Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche

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Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (* around 1405 ; † October 3, 1431 at Louviers ), was an English military man during the Hundred Years War .

He was a member of the Beaufort family and the third son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset , and his wife, Lady Margaret Holland.

Together with his older brother, John Beaufort, 3rd Earl of Somerset , he took part in a campaign in Anjou in 1421 in the wake of his stepfather Prince Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence . Before the Battle of Baugé on March 22, 1421 Thomas became the Knights defeated . The battle ended in defeat, in which Clarence was killed and Thomas and Henry were captured. Thomas was not released until nine years later when his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort , obtained a prisoner exchange in February 1430.

After his release, Thomas stayed in Normandy and, thanks to the protection of his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort, was enfeoffed with the lands of the County of Le Perche , which was occupied by the English at that time, and from then on bore the title Count of Perche ( French comte you Perche ). He stepped into opposition to John II, Duke of Alençon , the nominal French owner of this county. At the same time, his younger brother Edmund Beaufort came into possession of the lands of County Mortain in the following period .

In August 1430 Thomas was given command of 480 English archers in support of his brother Edmund Beaufort in the fighting in Normandy. At the end of 1430 he fought in a battle near La Charité-sur-Loire . He spent the winter of 1430/31 in England . In May 1431 he joined the siege of Louviers and died there on October 3, 1431, three weeks before the city fell.

He died unmarried and childless.

literature

  • Alison Weir: Britain's Royal Families. The Complete Genealogy. The Bodley Head, London 1999, p. 104.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Gough Nichols: The Herald and Genealogist. Volume 5, Nichols & Nichols, London 1870, p. 348.
  2. ^ Rémy Ambühl: Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War. Ransom Culture in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 1139619489 , p. 151.
  3. ↑ Linda Clark: Fifteenth Century. Volume 7. Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown in the Late Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2007, ISBN 1843833336 , p. 107.
  4. ^ A b c Nathen Amin: The House of Beaufort. The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown. Amberley Publishing Limited, 2017, ISBN 1445647656 .
personal data
SURNAME Beaufort, Thomas, Count of Perche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English military during the Hundred Years War
DATE OF BIRTH around 1405
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1431
Place of death at Louviers