Genealogy Wylie » Richard Plantagenet , Earl of Cambridge [[Ch-Wikibio+++]] sss (1385-1415)

Personal data Richard Plantagenet , Earl of Cambridge [[Ch-Wikibio+++]] sss 

• Also known as 4th\1st Earl of /Cambridge/, Richard Plantagenet.
• He was born July 1385 in Conisbrough Castle, West RideYorkshire, England.Source 3
• Alternative: He was born September 1375.Sources 1, 2
• He died on August 5, 1415 in Conisbrough Castle, West RideYorkshire, England, he was 30 years old.Sources 1, 2
• He is buried in Chapel, Southampton, Hampshire, England.
• A child of Edmund of Langley Plantagenet and Isabella Perez Princess of Castile
• This information was last updated on April 2, 2023.

Household of Richard Plantagenet , Earl of Cambridge [[Ch-Wikibio+++]] sss

(1) He is married to Anne de Mortimer.

They got married on May 23, 1408 at 1st wife, he was 22 years old.Sources 2, 4

Child(ren):

1. Richard Plantagenet  1411-1460 
2. Isabel Plantagenet  1411-1484 

(2) He is married to Maud de Clifford.

They got married about 1414 at 2nd husband 2nd wife.Sources 2, 4

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Charlemagne Descendant many times over!

All descendants of Queen of England Eleanor of Aquitaine are in triple figures just through her paths (to Charlemagne), [This subject is a g...gchild and thus is in triple figures as well!]

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This Charlemagne descendant is documented on this one extended family site as among others a
20th-21st-22nd-23rd-24th-25th-26th great grandchild repeatedly so many times each uniquely
as to at least be into the triple figures as such a multi-ancestral path descendant of ,
Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor [HRE]---coronation on 25 December 800 in Rome---
with HREs so created and so serving until August 6, 1806, when the Empire was disbanded.

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Richard (2nd son, eventual heir), Earl of Cambridge, b. 1375, beheaded 5Aug 1415; m. (1) before Jun 1408 (Papal dispensation to remain inmarriage), Anne Mortimer, Countess of March; m. (2) Maud, daughter ofThomas, Lord Clifford. [Magna Charta Sureites]

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EARLDOM OF CAMBRIDGE (IV, 1)

RICHARD, styled "OF CONISBURGH," or "OF YORK" 2nd son of Edmund, DUKE OFYORK and EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, by his 1st wife, Isabel, daughter and coheirof Pedro, King of Castile and Leon, and brother to Edward, Duke of Yorkand of Cambridge, was born at Coningsburgh Castle, co. York, about 1375.King Richard lI was his godfather. Knighted 26 July 1406; Ambassador toDenmark, August to December 1406. He was, on 1 May 1414, created inParliament EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. Almoner of England, and Constable ofBrimpsfield Castle. He married 1stly (Papal dispensation to remain inmarriage contracted without consent of their parents, 10 Kal. June 1408),Anne (d), elder sister and coheir being eventually in her issue heir ofEdmund, EARL OF MARCH (who died s.p. 19 January 1424/5), daughter and inher issue coheir of Roger (DE MORTIMER), EARL OF MARCH, by Eleanor,daughter of Thomas (DE HOLAND), EARL OF KENT. He married, 2ndly, about1414, Maud, the divorced wife of John (NEVILL), 6th LORD LATIMER,daughter of Thomas (DE CLIFFORD), LORD CLIFFORD, by Elizabeth, daughterof Thomas (DE Ros), LORD Ros. Having conspired (with Scrope of Masham andGrey of Heton) to depose the King [Henry V] and set up in his room theEarl of March [the heir general of Edward III], he was executed 5 August1415, at Southampton, being buried in the chapel of "God's house" there.All his honours were consequently forfeited. His widow died s.p., 26August 1446, and was buried at the Abbey of Roche, co. York. [CompletePeerage II:494-5, XIV:136, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(d) This lady transmitted to her grandson Edward IV (who, through her washeir general of Edward III), the right to the Crown, her grandmother,Philippe, Countess of March, being only daughter and heir of Lionel, Dukeof Clarence, 2nd surviving son of Edward III.

