. The annals of England : an epitome of English history, from co[n]temporary writers, the rolls of Parliament, and other public records. tted to the Tower ;he was soon after banished, but was beheaded at sea, by order ofthe constable of the Tower, (John Holland, duke of Exeter,) in May,1450. His son John, born in 1113, married Elizabeth, the sister ofEdward IV. p Edmund Beaufort was the grandson of John of Gaunt. Likehis brother John he was made prisoner at Beauge, but afterwardsdistinguished himself in the French defended Rouen, and captured Harfleurand Montreuil; relieved Calais when
. The annals of England : an epitome of English history, from co[n]temporary writers, the rolls of Parliament, and other public records. tted to the Tower ;he was soon after banished, but was beheaded at sea, by order ofthe constable of the Tower, (John Holland, duke of Exeter,) in May,1450. His son John, born in 1113, married Elizabeth, the sister ofEdward IV. p Edmund Beaufort was the grandson of John of Gaunt. Likehis brother John he was made prisoner at Beauge, but afterwardsdistinguished himself in the French defended Rouen, and captured Harfleurand Montreuil; relieved Calais when besieged,and also ravaged Britanny. He received insuccession the titles of earl of Moretain andPerche, earl and marquis of Dorset, and dukeof Somerset, and in 1111 was appointed regentof Normandy, in succession to the duke ofYork. He acted feebly in this capacity, andsurrendered Caen, almost without resistance,by which the province was lost. He returnedto England, and, in spite of the popular dis- Arms of,?e*e{™£\duke fcontent, on the death of the duke of Suffolkhe succeeded to his place in the favour of the queen. The duke of. 43 and in the end, though personally beloved for his piousand charitable conduct, splendid evidences of which re-main to this dayi, the meek usurper was deprived ofhis throne; he saw his friends cut off in the field or onthe scaffold; he suffered exile and a tedious imprison-ment himself, and he died at last in confinement in theTower, about the month of May, 1471. His death hasusually been ascribed to violence, but it was more pro-bably owing to grief at the capture of his wife andslaughter of his son at Tewkesbury shortly before. Hisbody was exposed in St. Pauls, and then buried withlittle ceremony at Chertsey Abbey, but by Henry removed to Windsor, and interred in St. GeorgesChapel. In 1445 Henry married Margaret of Anjou, daughterof Rene, titular king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem,but in fact a dependant on the king of France. Toobtain
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