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Dec 31, 2023 · Elizabeth FitzLewis. daughter. John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset. son. Sodacan, Creative Commons, via Wikimedia. John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. father. Margaret Holland, Duchess of Cla... mother. About Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. Duke of Somerset. Successor Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke. Earl 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, KG (1406 – 22 May 1455), was an English nobleman and an important figure during the Hundred Years' War.
Edmund Beaufort may refer to: Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (c. 1406–1455) Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (c. 1438–1471)
Tweet. Edmund Beaufort, second duke of Somerset (c.1406-1455) was a major supporter of Henry VI in the period before the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses, but he was killed at St. Albans in the first battle of the wars. Like so many of the major players in the Wars of the Roses Somerset was a descendent of Edward III.
From 1444 to 1449 he served as Lieutenant of France. In March 1448 he was created Duke of Somerset, the title had previously been held by his brother John, whose death was rumoured to be suicide as he was unable to brook the shame and disgrace of banishment from court and replacement by Richard of York as regent of France.
Bibliography. External links. Duke of Beaufort ( / ˈboʊfərt /) [2] is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the Roses.
Sep 1, 2021 · BEAUFORT, EDMUND (d. 1456), second 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 ascendency in Normandy.
