Prince Duke of Lancaster John Plantagenet

1340 - 1399  (58 years)

• Name	John Plantagenet  [1, 2, 3]
  	In the tree: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20379884/family?fpid=938980100#pedigree=938980153 diverges to the parents as: # * King Edward of England Plantagenet * # * Birth * o 13 Nov 1312 o in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England * Death * o 21 Jun 1377 o in Richmond, Surrey, England # * Philippa de Hainault D'Avesnes * # * Birth * o 24 Dec 1311 o in Hainault, Belgium * Death * o o in England
  Title	Prince
  Prefix	Duke of Lancaster
  Born	Mar 1340	St. Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Feb 1399	Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, Enland   [2]
  	03 Feb 1390
  Buried	St.Paul's Cathedral, London, England
  Person ID	P44553367	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2010

  
  

  Family 1	Constance Of Castile,   b. 1354, Castrojeriz, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain ,   d. 24 Mar 1394, Leicester Castle, , , England  (Age 40 years)
  Married	21 Sep 1371	, Leicestershire, England
  Children	1. Katherine Plantagenet,   b. 1372,   d. 2 Jun 1418, Valladolid, Valladolid, Castilla-Leon, Spain  (Age 46 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F201141	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Catherine Swynford Roet,   b. 1350, Pickardy, Somme, France ,   d. 10 May 1403, Lincoln  (Age 53 years)
  Married	13 Jan 1396	Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, England
  Children	1. Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Saint Eusebius,   b. Abt 1377, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France ,   d. 11 Apr 1447, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age 70 years)   2. Earl of Somerset John Beaufort,   b. 1373, Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France ,   d. 16 Mar 1410, St. Katherine by the Tower, London, England  (Age 37 years)   3. Joan de Beaufort,   b. 1379, Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France ,   d. 13 Nov 1440  (Age 61 years)   4. Henry Cardinal de Beaufort,   b. 1375, Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France ,   d. 4 Nov 1447, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age 72 years)  [natural]   5. Joan Beaufort,   b. 1379, Westminster, Middlesex, England ,   d. 15 Jul 1445, Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland  (Age 66 years)   6. Thomas de Beaufort,   b. 1377, Meuse, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France ,   d. 31 Dec 1427, England, Kent, , England  (Age 50 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F204336	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Countess of Derby Blanche Plantagenet,   b. 25 Mar 1341, England, Lancashire, England ,   d. 12 Sep 1368, Bolingbrooke Castle, Lincolnshire, England, UK  (Age 27 years)
  Married	19 May 1359	Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England
  Children	1. Philippa of Lancaster,   b. 31 Mar 1360, Engla, Shan State, Myanmar ,   d. 19 Jul 1415, Odivellas, Lisbon, Portugal  (Age 55 years)  [natural]   2. John Plantagenet,   b. 1362,   d. 1365  (Age 3 years)  [natural]   3. Elizabeth Plantagenet,   b. 1364, Burford, Shropshire, , England ,   d. 24 Nov 1426, , , , England  (Age 62 years)  [natural]   4. Edward Plantagenet,   b. 1365,   d. 1368  (Age 3 years)  [natural]   5. King of England Henry Plantagenet, IV,   b. 30 May 1366, Bolingbrooke Castle, Lincolnshire, England ,   d. 20 Mar 1413, Westminster Abbey, London, England  (Age 46 years)  [natural]   6. John Plantagenet,   b. 4 May 1366,   d. 1367  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   7. Isabel Plantagenet,   b. 1368,   d. 1368  (Age 0 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F235337	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  and Earl of Richmond. Some say born Jun 1340, but see CP vol.XIV,p.421. Earl of Derby, Lincoln. Duke of Aquitaine. Lord of Beaufort & Nogent. Burke says he died at Ely House, Holborn King of Castile & Leon. Lord of Bergerac & Roche-sur-Yon. The Complete Peerage vol.VII,pp.410-416 & vol.XIV,p.421. From "Britannia: Monarchs of England:" "This prince, the fourth son of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, was born at Ghent (or Gaunt) in Flanders, in 1340. In his infancy, he was created Earl of Richmond and, by that title, admitted into the Order of the Garter upon the death of T Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, one of the original knights. In 1359, at Reading Abbey (Berks), he married Blanche, the younger of the two daughters and co-heirs of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and upon the death of his father-in-law, in 1361, he was advanced to that Dukedom. He held also, in right of his wife, the Earldoms of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, and the high office of Steward of England. Blanche, dying in 1369, the ambition of the Duke - who had taken an active part in the war carried on by the his brother, Black Prince, for the restoration of Peter, King of Castile & Leon - induced him to direct his views towards Constance, the elder of the two daughters of that monarch, then lately slain by his illegitimate brother, Henry of Transtamare, his successor under the