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	Henry VI of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry IV's elder surviving son, John, Duke of Bedford, was the senior regent, having been appointed Regent of France (in charge of running the ongoing war) as well as replacing Gloucester as Regent of England whenever Bedford was personally in the country.
		Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper, the sons of his mother's second marriage, were later given earldoms, Edmund being the father of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII of England.
		Henry was captured by King Edward in 1465 and subsequently held captive in the Tower of London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_VI_of_England (2288 words)

	HENRY BEAUFORT - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY BEAUFORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry spent some of his youth at Aix-la-Chapelle, and having entered the church received various appointments, and was consecrated bishop of Lincoln in July 1398.
		When Henry V. ascended the throne in 1413 the bishop again became chancellor and took a leading part in the government until 1417, when he resigned his office, and proceeded to the council which was then sitting at Constance.
		Returning to England, he remained loyal to Henry; and after the kings death in 1422 became a member of the council and was the chief opponent of the wild and selfish schemes of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEAUFORT_HENRY.htm (977 words)

	BEAUFORT - LoveToKnow Article on BEAUFORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Beaufort family was continued by HENRY BEAUFORT (1401-1419), the eldest son of John Beaufort, earl of Somerset, who was succeeded as earl of Somerset by his brother JOHN BEAUFORT (1403-1444).
		HENRY BEAUFORT (1436-1464) became duke of Somerset in 1455, andsoon began to take part in the struggle against Richard, duke of York, but failed to dislodge Richards ally, Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, from Calais.
		MARGARET BEAUFORT married Humphrey, earl of Stafford, and was the mother of Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEAUFORT.htm (1038 words)

	Henry Cardinal Beaufort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Beaufort (ca.1374-1447), the second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, was born in Anjou (France) in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church.
		Between 1411 and 1413 Bishop Beaufort was in political disgrace for siding with his nephew, the Prince of Wales, against the king, but then when Henry IV died and the prince became Henry V of England, he made his uncle Chancellor again; however, Beaufort resigned the position in 1417.
		Henry V died in 1422, shortly after making himself heir to France by marrying the French king's daughter, and their infant son became Henry VI of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Cardinal_Beaufort (344 words)

	Henry VI of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/22, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471.
		Beaufort, the new Duke of Somerset (and Cardinal Beaufort's son) was sent to France to lead the war.
		Henry came to London with an army to crush the rebellion, but was persuaded to keep half his troups behind while the other half met Cade at Sevenoaks.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Henry_VI_of_England (2375 words)

	Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436 - 1464) was an important Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses.
		Somerset was the son of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
		Thus he was first cousin to Margaret Beaufort and to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and uncle to Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Beaufort,_3rd_Duke_of_Somerset (337 words)

	BEAUFORT, HENRY. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was declared legitimate (1397) and made bishop of Lincoln (1398) by Richard II, and under Henry IV served as chancellor (1403–4) and became (1404) bishop of Winchester.
		When in 1422 the infant Henry VI succeeded to the throne, Beaufort became involved in a vigorous struggle for power with Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
		Beaufort’s enormous wealth (he loaned money to the government for the war in France) and political skill gave him the advantage, and he served again as chancellor (1424–26).
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/be/BeaufrtH.html (241 words)

	Henry V, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry was probably brought up under the care of his uncle, Henry Beaufort.
		Henry began (c.1409) to work actively in the privy council, which he and his friends dominated in 1410–11.
		In 1420, Henry concluded the Treaty of Troyes, by which he agreed to marry Catherine of Valois and to rule France in the name of her father, Charles VI, who accepted Henry as his successor.
	www.bartleby.com /65/he/Henry5Eng.html (663 words)

	Henry VI of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/May 2222, 1471) was Kingdom of EnglandKing of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471/.
		Henry's half-brothers, Edmund TudorEdmund and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of BedfordJasper, the sons of his mother's second marriage, were later given earldoms, Edmund being the father of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII of England/.
		Henry was eventually crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on November 6, 1429 at the age of eight, and King of France at Notre Dame in Paris on December 16, 1431.
	www.infothis.com /find/Henry_VI_of_England (2509 words)

	Montauk Historical Site - Clermont, Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry IV was born at Bolingbroke in 1367 to John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster.
		Henry Beaufort was the grandson of King Edward III, being second son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by his mistress, Catherine Roet, the wife of Sir Hugh Swynford.
		Henry de Beaufort, I., Was made Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, Bishop of Lincoln 1397, Bishop of Winchester 1405, Cardinal of St. Eusebius 1426.
	members.aol.com /montaukiowa/royals.htm (3654 words)

	Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (November 26 (probable), 1401 - November 25, 1418) was the eldest son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and the grandson of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.
		Henry succeeded his father as Earl of Somerset on March 16, 1410.
		He never married, and was himself succeeded by his younger brother, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Beaufort,_2nd_Earl_of_Somerset (101 words)

	Britannia Biographies: Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester & Chancellor of England
		A dispute over the estate of Henry Beaufort's elder brother, the Marquis of Dorset, widened the breach between the two factions and, when, in 1411, the Prince of Wales suggested that his father abdicate in his favour, both he and Henry were dismissed from the Royal Council.
		Henry did not push the matter, but his opponents did not relent and, in 1429, there was a concerted, though unsuccessful, effort to deprive him of his bishopric.
		Henry raised a large number of troops to set out for Bohemia but, with the imminent end to his legateship, he was persuaded to send them to France to relieve the recent English disasters of the Hundred Years War.
	www.britannia.com /bios/hbeaufrt.html (1076 words)

	Early Years
		Margaret's great-uncle was Henry Beaufort, the great bishop and cardinal, who was a pillar of the House of Lancaster for more than forty years, and one of the chief rulers of England during the long minority of Henry VI.
		Her aunt, Jane Beaufort, was the heroine of a romantic marriage with King James I of Scotland, and the subject of The Kiugis Quair.
		The powerful party of the Beauforts, which included the Earl of Suffolk, put forward the idea that peace might be made with France; the rivalry of this party with that of the Dukes of York and Gloucester was the seed from which grew the devastating feuds known as the 'Wars of the Roses'.
	tudorhistory.org /secondary/beaufort/c1.html (1696 words)

	Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beaufort was made cardinal of St. Eusebius and papal legate in 1426, a move for which he was continually attacked by his uncle, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, who criticized him for simultaneously holding high positions in church and state.
		Henry succeeded his father, Henry V, on Sept. 1, 1422, and on the death (Oct. 21, 1422) of his maternal grandfather, the French king Charles VI, Henry was proclaimed king of France in accordance with the terms of a treaty made after Henry V's French victories.
		Henry had a period of insanity (July 1453—December 1454), during which York was lord protector, but his hopes of ultimately succeeding Henry were shattered by the birth of Edward, prince of Wales, on Oct. 13, 1453.
	www.livelyroots.com /kings/d15.htm (1747 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg25 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Henry BEAUFORT 3rd Duke was born 1436 and died 15 May 1464.
		Eleanor BEAUFORT was born 1431 and died 16 Aug 1501.
		Thomas BEAUFORT was born 1442 in Of London, Middlesex.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg25.htm (713 words)

	Beaufort, Henry on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was declared legitimate (1397) and made bishop of Lincoln (1398) by Richard II, and under Henry IV served as chancellor (1403-4) and became (1404) bishop of Winchester.
		Beaufort's enormous wealth (he loaned money to the government for the war in France) and political skill gave him the advantage, and he served again as chancellor (1424-26).
		Enterasys assists in the dawning of "a new era of education"; Enterasys Networks assists Henry Beaufort School to gain specialist school status.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/beaufrth1.asp (512 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With B
		Henry's return to sanity swung the balance of power back to favour the Duke of Somerset and he was quickly restored to his former position of Captain of Calais.
		Henry II, had the castle at Orford, in Norfolk built between 1166 and 1172, to counter the threats of Hugh Bigod and to confront his castle fortress at Framlingham.
		Henry was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprb.htm (2943 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry Beaufort Plantaganet
		He attended the Council of Constance (1417), and it was due to him that the Emperor Sigismund in alliance with Henry V withdrew his opposition to the plan of electing a new pope before measures for Church reform had been taken.
		On Henry's death he was left guardian of the infant Henry VI and again acted as chancellor (1424-26).
		Radford, Henry Beaufort, bishop, chancellor, cardinal (London, 1908); Lingard, History of England, IV (London 1883); Gregorovius, History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Hamilton's tr.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12148a.htm (324 words)

	Numbering Systems
		Prince Henry was the eldest son of Henry IV.
		Beaufort is the one who actually saw to the youngster's education with the result that Henry V was the first English king who was literate in his own language.
		By then Henry IV was already failing and the Prince began to assert himself in the English government.
	www.wesoomi.com /evoluton/he097.html (816 words)

