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Ellen DeGeneres

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Gottfried I, Count of Louvain

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• • 30th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 33rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4456602802 
  • Father:
  • Henry II, Count of Louvain 
  • Mother:
  • Adela of Orthen   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1060 
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  • 25 Jan 1139 
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  • Ide de Chiny
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  Godfrey II, Count of Louvain

  Alice of Louvain (Ahnentafel No:2228301401 )

  • Notes: 

  • Louvaine is also seen as Leuven.

    Gottfried of Louvain's given name is also seen as Godfrey and Godefroy.

• Sources for Gottfried I, Count of Louvain

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, pp. 255-256.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 150.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. II, p. 250.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Godfrey I, Count of Leuven", _Count_of_Leuven, (accessed 04/12/2011).

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