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Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Henry Beaufort

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• • 14th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 17th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 67836 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Beaufort 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor Beauchamp   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1436 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 May 1464 
  • Death Location:
  • Hexham, Northumberland, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joan Hill
  • Marriage Date:
  • NOT MARRIED 
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  • Child:

  Charles Somerset (Ahnentafel No:33918 )

  • Notes: 

  • 2nd Duke of Somerset

    Henry Beaufort was beheaded at Hexham in 1464

• Sources for Henry Beaufort

  • ¹ Ancestry.com, "The Surprising Link Between Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", (accessed 06/27/2017).
  • ² Furness, Hannah, "Benedict Cumberbatch and Alan Turing are related, genealogists claim", The Telegraph, (accessed 06/30/2017).
  • 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), 189.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 112.

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