The Family of Kari Elizabeth Boren Davis

Her brother George W. Lee's 1824 will (Essex Will Bk 20, pp. 196–197) names "sister Mary Micou" and her Micou children as his nephews and nieces — and lends her the family's Smithfield lands for life. Her own will: Essex Will Bk 27, pp. 346–347 (proved 1853); on the 1850 census of Essex, aged 88  •  siblings: John P. Lee (clerk of Essex), Baldwin M. Lee, George W. Lee, and a sister who married a Whiting

He named his Essex estate "Smithfield" — the very tract his children's wills pass among themselves, tying the sibling group to him; his mother-line is confirmed by son Baldwin's will naming "my Mother Susanna Lee." The clerkship stayed in the family: son Hancock Lee (clerk 1777–1792), then grandson John P. Lee (1792–1814)  •  Susannah was sister of the wife of his cousin John Lee of "Cabin Point" — the cousin he succeeded as clerk

b. Virginia, son of Richard Lee II; moved to Prince George's County, Maryland ~1700; member of the Maryland Council  •  His will dispersed the family's Rehoboth tract to "sons Corbin, John, and George" (Maryland Historical Trust file D-6)  •  Lee of Virginia (1895): "John, eighth son of Philip Lee… born in Maryland, moved to Virginia and settled in Essex county… married Susannah Smith"

Of "Machodoc," Westmoreland County, Virginia  •  planter, member of the King's Council and House of Burgesses  •  grandparents of the Stratford Hall line (Thomas Lee) — making this family kin to Richard Henry Lee, "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, and Gen. Robert E. Lee

Henry: merchant-planter of "Buckingham House," Middlesex County, Virginia, of a Warwickshire gentry family  •  Alice: one of the famous five Eltonhead sisters of Eltonhead Hall, Lancashire, who all emigrated to the Chesapeake — her sisters married into the Wormeley, Chicheley, Carter (Corotoman), Fenwick, and Conway families; sister Martha's Conway descendants include President James Madison  •  Alice's parents: Richard Eltonhead, Gent., of Eltonhead (bapt. 1582 – c. 1664/5) & Anne Sutton (bapt. 1590), whose family had held Eltonhead Hall for some 650 years  •  she and her sisters are on the Baronial Order of Magna Charta's recognized gateway-ancestor list, with pedigrees in Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed., pp. 9–12) and Royal Ancestry (2013)

1. KING EDWARD I "Longshanks" (1239–1307), King of England, m. Eleanor of Castile — and behind them, the whole Plantagenet line to William the Conqueror, and through Eleanor the kings of Castile and France → 2. Elizabeth Plantagenet (1282–1316), the king's daughter, m. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, Constable of England → 3. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, K.G. (c. 1312–1360), m. Elizabeth de Badlesmere → 4. Elizabeth de Bohun (c. 1350–1385), m. Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (beheaded 1397) → 5. Elizabeth FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk (c. 1366–1425), m. Sir Robert Goushill of Hoveringham (d. of wounds at the Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403) → 6. Joan Goushill (c. 1401–c. 1466), m. Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, of Lathom, Lancashire — Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, titular King of Mann → 7. Katherine Stanley (c. 1430–1498), m. Sir John Savage of Clifton, Cheshire, K.B. → 8. Dulcia Savage, m. (settlement 1464) Sir Henry Bold of Bold Hall, Lancashire — the chain's one soft link: her mother is inferred, not named in a record (see badge below) → 9. Maud Bold, m. (settlement 1490) Thomas Gerard, Esq., of Ince, Lancashire → 10. Jennet Gerard (d. 1588), m. Richard Eltonhead of Eltonhead (1502–1558) → 11. William Eltonhead (c. 1554–1601), m. Anne Bowers → 12. Richard Eltonhead, Gent. (1582–c. 1664/5), m. Anne Sutton → 13. ALICE ELTONHEAD → her daughter Laetitia Corbin m. Richard Lee II → Philip Lee → John Lee → Mary Lee → the Micou and Boughan generations down to Kari.

