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MARGARET BEAUFORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGARET BEAUFORT  married Humphrey,
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earl of Stafford, and was the
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mother of Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham . Henry Beaufort, third duke of Somerset (d . 1464),
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left an illegitimate son, Charles Somerset, who was created earl of Worcester by Henry VIII. in 1514 . His
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direct descendant, Henry Somerset, fifth earl of Worcester, was a loyal partisan of Charles I. and in 1642 was created marquess of Worcester . His grandson, Henry, the third marquess, was made duke of Beaufort in 1682, and the
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present duke of Beaufort is his direct descendant . See Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana, edited by H . T . Riley (
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London, 1863–1864) ; W . Stubbs, Constitutional
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History of England, vols. ii. and iii . (Oxford, 1895) ; The Paston Letters, edited by James Gairdner (London, 1904) .

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