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The Castle Inn, St Albans and Edmund Beaufort blue plaque

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The Castle Inn, St Albans and Edmund Beaufort blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: On This Site Stood The Castle Inn Before Which Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke Of Somerset Was Slain During The 1st Battle Of St Albans 22nd May 1455 Recorded plaque organisation: St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society.
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, was a prominent English nobleman and military leader whose death at the Castle Inn during the first Battle of St Albans marked an early significant event in the Wars of the Roses.

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