♀Maud of Scotland

Maud of Scotland was the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), by two separate lines of descent, both through her daughter Maud of England (died 1167). The two lines meet again in Joan of England (1272–1307), whose parents both descended from her.

Her parents were Malcolm III^W, King of Scots, and Margaret of Wessex, and her mother was a sister of Edgar Atheling^W. On 11 November 1100 she married Henry of England (died 1135), known as Henry I, three months after his coronation, and so became Queen of England. Their daughter Maud, later the Empress Maud, was born in London about 8 February 1102; she married first the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich V and then, in 1128, Geoffrey of Anjou^W, and through her son Henry II the line runs on to Nancy Jane Blanchard.

Lines of descent

Both lines from Maud of Scotland run down Nancy Jane Blanchard’s father’s side, through Kenneth Blanchard (1897–1975), and both pass through Maud’s daughter Maud of England and her son Henry of England (1133–1189). They meet again in Joan of England, whose parents, Edward of England (1239–1307) and Eleanor of Castile (died 1290), both descended from her.

Notes

Sources

Her descent from Malcolm III, her relationship to Edgar Atheling, her marriage to Henry I on 11 November 1100 and her title as Queen of England come from Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage (1869), pp. xviii and xxviii, and from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (2nd ed.), vol. I, ENGLAND 1, p. 1, both printed compilations; no contemporary record is cited for them here. Burke calls her “Matilda, or Maud” and names her mother as the sister of Edgar Atheling; the parentage of Margaret of Wessex is not given in either work. The daughter Maud’s birth in London about 8 February 1102 and her marriages are from Richardson, ENGLAND 1, p. 1.