Henry Beaufort (1375-1447) was three times Lord Chancellor of England, later a medieval English clergyman, Bishop of Lincoln, then Winchester and from 1426 a Cardinal. He was a member of the royal house of Plantagenet, as the second of the four children of John of Gaunt and his mistress (later wife) Katherine Swynford. Beaufort employed his last years in the affairs of his diocese. In 1444 he had the satisfaction of seeing a truce made between England and France,. He died peacefully very shortly after his great rival, Gloucester, on 11 April 1447.

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