Edmund of Langley, like so many medieval …
Years: 1406 - 1406
Edmund of Langley, like so many medieval princes, had gained his identifying nickname from his birthplace: Kings Langley in Hertfordshire.
The fifth son of Edward III, he had been created Earl of Cambridge at twenty-one; twenty-four years later, in 1385, Edmund had been created Duke of York.
He had died at sixty-three on August 1, 1402; his dukedom has passed to his eldest son, Edward.
Edmund is thus the founder of the House of York, but it is through the marriage of his younger son, Richard, to his cousin Anne Mortimer, whose family is descended from Lionel of Antwerp, duke of Clarence, Edward's third son, that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses is to make its claim on the English throne.
A papal dispensation is dated for May 28, 1406, making it most likely that the marriage occurs in May or June.
Their marriage will produce a daughter, Isabel Plantagenet, and a son, Richard Plantagenet, third Duke of York; the latter will eventually lay claim to the throne, beginning the Wars of the Roses.
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