♂Grimus (surname unknown)

Grimus is the earliest known ancestor on his line, the father of Duncan of Scotland and the twenty-eighth, thirtieth and thirty-first great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by three separate lines of descent, all through his son Duncan.

Grimus is said to have been governor of the Scots Island and the husband of Beatrix of Scotland, a daughter of Malcolm II^W, King of Scots. Their son Duncan^W succeeded his grandfather. No dates, surname or parents are recorded for Grimus.

Lines of descent

All three lines pass through Duncan of Scotland, Grimus’s son, and then through Duncan’s son Malcolm of Scotland. Nancy Jane Blanchard is Grimus’s twenty-eighth, thirtieth and thirty-first great-granddaughter by them. The lines meet again in Joan of England (1272–1307), whose parents Edward of England (1239–1307) and Eleanor of Castile (died 1290) both descend from Grimus and Beatrix, and in Polly Knapp (1798–1863), whose parents Joseph Knapp (1763–1839) and Eunice Carver (1763–1845) both descend from them.

Notes

Source and grade

Everything about Grimus rests on one printed peerage, Sir Bernard Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage (1869), p. xxviii, “The Royal Line of Scotland”. It is a compiled work, so the governorship and the marriage are given as tradition and not as records. Burke’s spelling of the name is kept; other authorities name Duncan’s father differently.