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Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, also known as the Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse, [29] was written in commemoration of Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's first wife. 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 ...
Also, the Duke at the same time sent Katherine a barrel of wine as a gift. Sydney Armitage-Smith, author of a study on John of Gaunt, suggested that Thomas Beaufort, the youngest of the sons of John of Gaunt and Katherine, was born in early 1377, but Alison Weir believes that, most likely, their only daughter Joan Beaufort was born then.
The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359 by Horace Wright (1914), in the Museum of Reading [5] On 19 May 1359, at Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, Blanche married her third cousin, John of Gaunt, fourth son of King Edward III. The whole royal family was present at the wedding, and the King gave ...
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.
Born at Peterborough Castle (now in Cambridgeshire), Blanche was the fifth of the six children born during the marriage of Henry of Lancaster and his wife Mary de Bohun. [1] [2] At the time of her birth, Henry was the Earl of Derby and, thanks to his marriage, Earl of Northampton and Earl of Hereford; as the only surviving son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster, he was the heir of the ...
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.
Blanche, Countess of Lancaster [4] (25 March 1345 – 12 September 1368), married John of Gaunt, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, [5] by whom she had seven children, with three surviving to adulthood. Blanche inherited all her father's estates after the death of her sister.
Philippa de Roet (also known as Philippa Pan or Philippa Chaucer; c. 1346 [1] – c. 1387) was an English courtier, the sister of Katherine Swynford (third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster – a son of King Edward III) and the wife of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.