Edmund Beaufort (died 1471) his elder brother Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, Edmund is said to have succeeded as 4th Duke by Lancastrians in February 1471, but his brother's attainder was never reversed, and his titles remained forfeit. In a proclamation dated 27 April 1471 Edmund is spoken of as "Edmund Beaufort, calling himself duke of Somerset". In October 1470 Beaufort returned from France when King Edward IV was driven from the throne after the Earl of Warwick's defection and alliance with Queen Margaret and the restoration of King Henry VI, who was the first monarch ousted by the family feud, and whom
Nicolò Malermi Nicolò Malermi Nicolò Malermi (c. 1422 – 1481) was an Italian Biblical scholar. He was the first translator of the Bible into Italian from the Latin text. Nicolò (Nicholas) Malermi (Malerba, Manerba) was born in Venice about 1422. He entered the Camaldolese Order (ca. 1470), quite late in his life, when he was 48 years old. In 1480 he was appointed abbot of St. Michele di Lemo, at Class near Ravenna. The following year he became the superior of San Mattia in Murano, near Venice. The greatest accomplishment of Malermi was in 1471 his translation of the Bible, the so-called