Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Jane Beaufort

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• • 17th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 20th Generation
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  • Henry Beaufort 
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  • ABT 1402 
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  • Edward Stradling
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  Henry Stradling (Ahnentafel No:314332 )

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  • Possibly the illegitimate daughter of Alice FitzAlan (1378-1415), however Gary Boyd Roberts, in his The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants (2018) states that Alice was “probably not” the mother.

• Sources for Jane Beaufort

  • ¹ Thirteen Views of the Castle of St. Donat's, Glamorganshire, with a Notice of The Stradling Family, Cardiff: Lewis & Williams, Booksellers (1871), 6.
  • ² National Library of Wales, "Welsh Biography Online: Stradling family, Glam.", (accessed 03/01/2010).
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 171.
  • ⁴ 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), 375, 900.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Henry Beaufort", (accessed 03/01/2010).
  • ⁶ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 1595.

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