Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Hugh de Courtnay

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• • 20th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 23rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4352584 
  • Father:
  • Hugh de Courtenay 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes de St. John   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jul 1303 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 May 1377 
  • Death Location:
  • Exeter, Devon, England 
  • Burial Date:
  • 2 May 1377 
  • Burial Location:
  • Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Exeter, Devon, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret de Bohun
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Aug 1325 
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  Elizabeth de Courtnay

  Edward de Courtenay (Ahnentafel No:2176292 )

  Philip Courtenay

  • Notes: 
  • 2nd Earl of Devon

    2nd Earl of Devon

• Sources for Hugh de Courtnay

  • ¹ Browning, Charles H., The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, Philadelpha: (1898), 133.
  • ² Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 834-835.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 426.
  • 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), 332, 364.
  • ⁵ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, editor, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography: Vol. IV, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1915), 402.
  • ⁶ 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), 17.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Hugh de Courtnay, 2nd Earl of Devon", _2nd_Earl_of_Devon, (accessed 02/03/2012).

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