Individual Details
Sir Edmund "2nd Duke of Somerset, Count of Mortain" Beaufort KG
(Abt 1406 - 22 May 1455)
[[Category: Knights Companion of the Garter]]
[[Category:First Battle of St Albans]]
[[Category:This Day In History May 22]]
[[Category:House of Beaufort]]
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==Biography==
===Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset===
Edmund Beaufort was the third surviving son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Margaret Holland. John Beaufort was himself the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, (the third surviving son of King Edward III) and Katherine Swynford. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (the son of Joan, Fair Maid of Kent) and Alice FitzAlan. Alice was a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
Edmund served as a commander in the English army in France in 1431, re-capturing Harfleur, and lifting the Burgundian Siege of Calais in 1436. He married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, widow of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros before 1436 , Eleanor was the daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his first wife, Elizabeth de Berkeley, the marraiage produced ten children.
Titles of Sir Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset: (Royal Ancestry)
:Count of Mortain
:Constable of Nottingham Castle 1425-34
:Captain of Gisors 1431:Constable of Aberystwith, Carmarthen, Grosmont, Monmouth, Whitcastle, and Windsor Castles
:Earl of Dorset August 1441and Marquess of Dorset 24 June 1443
:Privy Councillor 1443
:Captain-General and Governor of Maine and Anjou 1447:Lieutenant and Governor-General of France and of the Duchies of Normandy and Guienne 1447
:Duke of Somerset 31 March 1448
:Constable of England 1450
:Captain of Calais 1451-4
:Lieutenant of the Marches of Picardy, Flanders and Artois 1451-4
:Lord of the Isle of Wight 1452
:Justice in Eyre and Justice of the Forest south of Trent 1453-5
Alternate list:
: 1430: Earl Mortain
: 1433: Marquis of Dorset
: 1438: Earl Dorset
: 1444: Earl Somerset
: Regent of France.
===Vitals===
b. About: 1406 WestminsterEula Maria McKeaig II - 061204.FTW.
d.: slain at 1st Battle of St. Albans, 22 May 1455.Fought for the Lancastrian cause
Burial: St Albans Abbey, England
===Death and burial===(Royal Ancestry) Sir Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Count of Mortain, was slain at the 1st Battle of St. Albans 22 May 1455, and was buried in the Lady Chapel within St. Albans Abbey.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Edmund Beaufort was killed at the first battle of St. Albans in 1455 and buried in the Lady Chapel of St. Albans Abbey, together with two other senior Lancastrians killed in the battle, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Thomas, Lord Clifford. The burial were only secured after an appeal by Abbot John Whethamstede to Richard, Duke of York. There is no record of a monument. According to an unconfirmed account, three skeletons with armour were unearthed during the repaving of the St. Albans Lady Chapel in 1870. Around that time bones taken from the Lady Chapel were reburied in the north churchyard.
=== Marriage ===
m. 1433 Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire
: Before: 1436 England
: 23 Apr 1399 England
== Sources ==
* S-2024265475. Helen Hicks Chamblee (1998 - 1999). [http://hometown.aol.com/RGChamblee/index.html Chamblee Family Records]. P.O. Box 13, Bellevue, WA, 98009-0013. Letter.
* S-2024265482. Brian Tompsett. Royal and Noble Genealogical Data v. 25 Mar 2001. Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull, UK, HU6 7RX, B.C.Tompsett -at- dcs.hull.ac.uk
See also:
* http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_88.html
* [[Wikipedia: Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset]]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10198.htm#i101977 The Peerage] [http://www.thepeerage.com/p40085.htm#i400841]
* [http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=1618 Geneall]
* [http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/edmundbeaufort.htm Luminarium]
* [http://www.jodygoad.com/d0000/g0000021.html jodygoad]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22776 findagrave.com]
* Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA3-PA43&dq=magna+carta+ancestry+foliat+eleanor+beauchamp&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fCs4VMiYLIbdapzzgMgI&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=magna%20carta%20ancestry%20foliat%20eleanor%20beauchamp&f=false Volume 4, page 43].
* Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. I p. 301
* Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 645-650
* Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 500-502, 650-657
* Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 P. 248
==Acknowledgements==
===Magna Carta Project===:} appears in ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' in a Richardson-documented trail from [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] [[Rudyard-1|Thomas Rudyard]] to [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]] (vol. III, pages 461-465 RUDYARD) that has not yet been developed on WikiTree by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta project]]. This trail is set out in the [[Rudyard-1#Magna Carta Trails|Magna Carta Trails]] section of the Gateway's profile.
:} appears in ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' in a Richardson-documented trail from [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] [[Somerset-57|Mary Johanna Somerset]] to [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]] (vol. IV, pages 38-55 SOMERSET). This trail needs further development by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta Project]] and is set out in the [[Somerset-57#Magna Carta Trails|Magna Carta Trails]] section of the Gateway's profile. This profile also appears in several other trails between Gateway Mary Somerset and Magna Carta surety barons that are outlined in a dedicated free space page [[Space:Magna_Carta_Lines_of_Maria_Johanna_Somerset|HERE]]. Not all of these have been fully developed for the Magna Carta Project.
*'''Needs Development''': This profile was just put under management of the Magna Carta Project and needs development against the project's [[Space:Magna_Carta_Project_Checklist|checklist]] to bring it up to current project standards. ~ [[Thiessen-117|Thiessen-117]] 22:39, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
: See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
[[Category:First Battle of St Albans]]
[[Category:This Day In History May 22]]
[[Category:House of Beaufort]]
}
==Biography==
===Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset===
Edmund Beaufort was the third surviving son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Margaret Holland. John Beaufort was himself the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, (the third surviving son of King Edward III) and Katherine Swynford. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (the son of Joan, Fair Maid of Kent) and Alice FitzAlan. Alice was a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
Edmund served as a commander in the English army in France in 1431, re-capturing Harfleur, and lifting the Burgundian Siege of Calais in 1436. He married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, widow of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros before 1436 , Eleanor was the daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his first wife, Elizabeth de Berkeley, the marraiage produced ten children.
Titles of Sir Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset: (Royal Ancestry)
:Count of Mortain
:Constable of Nottingham Castle 1425-34
:Captain of Gisors 1431:Constable of Aberystwith, Carmarthen, Grosmont, Monmouth, Whitcastle, and Windsor Castles
:Earl of Dorset August 1441and Marquess of Dorset 24 June 1443
:Privy Councillor 1443
:Captain-General and Governor of Maine and Anjou 1447:Lieutenant and Governor-General of France and of the Duchies of Normandy and Guienne 1447
:Duke of Somerset 31 March 1448
:Constable of England 1450
:Captain of Calais 1451-4
:Lieutenant of the Marches of Picardy, Flanders and Artois 1451-4
:Lord of the Isle of Wight 1452
:Justice in Eyre and Justice of the Forest south of Trent 1453-5
Alternate list:
: 1430: Earl Mortain
: 1433: Marquis of Dorset
: 1438: Earl Dorset
: 1444: Earl Somerset
: Regent of France.
===Vitals===
b. About: 1406 WestminsterEula Maria McKeaig II - 061204.FTW.
d.: slain at 1st Battle of St. Albans, 22 May 1455.Fought for the Lancastrian cause
Burial: St Albans Abbey, England
===Death and burial===(Royal Ancestry) Sir Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Count of Mortain, was slain at the 1st Battle of St. Albans 22 May 1455, and was buried in the Lady Chapel within St. Albans Abbey.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Edmund Beaufort was killed at the first battle of St. Albans in 1455 and buried in the Lady Chapel of St. Albans Abbey, together with two other senior Lancastrians killed in the battle, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Thomas, Lord Clifford. The burial were only secured after an appeal by Abbot John Whethamstede to Richard, Duke of York. There is no record of a monument. According to an unconfirmed account, three skeletons with armour were unearthed during the repaving of the St. Albans Lady Chapel in 1870. Around that time bones taken from the Lady Chapel were reburied in the north churchyard.
