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Katherine's year of birth is not documented. In 1631, John Weever claimed that she was the eldest of Paon de Roet's daughters, but that would make her at least 28 years old at the time of her first marriage, which is much older than the typical age girls married.
A full telling of Katherine's life emerges from these and from inferences based on the author's understanding of 14th-century England. The resulting portrait is necessarily veiled — John of Gaunt emerges more clearly than Katherine does — but enough is established to suggest that she was an intelligent and devoted companion and mother.
Kettlethorpe Hall is a Victorian house in Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire, noted for its connection to Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster. It encloses fragments of the former manor house including the medieval gatehouse, within the surviving moat. [1] It is a Grade II listed building. [2]
(Chaucer was married to the sister of Katherine Swynford, Gaunt's lover, the mother of several of his children, and his eventual third wife.) The poem tells the story of the poet's dream. Wandering a wood, the poet discovers a knight clothed in black, and inquires of the knight's sorrow. The knight, perhaps representing Gaunt, is mourning a ...
The coat of arms of Katherine de Roet. Paon de Roet (c. 1310 – 1380), also called Paon de Roët, [1] Sir Payn Roelt, [2] Payne Roet and sometimes Gilles Roet, was a herald and knight from Hainaut (in present-day Belgium) who was involved in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War.
Katherine tells the true story of Katherine de Roet, born the daughter of a minor Flemish herald, later knight.Katherine has no obvious prospects, except that her sister Philippa Roet is a waiting-woman to Queen Philippa, wife of King Edward III, and betrothed to (later the wife of) Geoffrey Chaucer, then a minor court official.
The poem refers to John and Blanche in allegory as the narrator relates the tale of "A long castel with walles white/Be Seynt Johan, on a ryche hil" (1318–1319) who is mourning grievously after the death of his love, "And goode faire White she het/That was my lady name ryght" (948–949). The phrase "long castel" is a reference to Lancaster ...
Eleanor Neville (c. 1398 –1472) was the second daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford. [1] Her second husband and four of her sons were all killed in battles during the Wars of the Roses.