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Hace 2 días · In 1657 Mary wed Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, with whom she had seven more children. Of her nine offspring, five predeceased her, as did the duke, who died in 1700. And yet, alongside this catalogue of loss, and maybe arising from it, grew Mary’s horticultural life and her interest in the medicinal uses of plants.
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 5 días · Lost to him, through his debts, the house ultimately passed (1674) into the hands of the trustees for George Digby, Earl of Bristol, and his Countess sold it in 1682 to Henry, Marquess of Worcester, afterwards Duke of Beaufort, the house remaining in his family until 1720.
Hace 3 días · From 1690 until 1692 courts were held in the name of his brother-in-law Henry Somerset, duke of Beaufort, and others. In 1692 and again in 1694 William Herbert, Viscount Montgomery, eldest son of Lord Powis, vainly petitioned to be admitted to the manor on the grounds that it had been settled on him.
Hace 1 día · With his elder brother, Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset, Thomas joined in Henry V's 1419 campaigns in France. In 1421, he accompanied the king's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster to the fighting in Anjou. Thomas was killed at the Battle of Baugé while Somerset and Thomas were captured.
Hace 3 días · Plantagenet. Henry II (1154–1189) is considered by some to be the first Plantagenet king of England, and the first Angevin. In the 15th century, near the end of the dynastic line, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, adopted Plantagenet as his family name.
Hace 5 días · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
