Poitiers
…the de Vere earls of Oxford, Hedingham Castle, Essex — including Richard, the 11th Earl, who commanded at Agincourt, and John, the 12th Earl, executed in 1462…
Joan de Vere c. 1440 – bef. 1472 — daughter of the 12th Earl
Margaret Norreys c. 1465 – c. 1512 — the gateway marriage, where the noble line passes into the Bullock family
…the Bullocks: England, then Virginia — Capt. Hugh Bullock, Richard Henry Bullock of Warwick, Richard, Jeremiah…
Charles Bullock Dec 25, 1740 – 1826 — ⭐ Revolutionary War patriot; baptized in Albemarle Parish, Sussex Co., Virginia, son of Jeremiah and Amy, very likely a Christmas Day twin
Esther "Betsy" Bullock 1775 – c. 1850 — married Zabon Davis; from here the line is Davis
…Rev. Hosea Alexander Davis · Rev. Andrew Fuller Davis · Jewell Andrew Davis Sr. · Jewell Andrew Davis Jr. · Dr. William Jewell Davis…
Will Davis b. May 5, 1982, Austin, Texas
Kari's descent — through Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Elizabeth married the Earl of Northampton; the line runs through Arundel, Lancashire gentry and a Huguenot doctor's family in Virginia.
Elizabeth de Badlesmere 1313 – 1356 — married at three years old to seal an alliance; later wife of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
Elizabeth de Bohun c. 1350 – 1385 — married Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, beheaded 1397; their joined effigies at Chichester are the subject of Larkin's An Arundel Tomb
Elizabeth FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk c. 1366 – 1425 — who married her own retainer, Sir Robert Goushill, without royal licence
Joan Goushill → Katherine Stanley → Dulcia Savage 1400s — into the Stanleys of Lathom and the Savages of Cheshire
…Bold of Bold Hall · Gerard of Ince · the Eltonheads of Eltonhead Hall, Lancashire…
Alice Eltonhead c. 1627 – aft. 1684 — one of five sisters who all emigrated to the Chesapeake; married Henry Corbin of Middlesex County, Virginia
Laetitia Corbin → Richard Lee II → the Lees of Virginia 1600s–1700s
Mary Lee c. 1762 – 1853 — married Col. Paul Micou, of the Huguenot family of Essex County
…John Hancock Micou · Martha Ellen Micou · the Boughans of Essex County, Virginia, then Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas…
Wanda Boughan → Ann Farmer 1930 · 1955 — Bonham and Lubbock, Texas
Kari Elizabeth Boren Davis b. September 14, 1981
Will and Kari are therefore descendants of two sisters — roughly twentieth cousins. Their daughters Elia, Hannah and Sarah Grace descend from Bartholomew de Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare twice over, once through each parent.

Meeting point two · the thirteenth century

The second convergence is older, and the two families reach it by completely separate roads.
👑 King Edward I of England & Eleanor of Castile
Edward I (1239–1307), the Hammer of the Scots. When Eleanor died at Harby in 1290 he had a stone cross raised at every overnight stop of her funeral procession to Westminster — the last at the hamlet of Charing.
Will descends through Alice Sergeaux, who married into the de Vere earls of Oxford. Kari descends through Edward's daughter Elizabeth Plantagenet, who married Humphrey de Bohun — making her son William de Bohun, husband of Elizabeth de Badlesmere above, a grandson of the king.
via SERGEAUX →
← via PLANTAGENET
Because the two routes are independent, this is a genuine double descent: the girls carry Edward I's blood from their father's Bullock–de Vere line and from their mother's Bohun–Eltonhead line at the same time.

What both families inherit above the meeting points

Everything from here up belongs to both trees. Drawn once, because it is the same ancestry.
⚔ Through Margaret de Clare — the Kings of Ireland
Margaret's de Clare line runs back through Isabel Marshal, daughter of William Marshal "the greatest knight," to Isabel de Clare of Pembroke — child of Richard "Strongbow" de Clare and AOIFE OF LEINSTER, married at Waterford in August 1170 two days after the storming of the city.
Aoife's father was Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster, who traded his daughter and his kingdom's succession for Strongbow's knights and began the Norman invasion of Ireland. The Leinster kings run back to Cináed mac Cairpri (d. 935) — and, through Derbforgaill, to BRIAN BORU, High King of Ireland, killed in his tent at Clontarf on Good Friday 1014 in the battle his side won.
📜 Five of the twenty-five Magna Carta barons
Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford · Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (father and son, both among the 25) · Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who died on crusade at Damietta · John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln · and, on the Bohun side, Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford.
The family descends both from the king who sealed Magna Carta and from the men appointed to hold him to it.
👑 And above Edward I — the crowned houses of Europe
England to William the Conqueror and on to Rollo the Viking · Wessex to Alfred the Great and Ecgberht · Scotland to Kenneth MacAlpin · Castile, León and Navarre to 905 · the Capetian kings of France to Hugh Capet and Robert the Strong · Kiev to Yaroslav the Wise, Vladimir the Great and Rurik · Aragon to Wilfred the Hairy · Savoy to Humbert the White-Handed.
Saints in the direct line: St Margaret of Scotland, St Ferdinand III of Castile, St Vladimir, St Olga of Kiev, and Blessed Humbert of Savoy.
See the full royal panels on Kari's page →  ·  and Will's medieval branch points →
An honest caveat, kept in plain sight. Kari's route into this medieval ancestry runs through one link that is probable but not yet proved — that John Lee, clerk of Essex County, Virginia, was the son of Philip Lee of Maryland. Published Lee scholarship says so and a Maryland property record supports it, but the will image has not yet been read. Until it is, treat Kari's half of these connections as a strong candidate rather than a settled fact. Will's descent is separately documented and does not depend on it. One further flag: the Savage → Bold generation in the Lancashire chain rests on an inferred identification accepted by NEHGS scholarship but not stated in the record itself.
Will’s side of the family
The Davis–Trenckmann Family →
Davis & Morgan, Trenckmann & Conway — forty-five documented generations
Kari’s side of the family
The Boren–Farmer Family →
Boren & Byrd, Farmer & Boughan — back to colonial Essex County, Virginia