LOWRY ANCESTORS

THE BAD

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• • • • Theodosius I the Great (died 395; 50 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Roman Emperor -- when the citizens of Thessalonica rioted to protest the Roman Garrison he had 7000 of the citizens murdered Theodo of Bavaria (died 716; 37 th GGF of Tom Lowry) His daughter Uta became pregnant and blamed Bishop Emmeram (later St Emmeram), leading her brother to murder the saint Roricon I du Maine (died 839; 39 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Fathered an illegitimate child with Rotrude, daughter of Charlemagne Louis the Blind of Provence (died 928; 32 nd GGF of Tom Lowry) Had his eyes gouged out after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Berenger I of Italy

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• • • • Arnulf the Bad (died 937; 36 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Robbed the churches to fund his wars against the Hungarians Igor the Grand of Kiev (died 945; 33 dismembering him rd GGF of Tom Lowry) Killed by the Drevlians while trying to collect taxes from them; they tied his legs to two trees, bent the trees to the ground, then released them, Arnulf I of Flanders (died 964; 28 William Longsword, Duke of Normandy, to a peace conference, then murdered him th GGF of Tom Lowry) Invited Olga of Kiev (St Olga) (died 969; 33 of them alive rd GGM of Tom Lowry) Avenged the death of her husband by placing Drevlians on ships, setting them to sea, then torching them. Also known to have boiled many

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• • • • • Roger de Toeni (died 1040; 27 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Captured many Muslims during the Crusades. Each day he killed and butchered one muslim captive, then fed it to the remaining prisoners Waltheof of Huntington (died 1076; 28 th conspiring against William the Conqueror GGF of Tom Lowry) Beheaded for Eudes I de Bourgogne (died 1103; 31 st GGF of Tom Lowry) Attempted to rob Archbishop Anselm (later St Anselm) as he passed through his land, but wound up paying homage and going on Crusade Fulk IV Rechin (died 1109; 25 th GGF of Tom Lowry) His wife, Bertrade de Montfort, left him to become the consort of Philip I, King of France Enguerrand I de Coucy (died 1116; 26 man th GGF of Tom Lowry) Divorced his wife to marry Sibyl of Château-Porcien , who was still married to the Lord of Lorraine who was absent and in a war and she was pregnant by another

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• • • • William IX of Aquitaine (died 1127; 29 Dangereuse to marry her th GGF of Tom Lowry) Planned the First Crusade with Pope Urban in 1095; banished 2 wives to Fontverault Abbey, then abducted Viscountess Thomas de Coucy (died 1130; 25 on Crusade he captured Muslims and hung them by their testicles th GGF of Tom Lowry) While Henry I of England (died 1135; 28 the record for the most illegitimate children by an English monarch (estimated at 25) th GGF of Tom Lowry) Holds Louis VI 'The Fat' of France (died 1137; 29 th GGF of Tom Lowry) He was so fat he could not mount a horse

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• • • • William X of Aquitaine (died 1137; 28 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Married the daughter of his father's mistress Raynald de Chatillon (died 1187; 24 Pillaged Cyprus during the Second Crusade; captured by Saladin and beheaded th GGF of Tom Lowry) Theobald V the Good of Blois (died 1191; 25 Maud Smith) Orchestrated the first blood libel in Europe, burning 31 Jews at the stake th GGF of Ethel Constance of Sicily (died 1198; 24 about his legitimacy th GGM of Tom Lowry) Gave birth to her son Frederic II Hohenstaufen, future Holy Roman Emperor, in a public square so there could be no question

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• • • • Baldwin I of Constantinople (died 1205; 22 nd GGF of Tom Lowry) Went on Crusade, took the city of Constantinople, then declared himself King of Constantinople Manfred de Saluzzo (died 1215; 23 rd GGF of Tom Lowry) Named his illegitimate son Bastardino Isabella of Angouleme (died 1246; 26 th GGM of Tom Lowry) Accused of trying to poison King Louis IX, sought sanctuary in Fontverault Abbey where she died two years later Simon de Montfort (died 1265; 23rd GGF of Ethel Maud Smith) Seized the throne of England at the Battle of Lewes, only to be killed at the Battle of Evesham a year later. His body was dismembered and shared among the Barons who had defeated him

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• • • • Louis IX (St Louis) (died 1270; 21 st GGF of Tom Lowry) Although later a saint, he was fiercely anti-semitic, burning over 12,000 copies of the Talmud in 1243 and expanding the Inquisition in France Roger de Mortimer (died 1282; 19 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Killed Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham, then sent his severed head to his wife, who proudly displayed it at a celebratory banquet Sancho IV of Castile (died 1295; 20 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Executed more than 4000 of his countrymen who supported his brother Philip IV the Fair of France (died 1314; 19 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Known as 'The Fair' for his looks, not his policies. He arrested all the Jews of France to claim their money to fight his wars with England, then expelled them from the country. In 1307 he destroyed the Knights Templar, burning its leader, Jacques de Molay at the stake in order to seize the Templars' assets

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• • • • Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (died 1318; 18 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Killed in battle, his body was quartered and distributed throughout Ireland, his head was sent to Edward II of England David de Brechen (died 1320; 20 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Executed for participating in a plot to assassinate Robert the Bruce Hugh le Despenser (died 1326; 19 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Chief advisor and paramour of Edward II of England, hanged in 1326 by barons threatened by his power and influence Roger de Mortimer (died 1330; 17 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Conspired with his lover, Isabella of France, against her husband, Edward II. Briefly ruled England, but ultimately hanged by Edward III

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• • • • • Thomas de Berkeley (died 1361; 19 Participated in the murder of Edward II of England but was acquitted th GGF of Ethel Maud Smith) William I Douglas (died 1384; 18 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Murdered his uncle, William Douglas 'The Flower of Chivalry' to claim his lands Michael de la Pole (died 1389; 20 financial officer for Edward III, he was impeached for embezzlement by the Merciless Parliament th GGF of Ethel Maud Smith) Chief Alexander Stewart (The Wolf of Badenoch) (died 1405; 18 th Tom Lowry) GGF of Thomas Wyatt (died 1524; 12 Imprisoned in the Tower of London for an alleged affair with Anne Boleyn th GGF of Ethel Maud Smith)

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• • • • Henry de Percy (died 1408; 19 th GGF of Ethel Maud Smith) Rebelled against the king (Henry IV), killed at the Battle of Branham Moor, his head hung from the London Bridge Walter Stewart (died 1436; 17 th GGF of Tom Lowry) Plotted to assassinate James I of Scotland, for which he was executed in Edinburgh (disembowled while alive), then drawn and quartered Archibald Douglas (died 1439; 15 sons were beheaded by James II at the 'Black Dinner' at Edinburgh Castle th GGF of Tom Lowry) Both of his William Crichton (died 1455; 14 th GGF of Ethel Maud Smith) Supported James II of Scotland against the Black Douglases. In 1440 he invited William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother to dinner at Edinburgh Castle, presented them with a bull's head at the dinner table, then killed them (The Black Dinner)