Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Henry Plantagenet

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• • 20th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 23rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5640254 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Plantagenet 
  • Mother:
  • Blanche of Artois   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1281 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Sep 1345 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Newark Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Maud de Chaworth
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 2 Mar 1297 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Henry of Lancaster

  Joan of Lancaster

  Eleanor Plantagenet (Ahnentafel No:2820127 )

  Mary Plantagenet

  • Notes: 

  • 3rd Earl of Lancaster

• Additional marriages for Henry Plantagenet

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  • Spouse:
  • Alix de Geneville

• Sources for Henry Plantagenet

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 2004, Vol. 79, p. 19.
  • ² Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 39.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 374, 377.
  • ⁴ 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), 623.
  • ⁵ 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), 25-27.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ 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), 64.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster", _3rd_Earl_of_Lancaster, (accessed 02/20/2010).

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