Medieval English families on the internet: C
Callaway
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Callaway History (Bruce Callaway)
[formerly at http://www.callaway.com.au/history.htm;
not available, 2 February 2003; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from October 2001]
Paper from the Callaway Family Association Journal (1995)
on 16th-century Callaways of Hampshire etc
Cantilupe
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Cantilupe Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
Narrative pedigree, 13th century;
this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
Carey
Carminow
Carpenter
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Carpenter-Charpenter-Carpentier-Charpentier (Bruce Carpenter, Tezukayama University)
[not available, 3 February 2008; see the Internet Archive's
copy of this page,
from January 2007]
Detailed notes and discussion of medieval Carpenters, mainly 13th-15th centuries, London and elsewhere;
includes a discussion of the unfounded descent of Carpenter from the crusader Guillaume De Melun,
nicknamed "le Carpentier", claimed by the genealogist J. Hatten Carpenter
Champagne
- Eudes de Champagne (Pat Patterson)
Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
al Chapel
- Eudo al Chapel (Pat Patterson)
Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
Chasteleyn
- Chasteleyn (Joe Cochoit)
Article on the Le Chasteleyn family of Suffolk and Somerset, 12th to 14th centuries.
Chaworth
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Chaworth Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
Narrative pedigree, 12th-13th centuries;
this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
Chester
- Women
and Inheritance in Norman England: The Case of Geva Ridel
(Judith A. Green, Queen's University of Belfast; in Prosopon, issue 12)
(Prosopon,
Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford) [not available, 26 June 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2021]
Discussion of Geva, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester (d.1101),
and wife of Geoffrey Ridel, and her possible relationship with Robert de Boucy; in PDF format
Cheyney
Chiche
Chicheley
Clare
- Illustrated articles by Catherine Armstrong, with linked bibliographies,
on the Castles of Wales web site (see also Marshal):
- Extract from "A Baronial Family in Medieval England:
The Clares, 1217-1314",
by Michael Altschul (1965), covering the 11th-13th centuries (Dave Utzinger) [not available, 11 March 2024; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
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Clare Line (Earls of Hertford and Gloucester) (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
Narrative pedigree, 11th-13th centuries;
this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
- Clare Line (Pat Patterson)
Notes, from the Dictionary of National Biography, on the 11th- and 12th-century Clares
- Richard de Bienfaite (Pat Patterson)
Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
- Walter Tirel and His Wife (Pat Patterson)
Excerpts from J.H. Round, Feudal England (1895), discussing the families of Tirel, Clare and Giffard
N.B. The whole of Round's Feudal England is now available as a PDF file (17.6 MB) at the McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Clavell
- The English Branch of Clavell (Carlos E. Clavell)
Dorset, 11th century and later; extract from History of Dorset and Kimmeridge (Dorset County Council).
Clopton
Coggeshall
- The Coggeshall Family Genealogy [not available, 15 December 2013] (Bob Coggeshall)
Includes a biography of Sir John de Coggeshall (1301-1361), notes on the origin of the name, critical discussions of
the Coggeshall pedigree, from the 11th century, and other material
Colchester
- Colchester Family History
(Thirzah Brown)
Detailed account of the Colchester family of Barking, Suffolk,
15th century and later, compiled from The Colchester Family History, by Giles Colchester (2003)
Colclough
Colombières
- William de Colombières (Pat Patterson)
Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
Conant
- Conant
[formerly at http://www.nvsn.com/lrichard/conant.htm#conant;
not available, 27/07/2001; see the Internet Archive's
copy of this page,
from July 2001] (Lonnie Richardson)
Narrative pedigree, 16th century, Devon
Coombs: see Combs
Cope
- Cope (David Blackwell)
[not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
Northamptonshire etc, 14th-16th centuries; extract from The American Ancestors
of Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King
by J.E. Salisbury and G.C. Martin (1917)
Copinger
- W. A. Copinger, History
of the Copingers or Coppingers of the County of Cork, Ireland, and the Counties of Suffolk and Kent, England (1884)
(Ian Copinger, Copinger and Coppinger Web Site)
Includes a section on the Copingers of Norfolk, 13th century and later,
Suffolk, 15th century and later, and Kent, 16th century and later
Corbet/Corbett
- The Corbett Study Group (J. C. Noble) [not available, 9 March 2019; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from July 2018]
Includes some notes on medieval Corbetts: The Battle Abbey Roll, The Anglo-Norman Period (an account of the family, Shropshire and other counties, 11th and 12th centuries, by Barbara Coulton) and other extracts.
Cornwall
- Richard, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (Soskernow: Friends of Cornwall)
Biographical notes on the younger son of King John, 13th century.
- The
Cornwall Family (Robert Battle)
Notes and extracts from records relating to two men named Richard de Cornwall,
the elder an illegitimate son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall (d.1272), and the younger
possibly his son. Blomefield, the Norfolk historian, claimed that Sir John Howard,
ancestor of the earls of Norfolk, married Joan, a daughter of the elder Richard
Cornwallis
Cottle
- Cotel Coat of Arms (Mark Cottle)
[formerly at http://www.scioto.org/CottleCountry/cotelcoatofarms.html; not available, 3 December 2005; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from June 2004]
Brief notes on West-Country Coteles/Cotheles, 12th-14th centuries
Coudray
- The Coudray Family
(David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
Extract from Mary Sharp and W. O. Clinton, A Record of the Parish of Padworth (1911),
concerning the Coudrays of Padworth, Berkshire, 13th century and later
Courcy
- Richard de Courci (Pat Patterson)
Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
Courtenay
- The Courtenay Family History
(Brent Southgate)
[formerly at http://www.webcom.com/scourt/brent.htm;
not available, 30 March 2003; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from June 2002]
Narrative history, covering mainly the 14th-16th centuries
- Courtenay biographical excerpts from "The History of Parliament" (The Courtenay Society)
Biographical accounts of members of the Courtenay family, 16th century and later, from the History of Parliament (PDF format).
- Some Descendants of Athon Courtenay (Dorothy C. Saunders)
[formerly at http://pages.prodigy.com/SPJH00A/athon.htm; not available, 11 April 2006; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from February 2005]
A pedigree with biographical notes; caution is called for, as the information comes from a variety of secondary sources,
some of doubtful reliability (11th century onwards)
- The Earldom of Devon. A Digression of the Families of Redvers and Courtenay (Pat Patterson)
12th-16th centuries; extract from Charles Worthy's The History of the Suburbs of Exeter (1892)
Crèvecoeur
Cressy
Crispin
- William Crispin (Pat Patterson)
Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
Crossman
-
The Crossman Society (Andi MacDonald) [not available, 25 November 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from April 2004]
Work in progress to collect references to all occurrences of the surname,
including medieval Crossman families in Cornwall and Devon
Cruwys
- Cruwys One-Name Study (Debbie Kennett)
Details of a one-name study of the surname, with links to some early-modern material.
Culpepper