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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Walter Devereux

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• • 16th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 19th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 318098 
  • Father:
  • Walter Devereux 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Merbery   
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Aug 1485 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Bosworth, near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Ferrers
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 26 Nov 1446 
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  Elizabeth Devereux (Ahnentafel No:159049 )

  John Devereux

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley

    Sir Walter Devereux was killed at the Battle of Bosworth during the Wars of the Roses.

• Sources for Walter Devereux

  • ¹ Gurney, E. Henry, Reference Handbook for Readers, Students, and Teachers of English History, Boston: Ginn and Company (1890), 69.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 291.
  • 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), 67.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Battle of Bosworth Field", (accessed 01/04/2015).

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