Editing Henry Beaufort (section)

==Affair and daughter==
When Henry was Bishop of Lincoln, he had an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort, with an unknown woman, sometimes thought to be the daughter of [[Alice Cherleton, Baroness Cherleton]]: "Henry fathered an illegitimate daughter, Jane Beaufort, in 1402, who some make Alice's daughter. Both Jane and her husband, Sir Edward Stradling, were named in Cardinal Beaufort's will. Their marriage about 1423 brought Sir Edward into the political orbit of his shrewd and assertive father-in-law, to whom he may have owed his appointment as chamberlain of [[South Wales]] in December 1423, a position he held until March 1437".<ref name="Griffiths1994">{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=Ralph Alan |title=Conquerors and Conquered in Medieval Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7g35AQAACAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Alan Sutton|isbn=978-0-7509-0515-2}}</ref>