Paternal Family Tree: Cooper
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Paggett of Lacock Abbey 1607
In 1709 [his father] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury (age 37) and [his mother] Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury (age 29) were married. She by marriage Countess Shaftesbury. He the son of [his grandfather] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 2nd Earl Shaftesbury and [his grandmother] Dorothy Manners Countess Shaftesbury. They were third cousins.
On 9th February 1711 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury was born to [his father] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury (age 39) and [his mother] Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury (age 31).
On 16th February 1713 [his father] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury (age 41) died. His son Anthony (age 2) succeeded 4th Earl Shaftesbury, 4th Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles, 5th Baronet Cooper of Rockbourne in Southampton.
Diary of Viscount Egmont afterwards Earl Egmont 1741. 20th January 1741. The Committee present were: Mr. Ayers, Hen. Archer, Lord Shaftsbury (age 29), Mr. Smith, Mr. Vernon, who made some progress in the affair and adjourned the affair to Friday.
On 23rd November 1751 [his mother] Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury (age 71) died.
In 1754 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 42) was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Before 1758 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 46) and Susannah Noel Countess Shaftesbury (age 47) were married. She by marriage Countess Shaftesbury. She the daughter of Baptist Noel 3rd Earl Gainsborough and Dorothy Manners Countess Gainsborough. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury and Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury. They were second cousins.
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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In 1758 [his wife] Susannah Noel Countess Shaftesbury (age 48) died.
In 1761 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 49) was appointed Privy Council.
Before 17th September 1761 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 50) and Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury (age 30) were married. She by marriage Countess Shaftesbury. He the son of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury and Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury.
On 17th September 1761 [his son] Anthony Ashley-Cooper 5th Earl Shaftesbury was born to Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 50) and [his wife] Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury (age 30). He married 17th July 1786 his sixth cousin Barbara Webb Countess Shaftesbury, daughter of John Webb 5th Baronet and Mary Salvin Lady Webb, and had issue.
In 1765 [his brother-in-law] William Pleydell-Bouverie 1st Earl Radnor (age 39) was created 1st Earl Radnor.
On 21st December 1768 [his son] Cropley Ashley-Cooper 6th Earl Shaftesbury was born to Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 57) and [his wife] Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury (age 38). He married 1796 his third cousin twice removed Anne Spencer-Churchill Countess Shaftesbury, daughter of George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough and Caroline Russell Duchess of Marlborough, and had issue.
On 27th May 1771 Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury (age 60) died. His son Anthony (age 9) succeeded 5th Earl Shaftesbury, 5th Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles, 6th Baronet Cooper of Rockbourne in Southampton.
Around 1782 Pompeo Batoni (age 73). Portrait of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury.
On 12th November 1804 [his former wife] Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury (age 74) died.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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[his daughter] Mary Anne Ashley Cooper was born to Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury and Mary Bouverie Countess Shaftesbury. She married before 9th August 1795 Charles Sturt of Crichel and Brownsea Castle and had issue.
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Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 26 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 11 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 24 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Cooper of Rudgwick
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cooper
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Cooper 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Skutt of Stanton Drew in Somerset
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Skutt
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Ashley-Cooper 1st Earl Shaftesbury 
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Ashley of Damerham 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Ashley 1st Baronet
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Ashley Lady Cooper
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Okeover of Okeover Hall
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Okeover
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Elizabeth Dethick
GrandFather: Anthony Ashley-Cooper 2nd Earl Shaftesbury 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cecil 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: David Cecil 3rd Earl Exeter 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Cope 1st Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cope 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Lytton 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Cecil 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ravenscroft
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Egerton Countess Exeter 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Spencer Countess Derby 
Father: Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftesbury 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland 
4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Manners 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Manners 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Vernon "King of the Peak" 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Vernon 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Tailboys 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Manners 8th Earl of Rutland 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Pierrepont 
9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Pierrepont 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Winifred Thwaites
Great x 2 Grandmother: Grace Pierrepont 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Cavendish 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandMother: Dorothy Manners Countess Shaftesbury 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Roper 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Montagu Countess Rutland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cotton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cotton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Cotton 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Shirley 
10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Shirley 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Giffard 
Anthony Ashley-Cooper 4th Earl Shaftesbury 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
GrandFather: Thomas Ewer of Bushey Hall in Hertfordshire
Mother: Jane Ewer Countess Shafetsbury 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Roper
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Montagu 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Spencer
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Spencer
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Kitson 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Spencer
GrandMother: Mary Montagu 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Baynard
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Baynard
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Stapleton 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Stapleton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ursula Stapleton
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Sharington of Lacock in Wiltshire
Great x 3 Grandmother: Olive Sharington
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Paggett of Lacock Abbey