Lady Lucie de la Zouche, lineally descended from Alen, the famous Earl and Sovereign of Bretagne. Her ancestry follows:
(1) Robert the Strong, son or grandson of Wittekind, the famous Saxon chieftan who defied Charlemagne. Charles the Bold, the grandson of Charlemagne, called on Robert the Strong of Germany to aid him when he was fighting his brothers. In return for his services, Robert was rewarded with rich territorial grants and the titles of Count of Anjou and Duke of the Isle de France. This was in 861. Some time later, he married the granddaughter of Charlemagne. He fell in battle with the Norsemen who were harassing the Frankish kingdom. (2) Duke Robert, the son of Robert the Strong, and his brother, Duke Eudes, are sometimes considered among the kings of France because of the great power that they exercised.
(3) Count Hugo the White, or Hugo the Great, became Duke of France and was king in all but name. He was the son of Duke Robert. (4) Hugh Capet, the son of Hugo the Great, seized the throne of France from the weak descendant of Charlemagne in 987 and was crowned king at Rheims.
He was the founder of the long line of kings that reigned in France down to 1848. He married a sister of Guilhelm Fier-a-Bras (William of the Iron Arm), Duke of Aquitaine. (5) Robert the Pious, Hugh's son, came to the throne in 996 and reigned until his death in 1031. He was a good man but a weak king. He married Constans of Provence.
(6) Henry, who became king in 1031 on the death of his father, was the third of the Capetian line. The whole of his twenty-nine years' reign was a constant struggle with his great nobles. Guerilla warfare was carried so far that the Church proclaimed a "Truce of God", by which no hostilities could take place from Thursday evening until Monday morning, or on feast days, or during Lent or Advent. King Henry married as his second wife and mother of his children Anne of Russia, daughter of the Grand Duke Jarolsav and descendant of Jaroslav the Great.
(7) Hugh Magnus, Count of Vermandois, better known as the Great Crusader, was the first of the great leaders to reach the Holy Land in 1096.
He was the second son of King Henry. He died in the city of Tarsus in 1102. (8) Lady Isabel, daughter of Count Hugh, married Robert de Bellemont, Earl of Mellent and first Earl of Leicester. (9) Earl Robert, the second, married Aurelia de la Ware, daughter of Ralph, Earl of Norfolk. Earl Robert was the Lord Chief Justice of England.
(10) Earl Robert, third Earl of Leicester, married Petronella, daughter of Hugh de Grantes-Mismil. (11) Lady Margaret de Bellemont, married Sieur de Quincy. He was in the Crusade of 1188-1192, under Richard Coeur de Lion, King of England. One of his fellow crusaders was Robert, third Earl of Leicester, afterward his father-in-law.
In 1207, King John created t his nobleman Earl of Winchester.
Neverthe less, when the barons rose against King John eight years later, he was one of the twenty-five great barons who signed the Magna Carta and compelled the king to do likewise. (12) Earl Roger, second Earl of Winchester, married Helen, daughter of Alen, Lord of Galloway. (13) Lady Elene de Quincy married Alen, Lord de la Zouche, Governor of the Castle of Northampton, who died in 1260. (14) Eudo de la Zouche married Lady Millicent de Cantelupe. (15) Lady Lucie de la Zouche married Sir Thomas, fifth Lord de Greene.