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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKE OF EDMUND BEAUFORT SOMERSET (c. 1404–1455)  , was the younger son of John,
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earl of Somerset, and grandson of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster . He was taken prisoner at Bauge in 1421 during his first
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campaign, and did not return to England till 1431 . He was then styled earl of
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Mortain, and in 1432 was one of the envoys to the council of Basel . In 1436 he served at the
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relief of
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Calais, two years later he commanded with some success in Maine, and in 1440 recovered
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Harfleur . Next
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year he was made earl, and in 1443 marquess of Dorset . In 1444 on the
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death of his elder
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brother he became duke of Somerset .

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