Beaufort, Edmund

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see Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke of.

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Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2d duke Of - d. 1455, English statesman and general. He fought in France in the Hundred Years War, receiving his first command in 1431, recapturing Harfleur in 1440, and relieving Calais in 1442. For this last fea...