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John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1373 – 16 March 1410), known as the Marquess of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset from 1397–99, was an English nobleman and politician. Beaufort was the second son of John of Gaunt (1340–1399; third surviving son of King Edward III ), eldest of the four children by his mistress Katherine Swynford ...
Thus the Beaufort family is today represented in the male line by its illegitimate continuation, the House of Somerset, whose senior representative is Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort. The Somerset family has long borne the arms of Beaufort undifferenced, with the baton sinister adopted by Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, discontinued.
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, 3rd Earl of Somerset, KG (25 March 1404 – 27 May 1444) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was a paternal first cousin of King Henry V and the maternal grandfather of Henry VII .
Duke of Lancaster, (7th) Earl of Leicester King Henry IV: John Beaufort c. 1373 –1410 Marquess of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset, 1st Earl of Somerset: Thomas Beaufort c. 1377 –1426 Duke of Exeter, Earl of Dorset: Joan Beaufort c. 1379 –1440: Joan La Warr: Thomas West 1365–1405 1st Baron West: Joan de Beauchamp 1375–1435
He was succeeded as Earl of Somerset by his son Henry Beaufort (1401–1418), but his early death left the earldom to his brother John Beaufort (1404–1444). He was created Duke of Somerset and Earl of Kendal on 28 August 1443 and died less than a year later on 27 May 1444, perhaps by suicide.
His father was killed in 1455 at the First Battle of St Albans.When his eldest brother, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, was killed fighting for Lancaster in 1464 at the Battle of Hexham, the next brother, Edmund, succeeded to the Dukedom, and John became "Marquess of Dorset" and "Earl of Dorset", courtesy titles granted to the Beaufort heir-apparent or heir-presumptive.
Duke of Beaufort (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt) [2] is a title in the Peerage of England.It was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the Roses.
Other titles: Marquess of Somerset (1397) and Earl of Somerset (1397). John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Dorset (died 1410), eldest legitimated child of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, himself third surviving son of Edward III was degraded in 1399 by Henry IV Bolingbroke for his role as a counter-appellant for Richard II
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