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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Philip le Despencer

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• • 19th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 22nd Generation
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  • Father:
  • Hugh le Despencer 
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  • Isabella de Beauchamp   
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  • 24 Sep 1313 
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  • Margaret de Goushill
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  Philip le Despencer (Ahnentafel No:1085160 )

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  • of Goxhill, Lincolnshire

    Some older sources list this Philip le Despencer as the son of Hugh and Eleanor (de Clare) le Despencer while more recent sources list Philip as that Hugh's brother.

• Sources for Philip le Despencer

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1991, Vol. 145, Page 268.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 448.
  • ³ Esarey, Logan, History of Indiana: from its Exploration to 1922, Vol. 3, Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Historical Publishing Company (1922), 212.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 410.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2005), 159.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Isabella de Beauchamp", (accessed 05/03/2011).

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