Frank Gardner

More Royal ancestry

Apr 8, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, Science, television reviews, The play’s the thing

actresses, Alexander Armstrong, Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, astronomy, Barings Bank, Battle of Surbiton, bigamy, burials, Careys, Clare Balding, comedians, Dame Judi Dench, Danny Dyer, Dartmoor, Denmark, Duke of Hamilton, Edict of Nantes, Edward IV, Elsinore, English Civil War, executions, France, Frank Gardner, Groom of the Stool, Guildenstern, Hamlet, Henry Earl of Holland, Henry VIII, Hugenots, illegitimacy, Ireland, Joe Sugg, Josh Widdicombe, Lettice Knollys, Mark Wright, Mary Boleyn, Military Cross, Normandy, Ophelia, religious persecution, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Rosencrantz, royal palaces, Sabine Baring-Gould, secret marriage, Tom Stoppard, Trenchard Manor, Tycho Brahe, Westminster Abbey, Who do you think you are?, Will Kemp, William Shakespeare

Who do you think you are? has now completed eighteen series as British television’s predominant genealogy programmes. In that time, with an average of eight episodes per series, they have uncovered many celebrities with interesting lineage and some unexpected royal descendants, including Alexander Armstrong, Clare Balding, Danny Dyer, Frank Gardner and Sir Matthew Pinsent. Now…
An unexpected conclusion

Jan 20, 2020

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion, television reviews

Amsterdam, Andalucia, Antiques Roadshow, Balding, BBC1, Bevis Marks synagogue, British Army, builders, conversos, Danny Dyer, Edward I, executions, fencing, First World War, football, Frank Gardner, heresy, Jewish community, Mark Smith, Mark Wright, Mediterranean complexion, namesakes, Oliver Cromwell, Sephardic Jews, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sir Matthew Pinsent, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, theft, Who do you think you are?

Who do you think you are? is always an interesting programme and is disappointing to see only eight episodes in the series. In the past, Sir Matthew Pinsent, Frank Gardner, Danny Dyer and Clare Balding have all been revealed as proven descendants of Edward I. That has not happened in 2019 and few lines have…
Some more Despenser connections

Nov 24, 2018

anniversaries, battles, genealogy

Admiral Thomas Seymour, Anne Neville, Danny Dyer, Edward II, Edward of Middleham, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward VI, executions, Frank Gardner, George V, Gregory Cromwell, Hexham, Hugh Earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser, Ireland, Jane Seymour, Kathryn Warner, Laura Culme-Seymour, lynchings, Miranda Hart

Last year, we showed how Anne Neville (and thus Edward of Middleham) were descended from Hugh Despenser the Elder, Earl of Winchester. Having followed up Kathryn Warner’s suggestion, this file allows us to add another Queen Consort, a King, a Lord Protector and a Lord High Admiral to the list of that Earl’s descendants. This can…
Interesting roots

Jul 23, 2017

genealogy, television reviews

“Tudors”, BBC, Catherine Pole, Clare Baldding, Danny Dyer, Earls of Derby, Earls of Huntingdon, Edward III, Ferdinando Stanley, Francis Baron Hastings, Frank Gardner, George Duke of Clarence, horse racing, Mary Stuart, royal descent, Sir Malcolm Bullock, The Derby, Thomas Lord Stanley, USA, Who do you think you are?

“Who do you think you are?” has returned and the third episode of the new series (20 July) featured Clare Balding. After last year’s programmes , this one and this other recent one, it is no surprise that tracing this racing presenter’s royal ancestry is a little easier. Clare’s great-grandmother was Lady Victoria (hence the middle…
As it turned out …

Dec 3, 2016

buildings, genealogy, television reviews

Bartholomew Gosnold, Cromwells, Danny Dyer, Edward III, executions, Frank Gardner, Gosnolds, Helmingham Hall, Ipswich, Jane Seymour, John Gosnold, Lionel of Antwerp, MacCullough, Michael Stanhope, Mortimers, Otley Hall, Percies, Robert Gosnold V, Seymours, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Tollemaches, Who do you think you are?

Last week, just hours before the actor Danny Dyer appeared on “Who do you think you are?” to reveal his descent from Thomas Cromwell and Edward III – in the latter case, via the Mortimer, Percy, Seymour (Jane’s sister), Cromwell (Thomas’ grandson Henry), Tollemache (of Helmingham hall) and Gosnold (Robert Gosnold V, 1611-58) of Otley…
A “Tudor” marriage and a contemporary journalist who is the bride’s collateral descendant.

Apr 9, 2016

genealogy, television reviews

“Tudor” justice, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Emma Stanhope, executions, Frank Gardner, Lord Protector of the Realm, marriages, Sir Michael Stanhope

Janet Wertman writes here about Emma Stanhope’s marriage to Edward Seymour, the Lord Protector to Edward VI. Seymour was ousted and executed in January 1552 alongside Emma’s brother, Sir Michael Stanhope. As shown in the last series of “Who do you think you are?”, Sir Michael was the ancestor of the BBC Security Correspondent Frank…
More Lord Protectors and Defenders of the Realm

Oct 15, 2015

genealogy, sources

“Tudor” policy, Admiral Thomas Seymour, Annette Carson, codicil, Edward IV, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward V, Edward VI, Frank Gardner, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Humphrey of Gloucester, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John of Bedford, Lord High Constable, Lord Protector of the Realm, Richard III, Sir Michael Stanhope, will

Many readers of Carson’s “Richard Duke of Gloucester as Lord Protector and High Constable of England” will be curious, given “Tudor” criticism of the Duke’s twin roles in 1483, of their practice in the next century, by comparison. The occasion in question was, of course, the accession of Edward VI as the only surviving son…