Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Great-grandson

Saher de Quincy

Magna Carta Surety

18th great-grandfather

William d'Aubeney

Magna Carta Surety

20th great-grandfather

Robert de Ros

Magna Carta Surety

20th great-grandfather

William the Conqueror

King of England

23rd great-grandfather

Richard de Clare

Magna Carta Surety

23rd great-grandfather

Robert I, King of France

27th great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

29th great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

31st great-grandfather

Henry III, King of England

19th great-granduncle via John, King of England

Edward I, King of England

1st cousin 20 times removed via John, King of England

Robert Fitz Walter

Magna Carta Surety

1st cousin 20 times removed via Maud de St. Liz

William de Huntingfield

Magna Carta Surety

1st cousin 20 times removed via Saher I de Quincy

Hugh le Bigod

Magna Carta Surety

2nd cousin 19 times removed via Robert de Beaumont

Gilbert de Clare

Magna Carta Surety

2nd cousin 19 times removed via Robert de Beaumont

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

4th Governor of Ohio

4th cousin 4 times removed via William Wilcockson

Edmund Waller

English Poet and Politician

4th cousin 8 times removed via Nicholas Brome

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

5th cousin 3 times removed via William Wilcockson

Marshall Field

Founder of Marshall Field & Co.

6th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Bressie

Joseph Glidden

Inventor of Barbed Wire

6th cousin 2 times removed via William Wilcockson

Anne Boleyn

2nd Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 11 times removed via Sir John Howard

Catherine Howard

5th Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 11 times removed via Sir John Howard

Charles Warren Fairbanks

26th U.S. Vice-President

7th cousin 1 time removed via William Wilcockson

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

7th cousin 10 times removed via Sir John Howard

Henry VIII, King of England

7th cousin 13 times removed via Sir James de Audley

Merrill C. Meigs

Publisher, Chicago Herald & Examiner

8th cousin via William Wilcockson

William Holden

Movie Actor

8th cousin 1 time removed via William Wilcockson

Alan Ladd

Movie Actor

8th cousin 1 time removed via William Wilcockson

Elisabeth Shue

TV and Movie Actress

8th cousin 1 time removed via William Wilcockson

Andrew Shue

TV Actor

8th cousin 1 time removed via William Wilcockson