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DESCENT OF ELIZABETH LUCINDA LIGON FROM ENGLISH NOBILITY

During the early years of America, while it was still a colony of Great Britain, the custom of primogeniture (whereby the eldest son in titled families succeeded to his father’s estate to the absolute exclusion of the younger sons) was still a strict rule of English law. In consequence, many younger sons of the nobility migrated to the colonies to seek their own fortunes. Such a younger son, Sir Richard Ligon, came to America with his near kinsman, Lord Berkeley; as did also Thomas Harris, son of Sir William Harris. The families of these younger sons intermarried, and one of their descendants was Elizabeth Lucinda Ligon. She became the wife of Armistead Pamplin (The Pamplin Family & Connections, Volume I, page 160, No. 9) and passed down her royal descent to subsequent generations of Pamplins.

Elizabeth Lucinda Ligon (variously spelled Lygon, Liggin) was a direct descendant of KING EDWARD III (1327-1377 AD) of England through his second son, Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence. Inasmuch as her descendants share with the present Royal House of Windsor a common descent from King Edward III (as well as other peers of the realm including many Barons of the Magna Carta), they are collateral cousins of William Ligon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1938 -- ), who presently (1984) occupies the ancestral family home, Madresfield Court, at Powke, Worchestershire, England. The royal descent of Elizabeth Lucinda Ligon (see Appendix D, page 343 for other lineages.) follows:

1. LIONEL, son of EDWARD III, married Lady Elizabeth de Burgh; their daughter:

2. Phillippa married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March; their daughter:

3. Elizabeth Mortimer, married Henry Percy ("Hotspur"), K.G.; their son:

4. Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (d. 1461), married Eleanor Nevill; their son:

5. Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (d. 1461), married Eleanor Poynings; their son:

6. Henry Percy, K.G. (murdered in 1489), married Maud Herbert; their son:

7. Henry Algernon Percy, K.B., K.G. (d. 1527) married Catherine Spencer; their son:

8. Thomas Percy married Eleanor Harbottle; their daughter:

9. Johanna Percy married Arthur Harris of Prittwell, Essex; their son:

10. William Harris of Southminster married 2nd Joan Cooke; their son:

11. Arthur Harris (Herrys) married Dorothy Walgrave; their son:

12. Sir William Harris of Crixe Co. Essex, married Alice Smith; their son:

13. Capt. Thomas Harris, of Crixe, Co. Essex, (b. 1587), came to Virginia in 1611, married 1st, in England, Adria Gurganey; their daughter:

14) Mary Harris married Col. Thomas Ligon; their son:

15. Richard Ligon (b. 1657 in Henrico Co, VA - d. 1724), married Mary Worsham; their son:

16. Henry Ligon, b. in Henrico Co., Va., married his cousin Sarah Ligon; their son:

17. Henry Ligon, born in Virginia, married Elizabeth ____; their daughter:

18. ELIZABETH LUCINDA LIGON married Armistead Pamplin January 21, 1793 in Prince Edward Co., Virginia.

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Sources consulted for preparation of the Elizabeth Lucinda Ligon lineage:

Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 105th Edition (1975), esp. page 205;
Magna Charta: Families of Royal Descent, by John S. Wurts
(Philadelphia: Brookfield Publishing Co., 1950), esp. pages 2218-2222;
The Ligon Family and Connections, by William D. Ligon, Jr.
(Hartford, Conn.: The Bond Press, Inc., 1947), esp. pages 351, 379. 381 and 700.