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Henry Somerset, was the 1st Marquess of Worcester, an English aristocrat. The son of Edward Somerset 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings. In March 1628 he became the 5th Earl of Worcester. On 16 June 1600 he married Hon. Anne Russell the daughter of John Russell and Elizabeth Cook. They had 13 children four daughters and nine sons.[1]
At the time of the Civil War, Henry Somerset was in charge of the Raglan Castle, located in Monmouthshire, Wales. The Raglan Castle was large enough to shelter as many as 150 people. It was known for "the Yellow Tower of Gwent." It projected to the front with a great hexagonal keep, five stories high, each of its sides thirty-two feet long.
On August 8, 1646, Sir Thomas Fairfax, commander of the whole Parliamentary Army, came up in person to finish matters. On August 17th after much haggling the terms of the surrender were agreed on. The Marquis was brought to London and placed under custody of Black Rod, in a private house in Covent Garden. He died there, worn out by stress and anxiety of the siege. The parliament gave him a handsome funeral at the expense of his estates.[1]
Henry Somerset passed away in 1646.[2] He is buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England.
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Hi!
I'll be adopting this profile for the Magna Carta Project. Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry, volume IV, pages 38-55 SOMERSET, includes him on the trail between surety baron Saher de Quincy and Mary Johanna Somerset. (See Somerset-14#Magna Carta Trails.
Cheers, Liz
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