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Genealogies
From 1066

Trade - an international perspective

This Merchants and Bankers Listings website is years old and is now (from 2009) undergoing a marked identity change. Its timeline material on economic history (for 1560-1930) is being moved to a website managed by Ken Cozens and Dan Byrnes, The Merchant Networks Project. This will empty many of this website's pages which have always been in series. In due course, Merchants and Bankers Listings will carry information from the Crusades on the early development of what became �capitalism� in Europe to 1560 or so. As well as a conglomeration of data on modern developments, mostly on modern/technical industry, computing, and for the future, today's climate change problems. The editor's view is that in the context of climate change, the views of Merchants and Bankers (and Economists), the keepers of matters economic, are due for a considerable shake-up. If this website can encourage the shake-up, and help inform it reliably, well and good. -Ed

This website, produced by Australian historian Dan Byrnes, is a no-frills, text-based website designed simply to list historical and genealogical information on many notable merchants and traders of what is termed, the Western World.

It is hoped that this web page will be of assistance to family historians in the UK, the US, Australasia and elsewhere, by way of providing contexts for further research.

Trade and genealogies-plus

From the Editor ... Purpose of this series of files

The Merchant Networks Project

	The history websites on this domain now have a companion website on a new domain, at Merchant Networks Project produced by Dan Byrnes and Ken Cozens (of London). This website (it is hoped) will become a major exercise in economic and maritime history, with some attention to Sydney, Australia.

Genealogy remains hugely popular in the US. Many US webmasters for a variety of reasons seem to find it entertaining to press their research as far back into historical England as possible. However, I have noticed that many genealogical researchers in the US are less-than-familiar with the English social and class systems.
There are also two basic kinds of history to inspect - the history of rulership, concerned with the upper classes, and history-from-below, which is more concerned with the living conditions of ordinary people as timeframes change. But both of these two divisions of historical curiosity can easily intrigue an economic historian. All of which gave me an idea...
Following on from earlier files presented here on VIKINGS, will now be a series (of which this file is just one) for discussion (admittedly somewhat patchy in places) of notable economic operators in England (and in other countries) from 1066, the time of William the Conqueror. This series will present large blocks of family lineages, mostly given in small type, and sometimes given with no comment at all, with any discussion(s) given in larger type.

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In such a set of contexts, it seems useful to give distraction from the affairs of royalty, to make room for discussion(s), and to divide timeframes (almost automatically), by treating the genealogies of the Lords Mayor of London. And sometimes, the genealogies of London alderman.
Some observations: (1) With use of Internet resources, especially maps, it is becoming easier to give more detailed attention to regions, so the progress of families can be regionalised more sensibly.
(2) The Internet is particularly useful for presenting lists, which in print media might seem boring. More to come on this point here in this series of files)
(3) The Internet is internationally available, quickly: books are not.
In places in the series' files will appear interesting remarks, comments and information from economic and other historians. Useful citations to book treatments will be given where appropriate. This sort of approach will inevitably mean a deal of repetition in presentations, for which no apology will be made. The chief hope of the series is that it will become entertaining. - Ed.
Brief note on method: The genealogies given will retain numberings for individuals (found to the right hand margin of an individual name) as given by my database, so that I can find my own way back to various information for update purposes. These numberings however are meaningless in themselves and provide no logic or information as to any kind of meaningful sequence. Where I remain dissatisfied with information on an individual, this will be indicated with the individual being labelled as a "data problem", simply so I can make my own way through my database to be able to improve such information in time to come.

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If you value the information posted here, and the projects of these websites in general, you may like to consider making a donation to help reduce our production costs? It would be greatly appreciated. Options include: paying via PayPal which this website uses - Ed

Reference item: Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy, 600-1600. Montreal, 1980.*

1098: First Crusade: An Italian distinguishing himself in First Crusade is the founder of the Visconti family, Ottone, mentioned in 1078 is Viscount of Milan.

Crusaders: Council of Troyes grants a Rule to The Templars.

1135AD: Stephen of Blois becomes King of England.

1136: Barons of England revolt.

1141-1144AD: Conquest of Normandy by Geoffrey Plantagenet (Anjou).

1166AD: Seizure of Brittany by Henry II of England.

1167AD: Formation of the Lombard League.

1174AD: Holding of first organised English horse races.

Some material given in this series of files on London Lords Mayor is from: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Also check Website: London Lord Mayor -
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/business_city/lordmayor/
The Lord Mayor of London is the Mayor of the City of London. The Lord Mayor is the head of the Corporation of London. The Lord Mayor of London is not to be confused with the Mayor of London, an elected politician for the Greater London Authority. Today the Lord Mayor is chosen by liverymen, or members of the City's Livery Companies on Michaelmas. During his one-year term, he fulfills several roles: as Chief Magistrate of the City; Admiral of the Port of London; Chancellor of the City University; Trustee of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

The role of Lord Mayor of London has existed since 1189 and was first held by Henry Fitzailwyn. Since 1215 the post has been sanctioned by a Royal Charter which stipulates that each year the newly-elected Lord Mayor must present himself to the monarch and swear loyalty to the Crown. This ceremonial procedure now forms part of the Lord Mayor's Show, an annual procession from the City of London to the City of Westminster. (From: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)

Lord Mayors of London

London Lord Mayor 1189-1211 Henry Fitzailwyn

1199AD: Death of King Richard I (The Lionheart), after being wounded while besieging castle of Chalus in France, succeeded by his brother John. Transfer of Gien to Philip II. John (Lackland) is King of England.

