BEAUFORD, Earl Thomas

1405 - 1431  (26 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	BEAUFORD, Thomas
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	1405	Westminster, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Oct 1431	Louviers-Nord, Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France
  WAC	22 Feb 1939	MANTI
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  Person ID	I49347	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	BEAUFORD, Knight John ,   b. Abt 1371, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France Meurthe-et-Moselle, Franced. 16 Mar 1409, London, Middlesex, England (Age 38 years)
  Mother	HOLLAND, Dutchess Margaret de ,   b. 1370, Lancashire, England Lancashire, Englandd. 30 Dec 1439, Bermondsey, Surrey, England (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	Bef 28 Sep 1397	Lancashire, England
  Family ID	F23278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (c. 1405 – 3 October 1431) was a member of the Beaufort family and an English commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the third son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Margaret Holland. With his elder brother, Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset, Thomas joined in Henry V's 1419 campaigns in France. In 1421, he accompanied the king's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster to the fighting in Anjou. Lancaster was killed at the Battle of Baugé while Somerset and Thomas were captured. Thomas was eventually released around 1427 in a prisoner exchange negotiated by his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort. As an able male member of the Beaufort family, Thomas rejoined the fighting almost immediately. He was granted the title Count of Perche in December 1427, his title being more a claim to land, rather than a recognized title since it was already held by the French Duke John II of Alençon. This was part of a continuing attempt by Cardinal Beaufort to carve out estates for his nephews from conquered French land. During the 1430 royal coronation expedition of Henry VI, Thomas was granted a retinue of 128 soldiers and 460 archers. He commanded soldiers at a battle at La Charité-sur-Loire in late 1430 and died 3 October 1431 at the siege of Louviers, three weeks before the city's fall. Perche died unmarried and childless. Upon his death, his title was extinct.