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Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460) • FamilySearch. Brief Life History of Richard. When Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York was born on 20 September 1411, in Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, England, his father, Richard of Conisbrough, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was 26 and his mother, Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge, was 22.
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Richard of York descended from Edmund of Langley, 4th son of King Edward III and his wife Isabella of Castille. Edmund was created 1st Duke of York on 6 August 1385, and had two sons: Edward of York, 2nd Duke of York, who died without issue at the 1415 Battle of Agincourt; and Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, who was executed and attai...
He was knighted on 19 May 1426, and on April 1430 was one of the party escorting King Henry VI to Paris for his coronation as King of France on November 1431. He was installed as a Knight of the Garter on 22 April 1433. At this time, John, Duke of Bedford and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the younger brothers of King Henry V, were the minor king's ...
On 22 May 1455, two armed parties encountered each other at St Albans in Hertfordshire. The larger force was headed by York and Salisbury, along with Salisbury's son Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. The smaller was headed by Somerset, although commanded by Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham; the king was present. The parties settled down to nego...
At the beginning of 1458, in a moment of relative lucidity, King Henry pressed the rival magnates to swear peace and amity, and on 25 March they all processed together to St Paul's Cathedral, enemies walking hand in hand. This forced amity, however, did not last, and by the next year the factions were again in arms. While the Yorkists under Salisbu...
There was no chance that Queen Margaret would agree to thus cutting her son out of the succession. She gathered her forces and marched north, while York and his adherents marched to meet them at his castle of Sandal, near Wakefield. He was outnumbered and no reinforcements were forthcoming. On 30 December 1460, he sortied from the castle and was cu...
The bodies of Richard Duke of York and his son Edmund Earl of Rutland were interred at the Black Friary in Pontefract, along with others of the slain from the Battle of Wakefield. In 1461, after the victory of his son Edward IV at the Battle of Towton, his head was removed from the gate to be buried with him. In 1476, the bodies of Richard and Edmu...
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Apr 26, 2022 · Birth of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. Fotheringhay Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England. Genealogy for Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411 - 1460) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
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.
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Richard of York 3rd Duke of York. Original Name. Richard Plantagenet. Birth. 21 Sep 1411. Conisbrough, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Death. 30 Dec 1460 (aged 49) Wakefield, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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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.
Jan 13, 2022 · Duke of York. (Richard, 3rd duke of York) 1411 – 1460. b. Sept. 21, 1411. d. 30 Dec, 1460, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng. Claimant to the English throne whose attempts to gain power helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455-87) between the houses of Lancaster and York; he controlled the government for brief periods during the first five ...
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