Section ALI: Descendants of Sir John de Somery

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Generation One

1. SIR JOHN1 DE SOMERY was born between 1072 and 1138, and died between 1131 and 1248. He married (AFV-3) HAWISE PAYNEL, daughter of (AFV-2) Ralph and (PP-6) _____ (FERRERS) PAYNEL. [5, 10]
Child:
+2i.RALPH2 DE SOMERY of Warwick, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, b. about 1142; d. in 1211; m. (AAS-2) MARGARET MARSHAL of Warwick, b. about 1146, daughter of (AAS-1) John and _____ (HAWISE) MARSHAL.

Generation Two

2. RALPH2 DE SOMERY (John1) of Warwick, son of (1) Sir John1 and (AFV-3) Hawise (PAYNEL), was born about 1142, and died about 1211[1]. He married (AAS-2) MARGARET MARSHAL of Warwick, daughter of (AAS-1) John and _____ (HAWISE) MARSHAL, who was born about 1146. [2]
Children:
3i.RALPH3 DE SOMERY, d. in 1212; m. (RH-31) IDA (OR IDONEA) DE LONGESPEE, d. after 1266/7[1], daughter of (RH-21) William, Earl of Salisbury and (AJF-4) Ela (of SALISBURY), Countess of Salisbury.
+4ii.JOAN DE SOMERY of Gloucestershire, England, b. about 1191; d. on 22 May 1276; m. about 1217 of Gloucestershire (I-5) LORD THOMAS "THE OBSERVER" BERKELEY of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, b. about 1170, d. on 29 Nov. 1243, son of (I-4) Maurice and (EU-4) Alice (de BERKELEY) DE BERKELEY.
+5iii.ROGER DE SOMERY of Dudley, Warwickshire, b. about 1229; d. on 26 Aug. 1273; m. (1) (MS-10) NICHOLE D'AUBIGNY, d. before 1254[8], daughter of (MS-8) William IV, 3rd Earl of Arundel and (D-12) Mabel (of CHESTER); m. (2) before 1254 AMABILIA (ROGER'S DAU.) CHAUCOMBE, b. about 1233, d. about 1278[1].

Generation Three

4. JOAN3 DE SOMERY (Ralph2, John1) of Gloucestershire, daughter of (2) Ralph2 and (AAS-2) Margaret (MARSHAL) DE SOMERY, was born about 1191, died on 22 May 1276 and was buried in Monastery, St Augustines, Bristol, Gloucestershire. She married of Gloucestershire, about 1217, (I-5) LORD THOMAS "THE OBSERVER" BERKELEY of Berkeley, son of (I-4) Maurice and (EU-4) Alice (de BERKELEY) DE BERKELEY, who was born about 1170, died on 29 Nov. 1243, and was buried in Monastery, St. Augustine's, Bristol.
Child: See (I-5) Lord Thomas "the Observer" BERKELEY
5. ROGER3 DE SOMERY (Ralph2, John1) of Dudley, son of (2) Ralph2 and (AAS-2) Margaret (MARSHAL) DE SOMERY, was born about 1229[1], and died on 26 Aug. 1273[1]. He married (1st) (MS-10) NICHOLE D'AUBIGNY, daughter of (MS-8) William IV, 3rd Earl of Arundel and (D-12) Mabel (of CHESTER), who died before 1254[8]. He married (2nd) before 1254, AMABILIA (ROGER'S DAU.) CHAUCOMBE, who was born about 1233, and died about 1278[1]. [3, 17, 13, 9]
Buck & Beard incorrectly list him as son of John Somery and Hawise de Paynell.
This is corrected in Weis.
Children of: Roger3 de SOMERY and Nichole D'AUBIGNY:
+6i.MARGARET4 DE SOMERY, b. about 1229 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England; d. on 18 June 1293; m. about 1245 (DY-2) BARON RALPH BASSETT of Drayton, Staffordshire, England, b. in 1215, d. in Evesham, Worcestershire on 4 Aug. 1265[12], son of (DY-1) Ralph BASSET.
7ii.JOAN DE SOMERY, d. in 1282; m. (AMJ-3) JOHN LE STRANGE IV of Chesawardine, Shropshire, England, b. about 1226, d. in Knockin, Warwickshire in 1276, son of (AMJ-1) John III and (AOL-3) Lucy (de TREGOZ).

