Anjou 6

John "of Gaunt", Earl of Richmond 20.9.1343, Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Aquitaine, titular King of Castile, *Ghent 24.6.1340, +Leicester Castle 3.2.1399, bur St.Paul´s, London; 1m: Queen's Chapel, Reading 19.5.1359 Blanche of Lancaster (*25.3.1345 +12.9.1369); 2m: Rochefort-sur-Mer, Guienne IX.1371 Constance, titular Queen of Castile (*1354 +24.3.1394); 3m: Lincoln 13.1.13.1.1396 Catherine Swynford de Roet (*1350, +Lincoln 10.5.1403, bur there) [widow of Hugh Swynford and sister-in-law of Geoffrey Chaucer], by whom he had had illegitmate children (surnamed "Beaufort") who were subsequently legitimized

A1. [1m.] John, *ca 1362, +young
A2. [1m.] Edward, *ca 1365, +young
A3. [1m.] John, *before 4.5.1366, +young
A4. [1m.] King HENRY IV of England (1399-1413), *Bolingbrooke Castle 30.5.1366/3.4.1367, +Westminster Abbey 20.3.1413, bur Canterbury Cathedral; 1m: Arundel Castle, Sussex 27.7.1380 Mary de Bohun (*1370/71, +4.6.1394); 2m: Winchester Cathedral 7.2.1403 Joan of Navarre (*1370 +1437)
- B1. [1m.] Edward, *IV.1382
- B2. [1m.] King HENRY V of England (1413-22), *Monmouth Castle 9.8.1387, +Bois d'Vincennes 31.8.1422, bur Westminster Abbey; m.Troyes Cathedral 2.6.1420 Catherine de Valois (*27.10.1401 +3.1.1437)
  - C1. King HENRY VI of England (1422-61), *Windsor Castle 6.12.1421, +Tower of London 1471; m.Titchfield, Hants 23.4.1445 Marguerite d'Anjou (*23.3.1429 +25.8.1482)
    - D1. Edward, Pr of Wales, *Westminster Palace 13.10.1453, +k.a.Tewkesbury 4.5.1471; m.Chateau d'Amboise 13.12.1470 Anne Beauchamp Neville (*1456 +16.3.1485)
- B3. [1m.] Thomas, Duke of Clarence 9.7.1411, *Kenilworth 29.9.1388, +k.a.Beauge 22.3.1421; m.1412 Margaret Holand (*1385 +30.12.1439)
- B4. [1m.] John, Duke of Bedford 1414, *20.6.1389, +Rouen 1435; 1m: Troyes 1423 Anne of Burgundy(*1404 +Paris 1432); 2m: Therouenne 1433 Jacquette de Luxembourg (*ca 1416 +1472)
  - C1. a child, *and +Paris XI.1432
- B5. [1m.] Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, *IX.1390, +Bury, St.Edmunds 1447; 1m: 1422 (annulled 1425/28) Jacqueline of Bavaria, Css of Holland, Hainault, etc; 2m: before 1431 Eleanor Cobham (+1454)
  - C1. [illegitimate] Antigone; m.Henry Grey, "Earl of Tankerville"
- B6. [1m.] Blanche, *Peterborough Castle 1392, +Hagenau 21.5.1409; m.Heidelberg 1402 Kfst Ludwig III von der Pfalz (*1378 +1436)
- B7. [1m.] Philippa, *4.7.1394, +convent of Wadstena, Lund 6.1.1430; m.Lund 1406 King Eric I of Denmark and Norway (+3.5.1459)
- B8. [2m.] Edmund Labourde
A5. [2m.] John, *Ghent 1374, +young
A6. [1m.] Philippa, *Leicester 31.3.1360, +of the plague at Odivellas 1415/9.9.1438, bur Batalla; m.Oporto 2.2.1387 King Joao I of Portugal (*1358 +1433)
A7. [1m.] Elizabeth, *Burford before 21.2.1363, +24.11.1425, bur Burford; 1m: Kenilworth 1380 (div ca 1383) John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke (+1389); 2m: Plymoth 24.6.1385 Sir John Holand, 1st Duke of Exeter (*1352 +9.1.1400); 3m: before 3.7.1401 John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope (+1443)
