John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont

John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont KG (1361–1396) served in the Hundred Years' War against the partisans of Pope Clement VII.

Beaumont was born in 1361 in the Duchy of Brabant, the only son of Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont (1340–1369), by his wife Margaret, daughter of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, by his wife Maud de Badlesmere. His paternal grandparents were John Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont (aft. 1317–1342) and Eleanor of Lancaster (1318–1372), the fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (c. 1281–1345).

He was knighted by King Edward III, and was in 1389 briefly Warden of the West March, Admiral of the North (sea), and in 1392 was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. He was created a Knight of the Garter and was one of the Embassy to France to demand Princess Isabel in marriage for the King.

In 1389 he married Catherine Everingham (1367–1426/8), daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Everingham of Laxton, Nottinghamshire. They had the following progeny:

...
Wikipedia