The Hamilton Lineage
We have recently found and traced our ancestery back to my 43rd Great-Grandfather:
ODIN PAGAN GOD ANGLO SAXON (215-)
At that time Rome had grown to be one of the mightiest empires in the world, and began at length to send armies into Tyrkland. There ruled in Asgard an exceedingly wise, prophetic king, Odin, who was skilled in the magic arts, and who descended in the twentieth generation from Thor. Odin had waged many successful wars. He had great possessions, which fell into the hands of the Romans. This caused him to emigrate to the north of Europe. The prophetic vision with which he was endowed had told him that his descendants would long flourish there. So he set out with his many sons, and was accompanied by the twelve priests, and by many people of the Asian country and of Asgard. They prodeeded through Gardarike to Saxland; then across the Danish Islands to Svithoid and Norway.
Odin’s superior wisdom and his marvellous skill in sorcery, was everywhere attended by abundant harvests, which caused the people to look upon him as a god, and to place their thrones at his disposal. He accordingly appointed his sons as kings in Saxland, Denmark, Svithiod, and Norway. Gylfe, the King of Svithiod, submitted to his superiority and gave him a splendid country to rule over. Poetry and many other arts came with Odin to the Teutonic lands, and so, too, the Trojan tongue.
Like his ancestors, Saturnus and Jupiter, he was able to secure divine worship, which was extended even to his twelve priests. THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS which he scattered among the people, and WHICH WERE BELIEVED UNTIL THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY, were misrepresentations spun around the memories of Troy’s historical fate and its destruction, and around the events of Asgard. In Saco, as in the Icelandic works, Odin is a human being from the East, and at the same time a sorcerer of the greatest power. His descendents from the year 215 descended onward toward Europe, settling in France, England and into Norway, Scotland and Ireland.
Our line is as follows: Odin’s son was:
WITTE I WECTA JUTE SAXONS
WITTE Von SAXONY (340-)
WITIGISLUS Von SAXONY (380-)
HENYEST Von SAXONY (420-488)
HATHWIGATE Von SAXONY
HULDERICK de SAXONY
BODOCIS Von SAXONY
BERTHOLD Von WETTIN
SIGHARD VonWETTIN
DIETRICH Von SACHSEN
WERNIKIND Von WETTIN
BRUNO I LORD
BRUNO SAXON ERGEN
BERNARD HARCOURT (1000-) m. SPROTA DeStELIZABETH BOURGOYNE (1005-1151)
Sprota’s fourth Great-Grandfather was CHARLEMAGNE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (752-814) who basically conquered all of Europe and England. Charlemagne was also my 35th Great-Grandfather. Bernard & Sprota had a son:
TORF de HARCOURT
Sprota Bourgoyne was abducted from her husband Bernard Harcourt by WILLIAM I ‘THE LONGSWORD’ DUKE of NORMANDY. She appeared to have been a willing party in the matter and was known as “Dangereuse.” He kept her in a tower in his palace. His wife was enraged to discover a rival woman living in her palace, but he refused to return her to her husband. Dangereuse and William had a son who was known as RICHARD I ‘THE FEARLESS’ of NORMANDY (933-1035).
RICHARD THE FEARLESS was half-brother to TORF de HARCOURT
Ken and my family line intersects at Richard the Fearless. He is a Great-Grandfather via Ken’s line and a 28th Great Uncle via my line, which makes William I ’ The Longsword’ Duke of Normandy a common Great-Grandfather
The son of Torf: THOROLD TUROLD dePONT AUDEMER (-1024) was the father of:
HUMPHREY deVIELLES (-1050)
ROGER SEIGNEUR DeBEAUMONT (1015-1094)
ROBERT BEAUMONT (1050-1118)
ROBERT DeBEAUMONT (1104 - 1168) was the father of:
ROBERT De BEAUMONT (1135-1190) the 3rd Earl of Leicestershire.
It was stated that this important family from the House of Beaumont held the manor of Hamilton, Leicestershire. It is argued that the three cinquefoils of the Hamilton shield bear some resemblance to the single cinquefoils of the Beaumonts. The great Earl of Leicester, in whose veins flowed the blood of the Beaumonts, obtained in about 1245 the wardship of Gilbert de Umfraville, second Earl of Angus, and it is conceivable that this name Gilbert may somehow be responsible for the legend of the Beaumont descent seeing that the first authentic ancestor of the Hamilton is one Walter FitzGilbert. He first appears in 1294-1295 as one of the winesses to a charter by James, the high steward of Scotland, to the monks of Paisley; and in 1296 his name appears in the Homage Roll as Walter ftizGilbert of “Hameldone.” The chief’s extended family and some allies and dependents, organized to defend and protect its people and property against strangers and outsiders. The property was regarded as possession of the extended family, not any individual. Robert De Beaumont was the father of:
WILLIAM DeHAMBLETON (1160-) m. MARIE BLACKHALL (1160-1221)
GILBERT DeHAMILTON (1220-1290), the son of William, was an English Lord, who during the English and Verification Scottish War, becoming dissatisfied with the treatment of the Scots, joined their cause. He moved to Scotland during the Irish rebellion, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the province of Ulster. During the reign of James I this colony of Scots removed from Argyleshire and formed a plantation in the north of England near Londonderry. This became a favorite project with him to re-people those countries with a protestant population. They encouraged people from England and Scotland to come to Londonderry. The coast of Scotland is within twenty miles of Ireland. They consisted mostly of Presbyterian churches in Ireland which was formed in 1613. Two clans, the alpine and the Argyle, began persecuting one another. To avoid this persecution, many fled, some to the United States, to maintain the religion of their fathers. When the Charleses and James II endeavored to establish the Chruch of England over Scotland by great persecution and to force the position of a clergyman of high rank, as a bishop upon them, many sought asylum in remote regions across the ocean.
WALTER FITZGILBERT De HAMILTON (1274-1346), m. MARY GORDON (1294-1376). Walter FitzGilbert was the son of Gilbert. He was a Scottish Nobleman, and governor of Bothwell Castle on behalf of the English. However he later came across to Robert d Bruce’s side and was rewarded with a portion of land, the Barony and lands of Cadzow, which in time would become the town of Hamilton. He is
