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	Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Wrington, Somerset, England the younger son of Sir Thomas Ker (Carr) of Ferniehurst, Scotland[1] by his second wife, Janet, sister of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch.
		He supported the 2nd Earl of Northampton and the Spanish party in opposition to the old tried advisers of the king, such as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, who were endeavouring to maintain the union with the Protestants abroad, and who now in 1614 pushed forward another candidate for the king’s favour.
		Somerset, whose head was turned by the sudden rise to power and influence, became jealous and peevish, and feeling his position insecure, obtained in 1615 from the king a full pardon, to which, however, the chancellor refused to put the Great Seal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Carr,_1st_Earl_of_Somerset (1004 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Supported by the king, the latter obtained a decree of nullity of marriage against Lord Essex in September 1603, and in December she married the earl of Somerset.
		Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (1601 - 1643), was the son of William, 1st earl, lord president of the marches, whose father had been created Baron Compton by Elizabeth, and of Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Spencer, lord mayor of London.
		Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton (1540 - June 15, 1614), was the second son of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, the poet, and of his wife, the former Lady Frances de Vere, daughter of the 15th Earl of Oxford, and was the younger brother of the 4th Duke of Norfolk.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Carr%2C-1st-Earl-of-Somerset (2314 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, (January 11 1591 – 14 September 1646), was the son and heir of the unfortunate Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and succeeded to his father's title in 1604, three years after the previous earl had been executed for treason.
		His former wife proceeded to marry Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, and was tried for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, who had interfered with her ambitions as well as her love life.
		Earl of Essex is a title that has been held by several families and individuals, of which the best-known and most closely associated with the title was Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566 - 1601).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Devereux,-3rd-Earl-of-Essex (1161 words)

	Beaufort - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There were four children of this union - John, created earl of Somerset and marquess of Dorset; Henry, afterwards bishop of Winchester and cardinal (see Henry Beaufort); Thomas, made duke of Exeter and chancellor; and Joan, who married Ralph Neville, first earl of Westmorland, and died in 1440.
		The title of earl of Somerset descended on the death of John Beaufort in 1444 to his brother Edmund Beaufort, duke of Somerset, who was killed at St Albans in 1455.
		MARGARET BEAUFORT married Humphrey, earl of Stafford, and was the mother of Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham.
	73.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEAUFORT.htm (1070 words)

	John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Beaufort was created Earl of Somerset on February 10, 1397.
		On September 28 of that year he married Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent; then two days later he was created Marquess of Dorset.
		Somerset died on 16 March 1410 in the Hospital of St. Katherine-by-the-Tower.
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	Anne Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation.
		At her trial, the Countess of Somerset pleaded guilty, but her husband denied all responsibility for the death of Overbury Despite this, he too was convicted.
		Anne Somerset is the daughter of the Duke of Beaufort and married to artist Matthew Carr.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/asomerse.html (328 words)

	Herzog von Somerset
		Maud ernannte ihn 1141 zum Earl of Somerset.
		Earl of Somerset der 1443 zum Earl of Kendal und 1.
		Earl of Somerset der 1441 zum Earl of Dorset 1443 zum Marquess of Dorset und 1448 zum 1.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Graf_von_Somerset.html (1247 words)

	Origins of the Wars of the Roses
		Somerset was no doubt fearful of York, a fear enhanced by the fact that Somerset, a man whom York equally detested, and a favourite of Henry VI was forwarded funds to the sum of £25,000 to sustain the king's army in France.
		The Duke of Somerset was personally responsible for the surrender of the strategic town of Rouen which subsequently led to the fall of Normandy to Charles VII of France.
		Somerset was released from the Tower, and immediately formed a natural alliance with Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland (and Percy's ally in the north Lord Clifford), against the Duke of York - who was stripped of his powers as protector - and his supporters, namely the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl of Warwick.
	www.warsoftheroses.com /origins.cfm (900 words)

	Somerset, Robert Carr, earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR, EARL OF [Somerset, Robert Carr, earl of] 1587?-1645, Scottish favorite of James I of England.
		He was created (1611) Viscount Rochester, served James as personal secretary, and became earl of Somerset in 1613.
		On the discovery of the murder of his former friend, Sir Thomas Overbury, Somerset and his wife were tried and found guilty (1616) of perpetrating it, although Somerset's guilt was not definitely established.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SomrstR1.asp (365 words)

	Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset - TheBestLinks.com - France, Tower of London, Wars of the Roses, 1436, ...
		Somerset was killed in the resulting engagement, known as the First Battle of St Albans.
		Somerset married Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick sometime between 1431 and 1435 in a unlicensed marriage.
		Margaret (bef.1439-1474) (not to be confused with her cousin Margaret Beaufort), who first married Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford, son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, by whom she was the mother of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and then married Sir Richard Darell.
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	John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In any event, their father gave them the surname "Beaufort" and the portcullis as their emblem.
		On September 28 of that year he married Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent; the next day he was created Marquess of Somerset and Dorset.
		John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (baptized March 25, 1404 - May 27, 1444).
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /John_Beaufort%2C_1st_Earl_of_Somerset (182 words)

	Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On March 24 1611 he was Viscount Rochester and subsequently a privy councillor while on Lord Salisbury’s death in he began to act as the king’s On the November 3 1613 he was to the earldom of Somerset on the 23 was appointed treasurer of Scotland and 1614 Lord Chamberlain.
		Supported by the king the latter a decree of nullity of marriage against Essex in September 1603 and in December married the earl of Somerset.
		The earl appears have refused to buy forgiveness by concessions it was not till 1624 that he his pardon.
	www.freeglossary.com /Robert_Carr,_1st_Earl_of_Somerset (1005 words)

	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.
	www.worc.lib.md.us /articles/article1.html (1018 words)

	Frances HOWARD (C. Essex / C. Somerset)
		Born about 1593, Frances, the daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, famous Elizabethan seaman and the man who discovered the Gunpowder plot, and his second wife, Catherine Knyvett, a lady with "good face, which had brought to other much misery and to herself greatness which ended with much unhappiness".
		This led to the Earl and Countess of Somerset being arraigned for murder, and to the trials and executions of various minor plotters.
		The only daughter of Frances Howard and Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset managed due to the determination of her father to make a match which was not only equal to her rank, but a love match.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/FrancesHoward(CEssexCSomerset).htm (1161 words)

	ipedia.com: Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, was a Scottish politician, and favourite of King James I of England.
		He supported the earl of Northampton and the Spanish party in opposition to the old tried advisers of the king, such as Lord-Chancellor Ellesmere, who were endeavouring to maintain the union with the Protestants abroad, and who now in 1614 pushed forward another candidate for the king’s favour.
		After four of the principal agents had been convicted and punished, the earl and countess were brought to trial.
	www.ipedia.com /robert_carr__1st_earl_of_somerset.html (873 words)

	Robert devereux 3rd earl of essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/robert_devereux__3rd_earl_of_essex (206 words)

	22ND GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		JOHN of BEAUFORT Earl of Somerset was born in 1373 in Beaufort Castle, Anjou France - son of John of Gaunt.
		was born in 1375 in Kent - dtr of Thomas - Earl of Kent.
		JOHN II BEAUFORT 1st Duke of Somerset was born in 1403 in England - 1st Duke of Somerset.
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	TAS Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Somerset is situated on the coast at the mouth of the Cam River, and at the junction of the Bass and Murchison Highways.
		In the early days between the 1860s and 1880s, Somerset was a busy port but, as with a number of smaller north coast towns, its importance gradually gave way to larger more prosperous towns nearby.
		Somerset's light industrial area has timber and plywood mills, an industrial machinery plant and a freezing and canning factory.
	www.allsydney.com /tas/Somerset.htm (219 words)

	SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR ... - Online Information article about SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR ...
		SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e.
		September 1613, and in December she married the earl of Somerset.
		principal agents had been convicted and punished, the earl and countess were brought to trial.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOMERSET_ROBERT_CARR_or_KER_EAR.html (1175 words)

	thePeerage.com - Exhibit
		Beaufort, John, first Earl of Somerset and Marquis of Dorset and of Somerset 1373?-1410, born about 1373, was the eldest son of John of Gaunt [see John, 1340-1399], by his mistress, and afterwards his third wife, Catherine Swynford [qv.].
		He was deprived of his marquisates, and became simply Earl of Somerset, but there was never any doubt of his loyalty to the new king, his half brother.
		Somerset, who had been in failing health for some time, died in St. Catherine's Hospital by the Tower on 16 March 1409-10 (not, as all the peerages say, on 21 March), and was buried in the Abbey church on Tower Hill (English Chron.
	www.thepeerage.com /e272.htm (1136 words)

