Sir Richard Tracy and Barbara Lucy

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Husband Sir Richard Tracy ¹

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           Born:  - Manor of Stanway
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           Died: 1569 1
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Wife Barbara Lucy ¹

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           Born:  - Charlestote, Warwickshire, England
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Children

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1 M Sir Paul Tracy ¹

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           Born:  - England
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           Died: 1626 1
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         Spouse: Anne Sharkely (      -1615) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Sir Richard Tracy

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Excerpts from "Ancestors and Descendants of Lt. Thomas Tracy" by Evert E. Tracy M.D.

Woden is the first ancestor of which the Tracys have any record; he lived in the 3rd century and made himself master of a considerable part of the north of Europe, and what is now Sweden. He married Frea, or Frigga, and had six sons. Beldeg, the fifth son married Nanna, a daughter of Gewar, and had a son, Brandius, who was the father of Foodigarius, who had a son Wigga, who was the father Gewesius, who had a son, Effa who was the father of Effa II, whose son Eliseus was the father of Cerdic, the first king of the West Saxons. He died in 534, after having reigned about 30 years.
He had a son Kenric, who succeeded to the crown upon the death of his father. He died in 560 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Cheaulin, who reigned about 30 years, when he was dethroned by his nephew and banished from the kingdom. He died in exile in 593, leaving two sons. Cuthwin, his eldest was killed in battle with the Brittons in 584. He left two sons, Kenwald and Cuth.
Cuth died leaving a son, Chewald, who was father of Kendred, who had four sons and one daughter; one of his sons, Ingills was the father of Eoppa, who left a son, Alkmund, who had a son, Eggberht, who succeeded to the West Saxon crown upon the death of King Bithrick in the year 800, and in the course of the first 20 years of his reign succeeded in uniting the whole heptarchy under his rule. He was the 17th king of the West Saxons, and the first king of all England. He married Lady Redburga, and had two sons and one daughter.
Ethelwolf, his eldest son and successor, married Osburga. After the death of Osburga, he married Judith, a daughter of Charles the bald. He died 18 Jan. 857, without issue by his second wife. His youngest son, AElfred the Great, survived all his other brothers and became king when about 21 years of age. In 869 he married Ealswitha, a daughter of the Earl of Lincolnshire, and by her had 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died 28 Oct. 901. His second son, Eadward the Elder succeeded his father. He married three times and it was from his third wife that Sir William de Tracie was descended. His third wife Eadgina, had two sons and two daughters.
The eldest son, Eadmond I, succeeded his half brother, King AEthelstan. He married in 940, AElfgifu and had by her two sans. He was assassinated on 26 May 946 and was succeeded by his brother Eadred who reigned until 955. His second son Eadgar born in 943 succeeded to the crown in 959. He married in 961, AEthelflaeda, the Fair. He had one son by her. He married again AElfthryth and had two sons by her. AEthelred II, called “The Unready,” the youngest son, succeeded to the crown in 978 upon the assassination of his half-brother Edward the Martyr. He married when about 17 years of age, Ealfleda, daughter of Erldorman Thored. His second wife was Emma of Normandy the eldest daughter of Richard the Fearless, third duke of Normandy. He had two sons and one daughter.
The Princess Goda, daughter of AEthelred II, who held lands in Gloucestershire in the reign of her brother Edward the Confessor, whose lands remain in the possession of some of her descendants at this time. She married Dreux, Count of Mantes. He went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and died about 1 July 1035. They had four sons. She married again Eustace of Boulonge. The second of her sons was Ralph de Mantes, Lord of the Manor of Sudeley and Toddington, which he inherited from his mother. He was created Earl of Hereford by his uncle Edward the Confessor, of which earldom his son was deprived in the reign of William the Conqueror. In the year 1051 he was admiral of 50 ships of the king's navy. He married Gethe, who held lands in her own right in Buckinghamshire. He died 21 Dec 1057.
His only son, Harold de Mantes, married Matilda, daughter of Hugh-Lupus, and by her had two sons, John de Sudeley and Robert de Ewyas.
John de Sudeley, the eldest son, inherited the lands of his father in Gloucestershire and became Lord of Sudeley and Toddington. He married Grace de Tracie daughter and heiress of Henri de Tracie, Lord of Barnstaple. Henry was the son of the Sire de Tracie, a Norman baron, an officer in the army with William, Duke of Normandy, who invaded England. Grace de Tracie had two sons, Ralph de Sudeley, the heir and successor to his father, and William de Tracie, who inherited his mother's estates and assumed her family name.
Sir William de Tracie was one of the four knights who, in 1170, at the instigation of King Henry II, assassinated Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Fuller in his "Worthies of England," names the assassin as Sir William de Tracie, of Toddington, and describes him as a man of high birth, state and stomach, a favorite of the king's and his daily attendant. During the latter part of his life he seems to have repented for the murder of the archbishop, for he founded and endowed a chapel to Thomas a Becket in the conventual church at Tewkesbury. Sir William de Tracie died at Morthoe, county of Devon, in 1224. By Hawise de Born, his wife, he left a son and heir and two daughters. Sir Henry de Tracie I, his son, of Toddington, county of Gloucester, left a daughter and two sons and died in 1246.
His eldest son Sir Henry de Tracy II of Toddington appears in a charter, 26 July 1260 and was summoned to perform military service at Carmarthen in the eleventh year of the reign of Edward I. He died in 1296 and was succeeded by his son Sir William de Tracy.
William de Tracy, the eldest son of Sir William, inherited the estates of Toddington from his father. He married Margery, a daughter of Sir John Pauncefort, Knt. He died in 1460 and left two sons and a daughter.
Sir William de Tracy married Alice, the widow of William Gifford, and the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Guy de la Spine, Knt., lord of Coughton, County of Warwick, and had two sons and one daughter.
Henry Tracy, Esquire, his eldest son, married Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Baldington of Alderly, county of Oxford. He had three son and two daughters.
Sir William Tracy of Toddington, his eldest son, was the sheriff of Gloucestershire during the reign of Henry VIII. He married Margaret, a daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, of Cross Court, in Gloucestershire. He died about 1531.
Richard Tracy, Esquire, of Stanway, his third son, was well educated. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth he was the Sheriff of Gloucestershire. He married Barbara Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, Knt., of Charlestote, in Warwickshire. By her he had three sons and three daughters. He died in 1569.
His son, Sir Paul Tracy, Bart., eventually came into possession of the Manor of Stanway. He was created a baronet, 29 June 1611, by King James I, being the thirteenth created from the institution of the order. He married Anna, daughter and heiress of Ralph Sharkely of Ayno-on-the-Hill, county of North Hampton. They had 21 children. He died in 1626, and was succeeded by his second son. Lt. Thomas Tracy was his son and emigrated to America in 1636.

1 Ralph Edward Allison, Allison Genealogy (Hilo, HI: Self-published, 1985), Pg 32.