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John of Gaunt

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Name John of Gaunt [1, 2] Birth Mar 1340 Abbey of St. Bavo, Ghent, Flanders [3, 4, 5]
Baptism Aft 24 Jun 1340 Ghent, Flanders [6]
Gender Male Alternate death 3 Feb 1399 Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England [7]
Death 3 Feb 1399 Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England [8, 9]
Burial St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England [9]
Person ID I17827 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 5 Dec 2021
Father Edward III, King of England, b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor, Berkshire, England d. 21 Jun 1377, Sheen Palace, Richmond, England
(Age 64 years)
Mother Philippa of Hainault, Queen Consort of England, b. Abt 1314 d. 15 Aug 1359, Windsor, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 45 years)
Marriage 24 Jan 1328 York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England [10]
Family ID F1307 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Blanche of Lancaster, b. 25 Mar 1342 d. 12 Sep 1368 (Age 26 years) Marriage May 1359 Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England [11]
Children 1. Philippa of Lancaster, b. 31 Mar 1360, Leicester, Leicestershire, England d. 19 Jul 1415, Odivelas, near Lisbon, Portugal
(Age 55 years)
+ 2. Elizabeth of Lancaster, b. Bef 21 Feb 1363 + 3. Henry IV, King of England, b. 1367, Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England d. 20 Mar 1413, Jerusalem Chamber in the abbot's house near Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
(Age 46 years)
Family ID F9684 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Mar 2021
Family 2 Constance of Castile, b. 1354 d. 24 Mar 1394 (Age 40 years) Marriage 21 Sep 1371 Roquefort, near Bordeaux, Guienne, France Family ID F17347 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Aug 2020
Family 3 Catherine de Roet, b. Abt 1350 d. 10 May 1403, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (Age ~ 53 years)
Marriage Jan 1396 Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England [9]
Children + 1. John Beaufort, b. Abt 1371 d. 16 Mar 1410, Hospital of St.-Catherine-by-the-Tower, London, England (Age ~ 39 years)
+ 2. Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of England, b. Abt 1374 d. 11 Apr 1447, Wolvesy Palace, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 73 years)
+ 3. Joan Beaufort, b. Abt 1379 d. 13 Nov 1440, Howden, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 61 years)
Family ID F396 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Sep 2020
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Notes - Duke of Lancaster. 527 other titles. Richest European individual of his day.
By his first wife, he was a great-great grandfather to Isabelle of Castile; by his second wife, he was a great-grandfather to her. And the parents of the Spanish wife of his retainer Walter Blount were GX3-grandparents to Ferdinand I.
"John [was] born in Ghent during the king's absence in March (Edward had left for England in February). The birth happened at the abbey of St Bavo because that is where the pregnant queen lodged from her arrival. The precise date 6 March is not certain." [Peter Stewart, 21 Nov 2021]
"John's baptism presumably took place in Ghent shortly after the sea battle on 24 June 1340 -- Edward landed at Sluys and rode on to Ghent after sending news of the victory to his allies including Jean III of Brabant and supporters including Jacob van Artevelde at Thun-l'Évêque near Cambrai. Jean of Brabant was the godfather after whom John of Gaunt was named, and he held him at the font according to Froissart. An early-15th-century chronicle written at Saint-Denis claims that Jakob van Artevelde was the boy's godfather and held him at the font, but it is scarcely plausible that a burgess of Ghent was chosen as godfather to an English prince, or that if this actually happened it would not have been widely reported as a very extraordinary incident." [Peter Stewart, 21 Nov 2021]
- Duke of Lancaster. 527 other titles. Richest European individual of his day.
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