Paternal Family Tree: Mansel
Before 22nd November 1623 [his father] Arthur Mansel [aged 36] and [his mother] Jane Price were married.
On 22nd November 1623 Bussy Mansel was born to Arthur Mansel [aged 36] and Jane Price.
On 27th November 1638 [his father] Arthur Mansel [aged 51] died.
Around 1642 Edward Stradling 3rd Baronet [aged 18] and [his future wife] Catherine Perry aka Hunter were married.
On 17th April 1646 Bussy Mansel [aged 22] and Catherine Perry aka Hunter were married.
Around 1660 Edward Stradling 3rd Baronet [aged 36] died. His son [his step-son] Edward [aged 17] succeeded 4th Baronet Stradling of St Donats in Glamorganshire.
On 27th June 1660 Bussy Mansel [aged 36] was elected MP Cardiff Boroughs.
In 1667 [his son-in-law] William Waller [aged 28] and [his daughter] Catherine Mansel were married.
In March 1679 Bussy Mansel [aged 55] was elected MP Glamorganshire.
In October 1679 Bussy Mansel [aged 55] was elected MP Glamorganshire.
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In 1681 Bussy Mansel [aged 57] was elected MP Cardiff Boroughs.
On 5th September 1686 [his step-son] Edward Stradling 4th Baronet [aged 43] died. His son Edward [aged 14] succeeded 5th Baronet Stradling of St Donats in Glamorganshire.
In 1689, 1690, 1695 and 1698 Bussy Mansel [aged 65] was elected MP Glamorganshire.
In 1699 Bussy Mansel [aged 75] died.
On 27th September 1738 Thomas Stradling 6th Baronet [aged 28] died in a duel in Montpellier, France, unmarried. His body was returned to St. Donat's Castle and buried locally in the Lady Chapel. Baronet Stradling of St Donats in Glamorganshire extinct.
"The estate of St. Donats Castle [Map] was bequeathed to the Drakes of Shardeloes, and is now [1838] possessed by Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq.; Merthymawr and Monknash passed to Hugh Bowen, Esq., and Penlline Lampey and Cwm Hawey to Bussey Mansel, Esq." [Burke's Extinct Baronetcies.] Jane, the great aunt of the last Baronet (da. of the 3d Bart.), had m. George Bowen, of Kettlehill, co. Glamorgan, and [his wife] Dame Catharine Mansel, widow of the 3d Bart., had m. Bussey Mansel. The disposition of the property in the will gave rise to a Chancery suit, which lasted sixty years from 1738, at the close of which, the valuable library, furniture, etc., of St. Donats Castle were sold. [N. & Q., 3d S., xi, 153.]
[his daughter] Catherine Mansel was born to Bussy Mansel and Catherine Perry aka Hunter. She married 1667 William Waller and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 15 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 16 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 22 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 14 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Mansel of Margam 
Grandfather: Thomas Mansel 1st Baronet 6 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset 
2 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester 3 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Hill 15 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Huntingdon 
9 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Woodville Countess Pembroke and Huntingdon 
6 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Somerset 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Browne 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grandson of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 
5 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 
2 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
father: Arthur Mansel 7 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Bussy Mansel 8 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Grandfather: William Price of Briton Ferry
mother: Jane Price