Henry BEAUFORT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dean of Wells
• Fact: Bishop of Lincoln
• Fact: Chancellor
• Fact: Bishop of Winchester
• Fact: 2nd Earl of Somerset
• Fact: Chancellor of Oxford University
• Fact: Chancellor of England
• Fact: Bishop of Winchester
• Fact: Cardinal
• Fact 1: In his youth had an affair with Lady Alice Fitz Alan

Notes:

Name:
Henry Beaufort, born about 1375, ordained priest, bishop of Lincoln, 19 July 1398, Lord Chancellor of England, Cardinal Bishop of Winchester 14 Mar 1405, Cardinal-Priest of the titular church of San Eusebio, 24 May 1426, Papal legate in England, died testate at Winchester 11 Apr 1447, buried at Winchester Cathedral (will dated 20 Jan. 1446/7). His will names his daughter and her husband. The mother of his daughter was said to have been Alice fitz Alan, wife of John Cherleton, 4th Lord Cherleton of Powis (died 19 Oct 1401) D.N.B 2:41-48 ("Beaufort was ambitious, haughty, and impetuous...seems to have clung unduly to his office as trustee of the family estates of the House of Lancaster, which must have given him command of a considerable sum of money...His speeches in parliament are marked by a constitutional desire to uphold the crown by the advice and support of the estates of the realm...Family relationships gave him a place in Europe such as was held by no other statesman, and made him the fittest representative of his country abroad"). TAG 32:10-11 (Jan. 1956) ("participated (shamefully) in the trial of St. Jeanne d'Arc at Rouen, 24 May 1431")

Family/Spouse: Lady Alice FITZ ALAN. Alice (daughter of Richard FITZ ALAN and Elizabeth DE BOHUN) was born in 1373/5 in Arundel, Essex, England; died in Oct 1415. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Edward STRADLING. Edward was born about 1389; died in 1453. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]