Royal descent of Elizabeth Smelt

Elizabeth Smelt (1695-1750), who married Cornelius Cayley (1692-1779), the Recorder of Hull, descended from King Edward III.

This page records the descent from Edward III to Elizabeth Smelt. It relies upon several sources. The links for individuals in this line go to Wikipedia pages with biographies for the people who are named, which corroborate these connections and link to underlying sources.

For individuals not notable enough to be included in Wikipedia, I relied upon the underlying sources, most notably the Internet Archive copy of “Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire: Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905.”

A note on pronunciation:

Many of the names in this line are of French origin but have distinctly English pronunciations:

Beaufort is pronounced BOE-fort (though apparently in some areas it is sometimes BOW-fort, the first part rhyming with the front part of a ship)
Beauchamp is pronounced BEECH-um.
Cholmondely (Cholmeley, other variants) is pronounced CHUM-lee.

Edward III (1312-1317), King of England

m. 1328 Philippa of Hainault (1314-1369)

John of Gaunt (1340-1399), 1st Duke of Lancaster

m. 1396 Katherine (de Roet) Swynford (1349-1403)

John Beaufort (1373-1410), 1st Earl of Somerset

m. Margaret Holland (1385-1439), Duchess of Clarence

Edmund Beaufort (1406-1455), 2nd Duke (4th Earl) of Somerset

m. Eleanor Beauchamp (1408-1467)

Eleanor Beaufort (1431-1501)

m. 1465 Robert Spencer (d. b. 1510) of Spencer Combe

Katherine Spencer (1477-1542)

m. Henry Algernon Percy (1477-1527), 5th Earl of Northumberland (also a descendant of Edward III; see here)

Margaret Percy (1500-1540)

m. Henry Clifford (1493-1542), 1st Earl of Cumberland (also a descendant of Edward III 4 generations back via Elizabeth Percy 1395-1436)

Katherine Clifford (1513-1598)

m. Richard Cholmondely (Cholmeley) (d. 1579)

Henry Cholmeley (d. 1616)

m. Margaret Babthorpe (d. 1628) (also a descendant of Edward III)

Barbara Cholmley (1581-1619)

m. Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), 1st Viscount (styled Baron) (2nd Baronet) Fauconberg (also a descendant of Edward III)

Henry Belasyse (1604-1647), MP

m. Grace Barton (1608-1659)

Arabella Belasyse (1640-1687)

m. 1662 William Frankland (c. 1640-1697), 1st Baronet of Thirkelby

Grace (aka Anne) Frankland (1658-1710)

m. Leonard Smelt (1658-bef. 1710)

Elizabeth Smelt (1695-1750)

Bios

For brief biographies of most of the people in this line, you can click through the links to Wikipedia. The following individuals do not have Wikipedia pages, and I will provide brief bios at a future date:

Katherine Spencer (1477-1542)

Margaret Percy (1500-1540)

Katherine Clifford (1513-1598)

Richard Cholmondely (Cholmeley) (d. 1579)

Margaret Babthorpe (d. 1628)

Barbara Cholmley (1581-1619)

Grace Barton (1608-1659)

Arabella Belasyse (1640-1687)

Grace (or Anna) Frankland (1658-1710)

Leonard Smelt (1658-bef. 1710)

Barbara Cholmley (1581-1619)

Barbara Cholmley’s exact birth date is unknown, but is roughly c. 1575-1581. Her parents were Henry Cholmley and Margaret Babthorpe.

Barbara is part of the proven maternal lineage from King Richard III’s mother Cecily Neville to Michael Ibsen. This lineage and mitochondrial DNA testing of Ibsen and the skeletal remains of Richard III proved that those remains were Richard III. She and all of her maternal ancestors are shared with Michael Ibsen.

She married Thomas Belasyse…

Alternate line from Joan Beaufort via Cecily Neville

Edward III (1312-1317), King of England

m. 1328 Philippa of Hainault (1314-1369)

John of Gaunt (1340-1399), 1st Duke of Lancaster

m. 1396 Katherine (de Roet) Swynford (1349-1403)

Joan Beaufort (1379-1440), Countess of Westmorland

m. Nov 1336 Ralph Neville (c. 1364-1425), 1st Earl of Westmorland

Cecily Neville (1415-1495), Duchess of York (mother of Richard III)

m. Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460)

Anne of York (1439-1476)

m. Thomas St. Leger (1440-1483)

Anne St. Leger (1476-1626), Baroness of Ros

m. George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros (c. 1470-1513)

Catherine Manners (c. 1510-c. 1547)

m. Robert Constable (1495-1558)

Barbara Constable (c. 1530-1561)

m. William Babthorpe (1530-1581)

Margaret Babthorpe (c. 1550-1628)

m. Henry Cholmley of Roxby in Whitby Strand (1556–1616), MP

|(The rest of this line is the same as the first line above.)

Barbara Cholmley (1581-1619)

m. Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), 1st Viscount (styled Baron) (2nd Baronet) Fauconberg (also a descendant of Edward I)

Henry Belasyse (1604-1647), MP

m. Grace Barton (1608-1659)

Arabella Belasyse (1640-1687)

m. 1662 William Frankland (c. 1640-1697), 1st Baronet of Thirkelby

Grace (aka Anne) Frankland (1658-1710)

m. Leonard Smelt (1658-bef. 1710)

Elizabeth Smelt (1695-1750)

Line from Edward III via Lionel of Antwerp to Richard Plantagenet

This line passes through a different son of Edward III to Richard Plantagenet, husband of Cecily Neville and father of Richard III, but is otherwise the same down to Elizabeth Smelt.

Edward III (1312-1317), King of England

m. 1328 Philippa of Hainault (1314-1369)

Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (1338-1368)

m. 1352 Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (1332-1363)

Philippa of Clarence Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355–1382)

m. 1369 Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352-1381)

Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374-1398)

m. Alianore Holland (1370-1405)

Anne de Mortimer (1388-1411)

m. 1408 Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385-1415) (also a descendant of Edward III)

Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460)

m. Cecily Neville (1415-1495), Duchess of York (mother of Richard III)