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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 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 2 días · BEAUFORT HOUSE ESTATE. The mansion that had belonged to the duke of Buckingham in the mid 17th century was in 1681 bought by Henry Somerset, 1st duke of Beaufort, as his London residence.
Hace 3 días · 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 · 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 1 día · England under Lord Somerset. Although Henry had specified a group of men to act as regents during Edward's minority, Edward Seymour, the young king's uncle, quickly seized control and created himself Duke of Somerset on 15 February 1547.
