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== Brandybuck Family Tree == | == Brandybuck Family Tree == | ||
This Family Tree is taken from [[Appendix C]] of [[The Lord of the Rings]]. | |||
[[Gormadoc Brandybuck]] | [[Gormadoc Brandybuck]] |
Revision as of 15:03, 15 November 2007
The Brandybuck Family began as the Oldbuck clan, who named themselves such apparently after a Bucca of the Marish, who became the first Thain of the Shire. Ten Oldbuck Thains followed, until Gordenhad Oldbuck, the twelveth Thain, crossed into Buckland over the river Brandywine.
Gordenhad renamed himself Brandybuck, and began delving the great smials of Brandy Hall. Around the hill was built the village of Bucklebury.
The Brandybucks formed a powerful dynasty which became mostly independent of the Shire, although Buckland remained nominally a part of it. They were seen as 'odd folk' by the other Hobbits of the Shire because they locked their doors at night (because of the exposure to the Old Forest).
The head of the family was the Master of Buckland, one of the officials of the Shire. This office was founded by Gorhendad Brandybuck. It wastraditional for each of the Masters to have an epigraph attached to their names, such as Gorbadoc "Broadbelt", Saradoc "Scattergold", and the most famous, Meriadoc Brandybuck the Magnificent. Like the Thain and Warden of Westmarch, the Master had only nominal authority.
Brandybuck Family Tree
This Family Tree is taken from Appendix C of The Lord of the Rings.
Gormadoc Brandybuck 1134-1236 =Malva Headstrong | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Madoc Brandybuck Sadoc Brandybuck Marroc Brandybuck 1175-1277 1179 | =Hanna Goldworthy | (many descendants) | ------------------------- Marmadoc Brandybuck | | 1217-1310 (various descendants) Salvia Brandybuck =Adaldrida Bolger 1226 | =Gundabald Bolger | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Gorbadoc Brandybuck (Two daughters) Orgulas Brandybuck 1260-1363 1268 =Mirabella Took | | Gorbulas Brandybuck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1308 | | | | | | | | Rorimac Amaranth Saradas Dodinas Asphodel Dinodas Primula Marmadas Brandybuck 1302-1408 1304-1398 1308-1407 1313-1412 1320-1380 1343 =Menegilda Goold | =Rufus Burrows =Drogo Baggins | | | | | | ----------------------- Seredic Brandybuck (Milo Burrows FRODO BAGGINS | | | 1348 1347 | Saradoc Merimac =Hilda Bracegirdle =Peony Baggins) ---------------------------- 1340-1432 1342-1430 | | | | =Esmeralda Took | | Merimas Mentha Melilot | Berilac | 1381 1383 1385 MERIADOC BRANDYBUCK 1380 ------------------------- 1382 | | | =Estella Bolger Doderic Ilberic Celandine 1385 1389 1391 1394