Person:John Beaufort (64)

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, (c. 1373 – 16 March 1410) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt (1340–1399) (third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress Katherine Swynford, whom he later married in 1396.

The Beaufort children were declared legitimate twice by parliament, first during the reign of King Richard II of England, in 1397, which was confirmed by Henry IV, as well as by Pope Boniface IX in September 1396. Even though they were the grandchildren of Edward III and next in the line of succession after their father's legitimate children by his first two wives, the Beauforts were barred from succession to the throne by their half-brother Henry IV.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
   p. 3 line 1:31.

   John Beufort, by [John of Gaunt and (3) Catherine (Roet) Swynford], Earl and Marquis of Somerset, b. abt 1371/2 (in adultry by then mistress, Catherine; legitimated by statute, 1397); d. 21 Apr 1410; m. abt. 1397/9 Mararet de Holand (47-33), d. 30 Dec. 1439. Margaret m. (2) Thomas, Duke of Clarence. (CP IV: 416; CP VII; 415; CP XII (1):39-45 (see esp. p. 44 not h); Paget I:23; DNB Suppl. i, 158; Gens. 1-32: Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry). John is the grandson of Edward III of England, and the line descends, through son Edmund, down to American colonists Edward Pelham and his half-sister Penelope Pelham Winslow.

3. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis, and Walter Lee Sheppard. The Magna Charta sureties, 1215: the barons named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and some of their descendants who settled in America. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., Unknown edition (1955-1999))
   p. 111 line 90:9.
4. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, c2004)
   p. 14 BEAUFORT:11.

   See also p. xxix, p.186 HOLAND:8.ii, p. 205 LANCASTER:10.iii

5.   Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
   vol. 2 p. 378.
6.   John De Beaufort Somerset, in Find A Grave.
7.   John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
8.   JOHN Beaufort, son of JOHN "of Gaunt" Duke of Lancaster & his third wife Katharine Swynford née Roët ([1371]-Hospital of St Katherine by the Tower, London 16 Mar 1410, bur Canterbury Cathedral), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Nichols, John. A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princessess of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal: from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry the Seventh, exclusive, with explanatory notes and a glossary. (London: J. Nichols, 1780)
   pages 208 to 211.

   The will can be read here (in Latin).

10. ↑ Born before the death of his mother's 1st husband on 13 Nov 1371; aged about 21 years in 1392
11. ↑ Given the surname of BEAUFORT from his father's (lost) castle in Champagne which had devolved on him through his 1st wife: See 'Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists', 2nd ed. p. 14 BEAUCHAMP:11.