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19 de may. de 2024 · Henry Adalbert Wellington Fitzroy Somrerset (1847-1924), 9th Duke, sold the Raglan estate, excluding the castle, to the Crown and the manorial rights there to his kinsman, Lord Raglan, grandson of FitzRoy James Henry Somerset (1788-1855), 1st Baron Raglan, youngest son of the 5th Duke of Beaufort.
8 de may. de 2024 · In the latest edition of The Legacy, we look at the 10th Duke of Beaufort who, so disgusted at Britain’s eventing performance at the 1948 Olympics, decided to set up his own competition at his home at Badminton. British spectators’ first exposure to horse trials — or three-day eventing — was at Aldershot in Hampshire […]
11 de may. de 2024 · Henry Beaufort, 3rd duke of Somerset, leading Lancastrian in the English Wars of the Roses. He fled to Scotland after the disastrous Battle of Towton (1461). He deserted to the Yorkists in 1463, but promptly switched back and was executed after his defeat as Lancastrian commander at the Battle of Hexham.
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Hace 2 días · From those early days in the 16th century, when it was the well-loved home of Sir Thomas More, until the 18th, when it was the seat of the Duke of Beaufort, it yielded to no other house in importance, not to King Henry VIII's manor house in Cheyne Walk, nor to the Earl of Shrewsbury's mansion, nor to the old manor house with which it ...
8 de may. de 2024 · In the latest edition of The Legacy, we look at the 10th Duke of Beaufort who, so disgusted at Britain's eventing performance at the 1948 Olympics, decided to set up his own competition at his home at Badminton. British spectators’ first exposure to horse trials — or three-day eventing — was at Aldershot in Hampshire during the 1948 Olympics.
8 de may. de 2024 · In 1959, she beat David Somerset (later the 11th Duke of Beaufort and Badminton’s host), who worked full time as an art dealer. This was despite his children, including the present Duke, jumping up and down beside the showjumping ring excitedly yelling at her: ‘Go on, knock one down!’
15 de may. de 2024 · SOMERSET HERALD. This title has been successively private, royal, at once private and extraordinary, and again royal. In 1448–9 Somerset was herald of Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, but he must have been a royal officer in 1485, when he was the only herald to receive coronation liveries.
