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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Hugh le Bigod

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• • 21st Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 24th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8683750 
  • Father:
  • Roger le Bigod 
  • Mother:
  • Ida de Tony   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1182 
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  • ABT 1225 
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  • Maud Marshal
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  Isabel le Bigod (Ahnentafel No:4341875 )

  Simon Bigod

  Hugh le Bigod

  Ralph le Bigod

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  • Magna Carta Surety

    3rd Earl of Norfolk

• Sources for Hugh le Bigod

  • ¹ Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, Vol. I, London: J. Billing, Printer and Stereotyper (1851), pedigree XIII for Rev. Pierce William Drew.
  • ² 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. 260.
  • 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), 528.
  • 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), 806, 845.
  • ⁵ 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), 207, 226.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk", _3rd_Earl_of_Norfolk, (accessed 02/20/2010).

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