A plea to those who perpetuate bad limbs on their family trees

There are many in the genealogy world who copy erroneous information to their family trees, picking the rotten limbs off other trees and passing them on and on. This blog is created in a hope of helping to end some of this. It does no one any good to pass on misinformation and blatantly fraudulent branches on your tree. Put some effort into your work and produce a tree your family can be proud of, accurate and reliable.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

William Fitz Gilbert de Lancaster and the Lancaster name

One source found in Google Books, calls William the son of Gilbert de Montanis, later styled de Furness or de Furnesio by Henry II. It calls him baron. William was a knight, supposedly son of Gilbert of Furness. He was granted the right to change his name to Lancaster after the ascension of Henry II. There were no de Lancasters before that time. As to Gundred, there yet isn't any evidence linking her to William de Warrene with any certainty.

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