Individual Details
Thomas "Duke of Exeter, Earl of Dorset" Lancaster KG
(Abt Jan 1377 - 31 Dec 1426)
[[Category:Medieval Project, England and Wales, needs biography]]
[[Category:Knights Companion of the Garter]][[Category:House of Lancaster]] [[Category: Lord Chancellors of England]]
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==Biography==
Thomas Beaufort, cr. 5 Jul 1411 Earl of Dorset and 18 Nov 1416 Duke of Exeter, Knight of the Garter c.1400 (b. c. Jan 1377; d. 27 Dec 1426), mar. bef. 15 Feb 1403/4 Margaret Neville (b. c. Jan 1377; d. c. 9 Apr 1424), dau. of Sir Thomas Neville, of Hornby, co. York, by his wife Joan Furnivall, 1 son (dsp.)[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/lateplantagenet.htm The Later House of Plantagenet (1327 - 1485)] Cracroft's Peerage
On 1 July 1418 Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter was granted the comté of Harcourt and the castle and lordship of Lillebonne, in tail male, to hold by homage, rendering yearly a fleur-de-lis to the King on midsummers day.[https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n109 Complete Peerage 2nd Ed v. 5 p. 109]
===Titles of Sir Thomas Beaufort===
:Captain of Calais, Conches, Harfleur and Rouen
:Constable of Ludlow and Carmarthen Castles:granted lordships of Lewes in Sussex and Reigate in Surrey forfeited by Thomas Mowbray September 1398
:Admiral of the North 1403
:deputy Earl Marshal 1404
:Vice-Constable of England 1407
:Admiral of the North and West 1408
:Admiral of England, Ireland, Aquitaine, and Picardy 1409
:Privy Councillor 1409, 1415
:Chancellor of England 1410-12
:Lieutenant of Aquitaine 1413-15
:joint ambassador to France 1414
:Lieutenant of Duchy of Normandy 1416
:created Count of Harcourt (in Normandy) 1 July 1418
:Chief Justice of Chester 1420
:joint tutor to King Henry VI 1422
:Chief Justice of North Wales 1423
=== Death and burial of Sir Thomas Beaufort === Sir Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, Count of Harourt, died testate at the ducal manor of East Greenwich, Kent 31 December 1426 (Hertfordshire inquisition says 27 December 1426).Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 215-216King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/22-791/ [Accessed: 14/12/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem for Thomas duke of Exeter 1427 His heir was his nephew [[Beaufort-23|John earl of Somerset]].
He was buried in the lady Chapel of the Benedictine abbey at Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk as instructed by his will dated 29 December 1426, proved 28 January 1426/7. The abbey housed the relics of the saint-king Edmund the Martyr (d.870). Thomas Beaufort's wife Margaret Neville, was also buried there. Thomas gave instructions for his burial on the north side of the Lady altar and bequeathed funds for a free-standing monument for himself and wife, together with an exceptional amount of 400 marks for perpetual anniversary masses. The will also endowed a chantry in the abbey. The Lady Chapel was demolished with the rest of the church following the surrender of the abbey in 1538 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1772 workmen unearthed a lead coffin to the south of what was thought to be the site of the Lady Chapel altar, together with parts of a wooden outer coffin. The inner coffin contained the well-preserved remains of a male wrapped in cerecloth. The quality of the embalming suggested the remains were those of a senior aristocrat. The hands of the male were removed for antiquarian interest, and the rest of the remains were reinterred in a wooden coffin near the east-west crossing pier.
