Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Gruffydd ap Madog

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• • 19th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 22nd Generation
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  • 3360188 
  • Father:
  • Madog ap Gruffydd 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Nov 1298 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth le Strange
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Jul 1304 
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  Gruffydd Fychan ap Gruffydd (Ahnentafel No:1680094 )

  • Notes: 

  • According to Gary Boyd Roberts, he is Gruffudd o'r Rhuddallt ap Madog Fychan ap Madog Crupl.

• Sources for Gruffydd ap Madog

  • ¹ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 10.
  • ² Le Strange, Hamon, Le Strange Records: A Chronicle of the Early Le Stranges of Norfolk and the March of Wales A.D. 1100-1310 . . ., New York, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: Longmans, Green and Co. (1916), Pedigree VI and VII.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 509.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 813.
  • 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), 235.

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