The EDWARD IV Connection …………….
All of my research is based on the internet and is dependant on the integrity of research placed on the internet by others. As a result errors or better yet “leaps of faith” by others will be recorded as fact on these pages. When I detect discrepancies, as is the case here, I attempt to weed out the best information for inclusion but typically do not go to the source. Please be aware of this.
In my research of many family trees posted on the internet I have come upon a connection to EDWARD IV and Elizabeth WOODVILLE through their daughter Cicely PLANTAGENET and her first husband John De WELLES. This researcher had connected Robert DE WELLES (or just WELLES) 1446-1470 as their son.
A search on the internet of the known children of Cicely and John DE WELLES shows only two daughters, Elizabeth and Ann. This led me to try and confirm my original find.
Robert DE WELLES was the father of Thomas DE WELLES 1512-1558 who married Elizabeth BRYAN 1516-1563. This seems correct as many researchers have made this connection but most of them have ended their trees at Robert DE WELLES. This seems strange since most researchers, including myself, would love to make the connection to Royalty. I have only found three who have recorded this connection while there are more than twenty who do not.
I have found one researcher who has carried the line through in another direction and he also has the most recent information, having been posted November 29, 2005 . He has Robert WELLES as a son of Richard DE WELLES 1428-1470 and Joan WILLOUGBY 1430-1462.
I would chose to accept this latest information as being most likely but would not want to discount the connection to EDWARD IV. Since the odds are still 3 to 1 in favour of EDWARD I have left this connection in and will provide an “alternate ending” in this section.
Your claim to a rightful place in line to the British Crown is not lost though, it can still be made through Lionel WELLES the Sixth Baron of Welles (see following Pedigree Chart), since he is also descendant from the PANTAGENET Family but a bit further back.
Case Vanderplas, April 3, 2006
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