Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

John Howard

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• • 16th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 19th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 271292 
  • Father:
  • Robert Howard 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret de Scales   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1366 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Nov 1436 
  • Death Location:
  • Jerusalem, Israel 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Alice Tendring
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF Jun 1397 
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  Robert Howard

  Henry Howard (Ahnentafel No:135646 )

• Additional marriages for John Howard

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret de Plaiz
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 22 Jun 1378

• Sources for John Howard

  • ¹ 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.
  • ² 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, pp. 267-270.
  • 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), 397.
  • ⁴ 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), 184.
  • ⁵ 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.

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