Ruled England

Descendants and other kin of Arta McLean Seely and Alfaretta Neff Seely:

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Ruled England as king and queen?

Among our direct ancestors, six couples ruled England, beginning with William the Conqueror and continuing through the Plantagenet line to Edward I “Longshanks.” Given that EVERYBODY is descended from old William, we’re at least distant kin to most of the big shots in England for close to the past thousand years. Here’s the direct royal line segment:

King William I, "the Conqueror", and Matilda of Flanders (29th great-grandparents*)
King Henry I Beauclerc and Adelicia, Princess of Brabant (28th great-grandparents)
[Geoffrey the Fair Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and Matilda Empress (27th great-grandparents, never ruled England)]
King Henry II Court-Mantel Fitz-Empress Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine (26th great-grandparents)
King John Lackland and Isabella de Taillefer of Angouleme (25th great-grandparents)
King Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanor Countess of Provence (24th great-grandparents)
King Edward I "Longshanks" Plantagenet and Alianore de Castille (23rd great-grandparents)

King John is remembered mainly as the bad guy in Robin Hood and as the reluctant signer of the Magna Carta. His older brother, our 26th great-uncle, King Richard I Plantagenet, called the Lion-Hearted, ruled England after Henry II and conducted the Third Crusade. Richard’s untimely death left his parents’ empire to the incompetent ministrations of John, our regrettable direct ancestor.

King Edward "Longshanks" was, among other distinctions, the bad guy in the movie Braveheart. From a Scots perspective, he seems to have been a worthy grandson of the aforementioned John….

*Mine (Richard B. “Andy” Anderson’s). You can figure out your own.