	My Family
		Henry BEAUFORT (Bishop of Winchester) was born about 1377 in (probably) England.
		Henry BEAUFORT (Earl Sommerset) was born in 1401.
		Margaret of Richmond BEAUFORT (Countess) was born in 1433 in England.
	sneakers.pair.com /roots/b31.htm (470 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10198
		Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Roët.
		Henry de Beaufort was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Roët.
		Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset was the son of Sir John de Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret de Holand.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10198.htm (3361 words)

	Henry Beaufort
		Henry V, king of England: Early Life - Early Life Henry was probably brought up under the care of his uncle, Henry Beaufort.
		Henry VI, king of England: Reign - Reign Early Years The only son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, he became king of England when...
		Henry V, king of England: Reign - Reign Upon his accession to the throne, Henry dismissed the incumbent ministers and made Henry...
	www.factmonster.com /ce5/CE005070.html (342 words)

	Britannia Biographies: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
		The Countess of Richmond and Derby, commonly called Lady Margaret Beaufort, was the daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (son of John of Gaunt by Catherine Swynford), and his wife, Margaret Beauchamp.
		Henry VI always looked upon the Beauforts as possible heirs and, in 1455, married the twelve-year-old Margaret to his own maternal half-brother, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (then aged twenty-five).
		She, soon afterward, married Henry Stafford, the second son of the Duke of Buckingham, and submitted to the Yorkist rule; but, after the Battle of Tewkesbury, she was obliged to send her son, Henry, now the sole hope of the Lancastrian cause, to seek refuge in Brittany.
	www.britannia.com /bios/ladies/mbeaufort.html (429 words)

	Family Tree for Shakespeare's History Plays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry V looks a genealogical chart even more complicated than this one and decides that he has a more legitimate claim to the throne of France than its current king has.
		Henry V then dies of dysentary while his and Katherine's son, Henry VI, is still a small child.
		Henry VIII needs to produce a child that everyone will recognize and respect as a legitimate heir, or all the conflicts that his father finally ended might start up again.
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	Articles - Duke of Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Beaufort (1371/1373-1410) was the eldest son from John of Gaunt's marriage to Katherine Swynford.
		In 1499 Henry VII nominated his infant son Edmund to the dukedom of Somerset at his baptism, but the child, just over a year old when he died, was probably never formally created a peer.
		The illegitimate son of Henry VIII, Henry Fitzroy (1519-1536) was created Earl of Nottingham, and Duke of Richmond and Somerset on 18 June 1525.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Earl_of_Somerset (2089 words)

	Beaufort, Henry -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		His father, Edmund Tudor, was the son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, the widow of Henry V, and thus a half brother of King Henry VI (see Tudor, House of).
		Henry VII, who came to the throne in 1485, was the first Tudor monarch.
		One of the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry was responsible for numerous inventions and discovered several major principles of electromagnetism, including the oscillatory nature of electric discharge and self-inductance, an important phenomenon in electronic circuitry.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9013984?tocId=9013984 (830 words)

	Beaufort -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		city, seat of Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated on Port Royal, one of the Sea Islands, and on the Intracoastal Waterway.
		Northwest Territories, Canada, created in 1970s by territorial government; extends from Wrigley to Mackenzie River delta in Beaufort Sea of Arctic Ocean; Inuvik town is regional headquarters; fur trapping, whaling, petroleum, natural gas; town was planned as model community; is base for trappers, walrus hunters, and sealers, as well as for Eskimo...
		Robert Smalls was born on April 5, 1839, in Beaufort, S.C. He was born a slave and was sent into service in the Confederate navy during the American Civil War and assigned to a frigate in Charleston harbor.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9013981?tocId=9013981 (807 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 26
		Henry was the last of the house of Lancaster.
		In 1464 Henry was captured an imprisoned in the Tower of London.
		Henry founded Eton College and King's College, University of Cambridge, was venerated by many as a saint because of his piety.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r26.html (698 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - Henry VI, Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Henry V of England has died, and a young Henry VI ascends to the throne.
		Talbot, upon hearing of Burgundy's defection, marches his army against him, and Henry appoints Richard and the Duke of Somerset to reinforce Talbot in the battle.
		In the meantime, Gloucester is trying to set up a match between Henry and the daughter of a French lord in order to force a peace between France and England.
	www.bardweb.net /plays/24.html (414 words)

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