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JOHN BEAUFORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BEAUFORT  ,
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earl of Somerset (c . 1373-1410), assisted Richard II. in 1397 when the king attacked the lords appellants, and made himself an absolute ruler . For these services he was made marquess of Dorset, but after the deposition of Richard in 1399, he was degraded to his former rank as earl . In 1401, however, he was declared loyal, and appeared later in command of the
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fleet . He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Holland, second earl of Kent, and died in March 1410, leaving three sons, Henry, John, and Edmund, and two daughters, Jane or
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Joan, who married James I., king of Scotland, and Margaret, who married Thomas Courtenay, earl of Devon .

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