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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Hugh de Courtenay

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• • 21st Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 24th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8683352 
  • Father:
  • John de Courtenay 
  • Mother:
  • Isabel de Vere   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Mar 1251 
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  • 28 Feb 1291/1292 
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  • Eleanor le Despencer
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  Hugh de Courtenay (Ahnentafel No:4341676 )

  Isabel Courtenay

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  • feudal Lord of Okehampton

    Some publications give Sir Hugh de Courenay's birth date as 25 MAR 1248/9.

• Sources for Hugh de Courtenay

  • ¹ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 833-835.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 426.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 501.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 479.
  • ⁵ 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), 739.
  • ⁶ 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.

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