Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Charlemagne -----

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• • 36th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 39th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 284458849288 
  • Father:
  • Pepin the Short 
  • Mother:
  • Berthe of Laon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Apr 0747 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ingelheim, Germany 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Jan 0814 
  • Death Location:
  • Aachen, Germany 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hildegard of Vinzgouw
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 30 Apr 0771 
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  Louis the Pious (Ahnentafel No:142229424644 )

  Pepin, King of Italy

  • Notes: 
  • King of the Franks

• Sources for Charlemagne -----

  • ¹ American-Canadian Genealogist, Manchester, New Hampshire: American-Canadian Genealogical Society, 1999, Iss. 82, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 175.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1943, Vol. 97, p. 342.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1981, Vol. 57, p. 31.
  • ⁴ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1989, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 3.
  • ⁵ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 7.
  • ⁶ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 80.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 481.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 565.
  • ⁹ 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), 919.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 57, 98.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Charlemagne", (accessed 02/20/2010).

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