Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

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William Comyn

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• • 24th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 27th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 69467016 
  • Father:
  • Richard Comyn 
  • Mother:
  • Hextilda of Tynedale   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1163 
  • Birth Location:
  • Altyre, Moray, Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1233 
  • Death Location:
  • Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Marjory -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1209/1212 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Alexander Comyn (Ahnentafel No:34733508 )

  Margaret Comyn

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Earl of Buchan

• Additional marriages for William Comyn

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah FitzHugh
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1193

• Sources for William Comyn

  • ¹ Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. 6, Edinburgh: David Douglas (1909), 29.
  • ² 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), 828.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch", _jure_uxoris_Earl_of_Buchan, (accessed 03/01/2010).

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