=== Marriage ===
m. 1433 Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire
: Before: 1436 England
: 23 Apr 1399 England
== Sources ==
* S-2024265475. Helen Hicks Chamblee (1998 - 1999). [http://hometown.aol.com/RGChamblee/index.html Chamblee Family Records]. P.O. Box 13, Bellevue, WA, 98009-0013. Letter.
* S-2024265482. Brian Tompsett. Royal and Noble Genealogical Data v. 25 Mar 2001. Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull, UK, HU6 7RX, B.C.Tompsett -at- dcs.hull.ac.uk
See also:
* http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_88.html
* [[Wikipedia: Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset]]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10198.htm#i101977 The Peerage] [http://www.thepeerage.com/p40085.htm#i400841]
* [http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=1618 Geneall]
* [http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/edmundbeaufort.htm Luminarium]
* [http://www.jodygoad.com/d0000/g0000021.html jodygoad]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22776 findagrave.com]
* Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA3-PA43&dq=magna+carta+ancestry+foliat+eleanor+beauchamp&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fCs4VMiYLIbdapzzgMgI&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=magna%20carta%20ancestry%20foliat%20eleanor%20beauchamp&f=false Volume 4, page 43].
* Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. I p. 301
* Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 645-650
* Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. IV p. 500-502, 650-657
* Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 P. 248
==Acknowledgements==
===Magna Carta Project===:} appears in ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' in a Richardson-documented trail from [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] [[Rudyard-1|Thomas Rudyard]] to [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]] (vol. III, pages 461-465 RUDYARD) that has not yet been developed on WikiTree by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta project]]. This trail is set out in the [[Rudyard-1#Magna Carta Trails|Magna Carta Trails]] section of the Gateway's profile.
:} appears in ''Magna Carta Ancestry'' in a Richardson-documented trail from [[:Category:Gateway Ancestors|Gateway Ancestor]] [[Somerset-57|Mary Johanna Somerset]] to [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta Surety Baron]] [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]] (vol. IV, pages 38-55 SOMERSET). This trail needs further development by the [[Project:Magna Carta|Magna Carta Project]] and is set out in the [[Somerset-57#Magna Carta Trails|Magna Carta Trails]] section of the Gateway's profile. This profile also appears in several other trails between Gateway Mary Somerset and Magna Carta surety barons that are outlined in a dedicated free space page [[Space:Magna_Carta_Lines_of_Maria_Johanna_Somerset|HERE]]. Not all of these have been fully developed for the Magna Carta Project.
*'''Needs Development''': This profile was just put under management of the Magna Carta Project and needs development against the project's [[Space:Magna_Carta_Project_Checklist|checklist]] to bring it up to current project standards. ~ [[Thiessen-117|Thiessen-117]] 22:39, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
: See [[Space:Magna_Carta_Team_Base_Camp|Base Camp]] for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's [[Space:Magna Carta Project Glossary|glossary]] for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
Events
| Birth | Abt 1406 | Westminster, Middlesex, England | |||
| Death | 22 May 1455 | St Albans, Hertfordshire, England | |||
| Reference No | 130487 | ||||
| Reference No | 143908 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Sir John "1st Earl of Somerset" Beaufort KG (1371 - 1410) |
| Mother | Margaret Holland Countess of Somerset (1385 - 1439) |
| Sibling | Joan Beaufort (1404 - 1445) |
| Sibling | Henry "Earl of Somerset" Beaufort (1400 - 1418) |
| Sibling | Sir John "1st Duke of Somerset, Earl of Kendal" Beaufort KG (1404 - 1444) |
| Sibling | Thomas "Count of Perche" Beaufort (1405 - 1432) |
| Sibling | Margaret Beaufort (1408 - 1449) |