Descent from the Counts of Ostrevant, Amiens, Vexin, and Valois

This genealogical chart represents a reconstruction of the family from limited surviving sources and should not be accepted as proved without accompanying evidence. It is based on both unpublished material as well as the sources listed. 

It shows the line of descent of the ancestors of the Drake family from the Counts of Amiens, Valois, and the Vexin.  The coronets are illustrative, to demonstrate the rank of the individuals, but technically they are anachronistic for coronets of this style are a later development.  Heraldry, as we know it, also did not exist at this date, but the designs are those which some have attributed to the individuals indicated.

References for this diagram

Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, Fourth Edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002, Line 185.
The Sudeleys, Lords of Toddington, Manorial Society 1987
J. Horace Round, "The Counts of Boulogne" in Studies In Peerage and Family History.
Ann Williams, "The King’s Nephew: The Family and Career of Ralph, Earl of Hereford" in Brown, Studies in Medieval History, Boydell 1989.
Notes on the Descent of the Barons Sudeley of Toddington.
The Lord Sudeley, "Toddington and the Tracys," Trans. Bristol and Gloucester Arch Soc., Vol. 88, 1969.
"Wessex and England," Chart 6, in Searle, Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, Cambridge 1899.
"Sudeley," and "Tracy," Complete Peerage, Vol.12.
Burke’s Dormant and Extinct Peerage, London 1883.

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