Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (
c. January 137731 December 1426) was an English military commander during the Hundred Years' War, and briefly Chancellor of England.
He was the third of the four children born to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress Katherine Swynford.
To overcome their problematic parentage, his parents were married in 1396, and he and his siblings were legitimated on two separate occasions, in 1390 and again in 1397.
He married the daughter of Sir Thomas Neville (died 1387) of Hornby, Margaret Neville (born c. 1384), who bore him one son, Henry Beaufort.
However, the child died young.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
John Tuckfield
John Tuckfield( fl. 1550) of the City of Exeter, Devon, was a merchant, Alderman of Exeter, and member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of Exeter who was Sheriff of Exeter in 1547 and Mayor of Exeter in 1549 – 1550.
Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter
William Michael Anthony Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter( born 1 September 1935), known from 1981 to 1988 as Lord Burghley, is a British peer.
He is the son of the 7th Marquess of Exeter.
John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English prince, military leader, and statesman.
He was the third of the five sons of King Edward III of England who survived to adulthood.
Due to his royal origin, advantageous marriages, and some generous land grants, Gaunt was one of the richest men of his era, and an influential figure during the reigns of both his father, Edward, and his nephew, Richard II.
As Duke of Lancaster, he is the founder of the royal House of Lancaster, whose members would ascend to the throne after his death.
His birthplace, Ghent, corrupted into English as "Gaunt", was the origin for his name.
When he became unpopular later in life, scurrilous rumours and lampoons circulated that he was actually the son of a Ghent butcher, perhaps because Edward III was not present at the birth.
This story always drove him to fury.
John's early career was spent in France and Spain fighting in the Hundred Years' War.
He made an abortive attempt to enforce a claim to the Crown of Castile that came through his second wife, and for a time styled himself as King of Castile.
As Edward the Black Prince, Gaunt's elder brother and heir to the ageing Edward III, became incapacitated due to poor health, Gaunt assumed control of many government functions, and rose to become one of the most powerful political figures in England.
He was faced with military difficulties abroad and political divisions at home, and disagreements as to how to deal with these crises led to tensions between Gaunt, the English Parliament, and the ruling class, making him an extremely unpopular figure for a time.
John exercised great influence over the English throne during the minority of King Richard II, and the ensuing periods of political strife.
He mediated between the king and a group of rebellious nobles, which included Gaunt's own son and heir, Henry Bolingbroke.
Following Gaunt's death in 1399, his estates and titles were declared forfeit to the Crown, and his son, now disinherited, was branded a traitor and exiled.
Henry Bolingbroke returned from exile shortly after to reclaim his inheritance, and deposed Richard.
He reigned as King Henry IV of England (1399–1413), the first of the descendants of John of Gaunt to hold the English throne.
The House of Lancaster would rule England from 1399 until the time of the Wars of the Roses, when the English crown was disputed with the House of York (formed by the descendants both of his younger brother Edmund, Duke of York and his elder brother, Lionel, Duke of Clarence).
Gaunt also fathered five children outside marriage: one early in life by a lady-in-waiting to his mother, the others by Katherine Swynford, his long-term mistress and third wife.
They were later legitimised by royal and papal decrees, but which did not affect Henry IV's bar to their having a place in the line of succession.
Gaunt is ancestor to the English monarchs of the houses of Lancaster by his first wife and Tudor by his mistress and later third wife, whose children bore the surname "Beaufort".
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Edward Young (priest)
Edward Young was Dean of Exeter between 1662 and 1663.
He was the father of Edward Young.
John Somerset
John Somerset or Somerseth( died 1454) was an English physician and administrator.
He was born in London and attended Oxford University, but moved to Cambridge University to avoid the plague, graduating master in 1418.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, appointed him master of the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds and just five years later he was named as a governor of a proposed joint college of medicine and surgery in London.
Somerset worked on the college with Thomas Morstede and Gilbert Kymer until its plans collapsed in November 1424.
In 1427 he was found a place in the royal household as physician and tutor to the young Henry VI.
In 1442 he became the first medical man to sit in parliament, as a knight of the shire for Middlesex.
In 1439 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and Warden of the Royal Mint.
After 1450 he was out of favour, with Parliament demanding his removal from court as an undesirable influence.
He died intestate on 4 June 1454, leaving no children.
Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset
Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset(" probably" 26 November 1401 – 25 November 1418) was the eldest son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and the grandson of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Swynford.
Henry succeeded his father as Earl of Somerset on 16 March 1410.
During his minority, his mother, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Somerset held his lands for him until he reached the age of 15.
When Henry was seventeen, he was placed under the command of Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, his uncle, at the Siege of Rouen during the Hundred Years'
War where he, as well as a number of other nobles, met his demise, although the exact reasons of his death are unknown.
He never married and was succeeded by his younger brother, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset.
Bartholomew Iscanus
Bartholomew Iscanus( or Bartholomew of Exeter; died 1184) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
He came from Normandy and after being a clerk of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was made Archdeacon of Exeter in 1155.
He became bishop of Exeter in 1161.
He was known as having excellence in canon law and theology and during his time as bishop visited all the parishes in the diocese to investigate how well- managed they were.

Question: Where was the father of Thomas Beaufort, Duke Of Exeter born?
Answer: Ghent