Ancestral Glimpses » John (of Gaunt) Plantagênet Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399)

Personal data John (of Gaunt) Plantagênet Duke of Lancaster 

• He was born on March 28, 1340 in St. Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flanders, NETHERLANDS.
• He died on February 3, 1399 in Leicester Castle, London, ENGLAND, he was 58 years old.
• He is buried on February 3, 1399 in London, ENGLANDOld St. Paul's Cathedral.

  He was bur. aft. 3 Feb 1399 at Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. John was bur. in an alabaster tomb designed by Henry Yevele alongside his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, in the nave of the cathedral.

• A child of Edward Plantagênet and Phillipa de Hainault
• This information was last updated on November 1, 2017.

Household of John (of Gaunt) Plantagênet Duke of Lancaster

He is married to Katherine (Swynford) de Roet.

They got married on 13 JAN 1395–96 at Lincoln, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND, he was 54 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Henry de Beaufort  ± 1376-1447 
2. Joan de Beaufort  ± 1377-1440

Notes about John (of Gaunt) Plantagênet Duke of Lancaster

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; he md. first the Lady Blanche, dau. of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and at length sole heir of the house of Lancaster, descended from Edmund, 2nd son of King Henry III, by whom he had an only son, afterwards King Henry IV; he md. secondly, Constance, dau. of Peter the Cruel, King of Castille, and had an only dau., heiress to the throne of Castille, who md. Henry III, King of Castille. By Catherine, dau. of Sir Payne Roet, and widow of Sir Otes Swinford, whom he afterwards md., John of Gaunt had a son,
John, surnamed Beaufort, legitimized by Parliament, and created Earl of Somerset; he had three sons;
1. Henry, Earl of Somerset, who died un-md.;
3.[sic] John, who succeeded his brother, and was created Duke of Somerset. He died without issue male.
3. Edmund, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who had two sons, Henry and Edmund, successively Dukes of Somerset; with the latter of whom, who was beheaded by King Edward IV, in 1471, failed the legitimate male line of John lieaufort. Earl of Somerset, the legitimated son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; but Henry, Duke of Somerset, his elder brother, left a natural son, Charles, who assumed the surname of Somerset, was created Earl of Worcester, and was ancestor of the present Duke of Beaufort.

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