Henry BEAUFORT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dean of Wells
• Fact: Bishop of Lincoln
• Fact: Chancellor
• Fact: Bishop of Winchester
• Fact: 2nd Earl of Somerset
• Fact: Chancellor of Oxford University
• Fact: Chancellor of England
• Fact: Bishop of Winchester
• Fact: Cardinal
• Fact 1: In his youth had an affair with Lady Alice Fitz Alan

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Name:
Henry Beaufort, born about 1375, ordained priest, bishop of Lincoln, 19 July 1398, Lord Chancellor of England, Cardinal Bishop of Winchester 14 Mar 1405, Cardinal-Priest of the titular church of San Eusebio, 24 May 1426, Papal legate in England, died testate at Winchester 11 Apr 1447, buried at Winchester Cathedral (will dated 20 Jan. 1446/7). His will names his daughter and her husband. The mother of his daughter was said to have been Alice fitz Alan, wife of John Cherleton, 4th Lord Cherleton of Powis (died 19 Oct 1401) D.N.B 2:41-48 ("Beaufort was ambitious, haughty, and impetuous...seems to have clung unduly to his office as trustee of the family estates of the House of Lancaster, which must have given him command of a considerable sum of money...His speeches in parliament are marked by a constitutional desire to uphold the crown by the advice and support of the estates of the realm...Family relationships gave him a place in Europe such as was held by no other statesman, and made him the fittest representative of his country abroad"). TAG 32:10-11 (Jan. 1956) ("participated (shamefully) in the trial of St. Jeanne d'Arc at Rouen, 24 May 1431")

Family/Spouse: Lady Alice FITZ ALAN. Alice (daughter of Richard FITZ ALAN and Elizabeth DE BOHUN) was born in 1373/5 in Arundel, Essex, England; died in Oct 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan BEAUFORT was born in 1391/2.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: John Plantagenet
• Fact: Knight of the Garter
• Fact: Prince of England
• Fact: 2nd Duke of Lancaster
• Fact: 5th Earl of Lancaster, Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester
• Fact: 20 Sep 1342, Earl of Richmond
• Fact: 13 Nov 1362, Duke Of Lancaster
• Fact: Sep 1371, Titular King of Castile and Leon
• Fact: 2 Mar 1390, Duke of Aquitaine

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Earl of Richmond. Some say born Jun 1340, but see CP vol.XIV,p.421.Earl of Derby, Lincoln. Duke of Aquitaine. Lord of Beaufort & Nogent.Burke says he died at Ely House, Holborn King of Castile & Leon. Lord of Bergerac & Roche-sur-Yon. The Complete Peerage vol.VII,pp.410-416 & vol.XIV,p.421.

John of Lancaster (f Gaunt), Duke of Lancaster, fourth son, was married for the third time at Lincoln Cathedral on 13 Jan. 1395/6 to Katherine De Roet, widow of Hugh Swynford, Knt., of Coleby and Ketelthorpe, co., Lincoln. (died 1372), and younger daughter and co-heiress of Pain de Roet, Knt., Guienne King of Arms, a Hainaulter, and one of the knights of Queen Philippe's household. She was born probably in Hainault, about 1350 and had formerly been the governess to his daughters, and then his mistress, and by her he had children, born before marriage. The marriage was ratified and confirmed during the Great Schism by the Roman pope, Boniface IX. Their three sons were legitimised, with the assent of parliament, on 9 Feb. 1396/7, the patent confirmed by King Henry IV of 10 Feb. 1406/7, but with a saving clause barring them from succession to the throne. Their children were given the name Beaufort from their father's (lost) castle in Champagne which had devolved on him through his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, a descendant of Blanche d'Artois who had purchased the lordship of Beaufort in 1270.

Name:
He was created Earl of Richmond on 20 Sep 1342. He was created Duke of Lancaster on 13 Nov 1362 in consequence of the marriage, and was ancestor of the Lancastrian Kings of England. In her right (Constance De Castille) John assumed in September 1371 the title of King of Castille and Leon. From 1376 until his death his diplomatic and military services in France and Guienne, and in Scotland, and his Spanish expedition (1386-88) formed interludes in the factious life of politics in which, as eldest uncle of King Richard II and his chief subject, he was involved. He was created Duke of Aquitaine on 2 Mar 1390.

John married Katherine DE ROET on 13 Jan 1395/6. Katherine (daughter of Payn DE ROET and ? UNKNOWN) was born in 1350 in Picardy, Somme, France; died on 10 May 1403 in Lincoln, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Swynford
• Name: Catherine Roet
• Birth: Abt 1350, probably Hainault