1st Duke of York Edmund of Langely

1341 - 1402  (61 years)

• Name	Edmund of Langely
  Title	1st Duke of York
  Birth	5 Jun 1341	Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Aug 1402	Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
  Person ID	I36905	Master
  Last Modified	28 May 2019

  
  

  Father	Edward III Plantagenet,   b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England d. 21 Jun 1377, Sheen Palace, Richmond, London, England (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Phillipe de Hainault,   b. 24 Jun 1310   d. 15 Aug 1369 (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F8819	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabella of Castille,   b. 1355   d. 23 Dec 1392 (Age 37 years)
  Children	+ 1. 3rd Earl of Cambridge Richard,   b. Jul 1385, Conisburgh Castle, Yorkshire, England d. 5 Aug 1415, Southampton, Hampshire, England (Age 30 years)
  Family ID	F8820	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 5 Jun 1341 - Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England Death - 1 Aug 1402 - Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, was the fourth surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. Like many medieval English princes, Edmund gained his nickname from his birthplace: Kings Langley Palace in Hertfordshire. He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, to Anne de Mortimer, great-granddaughter of Edmund's elder brother Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, that the House of York made its claim to the English throne in the Wars of the Roses. The other party in the Wars of the Roses, the incumbent House of Lancaster, was formed from descendants of Edmund's elder brother John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Edward III's third son. EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF YORK, fifth son of Edward III, was born at King's Langley in Hertfordshire on the 5th of June 1341. He accompanied his father on a campaign in France in 1359, was created Earl of Cambridge in 1362, and took part in expeditions to France and Spain, being present at the sack of Limoges in 1370. After marrying Isabella (d.1393), daughter of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile, he was appointed one of the English lieutenants in Brittany, whither he led an army in 1375. A second campaign in Brittany was followed in 1381 by an expedition under the earl's leadership to aid Ferdinand, King of Portugal, in his struggle with John I, King of Castile; but after a period of inaction Edmund was compelled to return to England as Ferdinand had concluded an independent peace with Castile. Accompanying Richard II on his march into Scotland, he was created Duke of York in August 1385, and subsequently on three occasions he acted as regent of England. In this capacity he held a parliament in 1395, and he was again serving as regent when Henry of Lancaster, afterwards Henry IV, landed in England in July 1399. After a feeble attempt to defend the interests of the absent king, York joined the victorious invader; but soon retired from public life, and, in the words of Froissart as translated by Lord Berners, "Jaye styll in his castell, and medled with nothynge of the busynesse of Englande." He died at King's Langley on the 1st of August 1402. York was a man who preferred pleasure to business, and during the critical events of his nephew's reign he was content to be guided by his more ambitious brothers, the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. His second wife was Joan, or Johanna (d.1434), daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, but his only children were two sons [see Richard of York, Earl of Cambridge] and a daughter, Constance (d.1416), by his first wife.