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Earl of Cambridge; Ambassador to Denmark 1406; Almoner of England;Constable of Brimpsfield Castle; having joined in a failed conspiracy todepose King Henry V, he sought the latter's mercy in most abject terms,which gained him only a beheading without the usual additional punishmentfor treason, all his honors being attainted.

He was beheaded, in accordance with the orders of Henry V, for treasonwith the French, before the Battle of Harfleur, which was before theBattle of Agincourt. Rather smashing scene in Ken Branagh's film of"Henry V" does the burly run-up to this, with a round turn.

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The following post to SGM by Brad Verity, 25 Feb 2003, gives a new birthdate for Richard, plus interest info:

From: Brad Verity (batruth AT hotmail.com)
Subject: CP Correction: Richard of York, Earl of Cambridge
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2003-02-25 18:12:52 PST

CP has Richard 'of Conisburgh', Earl of Cambridge, the younger son ofEdmund, 1st Duke of York, born "about 1375". This never made sense tome, as Richard married the 17-year-old Anne Mortimer in early 1408, whenhe would have been about age 33, and 17 years Anne's senior. Why wouldhe wait until his early 30s to marry, then clandestinely wed a woman whowas not an heiress and brought him no lands?

Historian T.B. Pugh, in the 1986 article 'The Southampton Plot of 1415',(in R.A. Griffiths,James Sherborne (eds.), "Kings and Nobles in the LaterMiddle Ages", p. 62-89), provides the answer.

Richard was not born until July 1385, at Conisborough Castle inYorkshire. "His birth at Conisborough castle probably took place a fewdays before Richard II reached York on 20 July 1385, on his way north toinvade Scotland, and the king became godfather to Edmund of Langley'ssecond son." This makes much more sense. Richard is now a mere 5 yearsolder than his wife Anne, who, according to PA 1st Edition, was born 27Dec. 1390. Do we know the source for this birthdate of Anne? Pugh hasher aged 19 at her marriage in 1408, but that Dec. 1390 birthdate wouldmake her only 17. CP does not give a date for Anne's birth, and says herparents the Earl of March and Eleanor Holland were married "about 1388."It also explains why Richard II did nothing toward his godson and cousinRichard of York, save provide him with an annuity of f233 6s.8d., whichhe started receiving in March 1395. This was because Richard of York wasonly just age 14 in the summer of 1399 when Richard II was deposed, notage 24 as CP would have it.

Richard was significantly younger than his siblings, Edward, 2nd Duke ofYork, who was born in 1373, and Constance of York, Countess ofGloucester, who was born at some point before April 1378 (when themarriage of Thomas le Despenser was granted to Edmund 'of Langley' sothat he could marry his daughter to him), Pugh had an intriguing theoryregarding the paternity of this godson of Richard II.

"In view of the well-known liaison [between Isabel of Castile, Duchess ofYork, and John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, half-brother of Richard II],the possibility that her lover (and not the dull and negative Edmund ofLangley) was the father of the duchess's younger (and favourite) son,Richard of York, cannot be ignored. Perhaps it is significant thatEdmund, duke of York, who had become one of the greatest landowners inEngland, preferred to leave Richard II to make provision for his godson,and young Richard was not mentioned in Duke Edmund's will, made on 25November 1400."

It's an intriguing theory. Of course we know that medieval law insuredRichard of York, born during his parents' marriage, was legally the sonof his father Edmund, Duke of York -- no matter how many liaisons hismother Isabel may have had. But if the reality was privately known (orguessed) among the royal family, it may have led to a chip on Richard'sshoulder that grew into his doomed conspiracy of 1415.

Pugh apparently followed up this article with a full 1988 book entitled"Henry V and the Southampton Plot of 1415." Has anyone read the fullbook? Are there any further insights into the matter?

Cheers, ---------Brad

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