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1 day ago · The Tudors descended from King Edward III on Henry VII's mother's side from John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, one of the illegitimate children of the 14th century English prince John of Gaunt, the third surviving son of Edward III.
1 day ago · Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (c. 1405 –3 October 1431) was a member of the Beaufort family and an English commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the third son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Margaret Holland.
4 days ago · Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation .
3 days ago · Elizabeth's heir to what by 1431 was known as KINGSBURY REGIS manor was Margaret Holand, widow of John Beaufort, earl of Somerset (d. 1410) and subsequently wife of Thomas of Lancaster, duke of Clarence (d. 1421).
4 days ago · John of Beaufort, who was created Earl of Somerset, died in 1410, and his son Henry on his death in 1418 was succeeded by his brother John, a third part of the manor being held of their mother, Margaret Duchess of Clarence, who accounted for half a fee in Overstone in 1428.
4 days ago · On Fitzroy's death in 1536 the then incumbent returned to the Crown establishment, and since then Somerset has been one of the heralds in ordinary. Badge: A portcullis or royally crowned, the Tudor version of the Beaufort badge. I. Royal. 1. NAME UNKNOWN (app d c. October 1485). 2. JOHN YONGE (1493). See Norroy (16). 3. JOHN PONDE or POUND. Ponde
1 day ago · The history of England during the Late Middle Ages covers from the thirteenth century, the end of the Angevins, and the accession of Henry II – considered by many to mark the start of the Plantagenet dynasty – until the accession to the throne of the Tudor dynasty in 1485, which is often taken as the most convenient marker for the end of ...
