Question: Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset was a commander during which wars to control the throne of England between 1455-1487?
Context: Baron Raglan, of Raglan in the County of Monmouth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.  It was created in 1852 for the military commander Lord FitzRoy Somerset, chiefly remembered as commander of the British troops during the Crimean War.  Somerset was the youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (see Duke of Beaufort for earlier history of the family).  His second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.  He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron.  He held office as Under-Secretary of State for War between 1900 and 1902 in the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury.  His eldest son, the fourth Baron, was a soldier and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.  The fifth Baron was active in the House of Lords but lost his seat in the upper chamber of parliament after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.  s of 2012 the title is held by the fourth Baron's third but second surviving son, the sixth Baron, who succeeded in 2010.  As a descendant of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, Lord Raglan is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles. Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, (c. 1460 – 15 March 1526) was an English nobleman and politician.  He was the legitimised bastard son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill. Henry Somerset-Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (23 March 1707 – 26 February 1745) born Henry Somerset, was an English nobleman and peer.  He was the elder son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort and his second wife, Rachel Noel.  As his father's eldest son and heir to his father's title he was known as (styled) Marquess of Worcester, a courtesy title.  On his father's death on 24 April 1714 he succeeded him and became 3rd Duke of Beaufort. Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (26 January 1436 – 15 May 1464) was an important Lancastrian military commander during the English Wars of the Roses.  He is sometimes numbered the 2nd Duke of Somerset, because the title was re-created for his father after his uncle died.  He also held the subsidiary titles of 5th Earl of Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and 2nd Earl of Dorset. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG (1406 – 22 May 1455), sometimes styled 1st Duke of Somerset, was an English nobleman and an important figure in the Wars of the Roses and in the Hundred Years' War.  He also succeeded in the title of 4th Earl of Somerset and was created 1st Earl of Dorset and 1st Marquess of Dorset (previously held by his father and later forfeited), and Count of Mortain.  He was known for his deadly rivalry with Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York. Frances Scudamore, Duchess of Beaufort (1711–1750) was a noblewoman and heiress of questionable reputation.  The only child of James Scudamore, 3rd Viscount Scudamore, she was his sole heir upon his death in 1716.  Her mother, Frances "née" Digby, had introduced the family to Alexander Pope.  Frances married, on 28 June 1729, Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, who the following year took the surname Scudamore by Act of Parliament.  The marriage was not a happy one, leading the Duchess to have an affair with William Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot.  In 1742, the Duke filed for divorce due to this affair; the Duchess countersued, claiming that the Duke was impotent.  When the Duke disproved her claim before court-appointed examiners, the divorce was granted in March 1743, followed by the Duke suing Lord Talbot for damages. Lady Eleanor Beaufort (1431 – 16 August 1501) was the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406-1455), KG, and was a sister of the 3rd and 4th Dukes of Somerset. Field Marshal Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Aubigny, (22 February 1735 – 29 December 1806), styled Earl of March until 1750, was a British Army officer and politician.  He associated with the Rockingham Whigs and rose to hold the post of Southern Secretary for a brief period.  He was noteworthy for his support for the colonists during the American Revolutionary War, his support for a policy of concession in Ireland and his advanced views on the issue of parliamentary reform.  He went on to be a reforming Master-General of the Ordnance first in the Rockingham ministry and then in the ministry of William Pitt. The Wars of the Roses were a series of wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster (associated with a red rose), and the House of York (whose symbol was a white rose).  The conflict lasted through many sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487; however, there was fighting before and after this period between the houses.  The power struggle ignited around social and financial troubles following the Hundred Years' War, combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry VI which revived interest in Richard of York's claim to the throne.  Historians disagree about whether the Wars of the Roses were caused by the structural problems of feudalism or Henry VI's ineffectiveness as king. Duke of Beaufort, a title in the Peerage of England, was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, legitimized son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the Roses.  The name "Beaufort" refers to a castle in Champagne, France (now Montmorency-Beaufort).  It is the only current dukedom to take its name from a place outside the British Isles.
Answer: Wars of the Roses