Nathaniel Fitzrandolph

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NEW JERSEY with the rank of Captain. DAR Ancestor #: A134036

A distant relative, included here due to his involvement in founding Princeton University.

http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/fitzrandolphgates.asp

I find it hard to believe that Nathaniel. Fitzrandolph 1703-1780? was a Capt in the Rev War at age 76-77?

 The DAR record is wrong. It has confused Nathaniel with a nephew  also named Nathaniel who WAS a Capt, Prisoner, and wounded. he died in 1780 and he was NOT age  76 or 77. There is a plethora of Nathaniels in the Fitzrandolph family from NJ.

 Was Nathaniel 1703-1780? a Patriot? I don't know, it is possible  he contributed to the cause in some way if he didn't die before the War.  However as a quaker, he may not have.  

A REVISED, DOCUMENTED RANDOLPH GENEALOGiCAL OUTLINE FROM A.D. 860 FROM ROLF TO NATHANIEL FITZ RANDOLPH

(l) Rolf (or Ralph, Radulphus, or Randolph) -- The Norseman Conqueror, born about A.D. 860 and died in 952. He married Gisela, daughter of King Charles of France. He embraced Christianity. (Of Course, at that time and down to about the time of Martin Luther all Christiane were Roman Catholics) He made himself independent of Harold of Norway, made expeditions to Scotland, England and Flanders, and about 912 established himself in northern France. He became the first Duke of Normandy. NOTE -- Rolf, Ralph, Rauf, were abbreviations in the middle Ages for: Randolph, Randolle, Rando1ffe, Ranulph, Rudo1ph, and Randall, and used interchangeably as relating to the same person or family.

(2) William "Longsword", son of Rolf and Gisela, became the right-hand man of king Charles of France in 927 and reigned as Duke of Normandy until his death in 943.

(3) Richard "The Fearless", son and successor of William as Duke of Normandy, reigned until his death in 996.

(4) Richard "The Good", son of "Fearless", reigned as Duke of Normandy 30 years and died in 1026. In 1002 his sister Emma married Aethe1red, Saxon King of England, which marriage was the first link in the chain of events 1eading to the Norman conquest of England. After Aethelred's death Emma married the Dane Cnut.

(5) Richard -- Duke of Normandy, son and successor of Richard "The Good" reigned until his death in 1028. His wife was Judith. He was father of Robert "The Magnificent" whose son was William "The Conqueror", and was brother of Avicia, who married Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany.

(6) Geoffrey, Avicia (sister of Richard next above) were the parents of Alan and Eudo. Said Eudo joined hands with his kinsman, William "The Conqueror" and sent his son Alan Rufus to fight in the battle of Hastings.

(7) Eudo -- Duke of Brittany, and son of Geoffrey and Avicia, married Agnes, daughter or Alan. He died in 1079. Their children leaving issue were Stephen, Bardolph (who was the ancestor of George Washington), and Ribald. The sons of Eudo were liberal contributors to the church.

(8) Ribald. Lord of Middleham by gift from his brother Alan Rufus, married beatrix, and spent his last days in retirement at St. Mary's Abbey. York. He died about 1131.

(9) Ralph (or Randolph) -- Lord of Middleham, son of Ribald and Beatrix, married Agatha, daughter of the first Robert of Bruce. This Robert was a follower of William the Conqueror who rewarded him by the gift of many manors, chiefly in Yorkshire, of which Skelton was the more outstanding.

(10) Robert Titz Randolph -- Lord of Middleham, son of Ralph and Agatha, built the Castle of Middleham. He married Helewisa de Glanville, who after his death founded Coverham Abbey.

(ll) Ralph (or Randolph) Fitz Randolph -- Lord of Middleham, son of Robert and Helewisa, married Mary, daughter of Roger Bigot, Duke of Norfolk, leader among the barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Charta. He died in 1251. Roger Eigot, a founder of Norwich Cathedral, was one of the first great leaders to protest against the absolute Papal domination of England.

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(12) Ralph (or Randolph) Fitz Randolph -- Lord of Middleham, son of Ralph and Mary, married Anastasia, daughter of William, Lord Percy, and founded the Grey Friars of Richmond, Yorkshire. He died in 1270, leaving three daughters.

