Blanche of Navarre

Birth: ABT 1134
Death: 12 AUG 1156

Reference: 2406

Father: Garcia VI K of Navarre
Mother: Marguarite of Laigle

Family 1: Sancho III K of Castile

Marriage: 4 FEB 1151, Calaharra, Spain

Alfonso VIII K of Castile

                                                                                                                          _Sancho III "the Great" K of Navarre__________________
                                                                                   _Garcia V K of Navarre________________|_Muniadona of Castile_________________________________
                                                       _Sancho Garces Mazeratiz __|
                                                      |                           |                                       ______________________________________________________
                                                      |                           |_UNKNOWN (concubine)__________________|______________________________________________________
                          _Ramiro Sanchez C of Monzon_|
                         |                            |                                                                   ______________________________________________________
                         |                            |                            _UNKNOWN _____________________________|______________________________________________________
                         |                            |_Constanza ________________|
                         |                                                        |                                       _Bernard Roger C of Conserans & Bigorre_______________
                         |                                                        |_Etiennette* of Carcassonne___________|_Gersinde of Bigorre__________________________________
 _Garcia VI K of Navarre_|
|                        |                                                                                                _Lain Nunez __________________________________________
|                        |                                                         _Diego Lainez ________________________|______________________________________________________
|                        |                             _Rodrigo Diaz "El Cid"_____|
|                        |                            |                           |                                       _Rodrigo Alvarez, Lord of Luna Castle (C in Asturias)_
|                        |                            |                           |_UNKNOWN of the Asturias______________|_Theresa Lainez ______________________________________
|                        |_Christina Rodriquez _______|
|                                                     |                                                                   _Fernando Gundemariz _________________________________
|                                                     |                            _Diego Fernandez C of Ovideo__________|_Muniadomna Ordonez __________________________________
|                                                     |_Jimena of Ovideo__________|
|                                                                                 |                                       _Alfonso Ordonez _____________________________________
|                                                                                 |_Christina Alfonso ___________________|_UNKNOWN _____________________________________________
|
|--Blanche of Navarre
|
|                                                                                                                         _Fulbert de Beine ____________________________________
|                                                                                  _Engenulf Seigneur de Laigle__________|______________________________________________________
|                                                      _Richer Seigneur de Laigle_|
|                                                     |                           |                                       ______________________________________________________
|                                                     |                           |_Richvaride __________________________|______________________________________________________
|                         _Gilbert Seigneur de Laigle_|
|                        |                            |                                                                   _Thurstan I LE GOZ Lord of Hiesmes____________________
|                        |                            |                            _Richard LE GOZ Vicompte of Avranches_|_Judith de MONTANOLIER _______________________________
|                        |                            |_Judith of Avranches_______|
|                        |                                                        |                                       _Herluin de BURGO Vicompte de Conteville______________
|                        |                                                        |_Emma de CONTEVILLE __________________|_Arletta of Falaise___________________________________
|_Marguarite of Laigle___|
                         |                                                                                                _Geoffrey II Vicompte de Chateaudun___________________
                         |                                                         _Routrou I Vicompte de Chateaudun_____|_Helvide of Carbon____________________________________
                         |                             _Geoffrey II C of Perche___|
                         |                            |                           |                                       _Warin de Alcenon DOMFRONT Lord of Nogent_____________
                         |                            |                           |_Adeline de DOMFRONT _________________|_Melisinde de DUNOIS _________________________________
                         |_Juliana de Perche__________|
                                                      |                                                                   _Hilduin III C of Montdidier__________________________
                                                      |                            _Hilduin IV C of Montdidier and Roucy_|______________________________________________________
                                                      |_Beatrix de Montdidier_____|
                                                                                  |                                       _Ebles I C of Roucy___________________________________
                                                                                  |_Alix de Roucy________________________|_Beatrix of Hainault__________________________________

INDEX

Notes

Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (113:26), (113A:26).

Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (83:28) & (151:28).

