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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. [1] He was (as he styled himself) "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England, the brother of Henry V, and the uncle of Henry VI.
Humphrey Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester (born 1391—died Feb. 23, 1447, London, Eng.) was an English nobleman who was the first notable patron of England’s humanists. He became known as the “good Duke Humphrey,” but many historians, pointing to his unprincipled and inept political dealings, have questioned the appropriateness of the title.
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When Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester arrived, he was commanded to stay at St Saviours Hospital. Here he was arrested on Suffolk’s orders. The charges that were to be brought against Humphrey are presumed to have been those of treason.
An alphabetical listing based on Anstey was prepared by H. H. E. Craster, 'Index to Duke Humphrey's Gifts to the Old Library of the University in 1439, 1441, and 1444', Bodleian Quarterly Record, I (I9I5), 131-135, which has served as my guide. Bruni, plus new copies of Cicero, Livy, Caesar, Aulus Gellius, Varro, and other ancient authors who ...
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, has long been recognized as the leading patron of the new learning in England in the fifteenth century. His collection has been called ‘ … the most important in England at his time.
1937 DUKE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER Kymer, who was Gloucester's physician and confidential assis-tant, and who was one of the two men who acted for Gloucester in the presentation of 129 volumes to Oxford in 1439, copied his master's motto. It should be added that the script of the motto and of the name in Urb. 694 agrees exactly with that of Humphrey
Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. He was "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England, the brother of Henry V, and the uncle of Henry VI. Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years' War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew. A controversial figure, he has ...
