Famous Johns

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John of Gaunt/Ghent:

Plantagenet, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

Born: MAR 1340, St Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flanders
Acceded: 13 NOV 1362
Died: 3 FEB 1399, Leicester Castle
Interred: St.Paul's Cathedral, London, England

Notes:

and Earl of Richmond. Some say born Jun 1340, but see CP vol.XIV,p.421.

Earl of Derby, Lincoln. Duke of Aquitaine. Lord of Beaufort & Nogent.

Burke says he died at Ely House, Holborn

King of Castile & Leon. Lord of Bergerac & Roche-sur-Yon.

The Complete Peerage vol.VII,pp.410-416 & vol.XIV,p.421.

Father: , Edward III, King of England, b. 13 NOV 1312


Mother: , Philippa of Hainault, b. 24 JUN 1311


Married 19 MAY 1359, Reading Abbey, Berkshire to Plantagenet, Blanche of Lancaster, Countess of Derby


Child 1: Plantagenet, Philippa of Lancaster, b. 31 MAR 1360
Child 2: Plantagenet, Elizabeth of Lancaster, b. 1364
Child 3: Plantagenet, John, b. BEF 4 MAY 1366
Child 4: Plantagenet, Edward, b. 1364
Child 5: Plantagenet, John
Child 6: Plantagenet, Henry IV, King of England, b. 30 MAY 1366
Child 7: Plantagenet, Isabel, b. CIR 1368


Married 21 SEP 1371, Roquefort, Guienne to , Constanza (Constance) of Castile, Queen of Castile


Child 8: Plantagenet, Katherine de Lancaster, Lady, b. 1374
Child 9: Plantagenet, John, b. 1374


Married 13 JAN 1396, Lincoln Cathedral to Roet, Catherine Swynford


Child 10: de Beaufort, John of Somerset, Earl Somerset 1st, b. 1373
Child 11: de Beaufort, Henry, Cardinal, b. CIR 1375
Child 12: Beaufort, Thomas, Duke of Exeter, b. CIR 1377
Child 13: de Beaufort, Joan, b. CIR 1379


Associated with St Hilaire, Marie de


Child 14: Plantagenet, Blanche, b. BEF 1360

[Winston]

Certainly the best procreator we've had so far.

Several Johns in that last post, so I get to go and here's one I miss:

John Candy.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Winston
Certainly the best procreator we've had so far.


John Candy.

He and his mistress Katherine Swynford are responsible for the Tudor and Yorkist lines of English royalty, and through intermarriage connect with nearly all the royal houses of Europe.

And she was only a Flemish herald's daughter, so there's hope for Britney Spears yet.

[Robert]

John Metgod

[Heresson]

John the mad, a prince of Zagan. Perhaps he is not fameous, but I always liked his life. Any prince of half of a small city that occassionally fought Poland, Brandenburg, Hungary, and Czechs deserves a honourable mentioning here

[Robert]

John Myung

[Boris Godunov]

Johannes Brahms

[axi]

Avast ye scurvy dogs!

Long John Silver!

Yaaarrr!!!


(sails away singing:
Yo-ho-ho!
and a bottle of rum!)

[Winston]

Jon Drummond.

[Pekka]

¨Well since any name starting with J is acceptable now it seems like, I'll make one better:

IMPERIAL MARCH! Hey, it was piece of John William. So it must count better than most of these 'famous' persons.

[EPW]

John Calvin.

[Tuberski]

one of the greatest filmmakers:

John Huston

ACK!

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John Millington Synge, author of 'The Playboy of the Western World' which received these glowing reviews:

" THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL (1907): ‘unmitigated, protracted libel upon Irish peasant man, and worse still upon Irish peasant girlhood’, continuing: ‘The blood boils with indignation as one recalls the incidents, expressions, ideas of this squalid, offensive productin, incongruously styled a comedy in three acts [...] no adequate idea can be given of the barbarous jargon, the elaborate and incessant cursings of these repulsive creatures.’ (Quoted in David H. Greene and Edward M. Stephens, J. M. Synge 1871-1909, NY: Macmillan 1959, p.239; 1961 [London Edn.] p.242.) THE IRISH TIMES (q.d. 1907): [A]lthough parts of it are, or are meant to be, extravagant comedy, still agreat deal that is in it and a great deal more that is behind it is perectly serious when locked at in a certain light [...] There are, it may be hinted, several sides to The Playboy.’ (Quoted in Stanley Sultan, ‘A Joycean Look at The Playboy of the Western World’, in Maurice Harmon, ed., The Celtic Master, Dolmen Press 1969, p.48.) SUNDAY PRESS (Letter of 1969): ‘When are [we] going to stop disgracing Ireland before the world by showing her up on such philistine light. I am thinking just at present of The Playboy of the Western World, with its murderers, semi-drunken kitchen-inhabiting cursing crowd of uneducated peasants, a cinema showing of which I witnessed last week.’ (Letter to Sunday Press, 7 Dec. 1969; quoted in Paul Levitt, J. M. Synge: Bibliography of Published Criticism, 1974, p.6.) "

http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/s/Synge%2CJM/life.htm

You can't buy publicity like that.....

[Winston]

Ha! I already had John Huston as my 2nd John on page 1!

Now it's very interesting, because here's a little known John:

John Ratzenberger

[Flandrien]

John Denver