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Jan 5, 2010 · Mistress of the Monarchy reveals a woman ahead of her time—making her own choices, flouting convention, and taking control of her own destiny. Indeed, without Katherine Swynford, the course of English history, perhaps even the world, would have been very different.
Added: Feb 7, 2001. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 20205. Source citation. English Nobility Figure. She was married to a knight, Hugh Swynford. After his death, Katherine was the mistress and true love of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and second son of King Edward III. He married Constance of Castile for purely political and dynastic reasons. He ...
Circa 1350 - 1403. Katherine Swynford, ancestress of the Beaufort family, was probably born in Hainaut, which is now in Belgium, in 1349 or 1350, her birthdate may have been November 25, which is the feast day of St. Catherine of Alexandria. She was the daughter of Paon de Roet, a Flemish herald, who was later knighted.
Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century and Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries.
Aug 6, 2023 · Katherine Swynford was a woman who would defy the social norms of her age, and set in motion a tangle of events for the Wars of the Roses. Born a daughter of...
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Nov 3, 2013 · This is a painting by Ford Madox Brown, one of the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, in which the main figure is john Wycliffe, reading his translation of the Bible. Chaucer is obviously there, and so is John of Gaunt, but if the female figure with the child is Katherine with one of her Beaufort children, probably the eldest, John, she ...
Jan 15, 2024 · Katherine (Roet) Swynford is a member of the House of Lancaster. Around 1352, Katherine de Roet went to work in Queen Phillipa of Hainaut's house. Philippa was married to English King Edward III. [1] Like the Queen, she was from Hainaut, which is now divided between Belgium and France. [1] She later became the governess of the children of ...
