Ancestry of
John Dryden

England's First Poet Laureate

Roger de Somery

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• • 13th Great-grandfather of John Dryden — 16th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 39338 
  • Father:
  • Ralph de Somery 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret le Gras   
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  • ABT 26 Aug 1273 
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  • Nichole d'Aubeney
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  Margaret de Somery (Ahnentafel No:19669 )

  Joan de Somery

  Maud de Somery

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  • Spouse:
  • Amabil de Chaucombe
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  • BEF 1254

• Sources for Roger de Somery

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  • 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), 159.
  • ³ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 2506.
  • ⁴ Norcliffe, Charles Best, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, Made by William Flower, Esquire, London: Mitchell and Hughes (1881), 176.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 188.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 586.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. II, p. 254.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, pp. 146, 671, 673.
  • ⁹ 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, 865.
  • ¹⁰ 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, 819.
  • ¹¹ 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), 64, 85, 125, 235.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Ralph Basset (died 1265)", (accessed 02/02/2014).
  • ¹³ Wrottesley, George, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls: Collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500, Unknown: Unknown (1905), 85.