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Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, KG (c. 1460 – 15 March 1526) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the bastard son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill.
26 de dez. de 2023 · Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester was born illegitimately circa 1460, the son of Henry Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Joan Hill.
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- circa 1460
CHARLES SOMERSET, Earl of Worcester (1460?-1526), born about 1460, was an illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, third Duke of Somerset. In his childhood he was doubtless an exile in Flanders, for he was knighted by the Archduke Philip, then himself a child, before the Battle of Bosworth .
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, KG (c. 1460 – 15 March 1526) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill. Career …
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- Elizabeth Herbert, Elizabeth West
Born a bastard just as the Lancastrian cause of his father's family was collapsing, Charles Somerset nonetheless rose to great wealth and power, establishing what would become in the seventeenth century a ducal house that lasts to this day.
CHARLES SOMERSET 1st Somerset earl of Worcester (1460? - 1526) The illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd duke of Somerset, beheaded by the Yorkists (1463). He was a staunch supporter of Henry Tudor, who from the beginning of his reign as Henry VII employed him about court and abroad, admitting him to the Privy Council on 14 February 1505.
The Somerset earls of Worcester, by virtue of their royal blood, their extensive lands, their strong Welsh connexions and their staunch support for Henry Tudor, held a dominant position in south-eastern Wales from the Act of Union onwards.
