William Somerset (abt. 1575 - bef. 1598)

Ancestors

William Somerset was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

William Somerset (d.v.p; s.p), was the eldest son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Hastings, and was born about 1575-76 in county Hereford. He was known as Lord Herbert from 1589 , once his father succeeded as the 4th Earl.

He matriculated at Magdalene College, Oxford 27 June 1591, aged 15 and was possibly knighted by the Earl of Essex at Cadiz 27 June 1596. He died unmarried^[1] shortly before 21 January 1597/98.

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, p. 856, note i, has that in April 1597 the daughter of Sir William Herbert of St Julian refused him, and in June 1597, Elizabeth, Lady Russell, was trying to marry him to her elder daughter Bess

• Cokayne, George Edward, The complete peerage: or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, 2nd ed. revised and enlarged by Geoffrey H. White (ed.) with assistance of R.S. Lea, London: St Catherine Press, 1959, p. 856.

• Lee, S. (1898). "Somerset, Edward." DNB, 53, pp. 231-232. NY: MacMillan. Google Books.[1]