Willaim de Tracy

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 25:26, 222:26, William de Tracy, illegitimate son of Herny I, King of England and an unknown mistress and the father of an unknown daughter who married Gervase de Courtenay, and a likely grandfather of Oliver de Tracy. William de Tracy had a son and heir, Sir William Tracy, who is believed to be one of the four murderers of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Willian Tracy. ⁵⁴³
Guillaume de Jumièges names "Willelmus de Traceio" as one illegitimate son of King Henry I, adding that he died soon after his father [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Du Chesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XXIX, p. 306]. The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, records that "Guillaume de Tracy," seventh illegitimate son of King Henry I, died soon after his father [Extrait de la Chronique de Normandie, RHGF XIII, p. 253].