William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon - Cousins

Mom's side: William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is your 12th great aunt's father.

Dad's side: William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is your fourth cousin 12 times removed.

Some think SHE wrote (some of?) his plays: Aemilia Lanier, Writer and Poet

Aemilia Lanier (Bassano), Writer and Poet is your 12th great aunt.
Aemilia Lanier (Bassano), Writer and Poet is your first cousin 14 times removed.

Dad's side: William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is your first cousin 12 times removed.
Mom's side: William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is your first cousin 13 times removed.

Dad's: Aemilia Lanier, Writer and Poet is your first cousin 13 times removed
Mom's: Aemilia Lanier, Writer and Poet's partner's 19th great granddaughter.

Some attribute Shakespeare's work to Sir Francis Bacon

Dad's: Sir Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's is your second cousin 13 times removed.
Mom's: Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's' is your second cousin 14 times removed.

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's

William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is my 22nd cousin thrice removed.

1.William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is my 22nd cousin.
You
→ Elza Dzelvite (Grahpe,Grāpe)
your mother → Jahn Grahpe
her father → Baron Arnold Julius von Vietinghoff-Riesch
his father → Juliane Charlotte Lulla von Vietinghoff
his mother → Helene Gertrude von Krüdener
her mother → Gustav Georg von Völckersahm
her father → Sophia Elisabeth von Mengden
his mother → ObtLt. Magnus Gustav v. Mengden Frhr. v. Altenwoga
her father → Gustav v. Mengden Frhr. v. Altenwoga
his father → Gertrud von Mengden Frfr. von Altenwoga
his mother → Jürgen von Rosen
her father → Kersten von Rosen
his father → Kersten III von Rosen auf Hochenrosen
his father → Jürgen l von Rosen
his father → N.N. von Tiesenhausen
his mother → Bartholomeus von Tiesenhausen, of Kokenhausen
her father → Johann von Tiesenhausen
his father → Hans von Tiesenhausen
his father → Hildegunde Buxhövden
his mother → Albert von Buxhoeveden, I
her father → Gudela von Stade
his mother → Richardis von Sponheim
her mother → Duke Engelbert von Sponheim, II
her brother → Mathilde von Sponheim, duchess of Carinthia
his daughter → Eon de Blaison, Seigneur de Blaison
her son → Gerberge de Blaison
his daughter → Amauberge "Dangereuse" de L'Île-Bouchard
her daughter → Eleanor of Châtellerault, Duchess of Aquitaine
her daughter → Eleanor d'Aquitaine, Queen Consort Of England
her daughter → John I "Lackland", King of England
her son → Richard FitzRoy, Lord of Chilham
his son → Lora (Lauretta) de Marmion
his daughter → John de Marmion, 1st Baron Marmion
her son → Sir John de Marmion, II
his son → Avice Grey
his daughter → Joan Willoughby
her daughter → Edmund de Willoughby
her son → Edmund de Willoughby, II
his son → Hugh Willoughby
his son → Joyce Bracebridge
his daughter → Alice Arden
her daughter → Margaret Webb (Arden)
her daughter → Mary Agnes Arden
her daughter → Mary Shakespeare
her daughter → William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon
her son
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2.Sir Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's is my 19th cousin twice removed.

Private User , do you have a source for this? I have never heard that "Some attribute Shakespeare's work to Sir Francis Bacon"

Aemilia Lanier, Writer and Poet was a poet and well acquainted with William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon . There are many sources linking them in circles

William Shakespeare is my first cousin 12 times removed.
You
→ John Richard Scholl
your father → John Henry Scholl
his father → Elizabeth Guire
his mother → Margaret Henry Scholl
her mother → Alexander Griswold
her father → Henry Augustus Griswold
his father → Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold
his father → Elisha Griswold
his father → Samuel Griswold
his father → Hester Griswold
his mother → Sgt. Job Drake
her father → Lettice Drake
his mother → Henry Shakespeare
her father → John Shakespeare
his brother → William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon
his son

By the way, William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon are 6th cousins. Francis and I are 6C13R, which makes sense as my pathway to him involves a lot of the same people as with William.

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

You'll note I stated "some attribute Shakespeare's work to Sir Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's not that I attribute the work to Bacon.

I don't support the Baconian Theory, but there have been some who have and do still, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconian_theory_of_Shakespeare_auth.... Several people have put forth their theories on who Shakespeare was and some have been in favor of the Baconian Theory. Just type in "sir francis bacon as shakespeare" and the blogs and papers for and against this supposition will populate.

There is not true source, that I know of, which definitively proves that William Shakespeare was someone other than William Shakespeare. Even you stated that Aemilia Lanier, Writer and Poet was "well aquainted with" and there are "many sources linking them in circles". Not proof she was the great author herself.

William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is for all intents and purposes, William Shakespeare and as someone with a BA in English Literature, I've come to accept this and move on to reading his plays and appreciating them rather than proving or disproving their authorship.

I threw the Baconian Theory in there because it's great to speculate and fun too!

They even made a movie with the premise that Shakespeare was someone other than William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(2011_film) was a fictionalized account with a fictionalized character as the " true" bard. Fun to watch, but with no basis in fact.

Private User thank you for the response and link
VERY interesting!
My favorite little fact about Shakespeare is that he never spelled his name consistently the same

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

Here is the theory put forth by the movie, Anonymous, which I mentioned above:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordian_theory_of_Shakespeare_aut.... Most Shakespeare scholars are emphatically against this theory, but it is the most popular, modern theory supposed.
"The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare."

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Mom's side: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford's is your first cousin 14 times removed.
Dad's side: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford is your fifth cousin 11 times removed.

All the authorship theories originate in the 19th Century or later and are based on fanciful conspiracy theories, not hard evidence. Nobody in Shakespeare's time ever questioned that he was the author. Shakespeare was an actor and the plays are ripe with examples that the author was a theatre insider and knew his fellow actors well. The more I've studied the plays in detail, the more I've realized it makes complete sense that someone in William Shakespeare's position and with his educational and socioeconomic background wrote them.
Explained simply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3uYipLshD4

Agreed. Fun to speculate though and to learn how these historic figures all knew one another and how they were related or associated :)

William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is your first cousin 13 times removed.
You
→ Linda Sue Jackson
your mother → Nathan Arvil Jones
her father → Willie Kile Jones
his father → Pvt. (CSA), Hardin Riley Jones
his father → Margaret Jones
his mother → Rachel Lacy Miers
her mother → Batson Morgan
her father → Jemima G. Morgan
his mother → Zebulon Webb
her father → Samuel Webb, III
his father → Hon. Christopher Webb
his father → Christopher Webb, Sr.
his father → Sir Alexander Webb, Jr., Kt.
his father → Margaret Mary Margaret Webb
his mother → Mary Shakespeare
her sister → William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon
her son

William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon is your fourth cousin 13 times removed.

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford is your fifth cousin 12 times removed.

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's is your fourth cousin 11 times removed.

Aemilia Lanier, Writer and Poet is your 12th great grandmother's husband's wife's father's partner.

Happy birthday, William Shakespeare