John of Gaunt

1340 - 1399  (~ 58 years)

• Name	John of Gaunt  [1, 2]
  Born	Mar 1340	Ghent, Flanders   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	6 Mar 1340	Ghent, Flanders   [5]
  Alternate death	3 Feb 1399	Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England   [5]
  Died	3 Feb 1399	Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [3, 4]
  Buried	St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England   [3]
  Siblings	4 siblings
  + 1. Edward of Woodstock ,   b. 15 Jun 1330, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. 8 Jun 1376, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England  (Age 45 years) + 2. Lionel of Antwerp ,   b. 29 Nov 1338, Antwerp, Brabant, Flanders ,   d. 17 Oct 1368, Alba, Piedmont, Italy  (Age 29 years) + 3. John of Gaunt ,   b. Mar 1340, Ghent, Flanders ,   d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England  (Age ~ 58 years) + 4. Edmund of Langley ,   b. 5 Jun 1341, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 1 Aug 1402, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 61 years) + 5. Thomas of Woodstock ,   b. 7 Jan 1355, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. 8 Sep 1397, Calais, France  (Age 42 years)
  Person ID	I17827	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	3 Aug 2020

  
  

  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)
  Married	24 Jan 1328	York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England   [6]
  Family ID	F1307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Blanche of Lancaster,   b. Abt 1346,   d. Sep 1368  (Age ~ 22 years)
  Married	May 1359	Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England   [7]
  Children	1. Philippa of Lancaster,   b. 31 Mar 1360,   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)
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F9684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Constance of Castile,   b. 1354,   d. 24 Mar 1394  (Age 40 years)
  Married	21 Sep 1371	Roquefort, near Bordeaux, Guienne, France
  Last Modified	3 Aug 2020
  Family ID	F17347	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Catherine de Roet,   b. Abt 1350,   d. 10 May 1403, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England  (Age ~ 53 years)
  Married	Jan 1396	Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England   [3]
  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)
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F396	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

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