Brief Life History of Joan Beaufort
When Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmorland was born about 1377, in Beaufort, France, her father, John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster, was 38 and her mother, Katherine de Roët, was 28. 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, at the age of 64, and was buried in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Joan Beaufort Neville, "Find A Grave Index"
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1382 · Wycliffe's Bible
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.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (c. 1379 – 13 November 1440)
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