Issue of marriage:
(
i
)
Margaret
(under
Henry VII, 
).
(c)
Thomas
He was born in 1405, and was called Earl of Perche, although there is no record of any formal creation. He died unmarried in 1432.
(d)
Edmund
He was born in
c.
1406. He was created Count of Mortain on 22 April, 1427, and made a Knight of the Garter before 5 May, 1436. He was styled Earl of Dorset from 1438, and formally created so on 18 or 28 August, 1442. He was created Marquess of Dorset on 24 June, 1443, and succeeded his brother John as Earl of Somerset on 27 May, 1444. He was created Duke of Somerset on 31 March, 1448. He was killed on 22 May, 1455, at the Battle of St
Albans, Herts., and was buried in St Albans Abbey.
Edmund married, around 1431/5, and before 7 March, 1436 (although no record exists as to where):
Eleanor
She was the daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 5th Earl of Warwick, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, and she was born in 1407/8 at Wedgenock, Co. Warwick. She married firstly Thomas, 9th Baron de Ros (1406–1430), and had issue:
1 Thomas (1427–1461); he married Philippa, daughter of John, Baron Tiptoft, and had issue.
After the death of Edmund Beaufort, her second husband, Eleanor married thirdly Walter Rokesley. She died around 4/6 or on 12 March, 1466/8, at Baynard’s Castle, London.
Issue of marriage:
(i)
Henry
He was born on 26 January or in
c.
April, 1436, and was styled Earl of Dorset from 1448. He succeeded his father as Duke and Earl of Somerset, Marquess of Dorset and Count of Mortain on 22 May, 1455. He was attainted on 4 November, 1461, when all his honours and estates were declared forfeit, although he was restored to them all on 10 March, 1463. He was executed on 15 May, 1464, at Hexham, Northumberland, after the Battle of Hexham, and was buried either at Hexham Abbey or at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucs. He never married.
Henry had the following
illegitimate issue
:
By Joan Hill:
1 Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester (1460?–1526); he married Elizabeth (1476?–1509/13), daughter of William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon, and had issue. He married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas West, 8th Baron de la Warre, and had issue. He married thirdly Eleanor (
d.
by 1549), daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Sutton. The present Dukes of Beaufort are descended from Charles Somerset.
(ii)
Edmund
He was born in
c.
1439, and by 1440. He was styled Duke of Somerset after his father’s death in 1455, but never formally restored to the title. He was executed on 6 May, 1471, at Tewkesbury, Gloucs., after the Battle of Tewkesbury, and buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.
(iii)
John
He was killed on 4 May, 1471, at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucs., and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey.
(iv)
Thomas
He died young before 1463.
(v)
Margaret
She married firstly Humphrey Stafford (
d.
1457/8) in 1455, and had issue:
1 Henry, Duke of Buckingham (1455?–executed 1483); he married Katherine Woodville, sister of Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV, and had issue. (under Henry IV,
see here
).
2 Son.
Margaret married secondly Sir Richard Dayrell or Dayre of Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks., and had issue:
3 Margaret; she married James Touchet, Baron Audley, and had issue.
Margaret died in 1474.
(vi)
Eleanor
She married firstly James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormonde and 1st Earl of Wiltshire (
c
.1422–executed 1461), perhaps in April, 1458, at Woodsford, Dorset. She married secondly Sir Robert Spencer of Spencercombe, Devon (
d.
after 1492), in
c.
1470, and had issue:
1 Katherine (
d
.1542); she married Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (1478–1527), and had issue.
2 Margaret; she married Thomas Carey of Chilton Foliot, and had issue.
Eleanor died on 16 August, 1501.
(vii)
Elizabeth
She married Sir Henry Lewes, and had issue:
1 Mary
Elizabeth died before 1492.
(viii)
Mary or Margaret
No dates are recorded. She married a man surnamed Burgh, and had issue:
1 Thomas.
2 Edward.
(ix)
Anne
She married Sir William Paston of Norfolk (
d
.1496), and had issue:
1 William.
2 Mary (1469?–1489); she married Ralph Neville (
d
.1498).
3 Agnes. She is perhaps to be identified with Anne (
below).
4 Elizabeth; she married Sir John Saville of Thornhill, and had issue.
5 Margaret (
b.
&
d
.1474).
6 Anne; she married Sir Gilbert Talbot and had issue.
(x)
Joan
She married first Robert Howth, Lord of Howth in Ireland, and secondly Sir Richard Fry. She died after 1492.
(e)
Joan
(under
James I, King of Scotland
,
see here
).
(f)
Margaret
She married Thomas Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon (1414–1458), and had issue:
1 Thomas, 6th Earl of Devon (1432–executed 1461).
2 John, 7th Earl of Devon (1435?–executed 1471).