Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Elizabeth de Courtnay

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• • 13th Great-grandmother of Herman Melville — 16th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 46817 
  • Father:
  • Hugh de Courtnay 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret de Bohun   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1333 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Aug 1395 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Andrew Luttrell
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1359 
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  • Child:

  Hugh Luttrell (Ahnentafel No:23408 )

• Additional marriages for Elizabeth de Courtnay

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  • Spouse:
  • John de Vere
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT Jul 1341

• Sources for Elizabeth 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.
  • 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), 332, 364.
  • ⁴ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, editor, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography: Vol. IV, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1915), 402.
  • 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), 17.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Hugh de Courtnay, 2nd Earl of Devon", _2nd_Earl_of_Devon, (accessed 02/03/2012).