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Joan Beaufort (c. 1377 – 13 November 1440) was the youngest of the four legitimised children and only daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (third surviving son of King Edward III), by his mistress, later wife, Katherine de Roet. [1] She married Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and in her widowhood became a powerful ...
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Joan Beaufort was one of four children born to Katherine Swynford, John of Gaunt's mistress at the time. Joan's maternal aunt Philippa Roet was married to Geoffrey Chaucer. Joan and her three older brothers were acknowledged as their father's children even before her parents married in 1396. In 1390, Richard II, her cousin, declared Joan and her br...
Joan's daughter Cecily was married to Richard, Duke of York, who contended with Henry VI for the crown of England. After Richard was killed in battle, Cecily's son, Edward IV, became king. Another of her sons, Richard of Gloucester, later became king as Richard III. Joan's grandson Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, was a central figure in the ...
Mother: Katherine Swynford, mistress of John of Gaunt at the time of Joan's birth, and later his wife and Duchess of LancasterFather: John of Gaunt, a son of Edward III of England and his wife, Philippa of HainaultSiblings:Half-siblings, by her father's earlier marriages:Husband: Robert Ferrers, 5th Baron Boteler of Wem, married 1392Husband: Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, married February 3, 1396/97- Jone Johnson Lewis
Joan Beaufort was a daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, a legitimised son of John of Gaunt by his mistress (and later third wife) Katherine Swynford. [5] She was born in 1404. [ 6 ] Joan's mother was Margaret Holland , [ 7 ] the granddaughter of Joan of Kent (wife of Edward the Black Prince ) from her earlier marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent .
Sep 21, 2019 · Joan was the youngest of the Beaufort children, born sometime between 1377 and 1379. She was close to her family. She joined the household of her sister-in-law, Mary de Bohun, wife of her half-brother, the future Henry IV, in 1386.
Joan was born c. 1404. Her mother was Margaret Holland, a half-niece of King Henry IV of England. Her father, John Beaufort, was the son of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Gaunt’s longtime mistress Kathryn Swynford. As a descendant of kings, Joan would have been considered a prestigious catch for whoever she married.
May 18, 2018 · Joan Beaufort. Joan Beaufort ( c. 1400–45), queen of James I of Scotland. Daughter of John Beaufort, earl of Somerset, Joan was married to James I of Scotland at Southwark in February 1424, a match celebrated in James's poem ‘The Kingis Quair ’. She was by James I the mother of twin sons, Alexander and James (later James II), and six ...
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May 11, 2024 · Biography. Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (c. 1379 – 13 November 1440) was the fourth of the four illegitimate children (and only daughter) of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford; and, in her widowhood, a powerful landowner in the North of England.
