Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, was an English nobleman and politician. He was the illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill.
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester holding white staff of Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King Henry VIII
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The House of Beaufort is an English noble family which originated in the fourteenth century as the legitimated issue of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, by Katherine Swynford. Gaunt and Swynford
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
…Earl of Worcester holding white staff of Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King Henry VIII Born 1460 Died 15 March 1526 (aged 65–66) Noble family Beaufort Spouses Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert Elizabeth West Eleanor Sutton Issue Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester Elizabeth Somerset Charles…
The surviving earthworks of Beaufort Castle in Montmorency Beaufort
Heraldic achievement forming the Garter stall plate of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (d.1444), KG, St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The earliest garter plate with supporters. It includes the badge of an ostrich feather, here shown as a pair, blazoned: feather argent pen componée argent and azure
Main gate of St John's College, Cambridge, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, showing many symbols of the Beaufort family, including the colours white and blue componée, the Beaufort Yale, the Forget-me-Not flower, the Beaufort Portcullis and the Marguerite or daisy flower, a personal emblem of Lady Margaret Beaufort