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Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (21 September 1411 – 30 December 1460), also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate and claimant to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the ruling House of Plantagenet by virtue of being a direct male-line descendant of Edmund of Langley, King Edward III 's fourth ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Richard, 3rd duke of York (born Sept. 21, 1411—died Dec. 30, 1460, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng.) was a claimant to the English throne whose attempts to gain power helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York. He controlled the government for brief periods during the first five years of this ...
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Feb 15, 2020 · Richard, 3rd Duke of York (l. 1411-1460 CE) was the richest man in England and one of the nobles who sparked off the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE), a dynastic dispute that rumbled on for four decades between several English kings, queens, and barons.
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- He had royal blood. Richard had multiple connections to the English warrior-king Edward III. He was the king’s great-grandson through his father Richard, Earl of Cambridge; meanwhile through Anne de Mortimer, his mother, Richard was the great-great-great-grandson of the same king.
- He served in France during the tail-end of the Hundred Years War. In May 1436 Richard became the commander of the English forces in France at a time when England’s power in the continent was waning – the glory days of Agincourt and Verneuil seemed a distant memory.
- Richard had a famous rivalry with Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. It began when he was replaced by Somerset as commander of the English forces in France in 1445 – York had expected Henry VI’s council to reappoint him.
- He was sent to Ireland… Somerset’s surrendering of Maine proved too much for York, as soon after this event Henry VI’s council appointed him Lieutenant of Ireland, far away from the ongoing struggle for France.
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York. The House of Plantagenet. Richard Plantagenet was the only son of Richard of Conisbrough, Earl of Cambridge, himself the second son of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York and Isabella of Castille, Edmund of Langley was the fourth surviving son of King Edward III.
Oct 1, 2021 · Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, father of the Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III, is frequently mistaken for his youngest son and namesake, who went on to become King Richard III. Contemporary sources remark that the two Richards bore a strong physical resemblance to each other but, as writer Matthew Lewis argues, the similarities ...
Jul 3, 2020 · 03 Jul 2020. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, was one of the most formidable figures of the 15th century. He was a giant of English politics whose actions helped plunge his country into the bloody Wars of the Roses.