buried in Westminster Abbey in Edward the Confessor’s own vacated grave; moved to his present tomb in 1291. His heart went to Fontevraud.

buried in Worcester Cathedral at his own request, beside the shrine of St Wulfstan

buried at Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, with Eleanor beside him

birthplace unknown — Poitiers, Bordeaux and Nieul-sur-l’Autise have all been proposed; the first document naming her is from July 1129

buried at Bec; her remains were moved, burned, wrecked and lost repeatedly before final reinterment at Rouen Cathedral in 1846

Anjou

buried before the high altar of Reading Abbey, his own foundation — the grave has never been found

buried at the Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen

Normandy

Normandy

Normandy

Normandy

the conventional “c. 860 – c. 930” is a modern compromise, not a recorded fact

Scotland → England

buried at Tynemouth Priory; his remains were later moved to Dunfermline

buried before the high altar at Dunfermline Abbey  •  canonised 1250 by Innocent IV; her relics were translated to a new shrine on 19 June that year

England

buried at Glastonbury Abbey near his grandfather Edgar; the grave was lost when the abbey came down in the 1530s

buried in Old St Paul’s; the tomb burned in the Great Fire of 1666

buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset

England

buried at the New Minster, Winchester; moved to Hyde Abbey in 1110

place of death unrecorded, most likely Winchester  •  the grave has since been lost twice

buried first at Steyning, Sussex, later moved to Winchester — probably by his son Alfred

Wessex  •  buried at Winchester

buried at Elgin, later moved to Iona

traditionally died at Glamis; buried on Iona

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland

buried on Iona  •  king of Dál Riata from c. 841, king of the Picts 843–858

her body was divided in three: viscera at Lincoln Cathedral, heart at Blackfriars in London beside her son Alphonso, body at Westminster Abbey

buried in Seville Cathedral by his son Alfonso X; his remains lie in a silver urn made 1690–1719, opened for veneration each 30 May

León

Castile

buried at the abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, which he founded

England → Castile

Castile

León & Castile

León & Castile

León & Castile

León & Castile

Navarre

Founder of the Jiménez dynasty. In 905 he deposed the last Íñiguez king and legitimised the coup by marrying his granddaughter.

Ponthieu

Ponthieu

One of the great scandals of the age. Betrothed at eight to Richard the Lionheart and sent to England as Henry II's ward, she remained unmarried twenty-six years amid persistent reports that Henry II had made her his mistress. Richard repudiated the betrothal at Messina in 1190.

buried at Barbeau Abbey, which he founded; moved to Saint-Denis in 1817

By his forties he was too heavy to mount a warhorse — but he had already spent thirty years hunting down the robber-barons of the Île-de-France. His friend and minister Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis invented Gothic architecture.

His Kievan mother gave him a Greek name unheard of in Western royalty — Philip — and every later Philip of France descends from that choice. He was excommunicated in 1094 for abducting the Countess of Anjou.

He personally knighted and protected the young William the Conqueror, saving his duchy at Val-ès-Dunes — then turned on him and was beaten twice. Having lost two wives, he sent an embassy 1,500 miles to Kiev for a bride distant enough that no consanguinity objection was possible.

place of death and burial both unresolved

buried at Saint-Denis

buried at Saint-Denis

The kingmaker who refused the crown. Strong enough to take the throne, he twice installed Carolingians he could control — fetching the exiled boy Louis IV back from England in 936 — and collected Burgundy and Aquitaine as his fee.

Elected king in rebellion against Charles the Simple, he reigned less than a year and was killed at Soissons in 923 — in a battle his own army won without him.

He died fighting Vikings at Brissarthe on 2 July 866. He had trapped the Norse chieftain Hastein in a church and, on a hot July day, took off his armour to direct the siege — at which moment the Vikings burst out and cut him down.

buried in a marble sarcophagus in St Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv — which he built

birthplace not recorded

Kiev

Kiev

the Chronicle says she came from Pleskov, usually read as Pskov, and was of Varangian stock; her parents are not recorded

The Primary Chronicle says the tribes sent overseas with the words: “Our land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come rule and reign over us.” The dynasty he founded ruled until 1598. His historicity is debated — treat him as traditional founder.

buried at Amesbury; the exact spot is unknown, which makes her the only English queen without an identified grave. Her heart went to the Greyfriars in London.