(15)- Mary Fitz Randolph, eldest of the three daughters next above, married about 1260 Robert de Neville, Lord of Raby. Their descendants have filled the foremost places of English history. Their blood has come down to this century in the veins of all the Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, and Guelph sovereigns of England, as well as nearly all the important royal families of Continental Europe, and the Fitz Randolphs of England, Scotland and America. Robert died in 1271 and Mary in 1320.

(14) Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville - Lord of Middleham, only son of Robert and Mary, was summoned to the House of lords by King Edward I in the famous Parliament of Lincoln in 1301. He married Margaret, daughter of harmaduke Thweng. He died in 1332, in the fifth year of the reign of Edward III.

(15) Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville -- Lord of Middleham, son of Ralph and Maggaret, married Alicia, daughter of Hugo de Audley. He died in 1368.

(16) John de Neville -- Lord of Middleham, son of Ralph and Alicia, par- ticipated with his father, Ralph, in the glory and gain of Nevi1le's Cross, conducting the negotiations by which the Scottish King David, captured in that battle, was ransomed for a large sum. He married Matilda Percy. He died in l389.

(17) Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville -- lord of Middleham and first Earl of Westmoreland (created by King Richard II in 1397), son of John and Matilda, born 1346 and died 1435, married (l) Margaret (daugh- ter of Hugo, lady Stafford -- descended from King Edward I). This Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville's large estates were divided principally between the eldest son by this marriage, who became Earl of Westmoreland, and the eldest son by the second marriage, who became Earl of Salisbury and Warwick, having the Yorkshire estates of Middleham and Sheriff - Hutton. Said Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville married (2) Joan heaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, who was a son of King Edward III (and who was the ancestor of Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States. Consult "Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America"). Joan Beaufort died in 1440. by the two wives, Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville had about a score of children, nearly all of whom became titled.

(18) John de Neville -- Duke of Westmoreland, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Canterbury. John died in 1455. he was the brother of Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville, next above whose only son Radulphus or Randolph de Neville, had only daughters. Hence the Duke~ dom of Westmoreland descended in the line of primogeniture to said brother.

(19) John de Neville - Duke of Westmoreland, heir presumptive to the Dukedom of Westmoreland, son of John and Elizabeth, was hero of the battle of Towton in 1461, and bravely lost his life there on the Lancastrian side. He had married Anna, the widow of a relative.

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(20) Ralph (or Randolph) ds Leville -- Duke of Westmoreland, son of John and Anne, married Margaret, daughter of Booth (ie. Barton, a noble Lancaster family).

(21) Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville, heir presumptive, only son of Ralph and Margaret, married Edith, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich.

(22) Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville -- Duke of Westmoreland, son of Ralph and Edith, married Cathe Rine, daughter of Edward, Duke of Buckingham. He died in 1524, during the reign of Henry Vlll.

(23) Ralph (or Randolph) de Neville -- Duke of Westmoreland, fifth son of Ralph and Catherine (The first son was Henry whose son Charles was the last of the line of these dukes of Westmoreland. The other sons were Thomas, Edward, Christopher and Cuthbert). This halph died about 1565.

(24) Christopher Fitz Randolph, son of Ralph(or Randolph), fifth son of said last Duke of Westmoreland, married Joan, daughter of Cuthbert Langton, of Langton Hall. he married in 1588. Here the surname reverts from Neville to Fitz Randolph.

(25) Edward Fitz Randolph of Langton Hall, son of Christopher and Joan was born in Hottinghamshire, England, about 1600. He died about 1635. ln 1614 he was found bearing the Fitz Randolph name and coat-of-arms legitimately.

(26) Edward Fitz Randolph -- Emigrant, son of Edward above and grandson of Christopher and Joan, emigrated to America in 1630. He married Elizabeth Blossom, daughter of Thomas and Anne Blossom, in Scituate, Mass., May 10, 1637. They later moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. He died in 1675. NCTE, -- This Edward Fitz Randolph's son Benjamin went to Princeton, A.J., in 1668, bought land from R. Stockton about 1701 on which Princeton College, now Princeton University, stands. He died in 1746. His son Nathaniel Fitz Randolph gave the land to then Princeton College. (See Dr. McLean's history of Princeton)