London Lord Mayor 1212-1214 Roger Fitzalan

1214AD: John of England invades France. French Victory at Bouvines. Establishment of a new port at Paris by Philip II.

London Lord Mayor 1215 Serlo le Mercer

1215AD: In England, writing of the Magna Carta.
In 1215AD: at Runnymede, King John forced to sign Magna Carta by nobles. Magna Carta is condemned by Pope Innocent III.

London Lord Mayor 1215 William Hardel

London Lord Mayor 1216 James Alderman

London Lord Mayor 1217 Salomon de Basing

London Lord Mayor 1218-1221 Serlo le Mercer

London Lord Mayor 1222-1226 Richard Renger

London Lord Mayor 1227-1231 Roger le Duke

London Lord Mayor 1231-1237 Andrew Buckerel

London Lord Mayor 1238 Richard Renger

London Lord Mayor 1239 William Joynier

London Lord Mayor 1240 Gerard Bat

London Lord Mayor 1240 Reginald de Bungheye

London Lord Mayor 1241-1243 Ralph Ashwy

London Lord Mayor 1244/45 Michael Tovy

London Lord Mayor 1246 John Gisors

London Lord Mayor 1246 Peter Fitzalan

London Lord Mayor 1247/48 Michael Tovy

London Lord Mayor 1249 Roger Fitzroger

London Lord Mayor 1250 John Norman

1250AD: Approx. Global warming? The first one-third of the second millennium has much warmer than weather we have now. "Greenland" was actually green and Viking settlers managed to grow crops there, something which current temperatures do not support", according to Barry Hearn, co-ordinator of an Australian environmental group, EVAG. (Comparison: The 1990s were Australia's hottest decade since records-keeping began.)

1252AD: Financial event: Florence and Genoa strike gold florins.

1264AD: France: Uprisings of the Barons.

1271AD: The great Crusader castle Krak de Chevaliers in Syria, built by Knights Hospitaller of St. John, is forced to surrender. Crusades can be seen as a stimulus to trade. Merchant classes grow in Pisa, Milan, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Siena, as investors and tax collectors for the Pope. Medici banking family of Florence has branches at Milan, Naples, Pisa, Venice, Geneva, Lyons, Avignon, Bruges and London.

1272AD: Edward I is king of England.

Circa 1275: Italian Banker/merchant RUSTIGACCIO, active circa 1275 in England, by the Guadagnabene.
Lloyd, Alien Merchants, p. 173.

1282-1283AD: Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England.

Circa 1280s: Italian Banker/Merchant SCOTTI, active about 1285, He is of Piacenza, Italy, dealing with (Italian?) merchants in the Low Countries and England. At first a prominent company, but of little importance by the 1280s.
Lloyd, Alien Merchants, p. 173.

Circa 1291: Italian Banker/merchant of Siena , BONSIGNORI, re payment to Riccardi on behalf of Edward I to go to the Papacy, working in England. The Bonsignori later failed.
Lloyd, Alien Merchants, pp. 170-173.

Circa 1294: Italian Banker/trader RICCARDI of Lucca, an Italian merchant-banking company. Edward I dismissed them in 1294 from tax collection/civil services. tempe Edward 1, the Riccardi help with negotiations re marriage of the Maid of Norway to Prince Edward. A loan arises from the Norwegian king to Edward I, and helping Riccardi here is William Servat, who appears in England from the early 1270s, associated with the Soliz Bros (Arndold de Soliz) and Arnold Griffin. Griffin has been in England since the 1250s, and he is associated with the Soliz group till about 1288, and to 1304 or so he does business with Norway. Servat deals also in wine, to October 1309. By 1305, Servat has a London house " Servat's Tower", and is a well-established and a London alderman; he is a countryman of Poncius de Mora, a butler to Henry II (a Cahorsin).
Lloyd, Alien Merchants, p. 35, pp. 95ff.

Circa 1294: Italian Banker/merchant BELLARDI, active about 1294. Italians arrive in England from Lucca, about 1294 and are later joined by Moriconi and Godele.
Lloyd, Alien Merchants, p. 173.

1307AD: Destruction of Order of The Templars, suppression by King Philip IV of France. 1307-1314AD: Trial of The Templars.

Circa 1319: Italian Banker/merchant BARDI, are merchants of Florence in England by 1319 or so.
Lloyd, Alien Merchants, p. 169.

Circa 1325: Portugal's king Diniz (1279-1325) amongst other initiatives creates a navy, importing Genoese admiral Emmanuel di Pozagna, and also makes a commercial treaty with England.

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