These children were given the surname ‘Beaufort’, after one of the prince’s estates in France, and they were retrospectively legitimised when their parents finally married in 1396. Her first husband, Hugh Swynford died in 1371 and she had four children with John of Gaunt between 13. Katherine had a long affair with the prince known as John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III, that started whilst she was governess to his daughters by his first wife. Katherine Swynfordĭaughter of Payne Roët of Guienne though her marriage record to John of Gaunt calls her the daughter of “Guyon King of Armes” These two Catherines are the reasons why an obscure Welsh noble family ended up on the English throne for over a hundred years and why their descendants, through a daughter who married into the Stuart line and whose descendants then married into German royalty, still sit on the English throne.Īlso known as Katherine Roet 1350-1366, Katherine Swynford 1366-1396, Duchess of Lancaster 1396-1399, Dowager Duchess of Lancaster 1399-1403. But I wish to start with two earlier Catherines who are crucial as to why there was a Tudor period in England. The Tudor period is usually specified as 1485-1603, which covers the rule of the Tudor monarchs. Both forms of this name were used in this period and sometimes it is possible to find both forms used for the same person when different historians write about them. After intervention by King and council, a settlement was reached under which Cecily was prevented from claiming her dower until her eldest son had received his inheritance under his father’s will, and limited her control over her own inheritance during her lifetime, requiring her to bequeath it to her eldest son at her death.Following on from my piece on the various Marys that were notable figures in the Tudor period, I now intend to do a quick article on another name that crops up a lot during this period: Katherine or Catherine. The proposed match prompted Cecily’s eldest son, Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, to challenge his mother’s right to continue as her late husband’s executor. Cecily Bonville was some nineteen years older than Stafford, and had seven sons and seven daughters by her first marriage.Dockray states that she had fifteen children by her first marriage. 6 or 9 September 1509), 4th Viscount Lisle.īefore 8 October 1505 Stafford paid Henry VII £2000 for permission to marry the wealthy Cecily Bonville, only child and heiress of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, and widow of Henry Stafford’s first cousin, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (c.1455 – 30 August 1501). 8 September 1487), and the sister of John Grey (d. Moreover Burke mistakenly identifies Margaret Grey as the daughter of John Grey, Viscount Lisle, whereas she was the daughter of Edward Grey, Viscount Lisle, and his wife, Elizabeth Talbot (d. 738, states that this alleged marriage did not take place. 493, Stafford married firstly, Margaret Grey, daughter and co-heiress of John Grey, Viscount Lisle, and widow of Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (d. After her death, Sir Richard Wingfield married Bridget Wiltshire, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wiltshire of Stone, Kent. After Jasper Tudor’s death on 21 December 1495, Katherine Woodville married Sir Richard Wingfield (d. and secondly, George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon.Īfter the execution of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, his widow, Katherine Woodville, married Jasper Tudor, second son of Owen Tudor and King Henry V’s widow, Catherine of Valois. 16 September 1507), an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. and two sisters, Elizabeth, who married Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, and Anne, who married firstly, Sir Walter Herbert (d. By his father’s marriage to Katherine Woodville, Stafford had an elder brother, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham,According to Davies he may have had another brother, Humphrey Stafford, who died young.
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