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Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (1439 – 6 May 1471), who succeeded his elder brother. He was executed two days after being defeated in the Battle of Tewkesbury (4 May 1471), in which he commanded the van of the Lancastrian army, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey .
1 de sept. de 2021 · Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. September 1, 2021September 20, 2021 danmoorhouse. 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 ...
He was the son of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and became duke at the death of his brother Henry in 1464. (The dukedom was somewhat theoretical, depending on how one views the legitimacy of the forfeiture of the title by the 3rd duke during the reign of Edward IV , which was retracted by Henry VII long after Somerset's death.)
Edmund Beaufort, the 2nd Duke of Somerset, 4th Earl of Somerset, 1st Earl of Dorset, and 1st Marquess of Dorset, also styled as the 1st Count of Mortain and a member of the Order of the Garter, was a significant English noble during the Hundred Years’ War.
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.
27 de may. de 2023 · Edmund proclaimed himself the Duke of Somerset when his elder brother Henry was executed after the battle of Hexham in 1464 but was never formally granted the title. Returning to England in 1471 to assist Margaret, King Henry VI's queen, Edmund found Lancastrian supporters to help but was defeated at the Battle of Tewkesbury in May of 1471.
When Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset was born on 26 September 1406, in Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, John de Beaufort 1st Earl of Somerset, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Holland Duchess of Clarence, was 20. He married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess of Somerset in 1426, in Gloucestershire, England.
