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unusual facts about Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland



George Gascoigne

Anne Bigod (great-granddaughter of Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem and Joan Beaufort)

Joan Beaufort

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (1379–1440), daughter of John of Gaunt and his mistress, Katherine Swynford, later proclaimed legitimate

John Bullock

On 4 September 1439, Bishop Bullock appended his seal to the contract between Joan Beaufort, Queen Dowager, and Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, a contract that made Livingstone guardian of the boy king, James II of Scotland.

Michael Ochiltree

He had been an "intimate friend" of King Robert III of Scotland and his wife Anabella Drummond, and then James I and his wife Joan Beaufort.


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