Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Hugh le Despencer

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• • 21st Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 24th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8681280 
  • Father:
  • Hugh le Despencer 
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  • Birth Date:
  • BY 1223 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Aug 1265 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England 
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  • Aveline Basset
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  Hugh le Despencer (Ahnentafel No:4340640 )

  Eleanor le Despencer

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  • 1st Baron Despenser of the putative 1264 creation.

    Justiciar of England

• Sources for Hugh le Despencer

  • ¹ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 1029.
  • ² 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), 58.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Battle of Evesham", (accessed 05/18/2018).

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