On the accession of Henry VBeaufort was appointed Lieutenant of Aquitaine (1413) and then captain of Harfleur (1415).
Beaufort was back in England in 1417, while the king was in Normandy, but had to deal with problems in Scotland.
The character of Exeter in Shakespeare's play Henry V is based on Beaufort, although Beaufort was not actually created as Duke of Exeter until after the events depicted in the play.
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Exeter is one of the principal railway centres in the south-west, and it also has some shipping trade, communicating with the sea by way of the Exeter ship-canal, originally cut in the reign of Elizabeth (1564), and enlarged in 1675 and 1827.
Exeter is famous for the number of sieges which it sustained as the chief town in the suth-west of England.
Exeter was formerly noted for the manufacture of woollen goods, introduced in Elizabeths reign, and the value of its exports at one time exceeded half a million sterling yearly.
The title of Duke of Exeter was created several times in England in the later Middle Ages, when Exeter was the main town of Devon.
That title was rescinded upon Henry IV's accession to the throne two years later, and the title was subsequently granted to Henry V's uncle, ThomasBeaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset.
Following this Duke's death without heirs in 1426, the title was restored to the Holland family, which held it until the 3rd Duke was attainted in 1461 as a Lancastrian, dying without heirs in 1475.
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JOHN PLANTAGENET, duke of Bedford (1389-1435), third son of Henry IV., king of England, was born on the 20th of June 1389.
Negotiations for peace had no result, and when the duke returned to England in June 1433 he told parliament that he had come home to defend himself against the charge that the losses in France were caused by his neglect, and demanded that his detractors should make their accusations public.
The ninth duke was the eldest son of Major-General Lord George William Russell (1790 1846), who was a son of the sixth duke.
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This sum, by 1st George II., was divided equally among seven commissioners, an arrangement which continued from that time, except that the pay of the commissioner who stood first in the patent was made up from other funds to 3000 pounds a year, and in the year 1806 was further increased of 5000 pounds a-year.
Catherine Swynford, wife of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, was a daughter of Sir Payne Roelt, a knight who came to England from Hainault in the train of King Edward III's queen, Philippa of Hainaut.
About 1367 she married Sir Hugh Swynford, a Lincolnshire man, by whom she had a son, Thomas, who was a friend and companion of King Henry IV both before and after he came to the English throne.
Soon after her husband's death in 1372 Catherine became the mistress of John of Gaunt, and in 1396, nearly two years after the duke had become a widower for the second time, she was married to him at Lincoln.
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The title of Duke of Exeter was created several times in England in the later Middle Ages.
John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II of England.
Thomas Holland, 3rd Earl of Kent is created Duke of Surrey by Richard II of England.
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August 17 - Battle of Verneuil - An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stuart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas.
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He was the third of the four children of HYPERLINK "http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/John-of-Gaunt" \o "John of Gaunt" John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress HYPERLINK "http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Katherine-Swynford" \o "Katherine Swynford" Katherine Swynford.
On the accession of HYPERLINK "http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Henry-V-of-England" \o "Henry V of England" Henry VBeaufort was appointed Lieutenant of Aquitaine (1413) and then captain of Harfleur (1415).
He was created Duke of Exeter for life ( HYPERLINK "http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/1416" \o "1416" 1416).
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Coat of arms designed for Katherine Swynford: three gold Catherine wheels ("roet" means "wheel") on a red background.
She then became attached to the household of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, ostensibly as governess to his two daughters (the sisters of the future Henry IV of England) by his first wife Blanche, but eventually she became his official mistress.
1640 drawing of the tombs of Katherine Swynford and her daughter Joan Beaufort in Lincoln Cathedral before the tombs were despoiled in 1644 by the Roundheads.