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. III p. 498-500* Hope, Sir William Henry St. John. ''[[Space:The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485|The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485]]'' (A. Constable and Co., ltd., Westminster, 1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=38sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT183 Plate XLV]* [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1864#odnb-9780198614128-e-1864 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter (1377?–1426) G. L. Harriss]
[[Category:Knights Companion of the Garter]][[Category:House of Lancaster]] [[Category: Lord Chancellors of England]]
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==Biography==
Thomas Beaufort, cr. 5 Jul 1411 Earl of Dorset and 18 Nov 1416 Duke of Exeter, Knight of the Garter c.1400 (b. c. Jan 1377; d. 27 Dec 1426), mar. bef. 15 Feb 1403/4 Margaret Neville (b. c. Jan 1377; d. c. 9 Apr 1424), dau. of Sir Thomas Neville, of Hornby, co. York, by his wife Joan Furnivall, 1 son (dsp.)[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/lateplantagenet.htm The Later House of Plantagenet (1327 - 1485)] Cracroft's Peerage
On 1 July 1418 Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter was granted the comté of Harcourt and the castle and lordship of Lillebonne, in tail male, to hold by homage, rendering yearly a fleur-de-lis to the King on midsummers day.[https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n109 Complete Peerage 2nd Ed v. 5 p. 109]
===Titles of Sir Thomas Beaufort===
:Captain of Calais, Conches, Harfleur and Rouen
:Constable of Ludlow and Carmarthen Castles:granted lordships of Lewes in Sussex and Reigate in Surrey forfeited by Thomas Mowbray September 1398
:Admiral of the North 1403
:deputy Earl Marshal 1404
:Vice-Constable of England 1407
:Admiral of the North and West 1408
:Admiral of England, Ireland, Aquitaine, and Picardy 1409
:Privy Councillor 1409, 1415
:Chancellor of England 1410-12
:Lieutenant of Aquitaine 1413-15
:joint ambassador to France 1414
:Lieutenant of Duchy of Normandy 1416
:created Count of Harcourt (in Normandy) 1 July 1418
:Chief Justice of Chester 1420
:joint tutor to King Henry VI 1422
:Chief Justice of North Wales 1423
=== Death and burial of Sir Thomas Beaufort === Sir Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, Count of Harourt, died testate at the ducal manor of East Greenwich, Kent 31 December 1426 (Hertfordshire inquisition says 27 December 1426).Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 215-216King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/22-791/ [Accessed: 14/12/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem for Thomas duke of Exeter 1427 His heir was his nephew [[Beaufort-23|John earl of Somerset]].
He was buried in the lady Chapel of the Benedictine abbey at Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk as instructed by his will dated 29 December 1426, proved 28 January 1426/7. The abbey housed the relics of the saint-king Edmund the Martyr (d.870). Thomas Beaufort's wife Margaret Neville, was also buried there. Thomas gave instructions for his burial on the north side of the Lady altar and bequeathed funds for a free-standing monument for himself and wife, together with an exceptional amount of 400 marks for perpetual anniversary masses. The will also endowed a chantry in the abbey. The Lady Chapel was demolished with the rest of the church following the surrender of the abbey in 1538 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1772 workmen unearthed a lead coffin to the south of what was thought to be the site of the Lady Chapel altar, together with parts of a wooden outer coffin. The inner coffin contained the well-preserved remains of a male wrapped in cerecloth. The quality of the embalming suggested the remains were those of a senior aristocrat. The hands of the male were removed for antiquarian interest, and the rest of the remains were reinterred in a wooden coffin near the east-west crossing pier.
== Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. III p. 498-500* Hope, Sir William Henry St. John. ''[[Space:The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485|The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485]]'' (A. Constable and Co., ltd., Westminster, 1901) [https://books.google.com/books?id=38sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT183 Plate XLV]* [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1864#odnb-9780198614128-e-1864 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter (1377?–1426) G. L. Harriss]
Events
| Birth | Abt Jan 1377 | Chateau de Beaufort, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France | |||
| Death | 31 Dec 1426 | East Greenwich, Kent, England | |||
| Reference No | 3946403 | ||||
| Reference No | 4019269 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | John "Duke of Lancaster" Plantagenet KG (1340 - 1399) |
| Mother | Katherine Roet (1350 - 1403) |
| Sibling | Joan Beaufort LG (1375 - 1440) |
| Sibling | Sir John "1st Earl of Somerset" Beaufort KG (1371 - 1410) |
| Sibling | Master Henry "Cardinal of England, Bishop of Lincoln" Beaufort (1374 - 1447) |