This database is currently under construction. It will, when it is fully available, fulfil the purpose given below.
If anyone wishes to trace their ancestry back to 1000 and earlier they need to trace a descent from a royal or noble family. To facilitate this we have created a database which shows known descents down to 1650 from one of the following couples:
The creators of this genealogical network can be contacted by email via
addressMuch of the material in this database was collected by John Goulstone.
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ABERNETHY Lords Saltoun etc
ACLAND of Acland and Columb John Devon
ACLAND of Hawkridge Devon
ACTON of Lognor Shropshire
ADAMS of Staffordshire
ALCOCK of Chatham Kent
ALTHAM of Mark Hall Essex
ALURED of Beverley Yorkshire
ANDERTON of Lostock Lancashire
ANDREWS of Baylham Suffolk
ANNE of Frickley Yorkshire
ANNESLEY Viscounts Valentia and Earls of Anglesey
ANSTRUTHER of Anstruther Fife
APPLEYARD of Berstwick Garth Yorkshire
APPRICE of Yorkshire?
APSLEY of Ticehurst Sussex
ARBUTHNOTT of Arbuthnott Kincardineshire
ARCHER of Riverstown Ireland
ARMYTAGE of Kirklees, South Kirby and Killinghall Yorkshire
ARNOLD of Gloucestershire
ARSCOTT of Annery Devon
ARTHUR of Clapton Somerset
ARUNDELL of Trerice Cornwall
ARUNDELL of Lanherne Cornwall and Stelland Devon and Wardour and Horningsham Wiltshire
ARUNDELL of Lanherne Cornwall
ARUNDELL of Tolverne Cornwall
ARUNDELL of Braunton Devon
ASHBURNHAM of Sussex
ASHBY of Quenby Leicestershire
ASHE of Yorkshire
ASHFORD of Devon
ASHLEY-COOPER Earls of Shaftesbury
ASHURST of Waterstock Oxfordshire
ASKE of Aughton Yorkshire
ASTLEY of Patshull Staffordshire
ASTLEY of Lancashire
ASTLEY of Norfolk
ASTON of Grantham Lincolnshire
ATHELING Kings of England
ATHERTON of Atherton Lancashire
ATKINS of Jersey and Barbados
ATTWOOD of Beverley Worcestershire
AUDLEY of Aldithley, Lords Audley and Earls of Gloucester
AUDLEY Lords Audley of Walden Essex
AUDLEY of Berechurch Essex
AYLEWAY of London
AYLIFFE of Grittenham Wiltshire
AYLMER of Lyons Ireland
AYLMER Baronets of Donadea
AYSCOUGH of Stallingborough and Sourh Kelsey Lincolnshire
AYSCOUGH of Skelsey and Lincoln
BABINGTON of Rothley Temple and Cossington Leicestershire
BABINGTON of Whittington and Curdboro Staffordshire
BABTHORPE of Yorkshire
BAGNAL of Newry Castle Cheshire
BAGOT Baronets of Blithfield Staffordshire
BAILLIE of Littlegill West Lothian
BALLET of Woodthorpe Lincolnshire
BALLIOL of Barnard Castle Durham
BANKS of Storrington Sussex
BARCLAY of Mathers and Urie Kincardineshire
BARCLAY of Pierston Ayr
BARDOLPH Lords Bardolph of Wormegay
BARNABY of Greenwich London
BARNARDISTON of Bury Suffolk
BARNBY of Barnby Don Yorkshire
BARNES of Toton Nottinghampshire
BARNEWALL of Crickstown Ireland
BARNEWALL of Kilbrew Ireland
BARNEWALL of Kilbrew Ireland
BARNEWALL of Rathine Ireland
BARNEWALL of Rowestown Ireland
BARNEY of Dole Bank Yorkshire
BARNHAM of Boughton Monchelsea and Maidstone Kent
BARRETT of Bellhouse Essex
BARRINGTON of Barrington Hall and Hatfield Broadoak Essex
BARRY Lords Barrymore and of Rathgobbane
BARRY of Hampton Gay Manor Oxfordshire
BARRY of Oge
BASKERVILLE of Combe and Erdisley Herefordshire, Malmesbury Wiltshire and Tewksbury Gloucestershire
BASSET of Tehidy Cornwall and Umberleigh and Heanton Punchardon Devon
BEALING of London
BEACHAMP Earls of Warwick and Lord Abergavenny and Earl of Worcester
BEAUCLERK Dukes of St Albans
BEAUFORT Earls and Dukes of Somerset
