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  1. May 27, 2017 · 25 Apr 1404. London, City of London, Greater London, England. Death. 27 May 1444 (aged 40) Wimborne, East Dorset District, Dorset, England. Burial. St. Cuthburga Churchyard. Wimborne Minster, East Dorset District, Dorset, England Add to Map. Memorial ID. 18690. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 1. Flowers 117. Memorials. Region. Europe

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    She was born on 31st May 1443, daughter of John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset and his wife Margaret (Beauchamp). She was descended from one of the illegitimate children of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of Edward III) and his mistress Katherine Swynford. They were given the name Beaufort after Gaunt's castle in the Champagne region of Franc...

    Her fine tomb is by Italian sculptor Pietro Torrigiano (Torrigiani), with a portrait effigy in gilt bronze of the Countess in her old age, wearing a widow's dress with a hood and long mantle. Her head rests on two pillows, with a design of the portcullis and Tudor rose, and the delicate and characteristic wrinkled hands are raised in prayer. The ef...

    The private illuminated prayer book of Lady Margaret was presented to the Abbey Library by Viscount Dillon in 1923 (MS.39). Two wooden travelling chests, thought to have belonged to her, remain in the Abbey's possession. One was used to house the indentures for the building of Henry VII's chapel. The prayer book and one of the chests can be seen in...

    See entry for her half-brother - John Welles The King's Motherby M.K. Jones and Malcolm Underwood, Cambridge, 1992 Contracts for the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort (also the grille) by R.F. Scott, 1915 (originals in the archives of St John's College, Cambridge) Westminster Abbey. The Lady Chapel of Henry VII by T. Tatton Brown & Richard Mortimer, 2...

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  3. Cardinal Beaufort died on 11 April 1447 and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (1379-1440) Joan, the only daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, was probably born at the Swynford manor of Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire.

  4. John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Mother. Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso. Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: / ˈboʊfərt / BOH-fərt or / ˈbjuːfərt / BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. [1]

  5. He died on 27 May 1444, in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, at the age of 40, and was buried in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. Photos and Memories (7) +2. View All. Do you know John? Do you have a story about him that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account. Family Time Line. Spouse and Children. Parents and Siblings.

  6. During part of the minority of her son James II (from 1437 to 1439), she served as the Regent of Scotland. Whilst James I was captive at the English Court he won the affections of Joan Beaufort, a. She was a daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and Margaret Holland, and a half-niece of King Henry IV of England.

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