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JOHN BEAUFORT (1403—1444)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BEAUFORT (1403—1444) . The latter fought under See also:Henry V. in the See also:French See also:wars, and having been taken prisoner remained in See also:France as a See also:captive until 1437. Soon after his See also:release he returned to the See also:war, and after the See also:death of See also:Richard See also:Beauchamp, See also:earl of See also:Warwick, in 1439, acted as See also:commander of the See also:English forces, and, with his See also:brother See also:Edmund, was successful in recapturing See also:Harfleur. Although chagrined when Richard, See also:duke of See also:York, was made See also:regent of France, Beaufort led an expedition to France in 1442, and in 1443 was made duke of See also:Somerset. He died, probably by his own See also:hand, in May 1444. He married See also:Margaret, daughter of See also:Sir John Beauchamp, and See also:left a daughter, MARGARET BEAUFORT, afterwards countess of See also:Richmond and See also:Derby, who married, for her first See also:husband, Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, by whom she became the See also:mother of See also:King Henry VII. In this way the See also:blood of the Beauforts was mingled with that of the Tudors, and of all the subsequent occupants of the English See also:throne. The See also:title of earl of Somerset descended on the death of John Beaufort in 1444 to his brother EDMUND BEAUFORT, duke of Somerset (q.v.), who was killed at St Albans in 1455. By his See also:marriage with Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of the fifth earl of Warwick, he left three sons, Henry, Edmund and John, and a daughter, Margaret.

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