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Noted Military Commanders

U.S. Commanders-in-Chief

Collins Military Commanders

WWII Allied High Command

Lords High Admiral of the United Kingdom

(Articles in bold=The Patricians blog articles)

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Great-Grandparent Ancestors

Aeneas the Dardanian, King of Latium (1245 – 1175 BC)

Pericles Acamantis (495 – 429 BC) Athenian Army General

Alexander the Great of Macedonia (356 BC – 323 BC)

Alfred theGreat, King of England (849 – 901)

MarcusAntonius, Triumvir of Rome (83 BC – 30 BC)

Arminius “The Great” (17 BC – 21 AD) Teuton Chieftain

Attila the Hun ( – 453) 59th King of Huns

Boudica, Victoria, Queen of Iceni (26 -62)

Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (1274 – 1329)

Brutus of Troy, 1st King of Britain (1150 BC – 1091 BC)

Augustus Gaius Julius Octavianus, 1st Emperor of Rome (63 – 14 BC) 

Gaius Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC) General, Consul, 1st Dictator of Rome 

Hugh Capet, 1st King of Franks (939 – 996)

Charlemagne, King of Franks (742 – 814)

Richard “Strongbow” de Clare, Earl of Pembroke (1130 – 1176)

Cerdic Gewissae, 1st King of West Saxons (470 – 534)

Dardanus of Arcadia, First King of Dardania & Scythia (1519 – 1414 BC)

Owain Glyndŵr, Lord of Glyndyfrdwy (1353 – 1415) “Prince of Wales”

Hengest Wihtgilsson von Sachsen, 1st Jute King of Kent (414 – 488)

Hroðgar Halfdansson, King of Denmark (526 – 620)

Ragnarr “Loðbrók” Halfdansson (c. 765 – 845) King of Denmark & Sweden

Robert Hautville, Duke of Apulia and Calabria (1015 – 1085)

Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral (1536 – 1624)

John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, KG (1419 – 1485)

Union Army Major General Oliver Otis Howard (1830 – 1909) Medal of Honor recipient, Founder of Howard University agnatic descendant of Duke Johm Howard

Icel the Angle, King of Mercia (474 – 535)

MacBeth, King of Scotland (1005 – 1057)

Sir William le Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 – 1219)

Conan Meriadog, Founder of Brittany (305 – 367)

Clovis, 1st King of Franks (466 – 511)

Galamh mac Bile, Míl Espáine (1773 BC – 1699 BC)

Marcus Antonius, General, Triumvir of the Roman Republic (83 – 30 BC)

Niall Noígíallach, High King of Ireland (380 – 454)

Odin Fridulfsson, King of Scandinavia (215 – 300)

Arthur Pendragon, King of Camelot (480 – 537)

Pericles Acamantis (495 BC- 429 BC)

Henry II, King of England (1133 – 1189)

Ganger Hrólf “Rollo” (860 – 930) 1st Duke of Normandy, Count of Rouen

Peter “the Great” Romanov, Tsar and First Emperor of All Russia (1672 – 1725) Founder of St. Petersburg

Alan Rufus, Lord of Richemont (1026 – 1089)

Antiochus III Seleucid, Greek Emperor (242 BC – 187 BC)

Henry Sinclair, 7th Earl of Rosslyn (1255 – 1336)

Elfhere Scylding “Beowulf”, King of Geatland (526 – 620)

Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Jarl of Orkney (1009 – 1064)

Aubrey II de Vere, Baron of Oxford (1062 – 1141)

William the Conqueror, King of England (1024 – 1087)

Xerxes I, The Great, of Persia (519 BC – 465 BC)

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1st through 5th Cousins

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1599 – 1658)

General Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. President

Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene (1742 – 1786)

Sir Thomas de Holland, KG, 1st Earl of Kent (1314 – 1360)

Henry V Lancaster, King of England (1387 – 1422)

