Grant Menzies

8.  Hildegarde of Flanders, died  10 Apr.990; married Dirk Count of  Holland and in Kennemerland, Texel and Maasland, died  6 May 988, son of Dirk, Count in Kenemerland, and Geva.

9.  Arnulf Count of Holland, born in an unknown year maybe in Gent, mentioned from 26.10.970, died  in battle against the Frisians 18 Sep.993; married  980 Luitgarde of Luxemburg.

10.  Dirk Count of Holland 993-1039, died  27 May 1039; married  Othelhildis von der Nordmark

11.  Floris Count of Holland 13.1.1049-1061, died  in battle at Nederhemert 28 Jun.1061; married  ca. 1050 Gertrude of Saxony, dau. of Bernhard II Duke in Saxony and Eilika von Babenberg.

12.  Bertha of Holland, born ca. 1055, died  1093; married  1071/2 (div.1092) Philippe I. King of France, born  1053, died  29 Jul.1108, bur. Abbey of St. Benoit son of Henri I. King of France and Anna Jaroslawna Grand Princess of Kiev.

13.  Louis VI. “le Gros” King of France, Crusader, born  1081, died  1 Aug.1137, bur. St. Denis; married  1115 Adelaide of Savoy, dau. of Humbert II Count of Maurienne & Savoy

14.  Louis VII. “le Jeune” King of France, Crusader, born  1120, died  18 Sep.1180, bur. Notre Dame de Barbeau; married  III 8 Nov.1160 Adelaide (Alix) de Blois-Champagne, dau. of Theobald IV. Count of Blois and Mathilda of Carinthia.

15.  Philippe II. “Augustus” King of France, Crusader, born  Gonesse 22 Aug.1165, died  Mantes 14 Jul.1223, bur. St. Denis; married  I. Bapaume 28 Apr.1180 Isabella of Hainaut, Countess of Artois, dau. of Baldwin V. Count of Hainaut and Marguerite of Lorraine.

16.  Louis VIII. “le Lion” King of France, born  1187, died  Montpensier 8 Nov.1226; married  1200 Blanche Princess of Castile, dau. of Alfonso VIII King of Castile and Eleanor Princess of England.

17.  Louis IX. “St Louis” King of France, Crusader, born  Poissy 25 Apr.1215, died  near Tunis on crusade 25 Aug.1270, canonized 11 Aug.1297; married  27 May 1234 Marguerite de Provence, dau. of Raymond IV. “Berenger” Count of Provence and Beatrice of Savoy.

18.  Philippe III. “le Hardi” King of France, born  1245, died  Perpignan 1285; married  I. 28 May 1262 Isabella Princess of Aragon, dau. of James I. King of Aragon and Yolanda Princess of Hungary.

19.  Charles de Valois, Prince of France, born  12 Mar.1270/71, died  16 Dec.1325; married  16 Aug.1290 Margaret Princess of Sicily, dau. of Carlo II. King of Sicily, Naples & Jerusalem and Maria Princess of Hungary.

20.  Jeanne de Valois, born  ca. 1294, died  7 Mar.1342; married  19 May 1305 Wilhelm III Count of Hainaut and Holland, son of Jean II. Count of Hainaut and Philippa of Luxemburg.

21.  Jeanne of Hainaut and Holland, born ca. 1315, died  1374; married Wilhelm I. Duke of Juelich, died  26 Feborn 1361, son of Gerhard V. of Juelich.

22.  Philippa Princess of Juelich, died  24 Aug.1390; married  Gottfried III Count of Loen & Chiny, died  1395, son of Johann I. of Dalenbroich & Heinsberg and Katharina von Voorne.

23.  Johanna von Heinsberg; married  19 May 1375 Wilhelm VI Count of Horn & Altena, died  bef. 1417, son of Wilhelm V. von Horn and Mechthild von Arkel.

24.  Oda Countess of Horn-Parweys, died  aft.1442; married  28 Jan.1417. Johann II. Von Gemen, Lord of Gemen, Oeding, Grebben, Pelland, Dukenburg, Winterswyck & Dinxperloo, died  1458, son of Heinrich II. Lord of Gemen and Katharina von Bronckhorst.

25.  Katharina von Gemen; married  1442 Johann von Nesselrode, Lord of Stein at Battenberg, born ca.1424, died 1498, son of Wilhelm II. von Nesselrode and Swanholt von Landsberg.

