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Paternal Family Tree: Somery
Around 1181 [his father] Ralph Somery 1st Baron Dudley (age 25) and [his mother] Margaret Gras Baroness Dudley were married.
Around 1190 Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley was born to [his father] Ralph Somery 1st Baron Dudley (age 34) and [his mother] Margaret Gras Baroness Dudley.
On 29th September 1194 [his father] Ralph Somery 1st Baron Dudley (age 38) was created 1st Baron Dudley of Somery. [his mother] Margaret Gras Baroness Dudley by marriage Baroness Dudley of Somery.
In 1211 [his father] Ralph Somery 1st Baron Dudley (age 55) died at Dudley, Staffordshire. His son Roger (age 21) succeeded 2nd Baron Dudley of Somery.
Before 1218 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Berkeley 4th Baron Berkeley (age 47) and [his sister] Joan Somery Baroness Berkeley (age 22) were married. The difference in their ages was 25 years.
In 1220 Robert Berkeley 3rd Baron Berkeley (age 55) died. His brother [his brother-in-law] Thomas (age 50) succeeded 4th Baron Berkeley Feudal. [his sister] Joan Somery Baroness Berkeley (age 25) by marriage Baroness Berkeley Feudal.
Around 1225 [his daughter] Margaret Somery Baroness Basset Drayton was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 35) and [his future wife] Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley (age 15) in Dudley, Worcestershire. She married (1) Ralph Basset and had issue (2) in or after 1292 Ralph Cromwell and had issue.
Around 1227 [his daughter] Mabel Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 37) and [his future wife] Amabilia Chaucombe Baroness Dudley at Dudley, Staffordshire.
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In 1232 [his daughter] Joan Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 42) and [his future wife] Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley (age 22) at Dudley, Staffordshire. She married John Strange and had issue.
In or before 1237 [his daughter] Matilda Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 46) and [his future wife] Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley (age 26).
Before 1240 Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 49) and Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley (age 29) were married. She by marriage Baroness Dudley of Somery. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of William D'Aubigny 3rd Earl Lincoln 3rd Earl of Arundel and Mabel Gernon Countess Lincoln and Arundel.
Around 1240 [his wife] Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley (age 30) died at Dudley Castle [Map].
After 1240 Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 50) and Amabilia Chaucombe Baroness Dudley were married. She by marriage Baroness Dudley of Somery.
In 1250 [his son] John Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 60) and [his wife] Amabilia Chaucombe Baroness Dudley at Dudley, Staffordshire.
On 24th June 1255 [his son] Roger Somery 3rd Baron Dudley was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 65) and [his wife] Amabilia Chaucombe Baroness Dudley at Dinas Powys. He married before March 1279 Agnes Unknown Baroness Dudley and had issue.
In 1262 Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 72) rebuilt Dudley Castle [Map].
On 31st October 1266 the Dictum of Kenilworth was issued. The Dictum was a peace agreement between King Henry III of England (age 59) and the rebels who were besieged in the impregnable Kenilworth Castle [Map]. The committee included: Bishop Walter Branscombe (age 46), Archbishop Walter Giffard (age 41), Bishop Nicholas Ely, Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford, Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex (age 62), Philip Basset (age 82), John Balliol (age 58), Robert Walerand, Alan Zouche (age 63), Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 76), and Warin Bassingbourne.
Robert Ferrers 6th Earl of Derby (age 27) and Henry Hastings (age 31) were fined seven times their annual income. The Dictum, however, required the rebels to pay their fines before being restored to their lands; something of a Catch-22 since if they weren't restored to their lands, they would have no income to pay the fine.
In 1267 [his daughter] Cecilia Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 77) and [his wife] Amabilia Chaucombe Baroness Dudley.
In 1270 [his daughter] Katherine Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 80) and [his wife] Amabilia Chaucombe Baroness Dudley at Dudley, Staffordshire.
On 26th August 1273 Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley (age 83) died at Dudley Castle [Map]. His son Roger (age 18) succeeded 3rd Baron Dudley of Somery. [his future daughter-in-law] Agnes Unknown Baroness Dudley by marriage Baroness Dudley of Somery.
[his son] Ralph Somery was born to Roger Somery 2nd Baron Dudley and Nicole D'Aubigny Baroness Dudley at Dudley, Staffordshire. He married Margaret Unknown and had issue.
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