Henry Beaufort
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Henry Beaufort was an English Catholic prelate and statesman who held the offices of Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop of Winchester and cardinal. He served three times as Lord Chancellor and played an import
1856 painting by Paul Delaroche showing Beaufort interrogating Joan of Arc in prison
Beaufort's tomb in Winchester Cathedral
Katherine Swynford
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Katherine, Duchess of Lancaster was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the fourth son of King Edward III. From her earlier marriage, she is known as Katherine Swynford.
Henry Beaufort
…House of Plantagenet, being the second son of the four legitimised children of John of Gaunt (third son of King Edward III) by his mistress (later wife) Katherine Swynford. Beaufort is often claimed to have been born at Beaufort, an English domain in France, but England, John of Gaunt specifically, had already lost that…
Katherine Swynford, from her tomb
Katherine's tomb, the larger tomb, next to the tomb of her daughter, Joan Beaufort. Drawing by William Dugdale.
Restored in the 17th century, the tomb of Katherine Swynford and her daughter Joan Beaufort in one of the choirs of Lincoln Cathedral.
Geoffrey Chaucer reciting Troylus and Criseyde: early 15th-century manuscript of the work. Currently at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.