When Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmorland was born about 1379, in England, her father, John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster, was 40 and her mother, Katherine de Roët Duchess of Lancaster, was 30. She married Sir Robert Ferrers in 1391, in Anjou, France. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 13 November 1440, in Howden, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 62, and was buried in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
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John Wycliffe, English theologian and professor at the University of Oxford, completed a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English. This translation is known as Wycliffe's Bible and was completed around 1382.
English (Nottinghamshire, of Norman origin): from Middle English contas(e), Old French contesse ‘countess’, applied as a nickname for a proud, haughty woman or for a foppish man, or as an occupational name for a servant of a countess.
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Possible Related NamesJoan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (c. 1379 – 13 November 1440) was the fourth of the four illegitimate children (and only daughter) of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster , and his mistress, la …
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