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        2. His mother Margaret Beaufort was a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, third son of Edward III via his mistress-turned-wife Katherine Swynford.
        3. The story of Joan Beaufort queen of Scotland, is told with sympathy and compassion, as is the original love story of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt.
        4. Katherine Swynford was a commoner who came to the household of John of Gaunt (Note: Alison Weir is Britain s bestselling female historian, and the.
        5. Alison Weir in provided an excellently researched book, a fact Weir, A., Katherine Swynford (London, ).

          6. The story of Joan Beaufort queen of Scotland, is told with sympathy and compassion, as is the original love story of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt.!

          Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess

          Biography

          AuthorAlison Weir

          Publication date

          		2007

          Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess is a biography of Katherine Swynford written by Alison Weir and published in 2007 in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape.[1][2] In the US, the book is titled Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster.

          Katherine Swynford was the longtime mistress and later the third wife of John of Gaunt, third surviving son of Edward III. Through their legitimized children, she became an ancestress of several royal dynasties. As Weir notes, "...no letter survives, no utterance of hers is recorded.

          None of her movable goods are extant...Her will is lost...She is famous but, paradoxically, she is little known."

          Weir reconstructs her subject's history through entries in court and municipal records, the descriptions of chro