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 172 SOM ERSET. in 1463.( a ) He, however, again joined the Lancastrian side^ 1 ') when it appeared likely to prevail, but was taken prisoner by the Yorkists and beheaded near Hexham, 3 April(°; 1164, aged about 2S. He d. umn.( d ) In the pari, that met 29 April 1464, next after his death, the Act of Restitution was declared null aud void, so that all hii honours were :igaiu aud finally forfeited. Tiik Lonn Edmund Beaufort, his next br. ami h., is often considered to have sue. his brother iu 1 104 as DUKE OK SOMERSET, &e, and was doubtless so styled by the Lancastrian party. He was 6. about 1438, and was many years (with his br. John] an exile in France. As to the statement that be attended the pari, of 49 Hen. VI, bis name does nut appear among thuse who were so summoned, while as to his having been restored to his brother's honours it is "erroneous ; no notice of such restoration appears on the rolls of Pari., and in the act which rendered null and void the Act of Restitution in favour of his [eldest] brother, both he and his brother John are adjudged guilty of high treason and attainted iu default of appearing to proclamation before (be ensuing Batter. In a proclamation of the King, dat. 27 April 1 171. be is spoken of as Edmund Beaufort, calling him- self Hide of Somerset." [Court/tope]. He was in command at the buttle of Burnet, aud a few months later at that of Tewkesbury, the loss of which was greatly owing to his defection. He lied from the field but was captured and beheaded, tj May 1471, aged about •'!■'!. He d. num. and was bur. at Tewkesbury Abbey. With him the house of Beaufort and all honours to which they were entitled (which had already been forfeited by attainder) became extinct.^) Dukedom. /, The Lord Edmund Tudor, 3rd s. of Henry VII, by IV 149°> Elizabeth, da. of Edward IV, was b. 10 Feb. 1498/9, at Greenwich and bap at the church of the Grey Friars there on the 24th, being nominated DUKE OF SOMERSET. He d. a few months subsequently at Bishops Hatfield, Herts, and was bur. at Westm. Abbey, when lite title (if, indeed, it was evert 1 ) created) became extinct. V. 152?, Henry Fitzroy, illegit. s. of Henry VIII., ! >- iboui to 1519, was cr. 18 June 1525, KARL OF NOTTINGHAM and DUKE 1 536. OF RICHMOND AND SOMERSET, with precedence above all Dukes save those of the King's lawful issue. He d. s.p. 22 July 1536, aged 17, when all kit honours became extinct. See fuller particulars of him under " Richmond." (•) "Rolls of Pari., vol. v, p. 511." [C'ourthope.] (>>) " He most disloyally fell from King Henry VI to Edward of York, who then had gotten the Crowne, but when King Henry had obtained succour of the Scots, and was entred the Bishopricke of Durham, this Duke Henry revolted from Edward, and came to King Heury again." [Vincent's " Brooke]. He appears, indeed, to have been peculiarly treacherous, even for those times, and to have richly deserved his fate. (°))The date, S April, is found by the jury to be that of his death, aud is insisted upon by Vincent, but the battle of Hexham was not fought till 15 May 1464. ('*) By " hi8 concubine," Joau Hill, he left an illegit. son called Charles Somerset, cr.Mu 1514 Earl of Worcester, who is the direct ancestor of the existing Earls and Marquesses* of Worcester, Dukes of Beaufort, whose ducal title of Beaufort, their suriuwichemg Soma set, thus illustrates their direct (tho' bastard) descent from tow house of Beaufort, Dukes of Somerset. (°) His yst. and only surv. br., Lord John Beaufort was Blain shortly before hun in fight at the battle of Tewkesbury, 9 May 1471. This John also d. uuui. (') No enrolment of a patent of such creation is to be found,