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Thomas Plantagenet

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• • 17th Great-grandfather of Ranulph Fiennes — 20th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 606954 
  • Father:
  • Edward III, King of England 
  • Mother:
  • Philippa of Hainault   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Jan 1355 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 08 or 09 SEP 1397 
  • Death Location:
  • Calais, Pale of Calais, France 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor de Bohun
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1376 
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  • Child:

  Anne Plantagenet (Ahnentafel No:303477 )

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Duke of Gloucester

    aka Thomas of Woodstock

    Sir Thomas Plantagenet was murdered at Calais in 1397.

• Sources for Thomas Plantagenet

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1999, Vol. 16, p. 73.
  • ² Fraser, ed. Antonia, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 71.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 50.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 169, 182, 228-229.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 436.
  • ⁶ The Surrey Archaeological Society, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, Vol. 3, London: Lovell Reeve and Co. (1865), 50.
  • ⁷ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 8.
  • ⁸ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 26.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester", (accessed 06/26/2013).

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