title of Henry II. In 1372, the Duke married this princess and thus assumed the regal style of those kingddoms. These titular honours were ascribed to him in the writs of summons to Parliament from that year until 1386, when, by an arrangement with King John I of Castile & Leon, the son and successor of Henry, Catherine, the only daughter of the Duke of Lancaster by Constance, was betrothed to Henry, Prince of Asturias, his heir-apparent, and the crown settled upon the issue of that alliance. Although John of Gaunt had been engaged in warlike enterprises from his earliest years, yet his martial achievements did not increase the lustre of British glory or secure for himself the character of a great commander. In three expeditions into France, in 1369, 1370 and 1373, he gained no laurels and the peculiar misfortunes which attended the last, when a considerable number of his followers perished amongst the mountains of Auvergne, rendered him very unpopular on his return to England in July 1374. All Guienne and Gascony, with the exception of the towns of Bordeaux and Bayonne, had fallen from their allegiance and a suspension of hostilities was negotiated at Bruges, by the Duke and others, with the Duke of Anjou, before the expiration of that year. After the death of the Black Prince, in 1376, the Duke of Lancaster acquired a marked ascendency in the councils of the infirm monarch, his father. His administration of public affairs is said, furthermore, to have been stained by several acts oof violence. On the 16th June 1386, "at the palace of John of Gaunt, King of Castile & Leon, in the convent of the Friars Carmelites, at Plymouth" (where he was then sojourning prior to his embarkation for Spain), he gave his remarkable testimonony in favour of the right of Sir Richard Scrope to the arms borne by him in the celebrated controversy between Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor. John continued to govern the Kingdom during the minority of his nephew, Richard II, by whom, in 1389, he was created Duke of Aquitaine. His power increasing, he proffered, in open parliament, a claim to the succession for his son, Henry Bolingbroke (later King Henry IV), as son to Blanche, great-grandaughter of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaaster, whom, he pretended, had been elder brother to King Edward I, but set aside on account of his deformity. The weakness of this pretension, which, if established, would have been fatal to the reigning monarch, was opposed, without difficulty, by Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, who, as son and heir of Philippa, the daughter and heir of his elder brother, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, had, by the laws of the empire, an indisputably prior right and was, accordingly, declared the presumptive heir to the crown. The Duchess Constance dying in 1394, John espoused, in 1396, Catherine, daughter of Sir Paine Roet, Guienne King of Arms, and widow of Sir Hugh Swynford, a knight of Lincolnshire. This lady had been of the household of the Duchess Blanche and charged with the education of the ladies Philippa and Elizabeth during their minority. On the 3rd February 1399, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, died at the Bishop of Ely's Palace in Holborn. Conforming to his will, dated 3rd February 1398, his body was interred before the high altar of Old St. Paul's Cathedral, near the remains of Blanche, his first consort. By his first consort, Blanche of Lancaster, he had issue: 1. Henry, Duke of Hereford & Lancaster and Earl of Derby, afterwards King Henry IV. 2. Philippa, married to John I, King of Portugal. Seven kings pf her issue governed that country. 3. Elizabeth, married, firstly, to John Holland, Duke of Exeter, and, secondly, Sir John Cornwall Lord Fanhope. By his second consort, Constance of Castile, John of Gaunt had an only daughter, Catherine, wife of Henry, Prince of Asturias, afterwards Henry III, King of Castile & Leon. The descendants of this alliance were on the throne of Spain until King Charles II, who died in 1700. His issue, before his marriage to his third consort, Catherine Swynford, were legitimated by Act of Parliament, 9th February 1397. They were all surnamed "De Beaufort," having been born at Beaufort Castle in France, which had devolved to the Huse of Lancaster by the marriage of Blanche of Artois with Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. They were: 1. John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset and Marquis of Dorset, KG 2. Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Lincoln, afterwards of Winchester, and, at length, Cardinal and Chancellor of England 3. Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, KG 4. Joan Beaufort, married, firstly, to Sir Robert Ferrers of Worn and Oversley; and, secondly, to Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland. Her grandsons included Richard, Earl of Warwick 'the Kingmaker,' Kings Edward IV and Richard III. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=ae155844-b07f-4182-af9a-32f94c7165d9&tid=1569234&pid=-916435894 John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=7ef3efa9-14b1-485c-8088-6e172cc0f2fb&tid=1569234&pid=-916435894

  
  

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