BEAUFORT, Margaret

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• Books About: The Women of the Cousin's War
• Royalty & Nobility: King's Mother; Countess of Richmond and Derby

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. TUDOR, Henry VII was born on 28 Jan 1457; died on 21 Apr 1509.

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• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Duke of Somerset

John + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset

John + HOLLAND, Margaret. Margaret (daughter of HOLLAND, Thomas and FITZALAN, Countess of Kent; Lady of the Garter Alice) was born in 1385; died on 30 Dec 1439. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Books About: The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaste
• Differentiator: Due to some generous land grants, John was one of the richest men in his era.
• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Duke of Lancaster

Notes:

Member of the House of Plantagenet, the third of five surviving sons of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He was called "John of Gaunt" because he was born in Ghent, then rendered in English as Gaunt. When he became unpopular later in life, scurrilous rumours and lampoons circulated that he was actually the son of a Ghent butcher, perhaps because Edward III was not present at the birth. This story always drove him to fury.

John was the fourth son of King Edward III of England. His first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, was also his third cousin; both were great-great-grandchildren of King Henry III.

John + SWYNFORD, Catherine. Catherine (daughter of ROET, Paon de) was born in 1350; died on 10 May 1403. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Books About: Katherine
• Name: Katherine Swynford

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• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Earl of Kent

Notes:

Thomas Holland was born in Upholand, Lancashire, in 1350.[1] He was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, and Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent".[2] His mother was a daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, and Margaret Wake. Edmund was in turn a son of Edward I of England and his second Queen consort Marguerite of France, and thus a younger half-brother of Edward II of England.

His father died in 1360, and later that year, on 28 December, Thomas became Baron Holand. His mother was still Countess of Kent in her own right, and in 1361 she married Edward, the Black Prince, the son of King Edward III.

Thomas married FITZALAN, Countess of Kent; Lady of the Garter Alice on 10 Apr 1364. Alice (daughter of FITZALAN, Richard and DE ARUNDEL, Eleanor) was born in 1350 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 17 Mar 1416 in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Alice Holland, Countess of Kent (c. 1350[1] - 17 March 1416), LG, formerly Lady Alice Fitzalan, was an English noblewoman, a daughter of the 10th Earl of Arundel, and the wife of the 2nd Earl of Kent, the half-brother of King Richard II. As the maternal grandmother of Anne Mortimer, she was an ancestor of King Edward IV and King Richard III, as well as King Henry VII and the Tudor dynasty through her daughter Margaret Holland. She was also the maternal grandmother of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland.

She was appointed a Lady of the Garter in 1388.