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Personal data Henry "Cardinal" Beaufort Bishop of Lincolnshire 

• He was born about 1376 in Chateau, De Beaufort, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
• He was christened in the year 1376 in Château de Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, France, France.
• Title: Cardinal-Bishop
• Religion: Roman Catholic Church.
• (Religion/Ethncty) in Bishop of Winchester.
• He died on May 8, 1447 in Wolvesey Palace, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
• He is buried in Chantry Chapel, Retro-Choir, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England.
• A child of John of Gaunt. Duke of Lancaster and Catherine Deroet

Household of Henry "Cardinal" Beaufort Bishop of Lincolnshire

He is married to Alice FitzAlan.

They got married March 1392 at Powis, Glamorgan, Wales.

Child(ren):

1. Jane Beaufort  ± 1400-1479 

Notes about Henry "Cardinal" Beaufort Bishop of Lincolnshire

Henry "Cardinal" Beaufort Bishop of Lincolnshire [1775]: He was born in ABT. 1376 in Chateau, De Beaufort, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, and he died on 8-MAY-1447 in Wolvesey Palace, Winchester, Hampshire, England. He married Alice FitzAlan [1776], and had the following child: Jane [1774].

Studied at Oxford. Spent most of his youth at Aachen where he read the civil and canon law. Appointed Bishop of Lincoln 1398; 1399 was Chancellor of Oxford. Chancellor of England in 1403. 1404 nominated to be Bishop of Winchester. 1426 Pope made him a Cardinal.

Became Bishop of Lincoln in 1398. Bishop of Winchester in 1404. Chancellor of England in 1403. Became a Cardinal in 1426.

Henry Beaufort Plantagenet Cardinal, Bishop of Winchester, born c. 1377; died at Westminster, 11 April, 1447. He was the second illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, and Katherine Swynford, later legitimized by Richard II (1397). After his ordination he received much preferment, becoming successively dean of Wells (1397), Bishop of Lincoln (1398), chancellor of Oxford University (1399), chancellor of England (1403-4), and Bishop of Winchester (1404). He was much in favour with Henry Prince of Wales, and on his accession as Henry V, Beaufort again became chancellor (1413). He attended the Council of Constance (1417), and it was due to him that the Emperor Sigismund in alliance with Henry V withdrew his opposition to the plan of electing a new pope before measures for Church reform had been taken. This election ended the unhappy Western Schism. The new pope, Martin V, created Beaufort a cardinal. On Henry's death he was left guardian of the infant Henry VI and again acted as chancellor (1424-26). He was created cardinal-priest of St. Eusebius in 1426l, and was employed as papal legate in Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia, where he assisted the pope in the Hussite War. Employed in French affairs in 1430-31, he crowned Henry, as King of France, in Paris (1431). The following year he defeated the Duke of Gloucester's effort to deprive him of his see on the ground that a cardinal could not hold an English bishopric. When war broke out with France he assisted the war-party with large financial advances. He completed the building of Winchester cathedral. where he is buried. Radford, Henry Beaufort, bishop, chancellor, cardinal (London, 1908); Lingard, History of England, IV (London 1883); Gregorovius, History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Hamilton's tr. (London, 1894-1900); Creighton, History of the Papacy during the Reformation (London, 1882-97); Caley in Archaeologia (1826), XXI, 34; (1852), XXXIV, 44; Beaurepaire in Prec. trav. acad. Rouen (Rouen, 1888-90); Hunt in D ict. Nat. Biog., with reference to contemporary sources Cardinal Beaufort's Chantry Cathedral Map, #12 Cardinal Beaufort was one of the most powerful of the Bishops of Winchester. Appointed in 1404, he held the See until his death at Old Wolsey Castle, forty-three years later. During this time he was highly embroiled in the political infighting during the reigns of three English monarchs. He was a favourite advisor of his half-nephew, King Henry V; but during the rule of the latter's young son, he was continually at logger heads with the Duke of Gloucester. He was able, however, to wield power four number of times as Lord Chancellor of England. Upon his death, Beaufort was buried in a fine, many-pinnacled chantry chapel in the retrochoir of Winchester Cathedral. He left great sums of money to this church which was used to build the great screen behind the high altar. Even after death, his influence was so great that St. Swithun's Shrine was moved to a place adjoining his final resting-place. One of Beaufort's claims to fame is for his condemnation to death of Joan of Arc. After her canonization in 1923, a statue of her was placed opposite his tomb.

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