Jacquetta of Luxembourg
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Jacquetta of Luxembourg was a member of the House of Luxembourg and a prominent figure in the English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. Through her short-lived first marriage to the John of L
Arms of Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Two of Jacquetta's children are depicted here: Anthony and Elizabeth.
John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, was a medieval English prince, general, and statesman who commanded England's armies in France during a critical phase of the Hundred Years' War. Bedford was the th
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
…Luxembourg and a prominent figure in the English civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487). Through her short-lived first marriage to the John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, brother of Henry V of England, she was initially firmly allied to the House of Lancaster. However, following the emphatic Lancastrian defeat at the…
The Duke of Bedford with his heraldic badge of "wood stocks" (tree-stumps) and his motto A Vous Entier (miniature from Bedford Hours)
John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, Knight of the Garter, kneels before Saint George who wears the blue mantle of the Order of the Garter. Illuminated miniature from the Bedford Hours, formerly in the Duke's private library.