General Robert Edward Lee (1807 – 1870) Commander of the Confederate States Army

Anne de Montmorency, KG, duc de Montmorency (1493 – 1567)

Edward III Plantagenet, King of England (1312 – 1377)

Henri II de Rohan, duc de Rohan (1579 – 1638) Prince of Léon, Peer of France

John Drake Sloat (1781 – 1867) U.S. Navy Rear Admiral

Col Nathaniel Terry (1730 – 1792)

Elizabeth I Tudor, Queen of England and Ireland (1533 – 1603)

Henry VIII Tudor, King of England and Ireland (1491 – 1547)

Francois I de Valois, King of France (1494 – 1547)

Sir William Wallace, National Hero of Scotland (1272 – 1305)

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6th through 10th Cousins

Col John Jacob Astor (1864 – 1912) real estate magnate

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (1650 – 1722)

Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood, Admiral (1748 – 1818)

Owain Glendower, Prince of Wales (Pretender) (1354 – 1416)

Major General Benjamin Lincoln (1733 – 1810)

U.S. Army General George Catlett Marshall Jr (1880 – 1959)

Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson, KB (1758 – 1805)

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. President

Gilles Montmorency-Laval (1404 – 1440, maréchal de France

Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill, KG (1874 – 1965) British P.M.

General George Washington (1732 – 1799) 1st U.S. President

Arthur Wellesley, KG (1769 – 1852) 1st Duke of Wellington

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11th through 15th Cousins

Ivan IV “The Terrible” (1530 – 1584) 1st Tsar of Russia

U.S. Army Colonel Robert Edward Lee, Commander of the Confederate States Army (1807 – 1870)

George Smith Patton (1885 – 1945) U.S. Army General

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16th through 20th Cousins

Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964) 5-Star U.S. Army General

Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, KG (1887 – 1976)

U.S. Army General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891)

Emperor Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1769 – 1821)

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Steven Wood Collins (1952 – ) Antiquarian, Genealogist, Novelist

By Steven Wood Collins

I spent most of my life unaware of my ancestral heritage. Sure, I knew of the personal history of my more immediate relatives; but beyond that, I never had any inkling as to my ancestral heritage. Then one day many years ago my sister said to me, “I sometimes wonder about our family background.” And so my quest to discover our genealogical roots commenced.

I started building my family tree with the very basic relationships, going back in time from my grandparents, one ancestor at a time. That initial effort proved to be the hardest part of the pursuit, mainly due to my lack of expertise as a novice genealogical researcher. As I gained familiarity with the databases and how to efficiently mine them, my progress gained ever-increasing momentum. Today, The Patricians! tree (Ancestry.com) contains nearly 120,000 individuals, stretching over 135 generations, 5,800 of which are my direct ancestors in a genealogical sense.

During this trek back in time, I encountered fascinating figures in both history and obscurity. This blog contains many stories about their genealogical relationship to me (and many of you). By far and away, as a student of history, the historically obscure individuals are of particular interest to me. I cite Baron “Blue Beard” Montmorency-Laval de Rais (1405 – 1440) as an example of a historically maligned personage whose real contribution to history, as both a playwright and hero of France, has yet to be properly recognized. Another example is Earl Edward de Vere (1550 – 1604), who’s yet to gain widespread recognition as the actual author of the body of literary work wrongly ascribed to William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616).

My life-long interest in international economics and finance continues unabated. I primarily demonstrate this professional involvement as a contributor to the Long Room, the members-only international finance professionals' forum hosted by the Financial Times of London.

I'm an avid recreational scuba diver who enjoys traveling to exotic dive sites. My love of the sea and marine life gives me an unbounded appreciation and support of “green” issues, especially those devoted to the conservation of endangered species and coral reefs.

He continually posts results of his personal genealogical research to his Goodreads Authors Blog. Entitled The Patricians - The Ancestral Heritage of Steven Wood Collins, the work represents thousand of hours of his research efforts and related commentary.

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