BEAUFORT

(see also England-Plantagenet)

(Ancestral line of descendant of Rev. John Knox, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Saire de Quincey, Robert de Vere)

JOAN BEAUFORT married, in 1424, James I (Stewart), King of Scotland. Joan was the daughter of

(Ancestral line of descendant of Rev. John Knox, Saire de Quincey, Robert de Vere)

SIR JOHN BEAUFORT, K.G., Earl of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset, Lord High Admiral of England, Captain of Calais, Constable of England, Constable of Wallingford Castle, Dover Castle and Corfe Castle, died on 16 March 1409/10. About 1397, he married, as her first husband, Margaret Roland who died on 30 December 1439.

(Ancestral line of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury,Johnn Fitz Robert).

JOAN BEAUFORT died on 13 November 1440. She married, second, Ralph de Neville, K.G., Earl of Westmoreland, who died on 21 October 1425.

SIR JOHN and JOAN were the children of

(Ancestral line of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, Ancestral line of descendants of Rev. John Knox)

JOHN of GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster in 1362, Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Leicester, Steward of England, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Aquitaine or Guinnes, Captain General in France, Captain General at Sea, Constable of Chester, was born on 24 June 1340 and died on 3 February 1398/99. He married, first, on 19 May 1359, Blanche of Lancaster. In January 1396, he married, third, Katherine Roet who was born in 1350 and died on 10 May 1403. John was the son of

EDWARD III, King of England 1327-77, was born in Windsor on 13 November 1312 and died in Richmond on 21 June 1377. On 24 January 1328, he married Philippa of Hainaut who was born in 1312 and died on 15 August 1369.

Ref: Cokayne, V 01. XI, p. 39; Ancestral RootS, p. 21; Magna Charta, pps. 218 and 1983.