My royal mother and our 17th Grandfather of 3 Queens

I finally did it! I proved that my mother was right, she was a descendant from British royalty. She told me once when I was little that she was a distant cousin of the Queen. No one else in my family remembers her saying this so I don't know if she was kidding or psychic or what! I knew I had loads of royalty on my father's side thanks to Cousin Arti's genealogy work but I just completed the link on my mothers side and I wish she were alive to hear it but maybe she's watching up there somewhere. :)

We are related to not one but THREE Queens through my 17th Great Grandfather on my mother's side, Sir William Tendring who grandfathered them all:  
Lady Catherine Howard, Duchess of Norfolk is your first cousin 19 times removed.

Queen Consort of England Anne Boleyn is your fifth cousin 13 times removed

Elizabeth I of England is your 6th cousin 12 times removed

Here is my relationship path to Sir William Tendring: 
→ Angela Jossy → Verla Rae Jossy, your mother → Helen King Wilson, her father → Orville William King, his father → Eliza King, his mother → Charles Fox, her father → Henry Fox, his father → Susannah Fox, his mother → Mary "Molly" Griswold, her mother → Susanna Collins, her mother → Stephen Peck, her father → Mary Peck, his mother → William Bunnell, her father → Rebecca Brooke, his mother → John Brooke, her father → Robert Brooke, his father → Florence Brooke, his mother → Cicely Ashfield, her mother → John Tendring, her father → Sir William Tendring, his father Sir William Tendring was the son of Sir William Tendring, Lord of the Manor of Tendring Hall at Stoke-by-Nayland, and Margaret, the daughter of Sir William Kerdiston of Claxton, Norfolk. He married Katherine, the daughter of William Mylde of Clare, Suffolk, and the widow of Sir Thomas Clopton of Long Melford, and succeeded to the lordship of Tendring Hall and other manors on the death of his father in 1375.

The couple had one child, Alice, a great heiress, who in 1398 married Sir John Howard and later carried the manor to the Howard family. Their grandson, Sir John Howard, the first Howard to become Duke of Norfolk, married c1442 Catherine Molyns, commemorated by a sixteenth-century brass in St Marys church. She and Sir John eventually became the great-grandparents of two queens, Ann Boleyn and Katherine Howard.

Sir William Tendring died in 1408; his wife in 1402. Sources: (The) history and antiquities of All Saints church, Sudbury, and of the Parish Generally, By Charles Badham, p. 145. [Accessed online on Google Books]. The Manors of Suffolk: The hundreds of Babergh and Blackbourn, Notes on Their History and Devolution, By Walter Arthur Copinger, Harold Bernard Copinger, p. 213. [Google Books] External Links: Sir William de Tendring (1339-1421) - Find A Grave-gedenkplek Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke-by-Nayland

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73386196/william-de-tendring

Sir William de Tendring of Stokes-By-Nayland, the son of William Tendring d 1375 and Maud de Kerdeston.

Grandson of William de Kerdeston and Margaret de Bacon, and brother of John Tendring.

William was the second husband of Katherine Mylde, the daughter of William Mylde of Suffolk. Katherine was first married to a Sir Thomas Clopton.

William and Katherine were married after October 12, 1383 and had one daughter, Alice, who would marry Sir John Howard, the Sheriff of Essex.

William fought alongside King Henry V at Agincourt. He became the distant grandfather of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I.

His memorial brass is the oldest and finest at St Mary's.