26.  Irmgard von Nesselrode; married Berthold III. von Plettenberg, of Meyrich and Walgut, died  bef.28 Oct.1500.

27.  Elisabeth von Plettenberg; married Gunthram Schenk zu Schweinsberg, Burgmann of Friedberg, jousted in the tournament given at the wedding of Wilhelm III of Hessen and Elisabeth von der Pfalz in 1494, died  1524, son of the Hessian Marshall and Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Johann Schenk zu Schweinsberg and Margaretha von Schlitz gen. Goertz.

28.  Rudolf Schenk zu Schweinsberg, Burgmann of Friedberg, Landvogt of the Werra, Ambassador to the Imperial Diet, Vice-Gerent for Landgrave Philipp “the Magnanimous” at Kassel, born ca. 1490, matric. University of Erfurt, died  15 Dec.1551; married  14 Jun.1524 Helena von Doernberg, born  1502, died  Aug.1544 in childbed, dau. of Wilhelm von Doernberg and Margaretha von Carben.

29.  Barbara Schenk zu Schweinsberg; married   Philipp Ulrich von Buseck, Lord of Dorlar, died  1557, son of Johann von Buseck and Margaretha von Walderdorff.

30.  Wilhelm Reinhard von Buseck, ment. at Dorlar 1595, died  bef. 1613; married  II Maria von Lehrbach, fl. 1616, dau. of Dietrich von Lehrbach and Juliana Riedesel zu Josbach

31.  Helwig von Buseck, Imperial Lieutenant (Lueneberg and Papenheim), born ca.1600, died  at the battle of Wittstock 4 Oct.1636; he had, by a woman whom he met near Hildesheim in winter 1635/36, a daughter, named

32.  Christina, born  posthumously 1636, recognized as Helwig von Buseck’s natural daughter by his family as well as by court decree dated June 1664 & awarded 1/6 of his estate (file in Staatsarchiv Darmstadt), died  1694; married  Matthaeus Stein, juryman and deacon, born ca.1630 Beuern, Oberhessen, bur. same 11 Oct.1719, son of Johannes Stein.

33.  Anna Elisabeth Stein, born  Beuern 1659, conf.1675, died  aft. 1752 same; married  Beuern 22 May 1683 Johannes Praetorius, teacher and organist, born  Bobenhausen 1663, conf.1675 same, died  Beuern 1705, son of Henrich Praetorius, teacher and organist in Bobenhausen (also a descendant of Charles “the Great”).

34.  Johann Wilhelm Moritz Praetorius, teacher and organist, bapt. Beuern 2 Jan.1689, died  same.23 Jan.1763; married  23 Jul.1709 Anna Maria Dapper, bapt. Treis/Lumda 3 Aug.1690, died  Beuern 6 Feborn 1758, dau. of Johann Caspar Dapper and Anna Margaretha Barthold.

35.  Elisabeth Katharina Praetorius, born  Beuern Sep.1717, died  Reiskirchen, Oberhessen 31 Jan.1791; married  Reiskirchen 20 Aug.1740 Conrad Heinrich Stoll, teacher in Reiskirchen, bapt. Reiskirchen 22 Oct.1699, died  same 20 Jun.1777, son of Johann Wilhelm Stoll, teacher in Reiskirchen and Anna Catharina Juenger, desc. of Caspar Juenger, first schoolmaster of Reiskirchen.

36.  Maria Magdalena Stoll, born  Reiskirchen 8 Mar.1759, died  same 10 Feborn 1814 (allegedly due to an attack of nerves brought on by Russian troops marching through Reiskirchen); married  Reiskirchen 5 Feborn 1778 Johann Caspar Stein, teacher in Reiskirchen, musketeer in the Royal Life Guard in Darmstadt 1777, born  Ober-Ohmen 6 Apr.1758, died  Reiskirchen 6 Jan.1834, son of Johann Caspar Stein and Anna Elisabeth Geist.

37.  Maria Catharina Stein, born  Reiskirchen 21 Feborn 1784, died  same. 17 Feborn 1870; married  same 10 Sep.1809 Johannes Strack, Forest Overseer to the Baron Friedrich Salentin von Zwierlein, born  Reiskirchen 9 Apr.1781, bapt.same 11 Apr., died same 29 Jun.1853, natural son of Elisabeth Dorothea Strack and a Freiherr von Nordeck zur Rabenau (? Hugo Leopold, 1755-1832).

