John Plantagenêt Duke of Lancaster
- Born: Mar 1340, Bavon Abbey, Ghent, Flanders
- Marriage: Katherine de Roët on 13 Jan 1397 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- Died: 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, London, Middlesex, England at age 58
- Buried: St. Pauls Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England
 Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Thomas Beaufort, youngest of the three illegitimate sons of John, Duke of Lancaster, by Katherine, sometime the wife of Sir Hugh de Swinford, of Kettlethorpe, co. Lincoln, and daughter of Sir Paen, or Payn, de Ruet, a Hainaulter, and one of the knights of Queen Philippe's household. He and his brothers and sister were legitimated by the Pope, 1 Sep. 1396, and established as legitimate with all civil rights, by the King, with the assent of Parliament, 6 Feb. 1396/7.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, pp. 200-204
• Web Reference: John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Knight of the Garter, member of the House of Plantagenêt, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He was called "John of Guant" because he was born in Ghent.
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John married Katherine de Roët, daughter of Sir Payne Roët Knight and Unknown, on 13 Jan 1397 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. (Katherine de Roët was born on 25 Nov 1350 in Somme, Picardy, France and died in Jan-May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.)
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