Elizabethan-era navigator/explorer Sir Martin Frobisher from Geoffrey
Plantagenet, Count of Anjou.
Frobisher may have a descent from Edward I as well. It's problematic
with the identification of Catherine Ingleby, wife of Thomas Wombwell,
but hopefully further research can prove or disprove it.
Edward I
1) Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford (1282-1316) had
2) Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond (c.1314-1363), had
3) Pernel Butler, Lady Talbot (d. 1368), had (probably)
4) Elizabeth Talbot, Lady Grey of Wilton, had
5) Margaret Grey, Lady Darcy of Knaith (d. 1454), had
6) Philip, 6th Lord Darcy (c.1398-1418) m. Eleanor Fitzhugh (desc. of
King John), and had
7) Elizabeth Darcy (1417-c.1460) m. Sir James Strangways, and had
(possibly)
9) Catherine Ingleby* m. Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell, and had
10) Roger Wombwell of Wombwell (d. 1506-07) m. Catherine Radcliffe, and
had
11) Catherine Wombwell m. Nicholas Drax of Woodhall, and had
12) Katherine Drax m. John Frobisher of Altofts (d. 1543), and had
13) Barnard Frobisher (d. 1542) m. Anne Yorke (d. 1549), and had
14) Sir Martin Frobisher (1535-1594)
*In the pedigree of Wombwell in Rev. Joseph Hunter's 'South Yorkshire'
Vol. 2 (1831), p.124, the wife of Thomas Wombwell of Wombwell is given
as "Catherine, dau. of William Ingleby". But pedigrees of Ingleby do
not give this daughter to either Sir William Ingleby and Joan
Stapleton, parents of John Ingleby in line 8 above, or to Sir William
Ingleby and Catharine Stillington, son of John Ingleby & Margery
Strangways in line 8 above. Wombwell chronology is sorely lacking: the
grandfather of Thomas Wombwell in line 9 above - another Thomas
Wombwell - died 1452. And with no other dates to go by for the
Wombwells or Inglebys - line 9 above seemed the best placement for
Catherine Ingleby, Dame Wombwell.
If anyone can add any further dates or details, that would be great.
Cheers, ---------Brad