Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Blanche of Artois

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• • 20th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 23rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4341533 
  • Father:
  • Robert I, Count of Artois 
  • Mother:
  • Matilda of Brabant   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1248 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 May 1302 
  • Death Location:
  • Paris, France 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Edmund Plantagenet
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 18 DEC 1275 to 19 JAN 1275/1276 
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  • Child:

  Henry Plantagenet (Ahnentafel No:2170766 )

• Additional marriages for Blanche of Artois

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  • Spouse:
  • Henry I of Navarre

• Sources for Blanche of Artois

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 2004, Vol. 79, p. 19.
  • 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), 374, 377.
  • ³ 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.
  • 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), 25.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Blanche of Artois", (accessed 03/27/2010).

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