According to Anthony Goodman’s John of Gaunt: The Exercise of Princely Power in Fourteenth-Century Europe… “At his [Gaunt’s] manor of Daventry (Northants) there was the John O’ Gaunt Motel…”
I had no idea Gaunt was so ahead of his time! (And yes, I’ve taken the quote out of context.)
[…] is how Mowbray came to die in Venice. Bolingbroke hadn’t long left the country when his father, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster died, and Richard seized all Lancastrian property lands. Thus he gave Bolingbroke a cast-iron […]
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[…] cupboard. Henry VII would have been cock-a-hoop to claim Gaunt as his father! But I wonder if Gaunt was aware of this extra wife and […]
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[…] endowed a chantry for Ralph’s soul and so on. But he went on to become Earl of Huntingdon, marry John of Gaunt’s daughter, be raised to Duke of Exeter. Then he was reduced to Huntingdon again by his […]
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[…] from Lionel of Clarence, the second eldest son of Edward III. Bolingbroke was descended from John of Gaunt, the third eldest and therefore a junior […]
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[…] “….Consider, for example, the case of John Sperhauk, which came before King’s Bench in April 1402. The plea roll record opens with the memorandum of his confession taken on 13 April by the coroner of King’s Bench, before the king and ‘by [his] authority and command’. In this confession, Sperhauk admitted to publicly repeating allegations made to him by a tailor’s wife that the earl of March rather than Henry [IV] was the rightful king; that Henry was the bastard son of a butcher of Ghent and not the son of the duke of Lancaster…” […]
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[…] 14th-century story of John of Gaunt enjoying dinner in a friend’s house (including oysters, I understand) in the city of London when […]
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[…] of such a thing. She was not only his wife but very important in her own right as a daughter of John of Gaunt (and first cousin as well as sister-in-law of Richard […]
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[…] green eyes that were inherited from her English grandmother, Catherine of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt. Although it has to be pointed out that Catherine of Lancaster was part-Castilian, being the […]
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[…] and therefore heiress of the Duke of Somerset (the baseborn but legitimised Beaufort grandson of John of Gaunt) which is why Edmund Tudor was so keen to have her, before she was of age at that. He had to bed […]
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[…] Irish Carmelite friar, John Latimer, who warned Richard of a plot against him by his royal uncle, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (father of Henry […]
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[…] he did, then he’s a damned sight older than I thought. The red rose went back at least as far as John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. So a Lancastrian emblem since then and hardly a nifty new idea by Christopher […]
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[…] Then, last night I saw a clip from an old black-and-white film of Cossacks riding wildly over a grassy landscape. I know that the distinctive hats of the Cossacks come in all shapes, sizes and colours, but they are generally along basically similar lines. The thing that caught my eye from this film clip was the shape of these particular hats. They were exactly the same as Henry of Bolingbroke’s mourning hat, even to the top of the crown being wider than the base. (He was in mourning at the time of the Creton illustrations because of the recent death of his father, John of Gaunt.) […]
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[…] As mentioned in the earlier M&B article, Matilda’s marriage was quite literally sold to John of Gaunt by her relative and guardian, Lady Mohun. This was only possible because Matilda was a substantial […]
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[…] Edward III’s eleven grandaughters, nine of whom were paternally descended including four by John of Gaunt. The first, Philippa of Clarence, was born in 1355 and the last to die was Joan Beaufort, in 1440. […]
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[…] was the illegitimate son of one of Richard II’s uncles. The finger of suspicion usually points at John of Gaunt, but nobody knows anything really. Another generally accepted tale is that Maudelyn’s mother was […]
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[…] the oldest part of the property dates from 1350, when it was probably used as a hunting box by John of Gaunt, the son of Edward III, who held the hunting rights to Ashdown […]
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[…] injustice lying down…unless he was the one being unjust, of course. He was one of John of Gaunt’s feudal tenants and had a number of responsibilities and duties to carry out. He was always very […]
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[…] been loving cousins, and after the death in February 1399 of Henry’s illustrious father, John of Gaunt, things got to the point where Richard exiled Henry and temporarily confiscated his estates, […]
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