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    Duke of Somerset, from the county of Somerset, is a title that has been created five times in the peerage of England. It is particularly associated with...
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    Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (c. 15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536) was the son of Henry VIII of England and his mistress Elizabeth Blount,...
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    Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp KG, PC (1500 – 22 January 1552), also known as Edward Semel, was an...
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    3rd Duke of Somerset (26 January 1436[citation needed] – 15 May 1464) was an important Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses...
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    Duke of Somerset (21 February 1499 – 19 June 1500) was an English prince, and the sixth child of King Henry VII of England and his wife, Elizabeth of...
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    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...
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    John Michael Edward Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset, FRICS, DL (born 30 December 1952), styled Lord Seymour between 1954 and 1984, is a British aristocratic...
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    led by Louis II, Duke of Bourbon. In 1394, he was in Lithuania serving with the Teutonic Knights. John was created Earl of Somerset on 10 February 1397...
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    Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, 4th Earl of Somerset, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1st Marquess of Dorset styled 1st Count of Mortain, KG (1406 – 22 May...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
    Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, KG, PC, (13 August 1662 – 2 December 1748), known by the epithet "The Proud Duke", was an English aristocrat and...
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    of marriage), while also continuing to try to destroy the Duke of Somerset. Henry may have preferred Somerset to succeed him over York, as Somerset was...
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  • Henry John FitzRoy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort (born 22 May 1952), styled Marquess of Worcester between 1984 and 2017, also known as Harry Beaufort...
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  • Thumbnail for Edmund Beaufort (died 1471)
    Beaufort (c. 1438 – 6 May 1471), styled 4th Duke of Somerset, 6th Earl of Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, 3rd Earl of Dorset, was an English nobleman, and...
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  • Thumbnail for David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort
    David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort GCC (23 February 1928 – 16 August 2017), known as David Somerset until 1984, was an English peer and major...
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    2nd Duke of Somerset, KG, KB (1588 – 24 October 1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Seymour was the son of Edward...
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    Duke of Northumberland is a noble title that has been created three times in English and British history, twice in the Peerage of England and once in...
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    to hold the title that year. His other titles were Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester and Duke of Aquitaine. A contemporary record notes that in 1399...
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    Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill. He was born in about 1460, an illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress...
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    Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset and 3rd Marquess of Hertford (before 1646 – 29 April 1675) was an English peer and MP. He was the only surviving son of William...
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    Charles Somerset, Earl of Hereford (baptized 22 March 1683 – died before 26 Aug 1683), who died in infancy. Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (11 November...
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    created Earl of Warwick and, with the Duke of Somerset, England's Lord Protector, distinguished himself in the renewed Scottish war at the Battle of Pinkie...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort
    Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, KG, PC (1629 – 21 January 1700) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
    Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG, GCVO, PC (4 April 1900 – 5 February 1984), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1924, was...
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  • Thumbnail for Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset
    Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (27 September 1910 – 15 November 1984), styled Lord Seymour between 1931–54, was a British peer. He was the son of Evelyn Seymour...
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  • Thumbnail for Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset
    Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (11 November 1684 – 7 February 1750) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from...
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    1445), who married James I of Scotland and Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn. John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404–1444), who married Margaret...
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    of Warwick ("The Kingmaker"), Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, and Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, and their families. A less powerful...
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    cadet branches of the royal family; Richard, 3rd Duke of York and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset developed a fierce political rivalry and jostled...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset
    Edward Adolphus St. Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset, KG, PC (20 December 1804 – 28 November 1885), styled Lord Seymour until 1855, was a British Whig aristocrat...
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