Katherine Swynford

Also known as: Katharine Swinford · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: duchess of Lancaster · First appears: Richard II 63

Life events

1396 · John of Gaunt married Katherine Swynford, then a widow.(Richard II 63 · 📍 Lincolne)
- With: John of Gaunt
- “wherevpon he rode in all hast that might be to Lincolne, where Katharine Swinford as then laie, whom shortlie after the Epiphanie, he tooke to wife.”

married with John of Gaunt “For the loue that the duke had to these his children, he married their mother the said Katharine Swinford, being now a widow”
parent: Paon de Roet “This woman was borne in Heinault, daughter to a knight of that countrie, called sir Paou de Ruet:”
child: Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter “Before she was married, the duke had by hir three children, two sonnes and a daughter; one of the sons was named Thomas de Beaufort, & the other Henrie”
child: Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester “Before she was married, the duke had by hir three children, two sonnes and a daughter; one of the sons was named Thomas de Beaufort, & the other Henrie, who was brought vp at Aken in Almaine, prooued a good lawyer, and was after bishop of Winchester.”
married with Swinford “who afterwards was married to a knight of England, named Swinford, that was now deceassed.”
with Blanche of Lancaster (Katherine Swynford attended on Blanche of Lancaster.) “she was brought vp in hir youth, in the duke of Lancasters house, and attended on his first wife the duchesse Blanch of Lancaster”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.