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Personal data John BEAUMONT 

• He was born in the year 1409 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire.
• Title: 1st Viscount Beaumont
• (Ancestry) : House of Beaumont.
• He died on July 10, 1460 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, he was 51 years old.
• A child of Henry BEAUMONT and Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY

Household of John BEAUMONT

(1) He is married to Elizabeth PHELIP.

They got married July 1436 at Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, he was 27 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Joan BEAUMONT  1437-1466 

(2) He is married to Katherine NEVILLE.

They got married in the year 1443 at Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, he was 34 years old.

Notes about John BEAUMONT

John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont (c. 1409-1460), was an English magnate, the eldest son of Henry Beaumont, 5th Baron Beaumont, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire.

Orphaned by the age of four, he became Henry V's ward, who quickly put him in the custody of Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester. On 24 July 1425 his marriage rights were granted by the council to Sir John Radcliffe as part-payment for debts owed him by the crown. He was married at some point between 1428 and 1436 to Elizabeth Phelip, with whom, on her father's death in 1441, he inherited a large estate in East Anglia, making him a leading figure in the region. Combined with his own inheritance in Leicestershire, he was a figure worthy of the association of William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk (died 1450) and from there entered the household of King Henry VI. He was knighted by the eight-year old king on the eve of his coronation in 1429 and was in France with him the following year. Indeed, in light of his later generous treatment, it is possible that he was brought up with the young king as much as being merely a ward; it has been noted that a council act of 1425 brought wards of his status 'permanently about the king.'

Second marriage
His wife having died by 1441, within two years he married Katherine Strangways, née Neville, who was dowager duchess of Norfolk and noble in her own right, being sister of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and thus what would have been considered a great marital prize. She brought him further territorial and financial augmentation.

In 1444, further expanding his wealth, he bought the reversion of Sir Thomas Erdington's estates, as he latter was dying with no heir. Like other lords involved in the fall of Gloucester in 1447, he benefitted immensely from the subsequent redistribution of the duke's lands.

His allegiance to the Lancastrian regime remained strong enough for him to take arms against the House of York, and eventually cost him his life; he fell, with the duke of Buckingham and Lord Egremont against the Yorkists at their victory in the battle of Northampton on 10 July 1460. Even though the king had fallen into Yorkist hands, he was not attainted, presumably in an attempt to reconcile his family to the new regime. This failed, and Beaumont's son- the by now second Viscount fought against the victorious army of the Yorkist Edward IV at the Battle of Towton in April the next year.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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