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John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, 3rd Earl of Somerset, KG (25 March 1404 – 30 May 1444) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the maternal grandfather of Henry VII .
Jul 27, 2019 · The four children were given the surname Beaufort which was taken from a Lordship held by John in France. The first child born to the pair was John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset who was born in 1371.
Prominent members of the Beaufort family include:-John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1371-1410) The eldest son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, John Beaufort served in the crusade of Louis II, Duke of Bourbon in North Africa and later was in Lithuania serving with the Teutonic Knights. After his parents' marriage and his subsequent ...
The House of Beaufort ( / ˈboʊfərt /) [2] is an English noble and quasi-royal family which originated in the fourteenth century as the legitimated issue of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster by Katherine de Roet. Gaunt and Swynford had four children: John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373–1410); Cardinal Henry Beaufort, (1375–1447 ...
JOHN BEAUFORT, first DUKE OF SOMERSET, military commander, was the son of John Beaufort, eldest son of John of Gaunt, by Cathering Swynford, who was created Earl of Somerset and died in 1409. John the younger succeeded to the earldom on the death of his brother Henry in 1419. He was early inured to arms, and fought at the age of seventeen with ...
John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, KG (c. 1373 – 16 March 1410) was an English nobleman and politician.
Jul 25, 2019 · History. Facebook Fact-checks. Bloggers. By Daniel Funke July 25, 2019. By Volodymyr Solohub July 25, 2019. No, the first American president wasn’t a black man named John Hanson. A story making...
