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  1. Edmund Beaufort (c. 1438 – 6 May 1471), styled 4th Duke of Somerset, 6th Earl of Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, 3rd Earl of Dorset, [1] was an English nobleman, and a military commander during the Wars of the Roses, in which he supported the Lancastrian king Henry VI.

  2. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, 4th Earl of Somerset, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1st Marquess of Dorset styled 1st Count of Mortain, [a] KG (1406 – 22 May 1455), was an English nobleman and an important figure during the Hundred Years' War. His rivalry with Richard, Duke of York, was a leading cause of the Wars of the Roses.

  3. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, [a] KG (c. 1406 – 22 May 1455), was an English nobleman and an important figure in the Hundred Years' War. His deadly rivalry with Richard, Duke of York, was a le ….

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  4. EDMUND BEAUFORT, 2ND DUKE OF SOMERSET, statesman and general, was the younger brother of Duke John, and excelled him in the brilliancy of his early military exploits. He held his first command in France in 1431, and nine years later he succeeded in recapturing Harfleur, the loss of which had shaken the English ascendancy in Normandy.

  5. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset Edmund served as a commander in the English army in France in 1431, re-capturing Harfleur, and lifting the Burgundian Siege of Calais in 1436.

  6. Not too long ago, I did a post on Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, who was executed in 1464 following the battle of Hexham. Henry was survived by two younger brothers, Edmund and John. This post is about his brother Edmund, the last of the legitimate male Beauforts.

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  8. Edmund Beaufort Somerset, 2d duke of, d. 1455, English statesman and general. He fought in France in the Hundred Years War, receiving his first command in 1431, recapturing Harfleur in 1440, and relieving Calais in 1442. For this last feat he was made (1442) earl of Dorset.

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