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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 ...
Jul 25, 2015 · Katherine Swynford is, arguably, the most famous – or infamous – of English ladies to have risen so high as to become the first lady of the kingdom, without ever being queen. Born Katherine de Roet in Hainault, now in modern-day Belgium, in around 1350, her father was Sir Paon de Roet of Guyenne. Unfortunately, as can be the way with ...
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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 ...
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In January 1328, King Edward III wed Philippa of Hainault, a self-governed holding of the Holy Roman Empire located mostly in modern-day Belgium. Among the sizable entourage that accompanied Philippa to England was Paon de Roët, a Hainaultian herald who would go on to become a knight and the father of Katherine Swynford (néede Roët). Key facts abou...
By that point, the Duke was on his second wife; his beloved Blanche had passed away in 1368, possibly due to complications from childbirth. Based on Chaucer’s elegy The Book of the Duchess—widely agreed to be about the death of Blanche—it seems that the Duke sincerely loved his wife and was distraught over her loss. Historians believe his grief is ...
When Constance breathed her last breath in 1394, John and Katherine finally got the chance to make their family official in more ways than one. The amorous twosome tied the knot in 1396 and then legitimized their children by procuringapprovals from both the monarchy and the pope. Unfortunately, this happily-ever-after chapter would be the shortest ...
Aug 21, 2011 · Katherine Swynford (c.1350-1403) WHN / August 21, 2011. Katherine Swynford was born Katherine de Roët, the daughter of a minor court official who served in the court of Queen Philippa of Hainault, the wife of Edward III of England. Her family were prominent landowners in Hainault, on the modern French/Belgian border, but she had no ties to ...
Jul 30, 2018 · Edmund Blair Leighton’s painting, The Accolade, was full of romance and nods towards a chivalric society that is often lamented as being long forgotten. The story within the cover followed these themes and, ten years later, I am still as much in love with the tale of Katherine Swynford as I was then.
Jun 2, 2017 · Katherine Swynford. Katherine de Roet was probably born about 1350 in Hainault. As is often the case we have no exact records of her birth. What we do know about Katherine’s early life is found in the accounts of chronicler Jean Froissart who was also from Hainault. He talks of Katherine as a ‘Hainaulter’ so its a reasonable assumption to ...
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