3rd Duke of York Richard of York

1411 - 1460  (49 years)

• Name	Richard of York
  Title	3rd Duke of York
  Birth	21 Sep 1411
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Dec 1460	Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
  Person ID	I36940	Master
  Last Modified	28 May 2019

  
  

  Father	3rd Earl of Cambridge Richard,   b. Jul 1385, Conisburgh Castle, Yorkshire, England d. 5 Aug 1415, Southampton, Hampshire, England (Age 30 years)
  Mother	Anne Mortimer,   b. 27 Dec 1390   d. 22 Sep 1411 (Age 20 years)
  Family ID	F8828	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cecily Neville
  Children	+ 1. Edward IV York,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster, Middlesex, London, England (Age 40 years)  [Father: natural]   2. Richard III York,   b. 2 Oct 1452, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England d. 22 Aug 1485, Bosworth Field, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F8829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 30 Dec 1460 - Wakefield, Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (21 September 1411 – 30 December 1460), also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate, a great-grandson of King Edward III through his father, and a great-great-great-grandson of the same king through his mother. He inherited vast estates and served in various offices of state in Ireland, France, and England, a country he ultimately governed as Lord Protectorduring the madness of King Henry VI. His conflicts with Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou, and other members of Henry's court, as well as his competing claim on the throne, were a leading factor in the political upheaval of mid-fifteenth-century England, and a major cause of the Wars of the Roses. Richard eventually attempted to take the throne, but was dissuaded, although it was agreed that he would become king on Henry's death. But within a few weeks of securing this agreement, he died in battle. Two of his sons, Edward IV and Richard III, later ascended the throne.