Joan Beaufort

1379 – 1440 · Generation XVIII · Countess of Westmorland

Joan Beaufort (1379–1440). Countess of Westmorland. Married Ralph Neville in 1396. One of their children is recorded in this archive.

Place in the family

• Joan Beaufort was a great-great-grandmother of King Henry VIII.
• The archive records 122 of her descendants, across 22 generations.

Line of descent: King William I The Conqueror → King Henry I → Matilda the Empress → King Henry II → King John → King Henry III → King Edward I Longshanks → King Edward II → King Edward III → John of Gaunt → Joan Beaufort.

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Parents

• John of Gaunt (1340 – 1399)
• Katherine Swynford (1350 – 1403)

Siblings

• King Henry IV (1367 – 1413) (half)
• John Beaufort (1373 – 1410)

Partners

• Married Ralph Neville (1364 – 1425) in 1396 — one child together

Children

• Cecily Neville (1415 – 1495)

Life

• 1379 — Born
• 1396 — Married Ralph Neville
• 1440 — Died