The first count in over a century actually to live in Provence, he kept troubadours permanently at court — and married all four of his daughters to crowns.

Her Savoyard kin followed her daughters across Europe; the crowd of them in England made her daughter Eleanor deeply unpopular in London.

Aragon

Founder of the dynasty and of the monastery of Ripoll. Legend says Charles the Bald drew four bloody fingers down his golden shield to create the four red bars of the Catalan flag — a beautiful story with no evidence behind it.

An obscure Burgundian lord who backed two emperors and was paid in Alpine passes — founding a dynasty that would still be reigning, as kings of Italy, in 1946.

Married at three years old to seal the Mortimer alliance; later wife of William de Bohun. This is where the two family trees meet — her sister Maud is Will's ancestor.

drawn three miles behind a horse to Blean — land he himself owned — then hanged and beheaded, his head set on the Burgh Gate at Canterbury

Ireland → Kent

Kent → Bunratty, Co. Clare

buried at Tewkesbury Abbey on 28 July 1262, in the presence of two bishops and eight abbots

Lincoln → Clare and Usk

buried in the choir of Stanlaw Abbey, Cheshire; his remains were later moved to Whalley

by his own instruction his body was buried at Acre; his heart was brought home to Garendon Abbey, Leicestershire

his body was carried home by way of Plymouth and Cranborne and buried at Tewkesbury Abbey

burial given as Tonbridge Priory, Kent — see the caution below

body at Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire  •  heart at Tewkesbury Abbey

buried in the Round of the Temple Church, London, having been received into the Knights Templar on his deathbed

buried at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire

buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

said to be buried at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, beside her father-in-law — traditional and unproven

buried in the graveyard at Ferns Cathedral, where a reputed grave-slab is still shown

Leinster

Uí Chennselaig

Ireland — place of death and burial unrecorded

buried at Armagh, not at his own Killaloe — a deliberate final statement of the Armagh alliance

place of death unrecorded

buried at Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester — routinely confused with Llanthony Priory in the Vale of Ewyas. His seat was Pleshey Castle, Essex.

Through her the line gains a second descent from Henry III, and through her mother Blanche of Artois a Capetian one from Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.

Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile were the parents of St Louis IX — and Blanche was a granddaughter of Henry II of England, folding the Plantagenets in yet again.

Of "Mount Comfort," Essex County  •  Carter's will (Oct 4, 1808, Essex WB 17, pp. 100–101) names daughters Maria Jameson Garnett Wood and Catharine Carter Wood and son Muscoe Garnett Wood — the children's names carry the whole maternal pedigree  •  widowed at ~26, Susanna remarried John Jones in 1812; a guardian bond (1815) covered Catherine's marriage

Thomas was a working carpenter commissioned captain of the Essex militia in 1779 (Order Bk 29, p. 401) — a Revolutionary-era service line  •  the Nov 20, 1817 division of his estate (OB 43, pp. 65–67) names the heirs of BOTH sons Carter and William — one record proving both Catherine's and Julia's descents  •  Catharine was named in the 1743 will of her father William Gatewood (~1695–1744), whose wife was Caty Carter — orphan of Richard Carter of Essex (d. bef. 1698) & Mary Parr, a local family, not the Corotoman Carters

Anchored by the Garnett family Bible — the physical book survives at the Library of Virginia (Accession 26184) with the births of Reuben, Molly, and Susanna written in period hands  •  Reuben's will (1820, WB 19, pp. 145–148) names daughter Susan Jones and her children  •  Reuben ← John Garnett (~1715–1772) m. Mary Fogg ← Thomas Garnett (will proved 1748) — Essex Garnetts documented to the early 1700s, with the immigrant John Garnett holding a 1673 grant  •  Molly was daughter of James Jameson & Mary Gaines (the Gaines link upward is unresolved — no royal-Welsh Gaines lore admitted)