Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Joan of Lancaster

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• • 19th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 22nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2170823 
  • Father:
  • Henry Plantagenet 
  • Mother:
  • Maud de Chaworth   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1312 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1349 
  • Death Location:
  • Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John de Mowbray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Feb 1326/1327 
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  John de Mowbray

  Eleanor Mowbray (Ahnentafel No:1085411 )

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  • aks Joan Plantagenet

• Sources for Joan of Lancaster

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2007, Vol. 161, p. 34.
  • ² 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), 623.
  • ³ 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), 24, 27.
  • ⁴ 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), 82.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Joan of Lancaster", (accessed 01/23/2014).

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