John "Fairborn" Beaufort , KG, Marquess Somerset 
John "Fairborn" was born about 1370 in Chateau de Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, France. John "Fairborn"'s father was John Plantagenet of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster and his mother was Catherine de Roet. His paternal grandmother was Philippa d' Avesnes , of Hainault; his maternal grandparents were Payne de Roet , Sir Knight and Catherine d' Avesnes , of Hainault. He had a brother and a sister, named Henry and Joan. He was the oldest of the three children. He died in St Catherine by the Tower Hospital, London, Middlesex, England.General Notes
Sir John Beaufort (Beaufort being the name of a castle in Champagne belonging to his father), KG (c1397); created 10 Feb 1396/7 Earl of Somerset and 29 Sep 1397 Marquess of Dorset and Marquess of Somerset (he was degraded from both marquessates 1399 following accession of Henry IV), Constable of England 1404. [Burke's Peerage]
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John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, Marquis of Dorset, KG, b. c 1372, d. 16 Mar 1410. He was legitimated with the 3 other children of Katharine by Act of Parliament 20 Richard II (1397) for all purposes except the royal succession. He married as her 1st husband, c 1399, Margaret, d. c 30 Dec 1439, 3rd daughter and eventual coheir of Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl of Kent, KG. She m. (2) 1411 Thomas, Duke of Clarence, KG, 2nd son of Henry IV. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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John Beaufort, KG, Earl and Marquis of Somerset, b. c 1370, d. 16 Mar 1409/10, son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. [Magna Charta Sureties, line 90-9]
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On the Dukedom of Somerset [Burke's Peerage, p. 1661]
Two and a half ceturies later Richard II created the eldest of John of Gaunt's bastards by Catherine Swynford, John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset. He was later promoted Marquess of Somerset, though degraded from the rank in the early part of Henry IV's reign. Both before and after the deposition of Richard he was a prominent military figure, chiefly in France during the Hundred Years War. The latter conflict continured to provide the Beafort Earls of Somerset with opportunities; the 3rd Earl [John Beaufort], one of John's younger sons, was promoted Duke of Somerset in 1443 following various military operations in Normandy, Anjou, and Maine, though these were competently executed rather than conspicuously triumphant. Probably his close kinship with Henry VI was the chief cause of his leap in the peerage, for his mother Margaret was daughter of Thomas Earl of Kent, a descendant of Edward I. It is this Duke of Somerset's daughter who was mother of Henry VII.
The Dukedom of Somerset created in 1443 expired with the death of the grantee [John Beaufort] in 1444.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.MAR 1339/40 in Bavon Abbey, Ghent, Flanders d.3 FEB 1398/99 in Leicester Castle, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1215 in Oizy, Namur, Belgium d.1256 in Holland
- b.~ 1250 in Hainault, Flanders, Beglium d.1304
- b.~ 1225 in Holland d.~ 1284
- b.~ 1280 in Avesnes, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France d.07 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, France
- b.1217 in Luxemburg d.24 Nov 1281
- b.~ 1255 in Luxemburg d.1311
- b.~ 1222 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France d.23 Nov 1275
- b.24 Jun 1311 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy near Paris, Seine, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, France
- b.12 MAR 1269/70 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France d.16 Dec 1325 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France
- b.1247 in Barcelona, Spain d.28 JAN 1270/71 in As a result of miscarriage
- b.~ 1291 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.7 MAR 1351/52 in Fontenelle, France
- b.~ 1248 in Naples, Italy d.06 May 1309 in Cassanova near Naples, Italy
- b.~ 1273 in Naples, Italy d.31 Dec 1299
- b.~ 1257 in Budapest, Hungary d.25 Mar 1323 in Naples, Italy
- 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.~ 1215 in Oizy, Namur, Belgium d.1256 in Holland
- b.~ 1250 in Hainault, Flanders, Beglium d.1304
- b.~ 1225 in Holland d.~ 1284
- b.~ 1280 in Avesnes, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France d.07 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, France
- b.1217 in Luxemburg d.24 Nov 1281
- b.~ 1255 in Luxemburg d.1311
- b.~ 1222 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France d.23 Nov 1275
- b.1320 in Hainault, Belgium d.> 1375 in Ghent, Hainault, Belgium
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy near Paris, Seine, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, France
- b.12 MAR 1269/70 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France d.16 Dec 1325 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France
- b.1247 in Barcelona, Spain d.28 JAN 1270/71 in As a result of miscarriage
- b.~ 1291 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.7 MAR 1351/52 in Fontenelle, France
- b.~ 1248 in Naples, Italy d.06 May 1309 in Cassanova near Naples, Italy
- b.~ 1273 in Naples, Italy d.31 Dec 1299
- b.~ 1257 in Budapest, Hungary d.25 Mar 1323 in Naples, Italy
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