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John BEAUFORT
HUSBAND:
[F4522462]. John BEAUFORT. First Earl of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset.
Born about 1373, probably at Beaufort Castle; son of John of GAUNT [F9044924] and Katherine SWYNFORD [F9044925]. He married Margaret HOLLAND [F4522463]. He died on 16 MAR 1410.
WIFE:
[F4522463]. Margaret HOLLAND
Born in 1385; daughter of Thomas HOLLAND [F9044926]. She married John BEAUFORT [F4522462]. She died in 1429.
CHILDREN of John BEAUFORT, 1st Earl of Somerset [F4522462], and Margaret HOLLAND [F4522463]:
- [F2261231]. Joan BEAUFORT. Born about 1398 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Joan met James I, King of Scotland in London while he was imprisoned at the English Court. They were married on 2 FEB 1424 in (London-S2)(Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland-S1). James was murdered in 1437. Joan married James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn, in 1439. They had one child: John Stewart (John of Balveny), who would later become the first Earl of Atholl. She died on 15 JUL 1445 in Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland; and was buried beside James I at the Carthusian Monastery in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.
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