The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

Also, while Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems ( the Book of the Duchess is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368 ), the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine.

Ghent was the birthplace of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

* John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( 1340 – 1399 )

His protector was John of Gaunt, who was acting as ruler at this time.

He had not yet broken with the mendicant friars, and from these John of Gaunt chose Wycliffe's defenders.

His successor was Richard II, a boy, who was under the influence of John of Gaunt, his uncle.

The masses, some of the nobility, and his former protector, John of Gaunt, rallied to him.

Yet his friend and protector John of Gaunt was the most hated by the rebels, and where Wycliffe's influence was greatest the uprising found the least support.

John of Gaunt spent lavishly in the late 14th century, turning the medieval castle into a palace fortress designed in the latest perpendicular style.

Much of the northern part of the inner bailey was built by the 14th-century noble John of Gaunt between 1372 and 1380.

Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edward III ; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in England next to the king himself.

John of Gaunt acquired the castle in 1372, adding it to the vast holdings of the Duchy of Lancaster.

At first, although Lollardy was denounced as a heresy, Wycliffe and the Lollards were sheltered by John of Gaunt and other anti-clerical nobility, who may have wanted to use Lollard-advocated clerical reform to acquire new sources of revenue from England ’ s monasteries.

This change in status was also affected by the 1386 departure of John of Gaunt who left England to pursue the Crown of Castile.

* 1345 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt ( d. 1369 )

* 1340 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( d. 1399 )

Both Mary and Philip were descended from John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, a relationship which was used to portray Philip as an English king.

In August 1385, served King Richard under the command of John of Gaunt again in Scotland.

He possibly served as a squire to Henry Bolingbroke ( later Henry IV of England ), son of John of Gaunt, at the short, sharp Battle of Radcot Bridge in December 1387.

In the United Kingdom, poll taxes were levied by the governments of John of Gaunt in the 14th C., Charles II in the 17th and Margaret Thatcher in the 20th century.

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.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

John was away at school most of the time.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

John was quietly insistent.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

For an instant John was stunned.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.