Week 2 -- "King"

[dragonfly]

I'm taking this theme to be about ancestral connection to royalty. I haz one.


My grandmother's mother died when she was two, and she was raised by a step-mother she hated strongly disliked. As far as I can tell, the woman was no witch, but my grandmother was always very interested in genealogy, and her step-mother came from ordinary German peasant stock, like many midwestern families. Her real mother, however, descended from minor English nobility (at, ahem, a great remove). The family name was Washburn, and they wind back through history marrying with other Norman descended families, and at at least two points, they may descend from English kings.

Sir John de Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, my 20 X great-grandfather (d. 1324). He was believed to be the illegitimate son of King Edward I of England. Whether he was or not, he was raised to the nobility by Edward II and was an admiral and the governor of Framlingham Castle in the Forest of Dean from 1304.

All this information is from Wikipedia. I'd like to know more about this guy.

I like saying "The Forest of Dean."