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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Joan Beaufort

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• • 18th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 21st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1087879 
  • Father:
  • John of Gaunt 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Roet   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1379 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Nov 1440 
  • Death Location:
  • Howden, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Robert de Ferrers
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 30 Sep 1390 
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  Mary Ferrers

  Elizabeth Ferrers (Ahnentafel No:543939 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Ralph Neville
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 29 Nov 1396

• Sources for Joan Beaufort

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  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1994, Vol. 148, p. 140.
  • ⁴ Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 86.
  • ⁵ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Spring 1981, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, p. 125.
  • ⁶ Ancestry.com, "The Surprising Link Between Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", (accessed 06/27/2017).
  • ⁷ Burke, Sir Bernard, Royal Descents and Pedigrees of Founders' Kin, London: Harrison, Bookseller to the Queen (1864), Pedigree XIX.
  • ⁸ Lee, Sydney, ed., Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 40, Myllar - Nicholls, New York: MacMillan and Company (1894), 277.
  • ⁹ Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Vol. 1, Edinburgh and London: Charles Skilton Ltd (1977), 89.
  • ¹⁰ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 124.
  • ¹¹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 592.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "A Second Update to Ancestors of American Presidents", (accessed 03/04/2016).
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 47, 52, 158, 169, 178, 191, 208, 214, 217-218, 220-221, 229, 235.
  • ¹⁴ 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), 370.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 360.
  • ¹⁶ 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), 6-7.
  • ¹⁷ Wikipedia, "Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland", _Countess_of_Westmorland, 248, (accessed 03/04/2010).

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