Coate/Dudick "Ancestrees"

ALEMAR ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Alemar/Alemarus was given land by William the Conqueror for his services in helping defeat King Harold, the Anglo-Saxon in 1086. This land is in Tilton, co. Leicester., England according to the famous Peerage and Baronetage books, c1915. He is listed as the illegitimate son of William the Conqueror is some 2nd hand sources, but this is highly in question. This Digby family went by the name of Tilton when their estate was in Leicestershire under the reign of King Henry II. Under King Henry III, they moved to Digby in Co. Lincolnshire, England instead.

Alemar's son in Jospeh Digby's book was Esquire William De Digby. In the genealogy produced in the 1500's or so by the Digby family (currently housed in the genealogy collection at Castle Dublin) using their original land grants, wills etc. the oldest listed known Digby was Esquire De Digby De Tilton who was the father of Esquire William. His first name is unreadable, but doesn't resemble Alemar at all. The rest of the lineage down follows by name exactly. (C-2162, 2163) I have 2 theories here. That Alemar is the father of the Esquire De Digby De Tilton listed at the top of the 1500's manuscript which would best account for a normal time chart of the births of the next several generations, or he is the same person as the Esquire De Digby De Tilton. If that is true, then the following generations had to have sons in the main line of descent in their 50's to extend into the time period where dates were known.

If the first theory above is true, Joseph Digby gives a 2nd son for Alemar named Everard. The 1500's manuscript's oldest generation who is the father of Esquire William De Digby looks much more like Everard than Alemar so possibly Everard is the father, and Alemar is the grandfather. If anyone has a clearer copy of the original Digby manuscript that is readable in the first generation, please share as it could straighten out the earliest known generations in this line. ³