Duke Edmund De Beaufort Of Somerset 
Edmund was born about 1406 in Westminster,Middlesex,England.1 Edmund's father was Marquis John (Fairborn) De Beaufort Of Dorset, Earl Of Somerset and his mother was Lady Margaret De Holland. His paternal grandparents were Duke John Plantagenet Of Lancaster, Prince Of England and Catherine De Roett; his maternal grandparents were Earl Thomas III De Holland Of Kent and Alice Fitzalan. He had two brothers and a sister, named John, Henry and AKA DeBeaufort. He died on May 22nd, 1455 in Battle of St Albans,Hertfordshire,England.1 General Notes
Edmund Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset, Duke of Somerset, Lieut. General of France, Normandy and Guienne. [Ancestral Roots]
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Sir Edmund Beaufort, 4th Earl of Somerset and 1st Duke of Somerset, as which created 31 March 1448, as also earlier 28 Aug 1442 Earl of Dorset and 24 June 1443 Marquess of Dorset, KG (1436); born c1406; Constable of England 1450; married by 1436 Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard, Earl of Warwick and widow of 8th Lord (Baron) de Ros of Helmsley, and was killed fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Yorkist Victory of St Albans 22 May 1455. [Burke's Peerage, p. 220]
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On the Dukedom of Somerset [Burke's Peerage, p. 1661]
The Dukedom of Somerset created in 1443 expired with the death of the grantee [John Beaufort] in 1444. His brother [Edmund Beaufort] inherited as 4th Earl of Somerset, however, and in 1448 was promoted Duke of Somerset, despite a military career of relative failure during the last phase of the Hundred Years War. He died fighting on the Lancastrian side at the 1st Battle of St Albans in 1455.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.17 Jun 1239 d.01 Jul 1307
- b.1284 d.1327
- b.1241 in Castilla,Spain d.1290
- b.13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle,Windsor,Berkshire,England d.21 Jun 1377 in Shene Palace,Richmond,Surrey,England
- b.1268 in Fontainebleau,France d.29 Nov 1314 in Fontainebleau,France
- b.1296 in France d.1358
- b.MAR 1339/1340 in Bavon Abbey,Ghent,Flanders d.3 FEB 1398/1399 in Leicester Castle,London,Middlesex,England
- b.24 Jun 1311 in Mons,Hainault,Belgium d.15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle,Windsor,Berkshire,England
- b.12 MAR 1269/1270 in Fountainebleau,France d.15 Dec 1325 in Le Perrey nr. Rambouillet
- b.1294 d.7 MAR 1341/1342 in Fontenelle
- d.31 Dec 1299
- b.1373 in Chateau de Beaufort,Maine-et-Loire,France d.16 Mar 1410 in St Katherine By The Tower,London,England
- b.~ 1315 in Roet,Hainault,Belium d.1380 in Ghent,Hainault,Belgium
- b.25 Nov 1350 in Picardy,Hainault,France d.10 May 1403 in Lincoln,Lincolnshire,England
- b.1320 in Hainault,Belgium d.> 1375 in Ghent,Hainault,Belgium
- b.~ 1406 in Westminster,Middlesex,England d.22 May 1455 in Battle of St Albans,Hertfordshire,England
- b.1314 in Upholland,Lancashire,England d.28 Dec 1360 in Normandy,France
- b.1350 in Upholland,Lancashire,England d.25 Apr 1397 in Woodstock,Kent,England
- b.17 Jun 1239 d.01 Jul 1307
- b.05 Aug 1301 d.19 Mar 1329
- b.1279 d.14 Feb 1318
- b.29 Sep 1328 in Woodstock Palace,Oxfordshire,England d.08 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle,Berkshire,England
- b.1299 d.29 Sep 1349
- b.~ 1383 in Upholland,Lancashire,England d.30 Dec 1439 in St Saviours Abbey,Bermondsey,London,England
- b.03 Feb 1267 d.09 Mar 1302
- b.01 May 1285 d.17 Nov 1326
- b.1271 d.25 Sep 1292
- b.1306 in Arundel Castle,Sussex,England d.24 Jan 1373 in Arundel,Sussex,England
- b.1256 d.15 Dec 1286
- b.1277 d.23 May 1338
- d.23 Nov 1293
- b.1352 in Arundel,Essex,England d.17 Mar 1415
- b.1281 d.1345
- b.~ 1250 in Artois
- b.1311 in Grismond Castle,Monmouthshire,Wales d.11 Jan 1372 in Arundel Castle,Sussex,England
- b.1250 d.07 Jul 1283
- b.1285 d.19 Feb 1316
- b.1252 d.30 May 1306
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Edmund were married in a religious ceremony about 1435 in 2nd husband.2
1 The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 @ 90-10
2 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 1-33
Further sources/citations:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 1-33, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 220, 1661
2 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 1-33
Further sources/citations:
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 1-33, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 220, 1661
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