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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:
Lionel of Antwerp Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of EDWARD III, married Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster {1352}; their daughter:
Princess Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March {1368}; their daughter:
Lady Elizabeth Mortimer married Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy {c. 1388}; their son:
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland married Lady Eleanor Nevill {c. 1415}; their son:
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland married Eleanor, Lady Poynings {1435}; their son:
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland married Maud Herbert, Countess of Northumberland c. 1474; their son:
Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland married to Catherine Spencer , Countess of Northumberland.; their son:
Sir Thomas Percy (1504-1537) married Eleanor Harbottle; their daughter:
Johanna (Joan) Percy (1521-1572) married Arthur Harris of Prittwell, Essex; their son:
William Harris (1505-1556) of Southminister married 2nd Joan Cooke; their son:
Arthur Harris (1530-1597) married Dorothy Walgrave; their son:
Sir William Harris (1556-1616) of Crixe Co. Essex, married Alice Smythe; their son:
Capt. Thomas Harris, of Crixe, Co. Essex, (b. 1587), came to Virginia in 1611, married 1st, in England, Adria Hoare; their daughter:
Mary Harris married Lt. Col. Thomas Ligon (1623-1675 ~ New World Ligon family founder); their son:
Richard Ligon (b. 1657 in Henrico Co, VA - d. 1724), married Mary Worsham; their son:
Henry Ligon, b. in Henrico Co., Va., married his cousin Sarah Ligon; their son:
Henry Ligon (1751-1784), born in Virginia, married Elizabeth ____ {1769}; their daughter:
Elizabeth Lucinda LIGON married Armistead Pamplin January 21, 1793 in Prince Edward Co., Virginia; their son:
James Ligon Pamplin
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.