Lewis Carroll/Descended from Royalty

thumb|right|Edward III thumb|right|John of Gaunt Lewis Carroll was a descendant of King Edward III of England. This descent has long been well known to the Dodgson family, but has been independently "discovered" by others. The line is as follows: Edward III, 1312-1377 John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1398 Joan de Beaufort, 1375-1440 Eleanor Neville, Countess of Northumberland, 1407-1472 Ralph Percy, 1425-1464 Margaret Percy, 1462-1506 Guiscard Harbottle, 1485-1513 Mary Harbottle, 1507-1556 Edward Fitton, 1527-1579 Edward Fitton, 1550-1606 Anne Fitton, 1574-? Anne Newdigate, 1608-1637 John Skeffington, 1629?-1695 4th Baronet; 2nd Viscount Massereene in succession to his father-in-law Mary Skeffington, 1655-1732 Married Sir Charles Hoghton, Bt. Lucy Hoghton, 1694-1780 Henry Lutwidge, 1724-1798 Charles Lutwidge, 1768-1848 Frances Lutwidge, 1803-1851 Lewis Carroll Skeffington The Skeffington ancestry explains the unusual name of his uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge, which passed to his brother, Skeffington Dodgson. Hoghton Sir Charles Hoghton was descended from Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st baronet. It was at Sir Richard's table that King James I allegedly knighted a loin of beef, making it a sirloin. Sir Richard was descended from Lucia, sister of the Earls Edwin and Morcar at the time of the Norman Conquest, who married Yvo de Talbois, Count of Anjou. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Mouse claims that the driest thing he knows is a passage about the Earls Edwin and Morcar. Roger Lancelyn Green claimed that Lewis Carroll could not have known about his relationship to these earls, or he would not have made fun of this passage. This could underestimate Lewis Carroll's sense of humour. Ancestry Early Life