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   Edward VI of England

   They made clear that the Protector's power came from them, not from Henry VIII's will. ... ↑ Somerset 1997, p. 101
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   Henry VIII of England

   ohn Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset | | ... Illustrated history of Henry VIII.
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   Earl of Pembroke

   On 1 September 1533 King Henry VIII created his queen Anne Boleyn Marchioness of Pembroke in her own right, a signal honour, because his great-uncle Jasper Tudor had been the Earl of Pembroke, and because Henry's own father, Henry VII, had been born there. ... He threw in his lot with Dudley, and after Somerset's fall obtained some of his lands in Wiltshire and a peerage.
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   Duke of Somerset

   The illegitimate son of Henry VIII, Henry Fitzroy (1519-1536) was created Earl of Nottingham, and Duke of Richmond and Somerset on 18 June 1525.
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   The Rough Wooing

   Hertford, the new king's uncle, was created Duke of Somerset and named as Protector of England. ... Head, D. M. Henry VIII's Scottish Policy: a Reassessment, in the Scottish Historical Review, vol. 61, 1981-2.
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   Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset

   He was known as Lord Henry Fitzroy until 18 June 1525, when his father created him Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset. ... Henry VIII's children
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   Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex

   He was a second cousin to among others Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Arthur, Prince of Wales, Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII of England, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Tudor, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Katherine Tudor, Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, Margaret Courtenay and Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester. ... His second cousin Henry VIII created him was a Knight of the Garter in 1554, alongside the later Philip II of Spain, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy and William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.
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   Tudor dynasty

   | Henry VIII | ... Although Henry had specified a group of men to act as regents during Edward's minority, Edward Seymour, Edward's uncle, quickly seized complete control, and created himself Duke of Somerset on February 15 1547.
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   William Petre

   Secretary of State to Henry VIII ... The fourth is part of the National Portrait Gallery collection at Montacute House in Somerset.
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    Bath, Somerset

    The new church was completed just a few years before Bath Priory was dissolved in 1539 by Henry VIII. ... Historically part of the county of Somerset, Bath was made a county borough in 1889 and hence independent of the newly created administrative Somerset county council.

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