The House of Beaufort is an English noble family which originated in the fourteenth century as the legitimated issue of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by Katherine Swynford. Gaunt and Swynford
The surviving earthworks of Beaufort Castle in Montmorency Beaufort
Heraldic achievement forming the Garter stall plate of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (d.1444), KG, St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The earliest garter plate with supporters. It includes the badge of an ostrich feather, here shown as a pair, blazoned: feather argent pen componée argent and azure
Main gate of St John's College, Cambridge, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, showing many symbols of the Beaufort family, including the colours white and blue componée, the Beaufort Yale, the Forget-me-Not flower, the Beaufort Portcullis and the Marguerite or daisy flower, a personal emblem of Lady Margaret Beaufort
Lady Margaret Beaufort was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late 15th century, and mother of Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. She was instrumental in securing her son's acc
House of Beaufort
…would play an important role during the Wars of the Roses during the reign of the incompetent Henry VI. The eventual heiress of the Beaufort family was Lady Margaret Beaufort, only daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, who married Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and became the mother of King Henry VII, the first…
Monumental brass of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, the husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort, in St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Pembroke Castle in 2007, the Norman castle where Margaret gave birth to Henry Tudor in 1457
19th-century portrait, perhaps intended as Lady Margaret Beaufort, National Portrait Gallery, London
Statue of Margaret Beaufort in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, which she founded