38.  Wilhelmina Strack, born  Reiskirchen 3 Oct.1820, died  same 17 Mar.1901; married  same 26 Dec.1838 Johannes Launspach IX., master-cobbler, born  5 Mar.1809, died  9 Apr.1879, son of Johannes Launspach, Buergermeister in Reiskirchen and Elisabeth Juenger.

39.  Ludwig Caspar Launspach, born  Reiskirchen 30 Nov.1863, bapt.same 26 Dec., immarried  To US 1883, died  Los Angeles, CA 22 Nov. 1924, bur. Rosedale Cemetery; married  I Minneapolis, MN 9 Sep.1895 Elisabetha Lepper (his 3rd cousin), born  Reiskirchen 3 Aug.1863, bapt.same 17 Aug., died  Los Angeles 6 Oct.1912, bur. Rosedale Cemetery, dau. of Lorenz Lepper and Anna Maria Stumpf

40.  Gertrude May Launspach, born  Tulare, CA (en route to L.A.) 24 May 1896, bapt.Los Angeles 13 Dec., died  Mariposa, CA 14 Dec. 1978, bur. Masonic Cemetery in Mariposa; married  Los Angeles 25 Sep.1929 John Menzies, born  Aberdeen, Scotland 12 Apr.1899, died  Mariposa 13 Nov.1980, bur. Masonic Cemetery in Mariposa, 33rd degree Mason, etc., fought in WWI with the Royal Black Watch  and the Gordon Highlanders regiments, son of John Grant Menzies and Mary Walker of Aberdeen.

41.  Ronald Grant Menzies, born  Yosemite Park, CA 1 Aug.1930; married  II Mariposa, CA 23 Sep.1961 Glenda Joyce Strawser, born  Bakersfield, CA 8 Nov.1938, dau. of Earl Weston Strawser and Nina Lewis.

42a. Grant Menzies, born  Mariposa, CA 2 Jun.1964, married 28 May 2005, in Sidney, British Columbia, to Leslie Alan Hayter, formerly of Dundee, Scotland.
42b. Sean William Menzies, born  25 Apr.1966;
42c. Ronda Louise Menzies, born  15 May 1970

• Sources:

• Birth, bapt., and marriage certificates on file Mariposa, Tulare, and Los Angeles, CA;

•  Churchbooks in Reiskirchen, Oberhessen, Germany;
•  “Hassia Sacra” by Dr. Wilhelm Diehl, for Strack p.218, for Stein and Stoll pp.72 & 76 Reiskirchen;

•  Churchbooks in Beuern; “Hassia Sacra”, v.s.;
•  for Christina Stein’s paternity see Staatsarchiv Darmstadt [StA E 12 15/10], as well as Deutsches Geschlechterbuch Vol.64, p.470, and
•  “Mitteilungen” Vol. 8, Hessisches familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung, 1953;
•  Deutsches Geschlechterbuch Vol. 52;
•  “Chronik” of teacher Johannes Sommerlad, entries from 1881;

•  Familie von Buseck genealogy, Dr. Bernhard Sommerlad, Berlin;
•  “Die Familie von Buseck im Kreise Wetzlar,”
•  “Neues zur Geschichte des Klosters Dorlar,” Samstagsblatt des Wetzlarer Anzeigers, Ernst Heider, Dorlar, August 1929;
•  private archives of the Familie von Buseck (given to the Staatsarchiv Darmstadt in 1997);
•  “Johann Schenk zu Schweinsberg, 1465-1503,” by Hans George Freiherr Schenk zu Schweinsberg, Konstanz;
•  “Die Schenken von Schweinsberg,” in Germanenrechte NF, Dt. Rechtl. Arch., Heft 3, Histor. Institut des Werra, 1953, pp.11-13, 53;
•  Europaeische Stammtafeln;
•  Deutsches Familienarchiv, Vol. 14 (Schleussner), Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt/Aisch 1960;
•  “Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists…”, Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, 6th Edition.

• "De genealogie der graven van Holland", by dr A.W.E.Dek, ´s Gravenhage 1954