Elizabeth (Eleanor) SOMERSET^[1]

Abt 1459 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Elizabeth (Eleanor) SOMERSET  [2]
  Birth	Abt 1459	Raglan Castle, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Gender	Female
  _UID	AFF0E31CE2E74186B1DC96ED1342489F7A8D
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I13416	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Marriage	15 Aug 1352	Tower of London, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Family ID	F13101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roger VAUGHAN, Of Porthaml, Sir Knight,   b. Abt 1435, Porthaml, Talgarth, Breconshire, Wales d. Abt 1500, Porthaml, Talgarth, Breconshire, Wales (Age ~ 65 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1481	2ND Wife
  Children	1. Elizabeth VAUGHAN,   b. Abt 1486, Porthaml, Talgarth, Breconshire, Wales d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6837	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Elizabeth Somerset [daughter of Elizabeth Browne, d. between 20 April and 23 Oct 1565; married bef 1527, as his 2nd wife, Sir Henry Somerset, KG, Earl of Worcester, d. 26 Nov 1549, son of Charles Somerset, KG, Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Herbert); married Sir Roger Vaughan, Knight, of Talgarth and Portheme, son of Sir Roger Vaughan and Denise. [Magna Charta Sureties] Evidences to this point are adequate. Next 5 generations [starting with marriage of Elizabeth and Roger Vaughan] require further research and support. Neither Burke nor Jones says that Elizabeth Somerset married Sir Roger Vaughan, and Jones gives an entirely different wife. [Magna Charta Sureties] -------------------------------------------------- The above citation with comments from MCS indicates doubt as to this marriage, though they did publish the citation. Certainly I would agree that Roger in no way married the daughter of a 1527 marriage. However at least one source on World Connect (George F. Moyer, db=gfmjr13) has Roger's wife as Eleanor Somerset, illegitimate daughter of Sir Henry Somerset's grandfather, Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset by Joan Hill (note that Henry Somerset and Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset are similar names). The dates for this Eleanor or Elizabeth fit with her being a 2nd wife of Roger and mother of Elizabeth Vaughan, who was born about 5 years after 1st wife Jane/Joan Whitney's death. Roger seems to have been too minor of a noble to marry a Duke's legitimate daughter (or even the Earl of Worcester's legitimate daughter), but an illegitimate daughter, even of a Duke, would be more fitting.

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 32-14 (Reliability: 3). [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 90-12 (Reliability: 3).