Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Margaret of France

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• • 20th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 23rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4341525 
  • Father:
  • Philip III, King of France 
  • Mother:
  • Maria of Brabant   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1279 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Feb 1317/1318 
  • Death Location:
  • Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Christ Church Greyfriars, Newgate, London, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward I, King of England
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Sep 1299 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Edmund of Woodstock (Ahnentafel No:2170762 )

  Thomas of Brotherton

  • Notes: 

  • Margaret of France's given name is also seen as Marguerite.

• Sources for Margaret of France

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2007, Vol. 161, p. 34.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1961, Vol. 37, p. 114.
  • ³ Pitcairn, Constance, The History of the Fife Pitcairns with Transcripts from Old Charters, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons (1905), 419.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 282, 338, 344, 356.
  • ⁵ 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), 486, 600.
  • ⁶ 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), 23.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Margaret of France, Queen of England", (accessed 04/12/2011).

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