Individual Details
Sir John "1st Earl of Somerset" Beaufort KG
(Abt 1371 - 16 Mar 1410)
[[Category:House of Beaufort]]
[[Category: Knights Companion of the Garter]]
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==Biography==
Titles of Sir John Beaufort: (Royal Ancestry)
:King's knight
:Earl of Somerset 10 Feb. 1396/7
:Lieutenant of the Duchy of Aquitaine 1397-1401
:Constable of Wallingford Castle 1397
:Marquess of Dorset 29 Sept. 1397
:Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports 1398-9.
:Admiral of the Fleet in the West and North 1398-9, 1406-7,
:Chamberlain of England 1399
:Privy Councillor 1401, 1404, 1406
:Captain of Calais 1401
:Lieutenant of South Wales 1403
:Vice Constable of England 1404.
:Constable of Corfe Castle 1407
===Parents===
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford
===Occupation===
* 1396: K.G.
* from 1397: Earl of SomersetBurke, 1864
* from 1397: Marquis of Dorset
===Death and burial of Sir John Beaufort===He died in the Royal Hospital of St. Katherine-by-the-Tower, London 16 March 1409/10.King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/19-762/ [Accessed: 15/12/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem for John earl of Somerset 1410 He was buried in St. Thomas's Chapel in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, Kent.
His heir was his nine-year-old son Henry.
After the death of his wife Margaret, the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury received a royal mandate to exhume the bodies of her former husbands and reinter them beside her in St. Michael's Chapel.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) John Beaufort was buried at Canterbury to the north of Becket's shrine. His will of 1410 made on the eve of his death gave no instructions for the place of burial, and it was probably Henry IV who chose his step-brother's burial-place. There is no record that he had a tomb. Prior to her death Margaret Holland had already decided to erect a triple tomb for herself and her two husbands. Margaret herself was interred at Canterbury in St. Michaels' Chapel on 8 January 1440. On 27 January Henry VI instructed the exhumation of the bodies of her two husbands, Somerset and Clarence and their reburial according to the duchess's prior instructions. Their triple-tomb stands in the center of the chapel and features alabaster effigies and Purbeck marble tomb-chest. Margaret Holland's effigy lies in the center of the tomb with John Beaufort's to the left and that of Clarence in the senior position; all are shown with hands clasped in prayer. Margaret's effigy has a ducal coronet and her husband's effigies are both wearing armor.
==Sources==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I p. 498
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. III p. 498 and 504
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 645-650
* '''ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 200''''''JOHN BEAUFORT''', K.G., 1st Earl of Somerset, married '''MARGARET HOLAND''' (desc. King William the Conqueror) [see SOMERSET 11].
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 223-229* Beltz, George. ''[[Space:Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter|Memorials of the Order of the Garter]]'' (William Pickering, London, 1841) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4xwNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA354 Page 354-7]* Burke, B. (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising & Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, (pp.63). Harrison and Sons. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WmpmAAAAMAAJ&vq=gaunt&pg=PA63#v=snippet&q=gaunt&f=false Google Books].
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10224.htm#i102237 www.thepeerage.com]
* [[Wikipedia: John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset]]* Hope, Sir William Henry St. John. ''[[Space:The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485|The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485]]'' (A. Constable and Co., ltd., Westminster, 1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=38sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT71 Plate XVII]
[[Category: Knights Companion of the Garter]]
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==Biography==
Titles of Sir John Beaufort: (Royal Ancestry)
:King's knight
:Earl of Somerset 10 Feb. 1396/7
:Lieutenant of the Duchy of Aquitaine 1397-1401
:Constable of Wallingford Castle 1397
:Marquess of Dorset 29 Sept. 1397
:Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports 1398-9.
:Admiral of the Fleet in the West and North 1398-9, 1406-7,
:Chamberlain of England 1399
:Privy Councillor 1401, 1404, 1406
:Captain of Calais 1401
:Lieutenant of South Wales 1403
:Vice Constable of England 1404.
