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Personal data Prince Sir Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset 

• He was born in the year 1406 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.Sources 3, 4, 5, 6
• Nationality: Kingdom of England, England.
• He died on May 22, 1455 in St. Albans, Herefordshire, England, he was 49 years old.Source 7

  Killed in battle

• He is buried in Abbey of St Albans, St Albans, Herfordshire, England.Sources 4, 6
• A child of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence

Household of Prince Sir Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset

He is married to Lady Eleanor de Beauchamp, Lady Rokesley.

They got married in the year 1431 at Kings Stanley, Lasboro, Gloucestershire, England, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Eleanor (Alianore) Beaufort  1431-1501 
2. Lady Joan Beaufort  1433-1518 
3. Lady Anne Beaufort  ± 1435-1496 
4. Henry Beaufort 3rd Duke of Beaufort  1436-1464
5. Margaret Beaufort Countess of Beaufort  ± 1437-± 1474 
6. Edmund Beaufort  1438-1471
7. Thomas Beaufort  1442-1443
8. Elizabeth Beaufort  1443-1509
9. John Beaufort Marquess of Beaufort  ± 1455-1471
10. Mary Beaufort  

Notes about Prince Sir Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset

English Aristocracy. Born the son of Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret de Holand. He was granted the title of Count of Mortain in April 1427. He married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp sometime between 1431 and 1435 in a unlicensed marriage, although he was pardoned in March 1438. The marriage produced ten children. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter by May 1436. By 1440 he succeeded in recapturing Harfleur in Normandy. He was created 1st Earl of Dorset in August 1442; was created Marquess of Dorset in June 1443; and succeeded to the title of 4th Earl of Somerset in May 1444. That year, England settled a truce with France, ceding Anjou and Maine in an unpopular move. In a breach of the truce, Somerset surprised the town of Fougères, capturing it and refused to give it up or exchange it. He was created 1st Duke of Somerset in March 1448, and the following year was hard pressed by French partisans and gave up seven English strongholds in France and also paid a ransom in order to obtain safe passage for his wife, children, and goods. During the campaign of 1450, English troops were decimated at Formigny, and Somerset's garrison at Caen capitulated after a three weeks' siege. He then tried and failed to re-establish the English in Gascony. His king, Henry VI, suffered intermittent bouts of mental instability and during one such, the Duke of York took the role of protector and sent Somerset to the Tower. He was saved by the king's recovery and restored to power. He was made captain of Calais, but the dynastic feud that would grow into the Wars of the Roses had been ignited. In May 1455 at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Somerset faced York and the Earl of Warwick with 2,000 troops against half again as many Yorkists. After several hours of negotiations, the two armies clashed. During a charge by Warwick, the Lancastrians were routed and Somerset killed.

Duke of Somerset

Successor Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke

Earl of Somerset

Predecessor John Beaufort, 1st Duke, 3rd Earl

Successor Henry Beaufort, 5th Earl

Spouse: Eleanor Beauchamp

Issue

Eleanor, Countess of Ormonde, Lady Spencer

Elizabeth, Lady Fitz Lewis

Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford, Lady Darell

Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke

Anne Paston

John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset

Joan, Lady St Lawrence, Lady Fry

Thomas Beaufort

House: House of Beaufort

Father: John Beaufort, 1st Earl

Mother: Margaret Holland

Born 1406

Died 22 May 1455(1455-05-22) (aged 48/9)

First Battle of St Albans
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"Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG (1406 – 22 May 1455), sometimes styled 1st Duke of Somerset, was an English nobleman and an important figure in the Wars of the Roses and in the Hundred Years' War. He also succeeded in the title of 4th Earl of Somerset and was created 1st Earl of Dorset and 1st Marquess of Dorset (previously held by his father and later forfeited), and Count of Mortain. He was known for his deadly rivalry with Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York."
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Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beaufort,_2nd_Duke_of_Somerset

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22776

http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=1618

http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I115&tree=Nixon

http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I1620&tree=PagetHeraldicBaronag

http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/edmundbeaufort.htm

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10198.htm#i101977
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Citations / Sources:

[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume X, page 128. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 342.

[S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 220. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.

[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), pages 104-106. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.

[S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995), reference: "Beaufort, Edmund". Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography.

[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 150. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

[S266] #379 [7th edition, 1992] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Who Came to America Before 1700 (7th edition, 1992), Weis, Frederick Lewis, (7th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1992), FHL book 974 D2w 1992., p. 3 line 1:33, p. 87 line 87:34.

[S338] Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2004), Richardson, Douglas, edited by Kamball G. Everingham, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), FHL book 942 D5rd., p. xxix.

[S394] #230 [5th edition, 1999] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th edition, 1999), Adams, Arthur, (5th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1999), FHL book 973 D2aa 1999., p. 111 line 90:10

[S394] #230 [5th edition, 1999] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th edition, 1999), Adams, Arthur, (5th edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1999), FHL book 973 D2aa 1999., p. 98 line 80:10, p. 112 line 90:10.

[S452] #21 The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1910), Cokayne, George Edward (main author) and Vicary Gibbs (added author), (New edition. 13 volumes in 14. London: St. Catherine Press,1910-), vol. 2 p. 131 fn. (c), 145, 389; vol. 4 p. 417; vol. 11 p. 703 fn. (a).

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