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- Genealogical information showed that all five living male-line relatives of Richard III were descended from Henry Somerset, the 5th Duke of Beaufort and the Y chromosome data for four out of the five male-line relatives showed a match consistent with them being related as expected.
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Professor Schürer’s genealogical research has traced a number of male descendants of Edward III. These individuals, who have asked to not be publicly identified, are descendants of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803) who was 15 generations removed from Edward III by an all-male line.
Dec 2, 2014 · The finding means that at some point between Richard III and Henry, Somerset, the 5th Duke of Beaufort (who lived between 1744 and 1803) and whose living descendants provided DNA for the...
The paternal side, however, demonstrated some variance from what had been expected, with the DNA showing no links between Richard and Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, a purported descendant of Richard's great-great-grandfather Edward III of England.
Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, who was the 3rd son of Edward III. With the accession of Henry Bolingbroke as Henry IV, the House of Lancaster held the throne of England for three successive generations.
Mar 26, 2015 · Richard III lived some 500 years ago and 21 generations exist between Richard and Benedict (through John of Gaunt, the shortest link between them).
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Dec 2, 2014 · Richard III and his royal rival, Henry Tudor (later Henry VII), were both descendants of King Edward III. The infidelity could, in theory, have occurred either on the branch leading back from...
Dec 2, 2014 · This could be explained by a false-paternity event in one or more of the 19 putative father–son links between Richard III and Henry Somerset, fifth Duke of Beaufort.
