Detail from the chantry chapel of Cardinal Henry Beaufort

            Detail from the chantry chapel of Cardinal Henry Beaufort (c.1375–1447), in Winchester Cathedral.

Beaufort was the second son of John of Gaunt (son of Edward III), by his then mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford.  He was also the half-brother of Henry IV, a factor behind Beaufort’s success in the Church. Taking clerical vows did not, however, prevent him from taking a mistress in his youth and acknowledging one illegitimate child. In 1404 he became bishop of Winchester (the see was the wealthiest in England). He was also a royal minister, continuing to prosper during the reign of Henry IV’s son, Henry V. In 1415 he announced the news of Agincourt at St Paul's Cathedral; two years later he was made a cardinal.

Beaufort died at Wolvesey Palce in 1447. He requested to be buried in Winchester Cathedral, near to the shrine of St Swithun in the retrochoir. His chantry chapel survived the Reformation, though St Swithun’s shrine was destroyed in 1538.

Beaufort was the great-uncle of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch. His great-great-great-great (!) niece, Queen Mary I, married in the cathedral in 1554.

Taken on: September 13, 2010

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