Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland

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Joan Beaufort (c. 1379 – 13 November 1440) was the youngest of the four legitimised children and only daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (third surviving son of King Edward III), and his mistress, later third wife, Katherine Swynford. She married Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and in her widowhood, she became a powerful landowner in the north of England, as countess of Westmorland. Through her daughter Cecily, Joan was the maternal grandmother of kings Edward IV and Richard III, and great-great-grandmother of Henry VIII.

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