Jean of Ghent
Jean of Ghent (June 24th 1340, abbey of Saint-Bavon, Ghent - February 3rd 1399, Leicester), Count de Richmond (1342-1372), Lancaster, Lincoln, Derby and Leicester (as from 1361), Duke of Lancaster (as from 1362) and Duke of Aquitaine as from 1390.
It was the third wire of the king Edouard III of England and Philippa de Hainaut having reached the adulthood.
Married since 1359 with White of Lancaster, heiress of the palatinat of Lancaster, it becomes, with dead of her father-in-law Henry de Grosmont, Duc of Lancaster, Count de Lancastre, of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester.
Having married in second weddings Constancy of Castille, he is applicant with the crown of Castille. July 25th 1386 it unloads with Corogne and is made crown king of Galicia (1386-1387) to Saint Jacques de Compostelle. and advances towards the south of Galicia by establishing its court with Ourense to spend the winter. It makes alliance with the king of Portugal which marries his/her daughter Philippa of Lancaster. In 1387 it gives up its dynastic claims on the Iberian peninsula by negotiating an agreement with the king Jean Ier de Castille to marry his daughter Catherine of Lancaster with the Castilian heir, the future Henri III of Castille.
Named, on March 2nd, 1389, Duke of Lancaster then Duke of Aquitaine, a title which gives him a considerable independence with respect to the king, Jean becomes a prince extremely rich with 30 castles and of vast domains in England and France. The house of the duke of Lancaster is then comparable with that of a monarch.
It is moreover steward of England . With its death, it is buried in the Cathédrale Saint-Paul of London.
Marriages and descent
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It marries in first weddings in Queen' S chapel with Reading on May 13rd, 1359 Blanche of Lancaster (1345-1369), girl of the duke of Lancaster Henry de Grosmont, itself postpones grandson of the king Henri III of England) and Isabelle de Beaumont. They had seven children:
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It marries in second weddings with Roquefort (Moors), in September 1371, Constance of Castille (1354 - 1394) (girl of Pierre Ier de Castille known as " Cruel" and of Maria de Padilla). They had two children:
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It marries in third and last weddings with Lincoln, on January 13rd, 1396, Catherine Swynford de Roet (1350-1403), girl of Payne de Roet. She was the sister of Philippa de Roet, marries Geoffrey Chaucer. They had four children:
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