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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: 1399 births, 1399 by country, 1399 deaths, 1399 establishments, 1399 in Europe, Conflicts in 1399, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Jadwiga of Poland, House of Lancaster, John Carpenter, Zara Yaqob, Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Nicholas Eymerich, Nicholas Brembre, Tr n Thu n Tong, John V, Duke of Brittany, Andrei of Polotsk, Gjin Bua Shpata, William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, Elbeg Nigulesugchi Khan, Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, Balc of Moldavia, Barquq, Eleanor de Bohun, Raimondo delle Vigne, Jean d'Outremeuse, Henryk VIII with a Scar, Peter Parler, Demetrius I Starshy, Emprise de l'Escu vert a la Dame Blanche, uchi Yoshihiro, Pietro Balbi, Mikhail II of Tver, John Bokyngham, List of state leaders in 1399, John Bussy, Carlo Marsuppini, Pietro Candido Decembrio, Peter Stokes, Spytek of Melsztyn, William Canynge, Odo Botnia, Andrew of Carniola, Lazzaro Vasari, Temur Qutlugh, Richard Abberbury the Elder, Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham, Giovanni Ordelaffi, Johannes Busch, Battle of Tragh-Bhaile, 1399 in Ireland, Margaret de Mowbray. Excerpt: John of Gaunt (Ghent), 1st Duke of Lancaster (second creation), KG (6 March 1340 - 3 February 1399) was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He was called "John of Gaunt" because he was born in Ghent, then known as Gaunt in English. John exercised great influence over the English throne during the minority of his nephew, Richard II, and during the ensuing periods of political strife, but was not thought to have been among the opponents of the king. John of Gaunt's legitimate male heirs, the Lancasters (the other party in the Wars of the Roses, the Yorks, being the male descendants of his older brother, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, an...