DORSET 417 EARLDOM. Thomas Beaufort, br. oi the above, being yst. . legitimated son of" John, st)-/eJ " of Gaunt," Duke of ^- ' + " Lancaster, was, 5 July 141 1, cr. EARL OK DORSET. ^° . On 18 Nov. 1416 he was cr., for life only, DUKE OF 1420. EXETER. He d. s.p., 27 Dec. 1426, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller account under Exeter, Dukedom, cr. 141 6; extinct 1426. II. 1441. I. Edmund Beaufort, Count of MARQUESSATE. ^ortain « nephew of the above being yr. s. or John, ist Marquess of Dorset II. 1443. abovenamed, was,on 28 (or i8)() Aug. 1441, cr. EARL OF DORSET « with a grant of the same place (") in Pari, as Thomas, late Duke of Exeter and Earl of Dorset had used and enjoyed. "('^) He was, on 24 June 1443, cr. MARQUESS OF DORSET. By the death" 27 May 1444, of his elder br. John, Duke of Somerset, he became EARL OF SOMERSET (as h. male of his father), and, on 31 Mar. 1448, he was cr. DUKE OF SOMERSET. Ut d. 22 May 1455, being slain at the battle of St. Albans. MARQUESSATE. III. EARLDOM III. ■^' 2. Henry (Beaufort), Duke 1455 of Somerset [1448], Marquess of Dorset [1443], Earl of Somerset [1397], and Earl of Dorset [1441], 1464. s. and h., b. 1436, attainted by the Pari, that met 4 Nov. 1 46 1 . Restored 1463,0 but the restoration being declared void by the Pari, that met 29 Apr. 1464, the attainder of 146 1 again took effect. He was beheaded at Hexham, 15 May 1464. (') In the modern Department of La Manche, often confused with Mortagne (en-Perche). V.G. (•>) "Date ascribed in a patent of 12 Oct. 36 Hen. VI, 1457." (Courthope). f) This appears to have been the first grant of precedency embodied in a patent; an earlier instance of precedency (though not by patent) was that of the grantee's father, John Beaufort, cr. Earl of Somerset, 10 Feb. 1397, whom the King "made sit in his place in Pari, between the Earls Marshal [Arundel] and Warwick " {Pari. Rolls, vol. iii, p. 343), and consequently above the Earls of Devon, Oxford, Salisbury, Stafford, Derby, and Huntingdon. See vol. i. Appendix C, for some account ot " Precedency of Peers in Pari, by Royal warrant." (d) Chartir Roll, 20 Hen. VI, no. 3. V.G. (') This was the third Marquessate ever bestowed. See vol. v, AppenJix H. Pan. Rolls, vol. v, p. 51 I. V.G. S3
