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Notes for Thomas Beaufort: He Was the Duke of Exeter. Henry Notes for Thomas Beaufort: He was the Duke of Exeter. ii. Henry "Cardinal" De Beaufort1811, 1812, 1813, son of John Plantagenet and Katherine de Roet was born about 1376 in Chateau,De Beaufort,Meurthe-et-Mosel,France. He died on 11 Apr 1447 in Winchester,Hampshire,England. He married Alice Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan and Elizabeth De Bohun in Not Married. She was born about 1378 in Arundel,Sussex,England. She died in Oct 1415. Henry "Cardinal" De Beaufort1811, 1812, 1813 was buried in 1447 in Cathedral,Winchester,Hampshire,England. Notes for Henry "Cardinal" De Beaufort: From Encycopedia Britannica Online, article titled "Henry Beaufort": "Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester and a dominant figure in Englishpolitics throughout the first 43 years of the 15th century. From about1435 until 1443 he controlled the government of the weak King HenryVI. "Beaufort's father was John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of KingEdward III, and his mother was Catherine Swynford.** During the reignof his cousin King Richard II, he became chancellor of OxfordUniversity (1397) and bishop of Lincoln (1398). "With the accession of his half brother, Henry IV, in 1399, Beaufortwas guaranteed a prominent place in politics. In 1403 he becamechancellor of England and a royal councillor. In the following year hewas appointed bishop of Winchester, one of the richest sees in thecountry. He then resigned his chancellorship and led the oppositionwithin the council to Henry IV's chief minister, Thomas Arundel,archbishop of Canterbury. When Beaufort's nephew and political allybecame king as Henry V in 1413, Beaufort again received thechancellorship. In order to climb still higher, the ambitious bishopsought a position with the papacy. Pope Martin V made him a cardinaland papal legate in 1417, but the king, fearing that Beaufort would be an all too effective spokesman forpapal policies, soon forced him to resign these ecclesiasticaloffices. "Upon the accession of the infant Henry VI in 1422, however,Beaufort's talents were allowed to flourish. Already wealthy, heenriched himself further by lending money to the insolvent crown athigh interest rates. Beaufort's financing of the state solidifed hispower; there was little his enemies could do against the man on whomthe solvency of the government depended. Beaufort was made cardinal ofSt. Eusebius and papal legate in 1426, a move for which he wascontinually attacked by his uncle, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, whocriticized him for simultaneously holding high positions in church andstate. But Beaufort survived Gloucester's sniping, and with thesupport of the young Henry VI, by the mid-1430s the government wasfirmly back in his hands. In 1435 and 1439 he attempted withoutsuccess to negotiate an end to the Hundred Years' War (13371453)between England and France, and in 1443 he retired from politics.Beaufort was arrogant, self-serving, and greedy to the point ofrapacity, but his political and financial acumen were unrivaled in theEngland of his time. His career is authoritatively recounted in L.B.Radford's Henry Beaufort (1908)." **Henry, along with his three siblings were all born in the 1370'swhile his father was then married to Constance. Though barred fromthe throne, they were later "legitimized" by Richard II and again byHenry IV (Henry's half-brother). Alice Fitzalan was buried before 1416. She was known by the title of Baroness. Notes for Alice Fitzalan: She was the Baroness of Cherleton. 275.
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