John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont

For other people named John Beaumont, see John Beaumont (disambiguation).

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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 at the Duchy of Brabant to Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont and Margaret de Vere. His maternal grandparents were John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford and his wife Maud de Badlesmere.

He was knighted by Edward III, and was briefly Warden of the West march in 1389, Admiral of the North (sea), and made Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1392. He was 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 (1367–1428) of Laxton, Nottinghamshire. His daughter Elizabeth married as his first wife William de Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux(1389–1462), whose sole heiress was his daughter Margaret Botreaux who married Robert Hungerford, 2nd Baron Hungerford.

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Preceded by The Lord Devereux

Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1392–1396

Succeeded by The Duke of York