Child of: Roger3 de SOMERY and Amabilia (Roger'S Dau.) CHAUCOMBE:
+8i.ROGER4 DE SOMERY of Dinas Powis, Wales, United Kingdom, b. on 24 June 1255; d. on 11 Oct. 1291; m. AGNES _____, b. about 1255, d. on 23 Nov. 1308.

Generation Four

6. MARGARET4 DE SOMERY (Roger3, Ralph2, John1), daughter of (5) Roger3 and (MS-10) Nichole (D'AUBIGNY) DE SOMERY, was born about 1229 in Dudley, Worcestershire, and died on 18 June 1293. She married about 1245, (DY-2) BARON RALPH BASSETT of Drayton, son of (DY-1) Ralph BASSET, who was born in 1215, and died on 4 Aug. 1265 in Evesham[12]. [4, 14, 13, 18]
Child: See (DY-2) Baron Ralph BASSETT
8. ROGER4 DE SOMERY (Roger3, Ralph2, John1) of Dinas Powis, son of (5) Roger3 and Amabilia (Roger'S Dau.) (CHAUCOMBE) DE SOMERY, was born on 24 June 1255, and died on 11 Oct. 1291. He married AGNES _____, who was born about 1255, and died on 23 Nov. 1308. [6, 15]
Children:
9i.JOHN5 DE SOMERY.
+10ii.MARGARET DE SOMERY of Dudley, Worcestershire, b. about 1286; d. in 1384 in England; m. (AMS-3) JOHN SUTTON, [BARON DUDLEY] of Dudley, Worcestershire, b. about 1286, d. before 1338, son of (AMS-2) Richard and (AFP-2) Isabella (PATRICK) SUTTON.
+11iii.JOAN DE SOMERY, b. about 1292; d. after 18 Jan. 1326/7; m. (GH-3) THOMAS DE BOTETOURTE, d. in 1322[1], son of (GH-2) John, 1st Baron Botetourte and (QH-3) Maud (FITZ THOMAS).

Generation Five

10. MARGARET5 DE SOMERY (Roger4, Roger3, Ralph2, John1) of Dudley, Worcestershire, daughter of (8) Roger4 and Agnes (_____) DE SOMERY, was born about 1286, and died in 1384 in England. She married (AMS-3) JOHN SUTTON, [BARON DUDLEY] of Dudley, Worcestershire, son of (AMS-2) Richard and (AFP-2) Isabella (PATRICK) SUTTON, who was born about 1286, and died before 1338. [7]
Child: See (AMS-3) John SUTTON, [baron Dudley]
11. JOAN5 DE SOMERY (Roger4, Roger3, Ralph2, John1), daughter of (8) Roger4 and Agnes (_____) DE SOMERY, was born about 1292[15], and died between 18 Jan. 1327 and 31 Dec. 4095[1]. She married (GH-3) THOMAS DE BOTETOURTE, son of (GH-2) John, 1st Baron Botetourte and (QH-3) Maud (FITZ THOMAS), who died in 1322[1]. [1, 11, 16, 15]
Child: See (GH-3) Thomas de BOTETOURTE


1. Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999).
2. Ibid., (55-27A, 81-28).
3. Ibid., (55-28, 81-29).
4. Ibid., (55-29, 210-31).
5. Ibid., (81-27).
6. Ibid., (81-30).
7. Ibid., (81-31).
8. J. Orton Buck and Timothy Field Beard, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978), 152.
9. Ibid., 152, 305.
10. Ibid., 305.
11. Ibid., 7.
12. Aileen Lewers Langston and J. Orton Buck, Jr., Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. II (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974), 105.
13. Ibid., 62, 105.
14. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999), (136-3, 138-3).
15. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 137.
16. Gary Boyd Roberts, Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002), 352, 361, 363.
17. Ibid., 389, 409.
18. Ancestral File, CD-ROM database (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1998).