BEAUMONT Lords Beaumont, of Wednesbury Staffordshire, of Gaudby and Orton Leicestershire and of Basquerville Lincolnshire
BEAUMONT of Gracedieu Leicestershire
BEAUMONT of Gracedieu Leicestershire
BECKWITH of Aldborough Yorkshire
BEDALL of Hamerton Huntingdonshire
BEECHER of Howberry Bedfordshire
BELASYSE Viscount Fauconberg and Lord Belasyse
BELLEW of Barmeath Louth
BELLINGHAM of Yorkshire
BELT of Overton Yorkshire
BENNET of Cotsbach and Welby Leicestershire
BENSON of Carwelton Northamptonshire
BENTINCK Earls of Portland
BERKELEY Lords Berkeley, of Thornbury and Dursley Gloucestershire and of Spetchley Worcestershire
BERKELEY of Stoke Gifford Gloucestershire
BERKELEY of Sussex
BERKELEY of Wymondham Leicestershire
BERMINGHAM of Ireland
BERTIE Lord Willoughby, Earl of Lindsey and Earl of Abingdon
BESSELS of Bessels Leigh Berkshire
BEST of Middleton Quernhow Yorkshire
BEST of Gray's Inn London
BETENSON of Scadbury Chislehurst London
BETHELL of Alne and Ellerton Yorkshire
BEVERLEY of Great Smeaton Yorkshire
BIGGS of Rye Sussex
BIGOD of Bainton and Settrington Yorkshire
BILL of Canewood Middlesex
BIRCH
BIRO of Newcastle Northumberland
BLAIR of Balmyle Angus
BLAIR of Blair
BLAIR of Adamtown
BLAIR
BLAKISTON of Blakiston Yorkshire
BLAKISTON of Shieldrow and Chester le Street Durham
BLEWETT
BLOUNT Lords Mountjoy
BLOUNT Lords Mountjoy
BLUET of Holcombe Devon
BODENHAM of Rye Rutland
BOHUN Earls of Hereford
BOLEYN Earls of Wiltshire
BOLEYN
BONAR
BONVILLE Lords Harington
BOOKER of Broughton Lancashire
BOOTH Lords Delamer
BOOTH of Lusby Lincolnshire
BOOTHBY of Potters Marston Leicestershire
BOOTHBY of Broadlow Ash Derbyshire
BORTHWICK Lords Borthwick
BOSCAWEN of Tregothnan Cornwall
BOSWELL of Balmuto
BOSWELL of Auchinleck
BOTREAUX Lords Botreaux
BOURCHIER Earls of Eu, Bath and Essex and Lords Berner and Fitzwarin
BOURCHIER of Beningborough
BOURCHIER of Beningborough
BOURKE Lord Bourke of Connell Ireland
BOURKE Earls of Clanricarde
BOWES of Streatlam and Dalden Durham
BOWES of Bradley Hall Durham
BOWYER
BOYD Earls of Kilmarnock and Lords Boyd
BOYLE Earls of Cork and Burlington
BOYLE Earls of Orrery
BOYNTON of Boroughbridge Yorkshire
BOYS of Hawkhurst Kent
BRADSHAW of Broomborough Cheshire
BRANDON Dukes of Suffolk
BRASSE of Flasse Durham
BRAYBROOKE of Kent
BRENT
BRERETON of Brereton Cheshire
BRERETON
BRERETON
BRETT
BRIGGES Baronets
BRIGHAM of Wyton Yorkshire
BRODNAX of Godmersham Kent
BROOKE Lords Cobham
BROOKE of Madeley Shropshire
BROOKE of Madeley Shropshire
BROUN of Colstoun East Lothian
BROWNE of Kiddington Oxfordshire
BROWNE of Beechworth Castle Surrey
BROWNLOW of Snarford Lincoln
BROWNSWORD
BRUCE Kings of Scotland, Lords of Annandale
BRUCE of Airth Stirlingshire
BRUCE Earls of Elgin and Ailesbury
BRUDENELL Earls of Cardigan
BRUEN of Bruen Stapleford Cheshire
BRUEN of Bruen Stapleford Cheshire
BRYAN
BRYDGES Lords Chandos
BRYDGES of Keynsham Somerset
BUCHANAN
BUCK
BULKELEY of Eaton Lancashire
BULKELEY of Beaumaris Anglesey and Cheadle Cheshire
BULLER of Shillingham and Morval Devon and Tregarrick Cornwall
BULMER of Wilton Yorkshire
BURFORD of Kilrue
BURFORD of Kilrue
BURGH
BURGH Earls of Ulster
BURGH Lords Burgh of Gainsborough
BURNHAM
BURY of Colliton Devon
BUTLER Earls of Ormond, Lords Mountgarret and of Polestown
BUTLER of Polestown Ireland
BUTLER Lords Dunboyne
BUTLER Viscounts Ikerrin
BUTLER of Caher Ireland
BUTLER
BUTLER of Aston in the Walls Northamptonshire
BUZZARD of Barby Manor Northampton
For some families without (known) royal descents see families