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  List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
105 (inv 1402) Ralph (Nevill), 1st Earl of Westmorland.
575 (inv 1757) Francis (Seymour-Conway), 1st Earl of Hertford.
711 (inv 1855) Francis (Leveson-Gower), 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
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 Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester was born around 1460 to Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Joan Hill.
He married three times, 1st to Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Baron Herbert, 2nd to Elizabeth West, daughter of Thomas West, Knt., 5th Lord West, 8th Lord la Warre and 3rd to Eleanor Sutton, daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Lord Dudley.
Somerset died on April 15th, 1526 and was buried with his first wife at St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Somerset,_1st_Earl_of_Worcester   (269 words)

  
 Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester was born around 1496 to Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert.
He married twice, 1st by papal dispensation dated 15 June 1514 to Margaret Courtenay, daughter of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, by Catherine of York, daughter of of Edward IV, King of England.
Somerset married 2nd (bef 1527) to Elizabeth Browne, daugther of Anthony Browne, Knt., by Lucy, daughter of John Neville, Earl of Northumberland, Marquess of Montagu.
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
1757 (575) Francis (Seymour-Conway), 1st Earl of Hertford.
1855 (711) Francis (Leveson-Gower), 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
1402 (105) Ralph (Nevill), 1st Earl of Westmorland.
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 Informat.io on 1460
June - The Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of York, land in England with an army and seize London.
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (died 1526)
December 31 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b.
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 Worcester: Behind the Name
The 6th Earl of Worcester, Edward Somerset...was a contemporary of Cecil Calvert (1601 -1675) and through his position as a prominent Catholic and royalist official in Ireland during the Civil War may have been in a position to support Calvert's Maryland colony.
One of the Earls of Worcester the 6th who was also the 2d Marquis of Worcester, was a particularly interesting individual, who has been credited by at least one writer/historian of the 19th century as the inventor of the steam engine.
The king induced the Earl to raise troops to fight for the Royalist cause, and after the fall of Raglan Castle, Somerset was forced to flee England for Paris in 1646.
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 Wikinfo | Lord High Constable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He was also, in conjunction with the Earl Marshal, president of the court of chivalry or court of honour.
The constableship was granted as a grand serjeanty with the earldom of Hereford by the empress Maud to Milo of Gloucester, and was carried by his heiress to the Bohuns, earls of Hereford and Essex.
The Lacys and Verduns were hereditary constables of Ireland from the 12th to the 14th century; and the Hays, earls of Erroll, have been hereditary constables of Scotland from early in.
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 somerset1
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester / Somerset (b 12.1660, dvp 13.07.1698)
Mary Arundell (dau of Thomas Arundell, 1st Lord of Wardour)
TCP (Worcester) reports that there were was only 1 son by the 1st marriage and 3 children by the 2nd marriage.
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 DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD III
Charles DYMOKE of Scrivelsby, born 1613, died 1644 unm.
Prince Thomas of England, KG, 1st Duke of Clarence and Earl of Albemarle (cr 1412 Jul 9), born 1388, died 1421 Mar 22 sp; married 1412, Lady Margaret de HOLAND (Kent, E) (born 1385, died 1439 Dec 31).
Edmund BEAUFORT, KG, 4th Earl of Somerset, 1st Marquess of Dorset (cr 1443 Jun 24), 1st Duke of Somerset (cr 1448 Mar 31), born 1406, died 1455 May 22; married 1431/35, as 2nd husband, Lady Eleanor BEAUCHAMP (Warwick, E) (born 1408, died 1468 Mar 6).
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 Charles SOMERSET (1º E. Worcester)
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.
He spent much of his youth in exile while the Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III occupied the English throne, and was knighted by Archduke Phillip just before the battle of Bosworth.
He first appears in the records when among the accounts for the coronation of Henry VII is an entry for three yards of cloth of gold for "the bastard Somerset".
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/CharlesSomerset(1EWorcester).htm   (384 words)

  
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He was styled Earl of Derby (a title held in right by his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster) on July 21, 1361.
He succeeded to the titles of Earl of Derby, Earl of Leicester and Earl of Lincoln on April 10, 1362 after the death of his sister-in-law, Matilda of Lancaster.
Earl of Somerset on February 10, 1397 and Marquess of Somerset on September 9,
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 Old and antique prints and maps: Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, 1800, Other portraits
Old and antique prints and maps: Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, 1800, Other portraits
"Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester" engraved by Harding after an original portrait, published in 1800.
Size 12 x 16.5 cms including title, plus margins with strong plate mark.
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 thePeerage.com - Place Index 31
Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofic George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis  b.
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo  b.
Cambridge, Adolphus Charles, 1st Marquess of Cambridge  b.
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 Pepys' Diary: Somerset, Thomas
Son of Lord John Somerset, whose father was the 1st Marquess of Worcester (d.
Contrariwise, a footnote to the entry for 30th August 1661 suggests that this Thomas was the SECOND son of Lord John Somerset
Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester was born before 1590 to Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings
www.pepysdiary.com /p/2981.php   (121 words)

  
 Grand Priory of England - Order of Malta in the UK
The Peasant's Revolt was all but forgotten when Henry VII was named "Protector of the Religion." In 1517, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, and Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, were received into the Order as "knights of honour," a grade which did not require a vow of profession.
The Sub Priory of the Blessed Adrian Fortescue was founded in 1972, with Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart as Regent.
Subsequent Regents included Andrew Bertie (the present Grand Master), Viscount Furness, the Earl of Gainsborough, and the present Grand Prior.
www.orderofmalta.org.uk /priory.htm   (694 words)

  
 herbert02
Sir William Herbert of Raglan, 1st Earl of Pembroke
At the request of King Edward IV, William resigned the earldom of Pembroke so that the King's son Edward could use that title and was created Earl of Huntingdon instead.
Catherine Osborne (dau of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds)
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