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John of Gaunt is a character in William Shakespeare's play Richard II. Shortly before he dies, he makes a speech that includes the lines (in Act 2, scene i, around line 40) "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars ... This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England".
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster is uncle to King Richard and father to Bolingbroke in Richard II. Prince John of Lancaster is the younger brother of Hal in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. He is also the Duke of Bedford who is Regent of France in Henry VI, Part 1.
Grimjack is the main character of a comic book originally published by the American company First Comics, and later by IDW Publishing. John Ostrander and Timothy Truman are credited as co-creators of the character, although Ostrander had been developing Grimjack with artist Lenin Delsol before Truman's arrival on the project according to Ostrander's own text piece in Grimjack #75.
Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; David Suchet as Edmund of Langley, Duke of York; David Morrissey as Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland; Tom Hughes as Aumerle; James Purefoy as Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk; Clémence Poésy as the Queen (a combination of Isabella of Valois and Anne of Bohemia) Lindsay Duncan as the ...
In addition, at the end of the poem there are references to a "long castel", suggesting the house of Lancaster (line 1,318) and a "ryche hil" as John of Gaunt was earl of Richmond (mond=hill) (line 1,319) and the narrator swears by St. John, which is the name of John of Gaunt's saint. [3]
Katherine is a 1954 historical novel by American author Anya Seton.It tells the story of the historically important, 14th-century love affair in England between the eponymous Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of King Edward III.
Richard married Cecily Neville, a granddaughter of John of Gaunt, and had thirteen or possibly fifteen children: [93] Anne of York (1439–1476)—( Mitochondrial DNA taken from a descendant of her second daughter, Anne St Leger, Baroness de Ros , was used in the identification of the remains of Richard III , which were found in 2012.
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.