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MARGARET BEAUFORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGARET See also:BEAUFORT married See also:Humphrey, See also:earl of See also:Stafford, and was the See also:mother of See also:Henry Stafford, See also:duke of See also:Buckingham. Henry Beaufort, third duke of See also:Somerset (d. 1464), See also:left an illegitimate son, See also:Charles Somerset, who was created earl of See also:Worcester by Henry VIII. in 1514. His See also:direct descendant, Henry Somerset, fifth earl of Worcester, was a loyal See also:partisan of Charles I. and in 1642 was created See also:marquess of Worcester. His See also:grandson, Henry, the third marquess, was made duke of Beaufort in 1682, and the See also:present duke of Beaufort is his direct descendant. See See also:Thomas See also:Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, edited by H. T. See also:Riley (See also:London, 1863–1864) ; W. See also:Stubbs, Constitutional See also:History of See also:England, vols. ii. and iii. (See also:Oxford, 1895) ; The Paston Letters, edited by See also:James See also:Gairdner (London, 1904).

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