:Constable of Corfe Castle 1407
===Parents===
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford
===Occupation===
* 1396: K.G.
* from 1397: Earl of SomersetBurke, 1864
* from 1397: Marquis of Dorset
===Death and burial of Sir John Beaufort===He died in the Royal Hospital of St. Katherine-by-the-Tower, London 16 March 1409/10.King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/19-762/ [Accessed: 15/12/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem for John earl of Somerset 1410 He was buried in St. Thomas's Chapel in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, Kent.
His heir was his nine-year-old son Henry.
After the death of his wife Margaret, the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury received a royal mandate to exhume the bodies of her former husbands and reinter them beside her in St. Michael's Chapel.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) John Beaufort was buried at Canterbury to the north of Becket's shrine. His will of 1410 made on the eve of his death gave no instructions for the place of burial, and it was probably Henry IV who chose his step-brother's burial-place. There is no record that he had a tomb. Prior to her death Margaret Holland had already decided to erect a triple tomb for herself and her two husbands. Margaret herself was interred at Canterbury in St. Michaels' Chapel on 8 January 1440. On 27 January Henry VI instructed the exhumation of the bodies of her two husbands, Somerset and Clarence and their reburial according to the duchess's prior instructions. Their triple-tomb stands in the center of the chapel and features alabaster effigies and Purbeck marble tomb-chest. Margaret Holland's effigy lies in the center of the tomb with John Beaufort's to the left and that of Clarence in the senior position; all are shown with hands clasped in prayer. Margaret's effigy has a ducal coronet and her husband's effigies are both wearing armor.
==Sources==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I p. 498
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. III p. 498 and 504
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 645-650
* '''ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 200''''''JOHN BEAUFORT''', K.G., 1st Earl of Somerset, married '''MARGARET HOLAND''' (desc. King William the Conqueror) [see SOMERSET 11].
*Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 223-229* Beltz, George. ''[[Space:Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter|Memorials of the Order of the Garter]]'' (William Pickering, London, 1841) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4xwNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA354 Page 354-7]* Burke, B. (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising & Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, (pp.63). Harrison and Sons. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WmpmAAAAMAAJ&vq=gaunt&pg=PA63#v=snippet&q=gaunt&f=false Google Books].
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10224.htm#i102237 www.thepeerage.com]
* [[Wikipedia: John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset]]* Hope, Sir William Henry St. John. ''[[Space:The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485|The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485]]'' (A. Constable and Co., ltd., Westminster, 1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=38sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT71 Plate XVII]
Events
| Birth | Abt 1371 | Anjou, France | |||
| Marriage | 28 Sep 1397 | England - Margaret Holland Countess of Somerset | |||
| Death | 16 Mar 1410 | Royal Hospital of St. Katherine-by-the-Tower, London, Middlesex, England | |||
| Reference No | 400827 | ||||
| Reference No | 416826 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret Holland Countess of Somerset (1385 - 1439) |
| Child | Joan Beaufort (1404 - 1445) |
| Child | Henry "Earl of Somerset" Beaufort (1400 - 1418) |
| Child | Sir John "1st Duke of Somerset, Earl of Kendal" Beaufort KG (1404 - 1444) |
| Child | Thomas "Count of Perche" Beaufort (1405 - 1432) |
| Child | Sir Edmund "2nd Duke of Somerset, Count of Mortain" Beaufort KG (1406 - 1455) |
| Child | Margaret Beaufort (1408 - 1449) |
| Father | John "Duke of Lancaster" Plantagenet KG (1340 - 1399) |
| Mother | Katherine Roet (1350 - 1403) |
| Sibling | Joan Beaufort LG (1375 - 1440) |
| Sibling | Master Henry "Cardinal of England, Bishop of Lincoln" Beaufort (1374 - 1447) |
| Sibling | Thomas "Duke of Exeter, Earl of Dorset" Lancaster KG (1377 - 1426) |