Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Godfrey, Count of Namur

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• • 25th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 28th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 138941702 
  • Father:
  • Albert III, Count of Namur 
  • Mother:
  • Ida of Saxony   
  • Birth Date:
  • BY 1102 
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  • ABT 1139 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sybil of Chateau-Porcien
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  Elizabeth of Namur (Ahnentafel No:69470851 )

• Additional marriages for Godfrey, Count of Namur

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  • Spouse:
  • Erminsinde of Luxemburg

• Sources for Godfrey, Count of Namur

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, pp. 255-256.
  • ² Brydges, Sir Egerton, Ataviæ Regiæ, Florence: J. Marenigh (April 1820), 76.
  • 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), 557, 560.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy", _Lord_of_Coucy, (accessed 04/10/2011).

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