See also
Husband:
John BEAUFORT (1373-1410)
Wife:
Margaret HOLLAND (1380-1439)
Children:
Marriage:
23 Apr 1399
Name:
John BEAUFORT1
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1373
Kettlethorpe Manor, nr Pottersgate, Lincolshire
Occupation:
-; Created Earl of Somerset
Death:
16 Mar 1410 (age 36-37)
St Catherine by the Tower Hospital London
Burial:
St Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral
Date of birth may be 1371 or 1373 Earl of Somerset, 1st Marquess of Dorset. Transcription of his will made by Kevin Bradford In Dei nominee, Amen. Anno ab incarnacione Domini secundum cursum & computacionem ecclie Anglicane mill mo cccc nono, mensis Marcii die decimo sexto, quasi videlicet hora prima, infra hospitale beate Katerine virginis juxta turrim London. Languens in extremis & prope mortem, sanus tamen mente & compos sensuum, clare memorie Johannes nuper comes Somersetie, cammerarius Anglie & capitaneus Calesie, testamentum suum nuncupativum fecit in hunc modum. In primis, legavit animam suam Deo, beate Marie, & omnibus sanctis ejus. Item, fideliter solverentur, & quod servientes sui remunerati forent de bonis suis, quilibet juxta propria merita & congruenciam status sui. Residuum vero omnium bonorum suorum ac execucionis premissorum posuit solum & in solidum in disposicione reverendi in Christo patris & domini domini Henrici Dei gracia Wynton episcopi, fratris sui, quem constituit ipsuis ultime voluntatis sue executorem unicum, ac dominam Magaretam uxorem suam supervidentem; testibus Rico Gardinew hostiario camere testatoris predicti, Johanne Boys domicello, Thoma Herdi, Johanne Forest, Johanne Firay, & aliis multis. Quinto die Aprilis, A. D. 1410, in eccl London examinati fuerunt Ricus Gardinew hostiarius camere suprascripti testatoris, ac Thomas Hille custos garderob ejusdem, & dictus Walterus Baxceter capellanus, confrater domus sancta Katerine juxta turrim London, in forma juris, & predicti ex parte executoris suprascripti, & probacione testamenti nuncupative suprascripti; qui de dicto testamento nuncupativo an suit verum testamentum ejusdem, singilatim examinati, dixerunt quod sit, & quod presentes fuerunt, & alii plures, quando testator fecit hujusmodi testamentum, ubi & quando audiverunt eum dicere quod voluit quod suprascriptus Dominus Wynton frater suus, ac hujusmodi testamenti sui & ultime voluntatis principalis & plenus executor, & uxor sua suprascripta supervidens; & quod voluntas sua fuit quod debita stipendarior Cales de tempore suo, & eciam alia debita sua ubique integer absque defalcacione solverentur, & deinde familiars sui quidam ad summam centum librar, quidam c marc, quidam XL li. Quidam XL marc. Quidam xx li. Quidam viginti li. Quidam xx marc. Juxta eorum gradus, merita, & obsequia, remunerentur, & de residuo faceret dictus executor suus sicut cuperet quod idem testator faceret pro eo in consimili casu. Requisiti ulterius dicti testes si audiverunt tunc dictum testatorum revocare aliquod testamentum prius conditum, vel executors prius ordinatos, dixerunt singillatim, ut prius examinati, quod idem testator nec hujusmodi testamentum prius conditum, nec executors tunc revocatit, nec aliquid pro tunc locutum suit de testamenti material. Probatio dicti testamenti nuncupative 5 die April A. D. 1410, in eccl cathedral Sti Pauli, London, auctoritate Thome (Arundel) Cant Archiepl, coram Mag Philippo Morgan utriusque juris doctore & curie audientie Archiepl auditore. Ref. Nichols, J. A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal, from the reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the Seventh exclusive. London: J. Nicholas, 1780, pp. 208-211 [The Law Book Exchange, reprint 1999]. Further notes from Kevin Bradford's Website Children: Joan, Lady, m. James I, king of Scots Henry, earl of Somerset 2nd, b. 1401 John, duke Somerset 1st, b. 1403 Thomas, earl of Perche, b. 1405 Edmund, duke Somerset, b. ca. 1406 Margaret Ashley, p. 598 chart opp. AR7 1:32 CP IV:416; VII:415 note (i); XII/1:39 Dugdale, Baronage II:121-22 Grazebrook, v. 2 p. 536 MCS 90:9; 161:18 Faris, PA 186, 332-333 Reade, _The House of Cornewall_, p. 218
Year of birth is a guesstimate
Kevin Bradford, Plantagenet Genealogy & Biography, (Name: Name: Name: World Connect on rootsweb.com;;;). 3. John Beaufort. NAME http://home.earthlink.net/~60/plantagenet08.htm ADDR EMAILPHON.
Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed.; London, England: Oxford University Press; Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22; Volume: Vol 22; Page: 79. Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Dictionary of National Biography, (Name: Date: 1885;;). Page 48.
Kevin Bradford, Plantagenet Genealogy & Biography, (Name: Name: Name: World Connect on rootsweb.com;;;). 4. Edmund Beaufort. NAME http://home.earthlink.net/~60/plantagenet08.htm ADDR EMAILPHON.