From the genealogical history of that house we collect the following particulars:--The Sir Charles here named was a natural son of Henry, third Duke of Beaumont, famous in his day for his desperate assault of the Castle of <g>St. Anjou</g>, in which he put three hundred Scots to the sword, and hanged all the Frenchmen therein. He was afterwards Governor of the Isle of Wight, and of Calais; was finally taken prisoner at the battle of Hexham, and there beheaded by <g>Nevil</g> for his adherence to the house of Lancaster. At his death his son <g>Charles</g> assumed the name of Somerset, and being a person of abilities attained to great wealth and honours under Henry VII.,[205] who entered him of his Privy Council, made him Constable of Helmsley Castle, Admiral of the Fleet, sent him as ambassador with the Order of the Garter to the Emperor Maximilian, made him a Banneret, Knight of the Garter, and Captain of the Royal Guard. On a second embassy to Maximilian, he concluded two treaties--gave a bond for the payment of £10,000 in aid of the Emperor against the Turks, and in support of the Christian religion. Living in high favour with his sovereign, his good fortune was established by his marriage with <g>Elizabeth</g>, heiress of William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon, in whose right, in 1506, he bore the title of Lord <g>Herbert of Raglan</g>. On the accession of Henry VIII. he continued in the same high offices; and having, with six thousand men, attended the king into France, in 1513, he was present at the taking of Therrouenne and Tournay. For his heroic conduct in this campaign, he received the office of Lord Chamberlain for life; and finally, on account of his descent from <g>John of Gaunt</g>, and alliance to the king by blood, he was advanced the following year[206] to the dignity of Earl of Worcester. By his will, dated March 24, 1524, he ordered his body to be buried beside that of his first wife in the chapel of <g>Our Lady</g>, now called Beaufort Chapel, in the Castle of Windsor. He directed that, in case he departed this life at <g>Raibo</g>, in London, or near the river Thames, his body should be conveyed by water to the said church at Windsor, as privately as might be, without pomp or great charge of torches, or clothing, hearse, wax, or great dinner; but only that twenty men of his own servants should each have mourning and bear a torch; and that the bier, or herse, should be covered with black cloth, and have a white <g>cross</g> upon it. <g>Henry</g>, the second Earl of Worcester, who, during his father’s lifetime, had distinguished himself in the king’s service, and been knighted by Charles <g>Brandon</g>, Duke of Suffolk, was appointed one of the commissioners for concluding a peace with the French. Departing this life in 1549, he was buried in the church of Chepstow, where a costly monument--already noticed--was erected to his memory.[207]