The title Marquess of Dorset has been created three times in the Peerage of England. It was first created in 1397 for John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, but he lost the title two years later. It was then created in 1442 for Edmund Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset, who was created Duke of Somerset in 1448. That creation was attainted in 1463. It was created a third time in 1475 for Thomas Grey, 1st Earl of Huntingdon. That creation was attainted in 1554.
Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of Thomas Hardy and...
Dorset (not Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England.
Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of Thomas Hardy and many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset.
A woman with the rank of marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness.
On the 13 October 1386 the patent of this marquessate was recalled, Robert de Vere as was raised to Duke of Oxford.
John de Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, the second legitimate son of John of Gaunt, was raised to the second marquessate as Marquess of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset on in September 1397.
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