Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

Eleanor Plantagenet

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• • 19th Great-grandmother of Cokie Roberts — 22nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3158073 
  • Father:
  • Henry Plantagenet 
  • Mother:
  • Maud de Chaworth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Sep 1318 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1372 
  • Death Location:
  • Arundel Castle, Sussex, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John de Beaumont
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Nov 1330 
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  • Child:

  Henry de Beaumont (Ahnentafel No:1579036 )

  • Notes: 

  • aka Eleanor of Lancaster

• Additional marriages for Eleanor Plantagenet

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard Fitzalan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Feb 1344
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England

• Sources for Eleanor Plantagenet

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 2004, Vol. 79, p. 19.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 374, 377.
  • ³ 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), 26.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Eleanor of Lancaster", (accessed 03/01/2010).

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