Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland
English countess · Lived 1379 to 1440 · aged 61
Joan Beaufort was the youngest of the four legitimised children and only daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by his mistress, later wife, Katherine de Roet.
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Cecily Neville, Duchess of York- Katherine Neville, Duchess of Norfolk
- Eleanor Percy, Countess of Northumberland
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury- Robert Neville
William Neville, Earl of Kent
Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny- George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer
- Anne Neville, Duchess of Buckingham
- Elizabeth Ferrers
- Mary Ferrers
- John Neville
- Cuthbert de Neville
- Thomas de Neville
- Henry de Neville
- Joan Neville
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Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, who displays the arms of Neville (tinctures transposed in error) with a label compony of Beaufort for difference. Salisbury Roll of Arms
Joan Beaufort and mother Katherine Swynford's tomb - 1809 drawing
The tomb of Joan Beaufort and her mother Katherine Swynford the presbytery of Lincoln Cathedral.Awards
About this person
Joan married Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and in her widowhood became a powerful landowner in the north of England, as countess of Westmorland. Joan was grandmother to kings Edward IV and Richard III, and great-great grandmother to Henry VIII.