Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester [SEP] father
Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester
Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (26 November 1549) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert. On his father's death on 15 April 1526, he succeeded as the second Earl of Worcester. From his mother, he inherited the title of Baron Herbert.
Somerset obtained Tintern Abbey after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
He married twice:
- Firstly, by papal dispensation
- John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III and father of King Henry IV of England
- John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, natural and legitimized son of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swynford
- Edmund Beaufort, 4th Earl and 2nd Duke of Somerset, fourth and youngest son of the 1st Earl
- Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, son of the 4th Earl and 2nd Duke of Somerset; his natural son was created Earl of Worcester in 1514.
Earls of Worcester (1514).