New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-30
THE LAUREATES LINEAGE.

From The ST. JamsTs Gczete
That Mr; Tennyson comes of an ancient house II
generally known: not every one, perhaps. Is aware
of the number of 2rinces soldiers, and statesmen,
famous in British or European history, from whom
an exhaustive list of his royal and noble ancestors,
ii may be interesting at the present moment to
The Laureate;s descent from John Savage, Esri
Rivers of which stock came JOhnsOn's friendl, i'm
plies descent from the Lady Anne, eldest sister Of
namely the first three Edwards, Henry Ill, John,
the first two HenTys William the Gonqneror, Ed
P1H$ 5Snid Sa Ea FdR As SSn 9s Ed the
Ethelwulf. and Egbert But Edward III: was the
son Of Isabella. daughter Of Philip the Fair King
nine intervening French Kings; among whom were
Robert IL, Philip Augustus, Louis VIII, and ST.
LOUIS. The last Ia not the only saint who hgires
ii. was Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand ILL.,, King
of CASTLE and Leon, who was canonized BY Glenn
entX. Again. through the marriage of Edmund Of
Peter the Cruel, Mr. TennysOn deseends from sam
cho the Great and AlphOnso the Wise. Other crown
Barbarossa. and several Kings of Scotland, notably
Malcolm III. and "tho gracious Duncan, his faith
In truth, the Shskespearian gallery Is crowded
with port ats of his progenitors-t;s beside those
already mentioned, John of Gaunt, Edmund MOrti-
mer Earl Of March. Richard Earl of Cambridge,
Beaufort Duke Of Somerset, Lord Hastings lof the
reigns of Edward w. and Richard ILL., and Lord
the iirst Earl of Derby and that third Earl with
whose SasS the glory tS q
"stout Stanley" who fronted he right Of the Scots
at Flodden, and whose name in Scott's poem, was
the last on the lips of the dying Marmion. Lord
MaGmGn sas Se Sg tHs fev es M.mp per
Lords of Fontensy in Normandy. was highly distin-
guished; Robert de MarmiOu, follower Of Duke
town Of Tam%orth. This Roberts descendant,
Avice married John, Lord Grey of Rotherheld, one
of the original knights of the Garter whose great
granddaughter became lin l40l) the wife Of John,
Lord d'Eyncourt, another ancestor Of Mr.. Tenny-
sons; whose uncle, the Right Honorable Charles
assumed the name of ID Enycourt by royal license.
To return to Sir Edward Stanley, who, unbidden
by my tho hero, did very likely
charge with spur Of fire,
Witt. Chester charge, and Lancashire,
Full upon scOtland's central host
and certainly contributed not little to the decis
i've victory obtained over the army of James Nv.
"For which good service" according 10 Burke,
Horny Will, keeping his Whitsuntlde ut Ethan
the next ensuing yeilT l5l !, commanded that Sir
where he won the hill =. . as also that his an"
cestors bore the eagle in IN, crest should be there
proclaimed Lord Of MOnteayic, and ne had snose;
duently summons Ia Parliament IN that dignity"
From him deSdended that William, Lord Mont
eagle TOT the same creation thougi. no. Stanley
vCaled-if 1t did reveal--the Gunpowder treason
And Of thar nObleman's posterityis nv. tennysoni
who is thus also sprung nom sister Of nu' nj tne
conspirators francis Iresham, to wltl who had the
III luck to be taken but the good luck To aie nat
ural death in prison before he could be 5ronghb 70
trial. =, -. o.,l .
of his noble BIRTH Mr.. Tennyson never even aludes
10 hs ancestry; and it would be difficult one Sas-
pects to find half -dozen references 70 tho famous
personages Enumerated above IN Al ms pOetry'
though one. in the Ode Oh the DEATH Wellington,
Is sufficiently suggestive. "Truthteller,' we are
reminded. "was our Engiand's Alfred named" He
was also called the Great aud there are VINO may
thinh that auch forefather was well worth conf
msinoratin9 AZ "that gray King" whom the author
of the Idylls himself Is fain to pronounce an al
most wholly legendary being