Henry BEAUFORT

1436 - 1464  (28 years)

• Name	Henry BEAUFORT  [1, 2]
  	He was with his father at the 1st Battle of St. Albans, at which he was severely wounded, on 22 May 1455. He commanded the victorious Lancastrian army at the Battle f Wakefield on 30 Dec 1469, and defeated the Yorkists at the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb 1460/1. After defeat at the Battle of Towton on 29 Mar 1461, he fled to Scotland; attained, 1461 and all honours forfeited; pardoned 10 Mar 1462/3 but at end of 1463 deserted King Edward IV, and fled to Alnwick; defeated and captured at the Battle of Hexham. Henry Beaufort was beheaded by the Yorkists at Hexham on the same day 15 May 1464, unmarried and was buried Hexham Abbey. [1]
  Birth	26 Jan 1436  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	2nd Duke of Somerset   [1]
  Death	15 May 1464	Killed - Battle of Hexham   [2]
  Burial	Hexham Abbey   [2]
  Person ID	I04701	Main Tree
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Edmund BEAUFORT,   b. Abt 1406, Westminster, England d. 22 May 1455, Killed - First Battle of St. Albans (Age 49 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Alianor DE BEAUCHAMP,   b. Sep 1407, Edgenoch, Warwick, England d. 06 Mar 14667, Baynard's Castle, London (Age 325 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	1436  [1, 3]
  Family ID	F03098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane HILL
  Children	+ 1. Charles SOMERSET, Knt.,   b. Abt 1460   d. 15 Apr 1526 (Age 66 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F09829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 15 May 1464 - Killed - Battle of Hexham Burial - - Hexham Abbey  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.