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8 unusual facts about Earl of Worcester


Earl of Worcester

The fourth creation came in 1457 in favour of John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tiptoft, a noted scholar and sometime favourite of Edward IV.

Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester

Henry Somerset, 5th Earl of Worcester, his heir and successor, who was later created the 1st Marquess of Worcester;

He was the only son of three children born to the 3rd Earl of Worcester and Christian North.

Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester

He was the son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings.

On 3 March 1628, he succeeded his father and became the 5th Earl of Worcester.

House of Beaumont

During Stephen's reign, the twins Galéran and Robert were powerful allies to the king, and as a reward Galéran (already comte de Meulan) was made Earl of Worcester.

│ ├─>Galéran IV de Meulan (1104 – 1166)

Llangynidr

The land was then in the ownership of the Earls of Worcester until the nineteenth and early twentieth century when much of Llangynidr was part of the Glanusk Park estate.


Church of St. Nicholas Within

In 1469 Edward IV gave the Earl of Worcester permission to found a chantry in honour of God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and to have masses said for the benefit of the founders and all the departed.

Cwm, Llanrothal

The Jesuits' South Wales Mission was originally based about 14 miles to the south, in Raglan, Monmouthshire, but soon after the year 1600, their Superior received from the Earl of Worcester an estate called The Cwm in the parish of Llanrothal.


see also

Charles Somerset

Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (1460 – 1526), 1st Earl of Worcester and husband of Henry VIII's mistress, Elizabeth Browne

Worcester House

Worcester Park House, a now ruined building built in 1607 for or by the 4th Earl of Worcester in Worcester Park in Surrey in the United Kingdom