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Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester KG (bef. 1568 – 3 March 1628) was an English aristocrat and a favorite of Elizabeth I. He was an important advisor to King James I, serving as Lord Privy Seal.
Parents
He was the only son of three children born to the 3rd Earl of Worcester and Christian, daughter of Edward, 1st Baron North.
On February 21/22, 1588/9, he succeeded his father as Earl of Worcester, and on 23 April 1593 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Birth
Born: About 1553 (age 36 in 1589).
Marriage
He married Elizabeth Hastings (d. 21 Aug 1621),[1] fourth daughter of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole. Catherine was a daughter of Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu and Jane Neville. Jane was a daughter of George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny and Margaret Fenne.
Edward and Elizabeth had fifteen children, including:
William (d.v.p; s.p)
Henry, 5th Earl of Worcester, heir and successor, created the 1st Marquess of Worcester;
Thomas (1579-1649), created 1st Viscount Somerset of Cashel, co. Tipperary[2] on December 8, 1626. in 1616 he became the third husband of Helen Barry. They had one daughter: Elizabeth, who might have died young but it's uncertain.
m. (11 Aug 1595) Sir Edward Wynter (Winter) of Lydney, Gloucestershire (c.1560-1619)[5]
Occupation
In 1606 Edward was appointed Keeper of the Great Park, which was designed for hunting by Henry VIII around Nonsuch Palace, of which Worcester Park was a part. The residence Worcester Park House was built in 1607.
↑ "Winter of Lydney." Visitation of the County of Gloucester 1682-3, pp. 206. FamilySearch. eBook. PDF.[1];
Wynter, Edward (c.1560-1619), of Lydney, Glos. HOP. Web.[2]
Lee, S. (1898). "Somerset, Edward." DNB, 53, pp. 231-232. NY: MacMillan. Google Books.[3]
Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013 (volume III, page 373; volume IV, pages 658-661). For more information about this reference, see WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
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Edward Somerset is in a prospective trail from Gateway ancestor Maria Johanna Somerset to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy. I am therefore adopting the profile on behalf of the Magna Carta Project. Any queries, please get in touch. I will also be correcting the Last Name at Birth to Somerset.
As noted in the comment of 30 July 2019, this profile needs work.
The Protecting Project has some work to do here, it seems. For a start, why has he an imaginary last name, which has been perpetuated among some but not all of his children? What is the source for doubtful date and place of birth? Why is there a spurious place of death? Couldn't we have a coherent biography, rather than often unsourced scraps?
Liz was not querying the birth date, though the previous comment did. Writing a good, well-sourced bio will get picked up by the Magna Carta Project at some point, now the Project has become a manager, if nobody sees to it earlier.
As noted in the comment of 30 July 2019, this profile needs work.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Somerset,_Edward_(1553-1628)_(DNB00)
Raglan, Wales was a principle holding of his father and of himself. It is a reasonable place of birth for something which is otherwise unknowable.
A coherent biography would be nice. Would you like to write one?
edited by Michael Cayley