Ancestry of
Button Gwinnett

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Henry the Fowler

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• • 28th Great-grandfather of Button Gwinnett — 31st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1198170842 
  • Father:
  • Otto I of Saxony 
  • Mother:
  • Hedwiga (Hathui) of Babenberg   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 0876 
  • Birth Location:
  • Memleben (Saxony-Anhalt) 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jul 0936 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Matilda of Ringelheim
  • Marriage Date:
  • 0909 
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  Hedwig of Saxony

  Gerberga of Saxony (Ahnentafel No:599085421 )

  • Notes: 

  • King of Germany, Duke of Saxony

    aka Emperor Henry Auceps

• Sources for Henry the Fowler

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1943, Vol. 97, p. 342.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1981, Vol. 57, p. 31.
  • ³ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 150.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 69.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 57.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Henry the Fowler", (accessed 02/20/2010).
  • ⁷ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 1653.