All hearsay at the moment, the connection between Colonel William Bernard of Virginia and the Abington predecessors who claim Agincourt and the Crusades. An ordinary name and many ensuing generations...
Robert Bernard, born circa 1374, son of William son of Gilbert son of William son of Godfrey son of an amoeba, married Elizabeth Lylling, daughter of Sir Nicholas Lillyng, sheriff 1384 of Abington among other things.
[Source: from Visitations, Vicents's MSS 114 in College of Arms the Spencer evidences, inquisitions and parochial register of Abington]
Thomas Bernard, born 1415, died 1464, of Abington, Clare and Little Bringhton, married Margaret Mauntell. Fought at Agincourt, echeator for Northumberland in 1415.
John Bernard, born 1437, died 1485/86, of Abington, married Margaret le Scroope
John Bernard, born 1469, died 1508, married Margaret Daundelyn
John Bernard, born 1492 and died 1549, of Abington, married Cecily Muscote
Francis Bernard, born 1530, died 1609, of Abington, married Alice Haslewood>, born 1526, daughter of John Esquire
Francis Bernard, born 1556, died November 21, 1630, of Kingsthorpe, married Mary Woolhouse>, born circa 1560 in St. Magnus Paris, London, married circa 1595 [?].
[Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I, —Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons: Capt. Thos Bernard, an early settler in the present Warwick county, burgess for Stanley Hundred in 1632 and for Warwick river in 1641, 1642, 1644 and 1645, daughter Behethland married Maj. Francis Dade.]
Col. William Bernard, born 1598, died 1665, married Lucy Higginson (widow of Major Lewis Burwell) before 1646. Came to Virginia circa 1640.
Lucy Bernard, married Dr. Edmund Gwynne
Lucy Gwynne married Thomas Reade
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