Person:John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, 6th Baron Beaumont (1)

John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, 6th Baron Beaumont
  • HJohn Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, 6th Baron BeaumontCal 1409 - 1460
  • WLady Catherine de NevilleAbt 1397 - Aft 1483
Facts and Events
Name John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, 6th Baron Beaumont
Gender Male
Birth[2][1][7] Cal 1409 Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage to Lady Catherine de Neville
Other? From 1431/32 to 1439 Summoned to Parliament
Occupation? 1434 Privy Council
Occupation? From 1445 to 1450 Constable of England
Occupation? 1450 Great Chamberlain
Residence? Folkingham, Lincolnshire, EnglandFolkingham Castle
Death[3][4][1] 10 Jul 1460 Northampton, Northamptonshire, EnglandBattle of Northampton (1460)
Other? KINSHIP: Son and heir.

MILITARY: Battles and Wars> Under the Lancastrian banner at the battle of Northampton, 1460.

ASSIGNMENTS: Summoned to Parliament, 1431/1432-1439.

ACHIEVEMENTS: Greatly distinguished himself both in war and at court.

HONORS: Knight of the Bath, 1426; [K.G.] Knight of the Order of the Garter, 1441.

TITLES: Succeeded father in 1413 as Lord Beaumont, title by writ 1309.

TITLES: Created Count of Boulogne [F.] by letters patent, 1436.

TITLES: Created Viscount Beaumont 1439/1440.

TITLES: The King bestowed on him in 1440/1441, "the feudal Viscountcy of Beaumont in France", which upon the death of the Duke of Bedford, in 1435, had reverted to the Crown.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Baron Beaumont, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    "John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont, 6th Baron Beaumont (round 1409-1460)"

  2. 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. 62.
  3. Cokayne, supra
    vol. 2 p. 62, 65.
  4. Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, c2004)
    p. 132 ERESBY:6.
  5.   Cokayne, supra
    vol. 1 p. 421 fn. d; vol. 2 p. 62, 65, 388 fn. b.
  6.   Richardson, supra
    p. 131-132 ERESBY:6.
  7. Age being 4 years in 1413 (father's death year).