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Isabel Lancaster

(Abt 1368 - Abt 1368)

[[Category:House of Lancaster]]
==Biography==Isabel or Isabella, born circa 1368 and died young, is named as a third daughter and youngest child of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and his first wife Blanche of Lancaster, in some secondary sources, such as Weir's, ''Britain's Royal Families'',Alison Weir, ''Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy'', 2nd ed., (London: Pimlico, 2002), p. 102. and ''Burke's guide to the Royal Family''.''Burke's Guide to the Royal Family'', pedigrees compiled by David Williamson & Jeffrey Finestone (London: Burke's Peerage, 1973), p. 199. Digital image, Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/burkesguidetoroy00lond#page/199/mode/1up : accessed (borrowed) 26 September 2018.
However neither of these works cite any direct sources and other works such as ''The Complete Peerage''George Edward Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage: Or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times,'' 2nd ed., vol. 7, rev & ed. by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden (London: St Catherine Press, 1929), p. 415, note (g). Digital image, or the biography of John of Gaunt, by Armitage-SmithSydney Armitage-Smith,'' John of Gaunt'' (Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1904). Digital image, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/stream/johngauntkingca00armigoog : accessed 26 September 2018. fail to mention her at all. Armitage-Smith cites a late 15th or early 16th century manuscript, Percy MS 78 (Alnwick Castle) which doesn't list Isabel among the children of John of Gaunt and Blanche.Armigate-Smith, ''John of Gaunt'', Appendix (V), p. 464.
Weir, in her study of Katherine Sywnford, proposes that Isabella, may possibly have been born in August 1268, and quotes was "swiftly summoned out of this world to the seat of the angels" but the sources for this statement are not very clear.Alison Weir,'' Katherine Swynford: The story of John of Gaunt and his scandalous Duchess'' (London: Vintage Books, 2007), p. 86 & notes p. 328. She cites "Sloane MS 82 f. 5; Harleian MSS; Lane" of which Sloane MS (Manuscripts) 82 would seem to be a mistake

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