John Beaufort , KG, 1st Duke of Somerset 
John was born about April 1404 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. John's father was John "Fairborn" Beaufort , KG, Marquess Somerset and his mother was Margaret de Holand. His paternal grandparents were John Plantagenet of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster and Catherine de Roet; his maternal grandparents were Thomas de Holand , KG, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice FitzAlan. He had a brother and a sister, named Edmund and Joan. He was the oldest of the three children. He died on May 27th, 1444 in (dspm).General Notes
John Beaufort, 3rd Earl of Somerset [elder brother Henry, 2nd Earl, died unmarried 1418], KG (c1440); born c April 1404; created 28 Aug 1443 Earl of Kendal and Duke of Somerset; married c 1442 Margaret, daughter of the John Beauchamp, of Bletso, by Edith, daughter of Sir John Stourton, and widow of Sir Oliver St John, and dspm 27 May 1444, when the Earldom of Kendal and the Dukedom of Somerset expired. [Burke's Peerage]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.MAR 1339/40 in Bavon Abbey, Ghent, Flanders d.3 FEB 1398/99 in Leicester Castle, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1250 in Hainault, Flanders, Beglium d.1304
- b.~ 1280 in Avesnes, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France d.07 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, France
- b.~ 1255 in Luxemburg d.1311
- b.24 Jun 1311 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.12 MAR 1269/70 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France d.16 Dec 1325 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France
- b.~ 1291 in Valois, France d.7 MAR 1351/52 in Fontenelle, France
- b.~ 1273 in Naples, Italy d.31 Dec 1299
- b.~ 1370 in Chateau de Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, France d.16 MAR 1409/10 in St Catherine by the Tower Hospital, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1275 in Roet, Hainault, Belgium d.> 1322 in Roet, Hainault, Belgium
- b.~ 1315 in Roet, Hainault, Belium d.1380 in Ghent, Hainault, Belgium
- b.25 Nov 1350 in Picardy, Hainault, France d.10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1250 in Hainault, Flanders, Beglium d.1304
- b.~ 1280 in Avesnes, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France d.07 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, France
- b.~ 1255 in Luxemburg d.1311
- b.1320 in Hainault, Belgium d.> 1375 in Ghent, Hainault, Belgium
- b.12 MAR 1269/70 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France d.16 Dec 1325 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France
- b.~ 1291 in Valois, France d.7 MAR 1351/52 in Fontenelle, France
- b.~ 1273 in Naples, Italy d.31 Dec 1299
- b.~Apr 1404 in Westminster, Middlesex, England d.27 May 1444 in (dspm)
- b.~ 1253 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.~ 1304
- b.~ 1270 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.07 Oct 1328 in Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, England (Beheaded by partisans)
- b.~ 1253 in Salmesbury, Preston, Lancashire, England d.> 1311
- b.1314 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.BET 26 AND 28 DEC 1360 in Normandy, France
- b.09 Oct 1267 in North Molton, Devonshire, England d.25 Mar 1314 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England (dspm)
- b.1289 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England d.31 May 1349 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1270 in Segrave, Leicestershire, England d.1314
- b.~ 1350 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.25 Apr 1397 in Woodstock, Kent, England
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-The-Sand near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.05 Aug 1301 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d.19 MAR 1329/30 in Beheaded at Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.1279 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1316/17 in Marlborough Castle, England
- b.29 Sep 1328 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d.08 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1268 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England d.<10 Apr 1300 in Liddel, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1299 in Liddel, Cumberland, England d.29 Sep 1349
- b.1273 in Kingsdown, Kent, England d.<26 Oct 1309 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1385 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.30 Dec 1429 in St Saviours Monastery, Bermondsey, Surrey, England
- b.3 FEB 1266/67 in Arundel, Sussex, England d.9 MAR 1301/02
- b.01 May 1285 in Castle Marlborough, Sussex, England d.17 Nov 1326 in Beheaded at Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1271 in Saluzzo, Italy d.25 Sep 1292
- b.~ 1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England d.24 JAN 1375/76 in Arundel, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1256 in Warren, Sussex, England d.15 Dec 1286 in Killed in a Tournament at Croyden (dvp)
- b.~ 1285 in Warren, Sussex, England d.<23 May 1338
- b.1261 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England d.<23 Nov 1293 in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1350 in Arundel, Essex, England d.17 MAR 1415/16
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John and Margaret de were married in a religious ceremony about 1442 in 2nd husband 1st wife. They had a daughter named Margaret.
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Children
Margaret Beaufort
Margaret was born on May 31st, 1443 in Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England. She died at the age of 66 on June 29th, 1509 in Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminster Abbey.
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