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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Roger la Zouche

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• • 21st Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 24th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8683044 
  • Father:
  • Alan la Zouche 
  • Mother:
  • Ellen de Quincy   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1241 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 15 Oct 1285 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ela Longespee
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  • BEF 1267 
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  Alan la Zouche (Ahnentafel No:4341522 )

  John la Zouche

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  • Lord of Ashby

    Sir Roger la Zouche may has had a son named Edmund who was presented to the church of Sileby, Leicestershire by Sir Nicholas de Segrave in 1289.

• Sources for Roger la Zouche

  • ¹ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, pp. 472, 474-475.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2005), 303.
  • 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), 442, 454-455.
  • 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), 742.
  • ⁵ 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), 111.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby", _1st_Baron_la_Zouche_of_Ashby, (accessed 04/12/2011).
  • ⁷ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 119.

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