Tracy family

The Tracy's are descendents of both Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings. Ethelred's daughter Godgifu married Drogo, Count of Mantes and the Vexin in Normandie, and their son Ralph de Sudeley was the progenitor of the Tracy family in England. His grandson, John de Sudeley married Grace de Tracy, the great-granddaughter of William the Conqueror. Their son, Sir William de Sudeley - who assumed the name Tracy in the reign of Henry II - was one of the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket at Canterbury in 1170. He is said to have struck the first blow. A curse is supposed to have hung over the family to the effect that the lineage would cease - which, in effect, it did, in the late 18th Century.

Drogon de Mantes est le 4e enfant de Gautier II le Blanc de Valois, comte de Vexin (Vexin, Normandie, vers 945 - 1027), et de Adèle de Vermandois, comtesse de Crépy, de Valois, et de Senlis (vers 955 - vers 1012). Drogon de Mantes, né vers 990/1000, devient comte de Mantes, de Vexin, d'Amiens, de Dreux et de Pontoise. Il épouse Goda, princesse anglo-saxonne fille du roi Ethelred le Malavisé, à demi normande par sa mère, la princesse ducale Emma. Il meurt à Nicée en juin 1035. .... more

Why did William de Tracy kill Thomas Becket?

William de Tracy was one of the four knights who killed Thomas Becket

• A1. Gautier I, Comte d'Amiens, m. Adcle d'Anjou;
  • B1. Gautier II le Blanc de Valois, Comte de Vexin, m. Adèle de Vermandois, Comtesse de Crépy;
    • C1. Drogon, Comte de Mantes at la Vexin, lvd:996/1035, m. Godgifu;  ==>  House of Wessex
      • D1. Raoul de Sudeley, Earl of Hereford, d:1057, m. Gytha;
        • E1. Harold of Sudeley, Ewyas and Toddington, m. Maud de Abrincis;  ==>  de Burgh family
          • F1. John of Sudeley and Toddington, lvd:1104, m. Grace de Tracy;  ==>  Norman
            • G1. William de Tracy of Toddington;
              • H1. Sir Oliver de Tracy of Toddington, lvd:1200;
                • I1. Sir William Tracy of Toddington, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1289;
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  • J1. Sir William Tracy of Toddington, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1324;
    • K1. Henry Tracy of Toddington;
      • L1. Sir Thomas Tracy of Toddington, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1360;
        • M1. Sir John Tracy of Toddington, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1366;
          • N1. Henry Tracy of Toddington;
            • O1. John Tracy of Toddington, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1379;
              • P1. William Tracy, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1395;
                • Q1. William Tracy, lvd:1418, m. Alice de la Spine;
                  • R1. William Tracy, lvd:1444;
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  • S1. William Tracy, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, lvd:1449, m. Margery Pauncefoot;
    • T1. Henry Tracy of Todington, m. Alice Baldington;
      • U1. Sir William Tracy, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, d:1530, m. Margaret Throckmorton;  ==>  Throckmorton family
        • V1. William Tracy of Toddington;
          • W1. William Tracy of Toddington, m. Elizabeth Bruges;
            • X1. Sir John Tracy of Toddington, d:1591, m. Ann Throckmorton;  ==>  Throckmorton family
              • Y1. Dorothy Tracy, d:1612, m. Lord Edward Conway;  <==  Conway