	Edmund Beaufort, 2. Herzog von Somerset - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu Edmund Beaufort, 2. Herzog von ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Edmund war ein jüngerer Sohn John Beauforts, des ersten Earl of Somerset, und ein Enkel des John of Gaunt, Herzog von Lancaster.
		März 1448 wurde ihm der Titel Herzog von Somerset verliehen, den vorher schon sein Bruder John (1404-1444) getragen hatte.
		Earl of Warwick, die er zwischen 1431 und 1435 heimlich geheiratet hatte, hatte er zwei Söhne, Henry und Edmund, die nach den Schlachten von Hexham und Tewkesbury auf Befehl Edwards IV.
	www.adlexikon.de /Edmund_Beaufort_2_Herzog_von_Somerset.shtml (662 words)

	Somerset and the Domesday Book 1086 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From this family were descended the Earls Onslow, the Lords of Arundel, and the western families of Lanherne and Trerice.
		Chief tenants in Somerset were also under-tenants to fellow Norman nobles, both in Somerset and in other counties, sometimes distant counties, such as Serlo de Burcy who held many many lordships in Cheshire to the north.
		Many of the holders of the lands in Somerset, for instance, were either absent in other counties where they held their chief domain It is unlikely that large magnates ever got to see their specific holdings more than once or twice in their whole lifetime.
	www.infokey.com /Somerset/Somerset.htm (1055 words)

	Betty Snider, Owner of Clay Haus, Somerset Ohio, dies -- Paranormal Investigations
		Betty was born March 30, 1930 in Licking County, the daughter of the late Irwin C. and Mabel A. Crawmer Priest.
		She was a graduate of The Ohio State University and was a Title One school teacher at Somerset Elementary.
		She was preceded in death, in addition to her parents, by her husband of 45 years Carl G. Snider, January 13, 1992, 2 brothers Kenneth and Earl Priest, a granddaughter Angela Snider, 1984 and a daughter-in-law Debra Snider, 2000.
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	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With B
		Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset and his associates were being shown favouritism and Richard along with the Welsh land owners were finding it hard to retain the earnings they were making from their own lands.
		Son of Edmund, Duke of Somerset (killed at the Battle of St. Albans in 1455).
		Edmund Tudor married Margaret Beaufort, the heiress of the Duke of Somerset.
	www.timeref.com /hprb.htm (3564 words)

	Somerset Hamilton Butler%2C 1st Earl of Carrick
		Abstract: Eldest son of the 14th Earl of Derby, was born on the 21st July 1826.
		Britannia`s biography on the infamous Earl that that falsified the evidence and confessions of the plotters (or did he?).
		Somerset County Council and partners provide an introduction to the wetlands and the main issues they face.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Somerset_Hamilton_Butler%2C_1st_Earl_of_Carrick (1366 words)

	thePeerage.com - Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and others
		Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset was born illegitimately between 1371 and 1373 in Beafort Castle, England.
		He married Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth de Berkeley, between 1431 and 1435 in a unlicensed marriage, although this was pardoned on 7 March 1438.
		She married, secondly, Sir John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, son of Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret de Holand, between 1439 and 1442.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10198.htm (3620 words)

	NPG 665; The Somerset House Conference, 1604 (Juan de Velasco Frias; Juan de Tassis, Count of Villa Mediana; Alessandro ...
		NPG 665; The Somerset House Conference, 1604 (Juan de Velasco Frias; Juan de Tassis, Count of Villa Mediana; Alessandro Robida; Charles de Ligne, Count of Aremberg; Jean Richardot; Louis Vereyken; Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Charles Howard, Earl of Nott...)
		Juan de Velasco Frias, Duke of Frias, Constable of Castile; delegate at the Somerset House Conference.
		Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton (1540-1614), Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
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