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John of Gaunt

Male 1340 - 1399  (~ 58 years)


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  • Name John of Gaunt  [1, 2
    Birth Mar 1340  Abbey of St. Bavo, Ghent, Flanders Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Baptism Aft 24 Jun 1340  Ghent, Flanders Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Gender Male 
    Alternate death 3 Feb 1399  Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Death 3 Feb 1399  Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9
    Burial St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Siblings 4 siblings 
    Person ID I17827  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 5 Dec 2021 

    Father Edward III, King of England,   b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1377, Sheen Palace, Richmond, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Philippa of Hainault, Queen Consort of England,   b. Abt 1314   d. 15 Aug 1359, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Marriage 24 Jan 1328  York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Children 
     1. Philippa of Lancaster,   b. 31 Mar 1360, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jul 1415, Odivelas, near Lisbon, Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    +2. Elizabeth of Lancaster,   b. Bef 21 Feb 1363
    +3. Henry IV, King of England,   b. 1367, Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1413, Jerusalem Chamber in the abbot's house near Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Marriage Jan 1396  Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Children 
    +1. John Beaufort,   b. Abt 1371   d. 16 Mar 1410, Hospital of St.-Catherine-by-the-Tower, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 39 years)
    +2. Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of England,   b. Abt 1374   d. 11 Apr 1447, Wolvesy Palace, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 73 years)
    +3. Joan Beaufort,   b. Abt 1379   d. 13 Nov 1440, Howden, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 61 years)
    Family ID F396  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Sep 2020 

  • 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]

  • Sources 
    1. [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022.

    2. [S3901] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman." The American Genealogist 21:169, 1944.

    3. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012., month, year, and town only.

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    5. [S6146] Peter Stewart, 21 Nov 2021, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    6. [S6147] Peter Stewart, 21 Nov 2021, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    7. [S160] Wikipedia.

    8. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    9. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012.

    10. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012., "24/25 January 1327/8".

    11. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.