Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Margaret de Bohun

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• • 14th Great-grandmother of Herman Melville — 17th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 93635 
  • Father:
  • Humphrey de Bohun 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Plantagenet   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Apr 1311 
  • Birth Location:
  • Caldecote, Northampton, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Dec 1391 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Exeter, Devon, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hugh de Courtnay
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Aug 1325 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth de Courtnay (Ahnentafel No:46817 )

  Edward de Courtenay

  Philip Courtenay

• Sources for Margaret de Bohun

  • 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, "Margaret de Bohun, 2nd Countess of Devon", _2nd_Countess_of_Devon, (accessed 02/03/2012).