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Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. Mother. Eleanor Beauchamp, Duchess of Somerset. 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 ...
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. 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 ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Edmund Beaufort, 2nd duke of Somerset (born c. 1406—died May 22, 1455, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) was an English nobleman and Lancastrian leader whose quarrel with Richard, duke of York, helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York. He was a member of the Beaufort family, which in the ...
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Died: May 22, 1455. St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England (Age c. 49) Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset in History. Edmund Beaufort was the youngest of the sons of John Beaufort and, by far, achieved the most amount of success. His eldest brother Henry died in 1418 and his two other brothers, John and Thomas, were taken captive in France in 1421 ...
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.
By December 13, 1464, Edmund and his younger brother John, traveling from Brittany and through Paris, had arrived with six horses at Margaret of Anjou’s court-in-exile at Koeur. Henry Beaufort, meanwhile, had been executed in May 1464 following his defeat at Hexham. Edmund Beaufort thus became known as the Duke of Somerset, though he ...
Alice was a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster. 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. He married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, widow of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros ...
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