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Nov 29, 2021 · Katherine Swynford: the scandalous duchess and ancestress of royal dynasties. Katherine Swynford is best known as the mistress, and then wife, of John of Gaunt, whose whole life was riddled with scandal. Perhaps she is known more as the subject of a 20th-century romantic novel than for her real life. Alison Weir dispels the myth of a scheming ...
Nov 23, 2023 · John of Gaunt would assume the title of King of Castile and León in right of his wife. She died 24 March 1394. Children of John of Gaunt and Constance of Castile: Catherine m. Henry III, King of Castile Married: 3rd - John of Gaunt had a well-known illicit relationship with Katherine de Roet, a governess of his children which began around 1372 ...
John of Gaunt. (1340–99). English prince John of Gaunt was one of the sons of the English king Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut. Because John had elder brothers and a nephew who were in line to ascend the throne before him, he never became king. However, John was an influential adviser to his nephew, Richard II, during Richard’s reign as ...
Jul 1, 2022 · Hardcover – July 1, 2022. The first biography to tell the personal story of the wealthiest, most powerful, and most hated man in medieval England. "Old John of Gaunt, time-honour’d Lancaster" John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a Spanish kingdom via his wife, daughter of King Pedro the Cruel.
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Feb 12, 2009 · 27 Groups of fifteen knights were attendant on Gaunt over periods of a month probably in 1381; among those who recurred were John Marmion, John Ypres, William Croyser, Richard Burley, Walter Urswick, Walter Blount, Maubruny de Linieres and John Swinton (East Sussex Record Office, Glynde Place Archives, John of Gaunt's Household rolls, 3469 ...
For centuries John of Gaunt has remained an enigmatic figure, our ‘take’ on him coloured by Shakespeare or Anya Seton. Helen Carr has produced a timely, extraordinarily insightful and detailed account of Gaunt’s life, allowing the narrative of travel, battles, intrigue, ambition and royal relationships to unfold like a reversed ...
Dec 2, 2014 · However the Tudors did back up their claim to the throne through descent from John of Gaunt, son of Edward III and father of Henry IV – and ancestor of the Tudor dynasty through his legitimised ...
