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Personal data Katherine (de Roet) Swynford Duchess of Lancaster 

• She was born on November 25, 1340 in Somme, Picardie, France.Sources 1, 2, 3
• She died on May 10, 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, she was 62 years old.Sources 1, 2, 3
• She is buried in Lincoln, City of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.Sources 1, 2
• A child of Paon (Payne Gilles) de Roet
• This information was last updated on June 8, 2022.

Household of Katherine (de Roet) Swynford Duchess of Lancaster

(1) She is married to John of Gaunt (Plantagenet).

Marriage
Date: 13 Jan 1396
Place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, , England
Marriage
Date: 13 Jan 1365
Place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, , England
Marriage
Date: 13 Jan 1369
Place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, , England

They got married on January 13, 1396 at Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Engeland, Lincolnshire, she was 55 years old.

Child(ren):

1. THOMAS SWYNFORD  1368-1432
2. John (Plantagenet) de Beaufort  1373-1410 
3. Joan Neville (Beaufort) ( Plantagenet)  1375-1440 
4. Henry Beaufort ( Plantagenet)  ± 1375-1447 
5. Thomas de Beaufort  1377-1426
6. Phillippa Beaufort  1385-1421

(2) She is married to Hugh SWYNFORD.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Thomas Swynford (Swinford)  ± 1368-1432 

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Katherine Swynford (de Roet), Duchess of Lancaster
Gender:
Female
Birth:
November 25, 1350
Hainaut, Belgium
Death:
May 10, 1403 (52)
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Place of Burial:
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Sir Paon de Roët and NN NN

Wife of Sir Hugh Swynford
and John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 1st Earl of Richmond

Mother of Blanche Swynford; Dorothy Thimelby (Swynford); Sir Thomas Swinford; John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset; Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter; Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland and Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester

Sister of Philippa de Roet; Isabel Elizabeth de Roet and Walter de Roet

https://www.geni.com/people/Katherine-Swynford-Duchess-of-Lancaster/6000000000387716957

Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
(November 25, 1350 ·Äì May 10, 1403) (also spelled Katharine or Catherine), was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, a son of King Edward III. She had been the Duke's lover for many years before their marriage. The couple's children, born before the marriage, were later legitimated during the reign of the Duke's nephew, Richard II. When the Duke's son from his first marriage overthrew Richard, becoming Henry IV, he introduced a provision that neither they nor their descendants could ever claim the throne of England.
Their descendants were members of the Beaufort family, which played a major role in the Wars of the Roses. Henry VII, who became King of England in 1485, derived his claim to the throne from his mother Margaret Beaufort, who was a great-granddaughter of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. His legal claim to the throne, however, was through a matrilineal and previously illegitimate line and Henry's first action was to declare himself king "by right of conquest" retroactively from 21 August 1485, the day before his army defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford

Katherine became governess to the daughters of John of Gaunt. After the death of John's wife Blanche in 1369, Katherine and John began a love affair which would bring forth four children born out of wedlock and would endure as a lifelong relationship. However, John made a dynastic marriage to Constance of Castille, a claimant to the throne of Castile, after which he called himself "King of Castille". When Constance died he married Katherine and legitimised their children.

Katherine Swynford*
Born25 November 1350
Died10 May 1403 (aged 52)
House of Lancaster (by marriage)
Father Payne de Roet*

Spouse Hugh Swynford
Issue
Blanche Swynford
Thomas Swynford
Margaret Swynford

Spouse John of Gaunt*, (Plantagenet) 1st Duke of Lancaster*
Issue
John Beaufort*, (Plantagenet) 1st Earl of Somerset*
Cardinal Henry Beaufort (Plantagenet)
Thomas Beaufort, (Plantagenet) Duke of Exeter
Joan Beaufort, (Plantagenet) Countess of Westmorland

(* Ancestors)

he (Paon Roet) perhaps married more than once, that his first marriage took place before ca. 1335, and that his four known children, who were born over a period of about fifteen years or more, may have been two sets of half siblings; in which case Katherine was the child of a second wife, whom he possibly married in the mid-late 1340s.

Weir, Alison (2009-01-27). Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (Kindle Locations 212-214). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

C.L. Kingsford, in his article on Katherine Swynford in the Dictionary of National Biography, suggested that she was born in 1350. There is no contemporary record of her date of birth, but since the minimum canonical age at which a girl could be married and have marital intercourse was twelve, and Katherine probably married around 1362-63 and had her first child ca. 1363-64, a date of 1350 is feasible, although she could have been born a little earlier. November 25 is the feast day of St. Katherine, so it is possible that Paon·Äôs second daughter was named for the patron saint on whose anniversary she was born, and for whom she was to express great devotion and reverence.

Weir, Alison (2009-01-27). Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (Kindle Locations 259-264). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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