Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Ranulf de Gernons

View famous kin of Ranulf de Gernons

• • 25th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 28th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 138901212 
  • Father:
  • Ranulf III le Meschin 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy of Bolingbroke   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1105 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1153 
  • Death Location:
  • Gresley, Derbyshire, England 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • St. Werburg's, Chester, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Maud of Gloucester
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1135 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Children:
  
  

  Hugh de Kevelioc (Ahnentafel No:69450606 )

  Richard de Gernons

  • Notes: 

  • 5th Earl of Chester

• Additional marriages for Ranulf de Gernons

  ---

• Sources for Ranulf de Gernons

  • ¹ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Fall 1988, Vol. 9, Iss. 2, Page 193.
  • ² American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1986-1987, Vols. 7-8, Page 62.
  • ³ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 10.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 62.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 387.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 2, pp. 148-150, 474, 560.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 507, 509.
  • ⁸ 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), 806, 813, 815, 819, 822.
  • ⁹ 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), 125.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 185.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester", _4th_Earl_of_Chester, (accessed 02/23/2010).

Benedict Cumberbatch photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)