Henry Beaufort

Henry Beaufort (c. 1374 – 11 April 1447) was a medieval English clergyman and Cardinal Bishop of Winchester, an anomaly in being both a bishop and a member of the royal house of Plantagenet.

Read more about Henry Beaufort:  Life, Affair and Daughter

Famous quotes containing the word henry:

    “Of coursers also spake they: Henry rid
    Well, like most Englishmen, and loved the races;
    And Juan, like a true-born Andalusian,
    Could back a horse, as despots ride a Russian.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)