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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, la …
Joan Beaufort (c.1370-1440), daughter of John, duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) and Catherine Swynford (c.1350-1403), is an excellent example of a woman of illegitimate birth who not only maintained a powerful position in English society because of her own royal lineage and prosperous marital alliances, but whose subsequent legitimisation safe ...
When Joan of Arc was captured by the English toward the end of the Hundred Years War with France, Beaufort presided at her trial at which she was sentenced to be burned at the stake. Cardinal Beaufort died on 11 April 1447 and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (1379-1440)
Name in native language. Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland. Date of birth. 1379 (statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584) Kettlethorpe. Date of death. 13 November 1440. Howden. Place of burial.
When Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmorland was born on 28 January 1375, in Beaufort, France, her father, John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster, was 34 and her mother, Katherine De Roët Duchess of Lancaster, was 24. She married Sir Robert Ferrers in 1391, in Anjou, France. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters.
Joan Beaufort may refer to: Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (1379–1440), daughter of John of Gaunt and his mistress, Katherine Swynford, later proclaimed legitimate. Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (died 1445), queen consort of James I of Scotland and niece of the above. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Through his daughter Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, he was an ancestor of the Yorkist kings Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III. Through his great-granddaughter Lady Margaret Beaufort he was also an ancestor of Henry VII , who married Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York , and all subsequent monarchs are descendants of their marriage.
