The motto "non incautus futuri," a
phrase translated “not unmindful of the future” .
Lee Lineage, Stories & History
Beginning with Count Rollo or Rolf the
Viking
This is taken from the book: Genealogy of WILLIAM LEE 1
of England
And of Virginia and HIS DESCENDANTS
By: Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker in 1945
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE LEE FAMILY
Of South Carolina, Virginia, England, France and Norway
"The
family of Lee has more men of merit in it than any other family," wrote
John Adams (second President of the United States) in the year 1779. The record
of the LEE family has consistently been one of Leadership, Integrity, and high
Courage since the Lees came first to Virginia in the early part of 1600. It is
no exaggeration to say that the LEES have been "the most representative
family of the South." The life that developed in Virginia, the political
rule, and social dominance of a few rich plantation families-was unknown
elsewhere in the colonies, EXCEPT IN ARISTOCRATIC OLD SOUTH CAROLINA. The extent
to which this system contributed to the birth of our Nation is set forth in his
comprehensive and illuminating volume, "The Lees of Virginia" by
Burton J. Kendricks, who tells the complete story of the Virginia Lees for the
first time.
Our branch of the Lee family only lived in VA for a short period of time, arriving from England then moving to NC about 150 years later. We are not normally considered part of the 'famous VA Lee's' which primarily includes General Robert E. Lee. However we are cousin's and share the same heritage and prominence in colonial America. Our line split from his with John Lee, 1530 in England. Our branch was part of the early famous VA Lee's in early colonial America. In the future I will include details and history notes.
Where
It began…………….
Rollo,
Rou or Rolf was a Norse Chieftain of the Scandinavian Peninsula, from which the
Vikings drove their boats over the rough North Sea. (Scandinavia is a name
applied in a restricted sense to the Peninsulas of Norway and Sweden). In an
historical sense, Scandinavia includes Denmark and Iceland and in a literary
sense, besides these, the intellectual productions of the Swedish race in
Finland).
In
900-ONE THOUSAND AND ONE HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS AGO-this
Northman went into northern France along the English channel, and took the
north-west section-extending from Belgium along the channel to Brittany, and
including the Cherbourg Peninsula, extending inland about 100 miles.
In
911 Rollo was granted by King Charles, the Simple, of France, the possession of
Rouen, for his Capital, and the adjacent territory which Rollo had already
seized. This is the Normandy of today-where our American boys landed on D-Day,
June 6, 1944.
With
William, now called "the Conqueror," came one HUGH DE LEGA AND GILBERT
DE VENABLES, relatives, who fought so valiantly with William that they each were
given an estate in Essex (Eastern England). The LEE name was spelled Lee, Lea,
Leigh, de Lega and de Lee.
The
Lee Family of Stanton, Roden and afterwards of Langley and Coton Hall, Salop, IS
stated in Burke’s Baronetcies to be ONE of the oldest in England.
Ok,
now we start the list:
When
the family moved, a notation is made.*
Rollo,
Rou, or Rolf the Viking abt 900
Robert,
Duke of Normandy
Richard
the 1st, Duke of Normandy
Hugh
De Lega, granted land in Essex (eastern England) by William 'the conqueror'
after defeating England*
Reyner
le la Le
Reginald
de la Lega, became Sir Reiner De Lega, Knight, abt 1200's
Sir
John de la Le abt 1200's
Thomas
de la Lee abt 1295
Reginald
de la Lee abt 1321, Shropshire England*
John
de Lee 1347
Roger
de Lee 1376
John
de Lee 1398
John
de Lee 1430
Thomas
de Lee 1482
Humphrey
de Lee 1506
John
Lee, Esq 1530, Colton Eng*Village in Shropshire
John
Lee, Esq 1580 , Worcestershire Eng* Village of Essex
Richard
Lee "the immigrant" 1613 Shropshire Eng d. 1664 Northumberland, VA,
the colonies*
William
Lee, Esq 1648 or 1651
Richard
Lee, Esq 1670
John
Lee, Esq 1690
Edward
Lee 1726, Buckingham, VA, the colonies*
Lemuel
'Lom' Samuel Lee 1753, Johnston Cty, NC, the colonies*
William
Samuel Lee, 1794, Johnston Cty, NC, USA moved to Johnson Cty AR*
Daniel
R. Lee 1819
James
Knox Lee 1844
Samuel Lee 1885
Roy
Roosevelt Lee 1904
Kenneth
Carl Lee 1930
James
Michael Lee 1953
Prior to Rollo the Viking, (abt 900 AD), history scholars speculate that the Lee linage moved with the Roman empire though the Europe by way of Germany and France crossing over to the Scandinavian Countries. Rollo returned to France, settling in Normandy. This movement began about 100 AD. Prior to this period our family would have been Roman Citizens of what is now Italy. Prior ancestors would be conjecture according to World history records. It is my belief that we are related to Adam & Eve and did not come swinging out of any trees, but that ancestral line has yet to be determined………………..
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