The Beauforts Re: reverse dictionary (was: "Herb - Now Aluminum")

[Carol]

Carol responds:
> > 
> > Are you thinking of George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV
and Richard III? (Richard was Duke of Gloucester when George was
executed.) 
> 
> PotioncatL
> Yeah, that's the one! I guess the Beauforts came later--from the
line  of Duke of Lancaster. <snip> 
> 
> Potioncat, who will tie this to HP by adding that Lancaster's name
was also Gaunt.


Carol responds:

I did think of John of Gaunt when I first read the chapter title
"House of Gaunt," and given the depiction of the Gaunt family, I got
the idea that JKR is no Lancastrian! (Which is good; neither am I. I
wear my roses white, meaning, I'm a Yorkist.)

Anyway, the Beauforts came earlier, not later. I don't want to go into
too much detail (even though this is the OT list!) because I'm not
sure that many people will be interested, but the Beauforts were
"extinct in the male line" at the time of George of Clarence's death
in 1478, the heir being Margaret Beaufort, who married Edmund Tudor
and was the mother of Richard III's successor, Henry VII, my least
favorite English king. (I don't like his mother, either. But, then,
I'm a Ricardian, and her scheming was largely responsible for
Richard's fall.)

Carol, who has a theory that Lewis Carroll was also a Yorkist but
won't go into it here