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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Elizabeth de Bohun

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• • 17th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 20th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 542863 
  • Father:
  • William de Bohun 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth de Badlesmere   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1350 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Apr 1385 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lewes, Suffolk, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Richard Fitzalan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Sep 1359 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Fitzalan

  Joan Fitzalan (Ahnentafel No:271431 )

  Alice Fitzalan

• Sources for Elizabeth de Bohun

  • ¹ American Ancestors, "Boris Johnson: Royal Ancestry", (accessed 04/15/2020).
  • ² 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), 160.
  • ³ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 815-816.
  • ⁴ 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, p. 588.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 62.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 308, 312, 314, 328, 336, 342, 353, 359.
  • ⁷ 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), 500, 558.
  • ⁸ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Eight Lines of Descent of John Prescott, Founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, Dublin, New Hampshire: (1957), 47.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Elizabeth de Bohun, Countess of Arundel", (accessed 09/23/2011).
  • ¹⁰ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 1594.

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