In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant of Gaunt's third marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were born out of wedlock and only legitimised after the death of Constance and the marriage of John to Katherine.

Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, founder of the Aviz dynasty, and of Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's daughter.

The great tower ( left ) and John of Gaunt's great hall ( right ).

Henry IV, John of Gaunt's son, returned Kenilworth to royal ownership when he took the throne in 1399 and made extensive use of the castle.

King Henry IV ( despite being John of Gaunt's son ) passed the De heretico comburendo in 1401, which did not specifically ban the Lollards, but prohibited translating or owning the Bible and authorised burning heretics at the stake.

The Tudors descended on Henry VII's mother's side from John Beaufort, one of the illegitimate children of the 14th century English Prince John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( the third surviving son of Edward III of England ) by Gaunt's long-term mistress Katherine Swynford.

A subsequent proclamation by John of Gaunt's legitimate son, King Henry IV, also recognised the Beauforts ' legitimacy, but declared them ineligible ever to inherit the throne.

* June 14 – Peasants ' Revolt: Rebels destroy John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace and storm the Tower of London, killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor.

In 1387, John of Gaunt's grandson was born to Mary de Bohun, in the Queen's Chamber within the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, while his father Henry Bolinbroke was hunting in the area.

Lady Alice's family, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of John of Gaunt's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland.

John of Gaunt's legitimate male heirs, the Lancasters, included Kings Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI.

John fathered five children outside marriage, one early in life by a lady-in-waiting to his mother, and four surnamed " Beaufort " ( after a former French possession of the Duke ) by Katherine Swynford, Gaunt's long-term mistress and third wife.

There was organized opposition to his measures, and rioting in London: John of Gaunt's arms were reversed or defaced wherever they were displayed, and protestors pasted up lampoons on his supposedly dubious birth.

The Castilian king, John of Trastámara, had expected Gaunt would land in Portugal and had concentrated his forces on the Portuguese border ; he was wrong-footed by Gaunt's decision to invade Galicia, the most distant and disaffected of Castile's provinces.

This effectively kept him off the scene while England endured the major political crisis of the conflict between Richard II and the Lords Appellant, who were led by John of Gaunt's younger brother Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester.

It may be that he felt he had to maintain this posture of loyalty to protect his son Henry Bolingbroke ( the future Henry IV ), who had also been one of the Lords Appellant, from Richard's wrath ; but in 1398 Richard had Bolingbroke exiled, and on John of Gaunt's death the next year he disinherited Bolingbroke completely, seizing Gaunt's vast estates for the Crown.

Thomas of Woodstock was named Duke of Gloucester and Edmund of Langley became Duke of York, thereby founding the House of York, which later fought for the throne with John of Gaunt's Lancastrian descendants during the Wars of the Roses.

He was conferred the second creation of the title of " Duke of Lancaster " by his father Edward III in 1362, a year following the death of John of Gaunt's father-in-law Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster.

In 1388, Henry married Catherine of Lancaster ( 1372 – 1418 ), the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Gaunt's second wife, Constance of Castile, who was the elder daughter of King Peter of Castile.

Langley's first wife, Infanta Isabella of Castile, was the sister of Gaunt's second wife, Infanta Constance of Castile ; his second wife, Joan Holland, was the sister of Gaunt's daughter-in-law Margaret Holland, wife of Gaunt's son John Beaufort.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

With great difficulty John clambered to his feet and started to run, sweat pouring down his face.

Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

John Jay Parry, the editor of De Amore, quotes critic Robert Bossuat as describing " De Amore " as " one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explains the secret of a civilization ".

" One of his secretaries concluded that John was " a great man in temporal things, but a complete failure and worthless in spiritual things.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.

Other commentators, such as John Calvin, attach no great importance to the precise dating.

The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio ( Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine ) was published at Basel in March 1536.

Moore and Hastings Rashdall ) tries to meet the difficulty by advocating a plurality of ends and including among them the attainment of virtue itself, which, as John Stuart Mill affirmed, " may be felt a good in itself, and desired as such with as great intensity as any other good.

Famous casuistic authors include Antonio Escobar y Mendoza, whose Summula casuum conscientiae ( 1627 ) enjoyed a great success, Thomas Sanchez, Vincenzo Filliucci ( Jesuit and penitentiary at St Peter's ), Antonino Diana, Paul Laymann ( Theologia Moralis, 1625 ), John Azor ( Institutiones Morales, 1600 ), Etienne Bauny, Louis Cellot, Valerius Reginaldus, Hermann Busembaum ( d. 1668 ), etc.

A well-known instance of the " John Cardinal Doe " style is that in the proclamation, in Latin, of the election of a new pope by the cardinal protodeacon: " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum ; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ( first name ) Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem ( last name ), ..." ( Meaning: " I announce to you a great joy ; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord ( first name ) Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ( last name ), ...")

A great deal of emphasis is placed on his origins on the planet Krypton with exotic crystalline sets designed by John Barry, effectively giving Superman a third persona as Kal-El.

Pope John Paul II often spoke of his great desire that the Catholic Church " once again breathe with both lungs ", thus emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church seeks to restore full communion with the separated Eastern churches.

She is the niece of Diana Barrymore and the grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, the great-great-granddaughter of John Drew and actress Louisa Lane Drew, and the great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor / writer / director Sidney Drew.

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players ... but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies.

Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".