Edwardes of Pembrokeshire: Fraud and Correction
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Tudor's tomb at St. David's Cathedral which is also where Gerald of
Wales is buried. It has been a while since I have posted anything to
this list and thought I would share the following: (apologies for no
room for sources)
Hap Sutliff
Famed genealogist Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872) developed the
descent from Edward III, King of England to William Tucker Edwardes
(1784 – 1858) of Sealyham, Sheriff for Pembrokeshire.
Unfortunately the pedigree of Sir Thomas Phillipps and the subsequent
works of Burke, Alcwyn Caryni Evans and others which reproduce this
flawed descent have existed for so long that they have become accepted
without question or further examination. The pedigree below is correct
at all generations with the one vital exception of Dorothy Perrot
married to James Perrot of Wellington. These people simply did not
exist and were apparently invented to create this descent.
Edward III, King of England (1321-1377) = Philippa of Hainault, Queen
of England (1311-1369)
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, 4th Earl of Ulster
(1338-1368) = Elizabeth de Burgh (descendant of Henry III, King of
England) (1332-1363)
Philippa of Clarence, suo jure Countess of Ulster (1355-before 9
February 1381) = Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1351-1381)
Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, 6th Earl of Ulster (1374-1398) =
Eleanor Holand (died October 1405)
Anne Mortimer (1390-1411) = Richard Plantagenet, 4th Earl of
Cambridge, son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1376-1415)
Isabel Plantagenet (1409-1484) = Henry Bourchier, Comte d’ Eu, 1st
Earl of Essex (1406-1483)
Sir William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier (circa 1434-1471 at the
Battle of Barnet) = Anne Wydeville (died 1489), sister of Elizabeth
Wydeville, Queen of Edward IV, King of England
Cecily Bourchier (died 1493) = Sir John Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of
Chartley (1463-1501)
Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford (circa 1490-1558) = Mary Grey
(died 1534)
Sir Richard Devereux (died 1547) = Dorothy Hastings, daughter of
George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Anne Stafford,
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1539-1576) = Lettice Knollys (died
1634)
Dorothy Devereux (died 1619), sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of
Essex, favorite of Elizabeth I, Queen of England = Sir Thomas Perrot
(died about 1595)
Dorothy Perrot of Haroldston, Pembrokeshire = James Perrot of
Wellington (the forged generation)
Damaris Perrot, sister of Sir Herbert Perrot (died 1686) = Owen
Edwardes (died before 7 August 1669)
John Edwardes (died 1738) = Frances Phillipps (died January 1728/29),
daughter of William Phillipps, Member of Parliament, Sheriff for
Pembrokeshire and Martha Price
Owen Edwardes (died after 7 Auguest 1745) = Jane Mortimer, a
descendant of John, King of England
Rowland Edwardes (1720-1778) = Anne Harries, daughter of George
Harries, Sheriff for Pembrokeshire and Margaret Symins
John Owen Edwardes (1745-1828) = Catherine Tucker (1753-1826),
daughter of John Tucker and Mary Tucker
William Tucker Edwardes, Sheriff for Pembrokeshire (1784-1858) = Anna
Martha Philipps (1789-1876), daughter of John George Philipps, Member
of Parliament and Anne Ball
Here is a valid descent from Edward III to Edwardes’ wife:
Edward III, King of England (1312 – 1377) = Philippa of Hainault
(1311- 1369)
Edmund, 1st Duke of York (1341 – 1402) = Isabella of Castile (1356 –
1393)
Constance of York (1374 – 1416) = Edmund Holand, Earl of Kent (1383 –
1408)
Alianor Holand = James Touchet, 5th Lord Audley (d. 1459)
Constance Touchet = Sir Robert Whitney
Joan Whitney = Sir Robert Vaughan
Watkyn Vaughan = Joan ferch Ieuan
Sir William Vaughan, Sheriff for Breconshire (d. 1564) = Catrin ferch
Jenkin ap Havard
Anne Vaughan = John Games
Jane Games = Dafydd Gwynne
Rowland Gwynne (d. 1619) = Joan ferch Hywel
Rhydderch Gwynne (d. aft. 1613) = Mary Jones (d. aft. 1613)
Hywel Gwynne = Elsbeth Jones (b. 1615)
Susan Gwynne = Thomas Gwynne
Mary Gwynne = Miles Stedman (d. 1719)
Jane Stedman = Grismond Philipps (1686 – 1740)
Griffith Philipps, Member of Parliament (d. 1781) = Elizabeth Lucretia
Folkes (d. 1810), niece of Martin Folkes
John George Philipps, Member of Parliament (d. 1816) = Anne Ball (d.
1806)
Anna Martha Philipps (1788 – 1876) = William Tucker Edwardes, Sheriff
for Pembrokeshire (1784 – 1858)
The correct identification of the parents of Damaris Perrot, wife of
Owen Edwardes are Robert Perrot of Moreton-on-Lugg, Herefordshire and
his wife Fortuna Tompkyns. The Perrot descent from the first
identifiable Perrot of this line:
John Perrot of Moreton-on-Lugg, Herefordshire = Catherine Meyrick of
Winferton, Herefordshire
Thomas Perrot of Moreton-on-Lugg = Alicia Wilcocks or Wilcotes
Richard Perrot of Moreton-on-Lugg = Margaret Bromwich of Sarnesfield,
Herefordshire, daughter of Thomas Bromwich of Herefordshire, M. P.
Robert Perrot d. 1657 of Moreton-on-Lugg = Fortuna Tomkyns of
Monnington-on-Wye, Herefordshire, widow of Walter Pembridge of Mansell
Gamage
Damaris Perrot = Owen Edwardes
John Perrot’s relationship to the Haroldston branch of Perrots cannot
be determined. Curiously Damaris actually retains a descent from the
Devereux family. Her mother Fortuna Tomkyns was the daughter of
Richard Tomkyns of Monnington-on-Wye and his wife Catherine
Baskerville. Catherine was the great-granddaughter of Sir James
Baskerville of Eardisley, Herefordshire, M. P. d. January 28, 1499 and
his wife Sibyl (or Katherine) Devereux, daughter of Walter Devereux
(1411-1459) of Bodenham, Herefordshire and his wife Elizabeth Merbury
of Merbury, Cheshire.
Damaris Perrot was the sister of Sir Herbert Perrot (circa 1617-1683)
of Wellington, Herefordshire and Haroldston St. Issells, Pembrokeshire
who was a Member of Parliament for Weobley, Herefordshire (1659 and 2
August 1660) and for Haverfordwest (14 August 1677). Sir Herbert was
also Sheriff for Herefordshire 1661-1662 and for Pembrokeshire
1665-1666.