I've been obsessed with genealogy since I was a little kid. Recently, Cam had to make a poster, showing his family tree for his class.

My grandmother had always talked about the Pomeroys and how they were influential in the Revolutionary War. What I didn't know was that the Pomeroys were closely tied to William the Conqueror. I also didn't know that they had a castle, now part of the English Historical Society and rumoured to be very haunted.

My 8th great-grandmother Hannah Lyman (1660-1746) was rumored to be the 16th great-granddaughter of King Henry I, was married to Joseph Pomeroy. They had a son named Noah Pomeroy, setting off a chain of ancestors eventually leading to me. Here is my tree simplfied, going backwards to William the Conqueror.

I searched back on the Lyman's, until I came to the Lamberts, Elizabeth Lambert, who married Thomas Lyman (1456-1509).

Elizabeth's grandfather Robert was the son of Elizabeth De Umfreville (1380-1424) who was the daughter of Robert De. Umfreville (1363-1436).

The tree goes on through many lines of DeUmfrevilles to Robert I DeUmfreville, who married Adeliza, who was daughter of King Henry, the son of William the Conqueror!!

And this father was William the Conqueror!

In 1066 the reigning duke, William II "the Bastard", conquered Brittany and then England, whereupon he became known as King William I "the Conqueror" of England. From then on, the duke of Normandy and the king of England were usually the same man, until the king of France seized Normandy from King John in 1204. John's son Henry III renounced the ducal claim in the Treaty of Paris (1259). Thereafter, the duchy was given at least four times to members of the French royal family, until the French Revolution and the dissolution of the French monarchy in 1792.

Richard II the Good was the son of Richard the Fearless

Richard II (978/83 -1026), called the Good (French: Le Bon), was the eldest son and heir of Richard I the Fearless and Gunnora.^[1]^[2] He was a Norman nobleman of the House of Normandy.

Richard the Fearless was the son of Rollo RR De Normandie, from Norway. Now we are getting into the Viking history!

Richard I of Normandy (933–996), also known as Richard the Fearless (French, Sans Peur), was the Duke of Normandy from 942 to 996.^[1] Dudo of Saint-Quentin, whom Richard commissioned to write his De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum (Latin, On the Customs and Deeds of the First Dukes of Normandy), called him a dux, but this use of the word may have been in the context of Richard's leadership in war, and not a reference to a title of nobility.^[2]^[a] Richard either introduced feudalism into Normandy, or he greatly expanded it. By the end of his reign, most important landholders held their lands in feudal tenure.^[3]

Rollo was the son of RW o Eysteinsson.

From Wikipedia:
Rollo (c. 846 – c. 931), baptised Robert^[1] and so sometimes numbered Robert Ito distinguish him from his descendants, born Hrolf Ragnvaldsson, was a Norsenobleman of Norwegian descent who was founder and first ruler of the Vikingprincipality which soon became known as Normandy. His descendants were theDukes of Normandy, and following the Norman conquest of England in 1066,kings of England.