Created by Sparrowhawk 1.0 (4/17/1996) on Wed Aug 27 01:31:29 2003

Ambrose HAMILTON

Notes

..."Ambrose was the second of two sons of John and Betty (Chandler) Hamilton who were in North Yarmouth in 1733. Ambrose went to Chebeague to live in 1760 and was one of the earliest settlers there. He and his wife had seven sons and seven daughters. His older brother John

settled in North Yarmouth at Walnut Hill and his younger brother Roland settled on Cousins Island."

....."HAMILTON, AMBROSE. Private, Capt. Benjamin Parker's co.; Enlisted July 3, 1775; service to Dec. 31,1775, 6 mos. 13 days.; company stationed on seacoast of Cumberland Co.; roll sworn to at North Yarmouth; also company order on Henry Gardner, Treasurer, payable to John Hayes, dated North Yarmouth, Oct. 16,1775, for wages for 2 mos. service in Capt. Benjamin Parker's co. on the seacoast in Cumberland Co."

. Great Chebeague the biggest of some 180 Islands in Casco Bay is four and a half miles long,a mile wide,with a land area of 2,800 acres. The recorded history of the Island dates back to before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.Then Chebeague was listed as a "colony of the Royal Crown of England" and it's first white proprietor was the father of Maine, Sir Ferdinando Gorges. But not for long. In 1650, he sold out to a Boston merchant named Merry,thereby starting a trend of Island selling. Merry never set foot on the Island but he boosted his ego by changing it's name from Chebeague {Indian word for "cold spring water"} to Merry Island. However money spoke louder than vanity to Merry. He sold the Island at a profit for $500 to another Boston businessman named John King.

. Then King sold at a profit to Walter Gendall of Yarmouth. He held it despite the inconvenience that he was charged with treason at the time by a Massachusetts court, and had to pay over 20 pounds to buy his pardon. But the Indians didn't pardon Gendall, they killed him. And soon Chebeague's name changed again, strangely this time. The Island was given to two deacons of the First Church of Boston as "recompense for their goodly deeds," and was renamed "Recompense Island. But only briefly.

. On shore, where Stroudwater stands now, between downtown Portland and the Jetport, big money was being made in cutting and shipping tall pines for the masts of the English Navy. Since 1691, all white pines with a diameter of 24 inches at one foot above the ground, were reserved for the English Crown and marked with the King's Broad Arrow. Colonel Thomas Westbrook was one of the men making small fortunes from shipping out the tall white pines. A mast tree 120 feet tall was worth $500. A 75 foot tree for a bowsprit fetched $200 and a spar fetched up to $100. In 1772 Maine shipped 382 masts, 69 bowsprits and 451 spars to England and earned over $200,000 a very big sum in those days. With some of those profits, Col. Westbrook bought Great Chebeague. But business on the mainland was too hectic for him to settle out on an Island. None of the early owners had the good sense of the Indians to really enjoy this lovely Island. That had to wait until Scotsman Ambrose Hamilton arrived.

. Hamilton built a log house on the north end, fathered 12 children and became grand father to 71. Hamilton's built and made famous the Chebeague Stone Fleet. By the 1850's over 30 Hamilton

Stone Sloops (the mack trucks of their time), were hauling heavy loads of granite from Maine quarries to be made into some of the greatest buildings of their time. One Chebeague Stone Sloop, the "Addie Snow" is believd to have sent the 291 foot passenger ship "Portland" to the bottom in the great storm of 1898, one of the worst tradedies at sea. The theory is that the "Portland" in zero visibility heavy seas and a howling gale, collided with the granite-laden Addie Snow, caved in from the impact and sank with the loss of 75 lives.

. Exactly how or where the "Portland" was lost had been a mystery for half a century. Then in

November 1944, a scalloper out of Rockland was dragging off Cape Cod and brought up the "Portland's" bell in her net. With the ship's bell as evidence of exactly where the "Portland" sank, Edward Rowe Snow who has written fine books on New England's coast, sent down divers to find out if any more of the "Portland" lay on the bottom. The divers found the bow of the Addie Snow embeded in the side of the "Portland", indicating a terrible collision and immediate sinking. All lives on both ships were lost. "