Fulk V was Count of Anjou 1109-1129 and King of Jerusalem 1131-1143 and married Melisande, daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem on 2 June 1129 when he was 40 years old.  Born too late to be Ivo's brother if these dates are correct, but he was the only Fulk who was King of Jerusalem. Perhaps Ivo was the son of Fulk III, aka Nerra, who did make three journeys to Palestine and had a son Fulk IV who was born abt 1045. Ivo's nephew in this case would have been Fulk V who son Geoffrey of Anjou married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England (1100-1135).

 William the Conqueror was also illegitimate, the son of Robert 6th Duke of Normandy from 1028 to 1035. His mother was a peasant named Arlotte of Normandy. Robert died in the Crusades which made William the 7th Duke of Normandy as a child in 1036. According to Hereward the Wake, Ivo de Tailleboise saved William the Conqueror's life at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 when an arrow shot by Hereward the Wake went through William's shield and pinned it to his breast.  After this battle, which made William the King of England, William made Ivo the Earl of Holland in Lincolnshire, and the first Baron of Kendal, and gave Ivo a lot of land in England  which had been Earl Algar's and should have been Earl Edwin's or Morcar's. One of Ivo's two wives was Lucia of Mercia born abt 1040 in Mercia, given to Ivo as a war prize after the Battle in 1066. (Ivo said "I have her father's lands, why not have the daughter too?"). She was the daughter of Thorold, an Englishman who was Lord of Spaulding in Lincolnshire. Lucia had one child, a daughter named Lucia, who married twice but has no living descendants today.  Ivo died in 1094 or 1097.
From "Hereward, the Wake" Volume II, Chapter XXI, page 1: "A proud man was Ivo de Tailleboise as he rode next morning out of Spalding Town with a hawk on his fist, hound at heel, and a dozen men-at-arms at his back...An adventurer from Anjou, brutal, ignorant, and profligate, low-borne too...valiant he was, cunning, and skilled in war. Called 'thou old butcher' by King William, he and his group of Angevin rutters had fought like tigers by William's side at Hastings".
The Thornsboroughs and Thornsberrys and all other variations of the name are descended from Ivo's other wife Gendreda, Countesse of Warwick, daughter of Aelfgar a.k.a. Eadgar, the King of Mercia and his wife Godiva. This pedigree was verified in 1762 by a Mr Curwen, an emissary of  the King of England, because of the Thornsborough's relationship through marriage to the Kings of England. My line of Thornsboroughs was the second branch to come to America, descendants of two brothers, Charles and Richard, who left England for Ireland because of being disinherited for joining the Quaker Church after hearing George Fox preach there in Kendal, (the Thornsborough family was loyal Catholics for centuries). Charle's Quaker grandchildren arrived via Ireland to Pennsylvania (Thornsbury Pennsylvania near Philadelphia), and their Quaker desendants came to New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford Co., NC. This is where John Thornsborough got disinherited when he married out of the Quaker faith to Suzannah Starnes. John and Suzannah moved to eastern Kentucky in the late 1700's.That's how Thornsberrys came to Kentucky.

Due to the volume of information, and the increasing number of requests for information that I have compiled regarding my ancestors, please find below a list of gedcom files, broken out by family names, which you are welcome to download to assist you with your
personal research. Publication of this material without permission is prohibited. Corrections of this material with citation of sources is welcome.  Sincerely, Deborah Thornsbury Keser.

My warmest regards to Wade Englund, who unselfishly donated his time and talents to publish the original web page that got me on the internet, and to the many talented ('Art Today' and 'Windy's') who freely offered the beautiful graphics used at this site, and to all who support free genealogy sites on the internet.

A little about me: I am a registered nurse, raised in Iowa, married to a physician raised in Turkey. I work full time. Hobbies: genealogy and tole painting. I started doing genealogy when I was 16 when I wrote to and got three generations of ancestors from Landel Thornsberry in Kentucky. Why genealogy? Because soon after my grandpa John M. Thornsberry died when I was eleven, I had dreams of him where I saw him in the Next Life. He was happy in a beautiful place green with plants and  flowers of all kinds, standing with a few relatives, all wearing white robes. Grandpa told me very earnestly, putting his hands on my shoulders in the dream, "Deborah, listen very carefully. These are your people, and we need you to do this." "This" that he spoke of was genealogy.