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Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Saint Eusebius

Male Abt 1377 - 1447  (70 years)


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  • Name Henry Beaufort  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40] 
    • de Beaufort
    Title Cardinal 
    Suffix Cardinal of Saint Eusebius 
    Born Abt 1377  Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 11 Apr 1447  Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [41, 42, 43, 44] 
    Buried Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [41, 44] 
    Person ID P44553326  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2016 

    Father Prince Duke of Lancaster John Plantagenet,   b. Mar 1340, St. Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, Enland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Mother Catherine Swynford Roet,   b. 1350, Pickardy, Somme, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1403, Lincoln Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Married 13 Jan 1396  Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F204336  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Baroness Alice FitzAlan,   b. 1378, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Yes, date unknown 
    • STATUS: Not married.
    Children 
     1. Jane Beaufort,   b. 1402, Westminster, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1453, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2019 
    Family ID F641  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • According to Weis, in "Ancestral Roots," Henry had "in his youth had an affair with Lady Alize Fitzalan," daughter of Sir Richard Fitzalan. This is disputed by some who contend that Henry "died celibate,"however, "celibate" does not mean "without issue" or "virginal." Henry wasn't born a clergyman, and didn't become one until later in life, after he and Alice Fitzalan had their affair. In addition to Weis, the LDS also confirms this. Burke, on the other hand, fails to list any offspring of Henry's and says that Henry's brother, Sir John de Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, was Jane's father. I tend to agree with Weis on this one.

      From Wikipedia:

      The second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, Beaufort was born in Anjou, an English domain in France, in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church. Subsequently their cousin Richard II of England declared he annd his two brothers and one sister legitimate about 1390.[citation needed] On 1 September 1396, Pope Boniface IX declared his parents married and legitimated their offspring. Parliament issued letters patent on 9 February 1397/98 legitimating ththe three sons of John of Gaunt and Kathering Swynford.[4] On 27 February 1398 he was nominated Bishop of Lincoln and on 14 July 1398 he was consecrated.[5] When his half-brother deposed Richard and took the throne as Henry IV of England, he made Bishop Beaufort Lord Chancellor of England in 1403.[6] Beaufort resigned that position in 1404 when he was appointed Bishop of Winchester on 19 November.[7]

      Between 1411 and 1413 Bishop Beaufort was in political disgrace for siding with his nephew, the Prince of Wales, against the King, but when King Henry IV died and the Prince became Henry V of England, he made his uncle Chancellor again in 1413; however, Beaufort resigned the position in 1417.[6] Pope Martin V offered the Bishop a cardinal's hat, but King Henry V would not let him accept it. Henry V died in 1422, shortly after making himself heir to France by marrying Charles VI's daughter, and their infant son Henry VI of England. Bishop Beaufort and the child king's other uncles formed the Regency Government of England 1422-1437, and in 1424 Beaufort became Chancellor once more, but was forced to resign again in 1426[6] because of disputes with the King's other uncles.

      The Pope finally made him a Cardinal in 1426,[6] and in 1427 made him Papal Legate for Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. In this position, he led forces against the Hussites, facing a rout at Tachov on 4 August 1427.[8] Beaufort continued to be active in English politics for years, fighting with the other powerful advisors to the King and always managing to extricate himself from the snares they set for him. He died on 11 April 1447[7] and was laid to rest in a tomb in Winchester Cathedral. He suffered from delirium on his deathbed and, as he hallucinated, according to legend he offered Death the whole treasury of England in return for living a while longer.

      During his youth, most likely while studying at Cambridge University, Henry had an affair with, some believe, Alice Fitzalan (1378?1415), the daughter of Richard Fitzalan and Elizabeth de Bohun, though there is no real evidence to support this. He fathered an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort, in 1402. Both Jane and her husband Sir Edward Stradling, were named in Cardinal Beaufort's will. Their marriage about 1423 brought Sir Edward into the political orbit of his shrewd and asserertive father-in-law, to whom he may have owed his appointment as chamberlain of South Wales in December 1423, a position he held until March 1437.[9] The idea of Jane's mother being Alice Fitzalan is possibly a legend of Tudor-era descendants of Sir Edward and Jane Stradling. There is no late-14th/early-15th century documentation to support this affair at all, and the surviving documentation entirely discounts it. However, a blood connection to Cardinal Beaufort would itself be prestigious, regardless of the mother or her marital status. Illegitimacy has never been viewed as detrimental in Wales.
    • KINSHIP: 2nd son. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)

      MILITARY: He commanded in the war against Bohemia and also served in France. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      CHURCH: Office> consercrated Bishop of Lincoln, 1397. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      CHURCH: Office> Bishop of Winchester, 1404. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      CHURCH: Office> created Cardinal of St Eusebius by Pope Martin, whose forces he, in 1429, commanded int he war against Bohemia. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      OFFICE: 4 times Lord Chancellor of England. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)

      DEATH-CONDITION: Error> Died without issue. (Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, p. I)
      PROBATE: Will dated 20 Jan 1446.
    • KINSHIP: 2nd son. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)

      MILITARY: He commanded in the war against Bohemia and also served in France. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      CHURCH: Office> consercrated Bishop of Lincoln, 1397. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      CHURCH: Office> Bishop of Winchester, 1404. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      CHURCH: Office> created Cardinal of St Eusebius by Pope Martin, whose forces he, in 1429, commanded int he war against Bohemia. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)
      OFFICE: 4 times Lord Chancellor of England. (Glenn, Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh, p. 221 fn. 1)

      DEATH-CONDITION: Error> Died without issue. (Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, p. I)
      PROBATE: Will dated 20 Jan 1446.

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