A8. [1m.] Isabel, *ca 1368
A9. [2m.] Catherine, *Hertford 6.6.1372/31.3.1373, +Valladolid 2.6.1418; m. III.1389/93 Enrique III of Castile (*4.10.1379 +25.12.1406)
A10. [3m.] John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset, *Beaufort Castle 1373, +London 16.3.1410, bur Canterbury Cathedral; m.btw 28.8.1397-23.4.1399 Margaret Holand (*1385 +30.12.1439)
- B1. Henry, 2nd Earl of Somerset, *26.11.1401, +1418
- B2. John, Duke of Somerset, *before 25.3.1404, +27.5.1444; m.1439 Margaret de Beauchamp (*ca 1412 +shortly before 30.6.1482)
  - C1. Css Margaret Beaufort, Css of Richmond, *Bletso, Beds IV.1441/31.5.1443, +Westminster Palace 29.6./5.7.1509; 1m: 1.11.1455 Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (*1430 +1.11.1456); 2m: ca 1459 Henry Stafford (+1481); 3m: Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby (+1504)
- C2. [illegitimate] Thomasine, fl V.1469; m. Reynold Grey, lord of Wilton (+22.2.1493/94)
- B3. Thomas, Earl of Perche, *1405, +1432
- B4. Edmund, Duke of Somerset, *1406, +k.a.St.Albans 22.5.1455; m.1431/5 Eleanor Beauchamp (*1408 +6.3.1467/68)
  - C1. Henry, Duke of Somerset, *IV.1436, +beheaded after a battle at Hexham 15.5.1464; he left illegitimate issue, for whom see HERE
  - C2. Edmund, *before 1440, +beheaded after battle of Tewkesbury 1471
  - C3. John, +k.a.Tewkesbury 1471
  - C4. Thomas, +before 1463
  - C5. Margaret, *ca 1437, +1474; 1m: ca 1449 Humphrey, Earl of Stafford (+22.5.1455); 2m: Sir Richard Darell
  - C6. Eleanor, *after 1435, +Spencercombe 16.8.1501; 1m: James Butler, Earl of Ormonde and Wiltshire (+beheaded 1461); 2m: ca 1470 Sir Robert Spencer of Spencercombe (*ca 1435, +after 13.3.1492)
  - C7. Anne, *ca 1435; m.Sir William Paston (*28.5.1434 +after 28.11.1496)
  - C8. Joan, +1518; 1m: ca 1478 Robert, Lord Howth (+1486); 2m: Sir Richard Fry (+1504)
  - C9. Elizabeth, +by 1492; m.Sir Henry Lewes
  - C10. Mary; m.N Burgh
- B5. Joan Beaufort, *ca 1406, +Dunbar Castle 15.7.1445, bur Perth; 1m: Southwark 2.2.1424 King James I of Scots (*XII.1394 +21.5.1437); 2m: St.Andrews, Fifeshire 21.9.1439 Sir James Stewart (*ca 1383 +after 1451)
- B6. Margaret Beaufort, +after 1421; m.Thomas de Courtenay, Earl of Devon
A11. [3m.] Henry Beaufort, Bp of Winchester, Cardinal, *Chateau Beaufort ca 1375, +Winchester 11.4.1447, bur there
- B1. [illegitimate by Alice FitzAlan of Arundel] Jane, *1391/92; m.Sir Edward Stradling
A12. [3m.] Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, *Beaufort Castle I.1377, +13.12.1426, bur Bury; m.Margaret Neville
- B1. Henry, +young
A13. [3m.] Joan Beaufort, *Beaufort Castle ca 1379, +Raby Castle 1425/Howden, Yorkshire 13.11.1440, bur Lincoln; 1m: Sir Robert, Lord Ferrers (*1373 +before 29.11.1396); 2m: btw 29.11.1396-20.2.1397 Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (*ca 1364 +21.10.1425)

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