Wife of Richard DeWhitfield, Isabel: I would sure like to know the source for this marriage/wife of Richard. The possibility of a connection to the Vipont family is the only connection possible so far to British royalty for the Ballard/Mildenhall line. If this Isabel is the correct one, her father would have been John FitzGeoffrey, the Earl of Essex and descendant of the De Clare family who came from the First Duke of Normandy, Richard "the Fearless." His great grandson was William the Conqueror and Duke of Normandy, King of England.
