Viscount Welles
John (de) Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, KG (c. 1450 – 9 February 1498, London) was an English Lancastrian nobleman who was made a Knight of the Garter.
John was born about 1450 to Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles and Margaret Beauchamp. He was a maternal half-brother of Margaret Beaufort, and thus an uncle of the half-blood of Henry VII.
John died and was buried on February 1498 in Westminster, England.
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