Ancestry of
John Thornes

(–p1534)

John of Gaunt

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John Thornes — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 120 
  • Father:
  • Edward III, King of England 
  • Mother:
  • Philippa of Hainault   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Mar 1340 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ghent, Belgium 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Feb 1399 
  • Death Location:
  • Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Blanche of Lancaster
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1359 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Henry IV, King of England (Ahnentafel No:60 )

  Philippa of Lancaster

  Elizabeth of Lancaster

  • Notes: 

  • 2nd Duke of Lancaster

• Additional marriages for John of Gaunt

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  • Spouse:
  • Katherine Roet
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jan 1396
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, England

• Sources for John of Gaunt

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  • ⁶ Lee, Sydney, ed., Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 40, Myllar - Nicholls, New York: MacMillan and Company (1894), 248, 277.
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  • ⁸ Pitcairn, Constance, The History of the Fife Pitcairns with Transcripts from Old Charters, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons (1905), 419.
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  • ¹¹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 592.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "A Second Update to Ancestors of American Presidents", (accessed 03/04/2016).
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 154, 158, 169, 171, 178, 189, 191, 208, 217-221, 229, 235.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 375, 400, 900.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 360, 412.
  • ¹⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 6, 98.
  • ¹⁷ Wikipedia, "John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster", _1st_Duke_of_Lancaster, (accessed 03/01/2010).