Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014)/ancestors

Generation One

 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee (1919)
 * Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921)
 * Constance Bradlee (1923-1993)

Generation Two

 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892-1970)
 * Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff (1896-1975)

Generation Three

 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee (1866-1951)
 * Elizabeth Whitwell Thomas (1868-1952)
 * Carl August de Gersdorff (1865-1944)
 * Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868-1941)

Generation Four

 * Josiah Bradlee III (1837-1902)
 * Alice Crowninshield (1839-1926)
 * Arthur Malcolm Thomas (1844-1864)
 * Mary Sarah Sargent (1844-1908)
 * Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff (1820-1883)
 * Caroline Choate (1834-1889)
 * Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918)
 * Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841-1921)

Generation Five

 * Frederic Hall Bradlee
 * Lucretia Wainright
 * Francis Boardman Crowninshield
 * Sarah Gool Putnam
 * Dr. Alexander Thomas, M.D.
 * Elizabeth Malcolm Rand
 * Dr. Howard Sargent, M.D.
 * Charlotte Cunningham
 * Heinrich August, Baron von Gersdorff
 * Augusta Theodora von Tschischky
 * Dr. George Choate
 * Margaret Manning Hodges
 * Maj. Edward Augustus Crowninshield
 * Caroline Marie Welch
 * William Nelson Fairabks
 * Abby Augusta Reed

Generation Six

 * Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1778-1861)
 * Lucy Hall (1783-1816)
 * Henry Wainwright (1771-1827)
 * Lucretia Greene
 * Secy. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851),  5th U.S. Secretary of Navy
 * Mary Boardman (1778-1840)
 * Judge Samuel Putnam
 * Sarah Gooll
 * Thomas Kemble Thomas
 * Mary Ann Richardson
 * Dr. Isaac Rand
 * Lucy Whitwell
 * John Turner Sargent
 * Christian Keadie Swan
 * John Richard Cunningham
 * Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
 * Ernst Siegmund August von Gersdorff
 * Countess Charlotte Marie Eleanore von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
 * Friedrich Ludwig von Tschirschky und Bogendorff
 * Johanna Dorothea, Pricess von Reuss-Ebersdorff
 * George Choate
 * Susannah Choate
 * Capt. Gamaliel Hodges
 * Sarah Williams
 * Secy. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851),  5th U.S. Secretary of Navy
 * Mary Boardman
 * Francis Welch
 * Margaret Crease Stackpole
 * Nathan Fairbanks
 * Sally Nurse
 * William Reed
 * Rebbeca Wilson

Clergy

 * John Lothrop
 * Theophilus Picerking
 * William Wentworth

Military

 * Col. John Chandler
 * Col. John Chandler, Jr.
 * Rr. Adm. Arent Schuyler Crowninshield, captain of the battleship Maine
 * Gen. Casper Crowninshield
 * Col. Benjamin William Crowninshield
 * Capt. William Gardiner, Lord of the Mannor,  founder of New York State
 * Maj. Gen. Nathaneal Greene
 * Col. Timothy Pickering, 3rd United States Secretary of States
 * Col. John Putnam
 * Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Putnam
 * Col. Edmund Reade
 * Col. Epes Sargent
 * Col. Paul Dudley Sargent
 * Maj. Gen. Robert Sedgwick
 * Col. James Swan
 * Col. Joshuua Wingate (1679-1769)

Colonial Governors

 * John Greene, Deputy Governor to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
 * John Greene, Jr., 14th Deputy Governor to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
 * John Haynes, Lord of the Manor, 1st Governor of the Colony of Connecticutt,
 * John Leverett, Governor of Acadia, 19 Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
 * Thomas Prence, 4th, 8th &12, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
 * George Wyllys, 4th Governor of the Colony of Connecticut

Merchants

 * Josiah Bradlee, multi milonaire
 * John Crowninshield, brought the first elephant to America
 * George Crowninshield, Jr., desinger and owner of Cleopatra's Bardge, America's 1st yact
 * Elias Hasket "King" Derby, 1st millionaire in America
 * Gardiner Greene

Lawyers

 * Joseph Hodges Choate
 * William Gardner Choate
 * Rufust Choate
 * Samuel Putnam
 * Perez Morton

Boston Brahmins

 * Bacon
 * Choate
 * Crowninshield
 * Greene
 * Perkins
 * Putnam

Notable Colonial Families

 * Bacon
 * Bradlee
 * Burrill
 * Choate
 * Crowninshield
 * Derby
 * Perkins
 * Putnam
 * Fairbanks
 * Hubbard
 * Leverett
 * Lothrop
 * Low
 * Morton
 * Rice
 * Sedgwick

Notable Ancestral Families

 * Hall
 * Sargent

Paternal Lineage

 * Nathan Bradley I (1631-1701) m: Mary Evans (1640-1711)
 * Nathan Bradlee, Jr. (1674-1750) m: Lydia Harden (1684-1752)
 * Samuel Bradlee (1707-1768) m: Mary Andrews (1705-1796)
 * Josiah Bradlee I (1754-1798) m: Hannah Putnam (1758-1793)
 * Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1778-1860) m: Lucy Hall (1783-1816)
 * Frederic Hall Bradlee (1807-1888) m: Lucretia Wainwright (1810-1851)
 * Josiah Bradlee III (1837-1902) m: Alice Crowninshield (1839-1926)
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee I (1866-1951) m: Eizabeth Whitwell Thomas (1868-1952)
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892-1970) m: Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff (1896-1975)
 * Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921-)

Earliest Known Royal Ancestors

 * King James IV Stewart of Scotland
 * King John II Valois of France

Lineage to Maximilian I von Habsburg
Maximilian I was a Holy Roman Emperor from the Royal House of Habsburg.
 * Maximilian I von Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor
 * Siegmund Georg von Dietrichstein m: Barbara von Rottal
 * Bartholommaus Furstin von Dietrichstein-Hollenburg
 * Christian von Dietrichstein-Hollenburg
 * Maximilian Erasmus von Zinzendorf-Pottendorf m: Ann Amalia von Dietrichstein
 * Wolfgang Dietrich von Casetell-Remiling m: Dorothea Graffin von Zinzendorf-Pottendorf
 * Heinrich XXIX, Princely Count von Reuss-Ebersdorff m: Sophie Theodora Furstin von Castell-Castell
 * Herr Christof Friederick Levin von Trotta-Treyden m: Johann Dorothea Furstin von Reuss-Ebersdorff
 * Friederick Ludwig von Tschirschky und Bogendorff m: Friedericka Theodora Elizabeth von Trotta-Treyden
 * Heinrich August Freiherr von Gersdorff m: Augusta Theodora von Tschirschky
 * Dr. Ernst Bruno von Gersdorff m: Caroline Choate
 * Carl August de Gersdorff m: Helen Suzette Crowninshield
 * Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. m: Chevaliere Josephine de Gersdorff
 * Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee m: