ENGLAND, Prince Edmund b. 5 Jun 1341 King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England d. 1 Aug 1402 Langley, Hertsfordshire, England

1341 - 1402 (61 years)

Name	ENGLAND, Edmund
Prefix	Prince
Birth	5 Jun 1341	King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Christening	Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Gender	Male
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Death	1 Aug 1402	Langley, Hertsfordshire, England
Burial	2 Aug 1402	Langley, Hertfordshire, England
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Father	ENGLAND, King Edward King of England , b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor, Berkshire, England Windsor, Berkshire, Englandd. 21 Jun 1377, Richmond, Surrey, England (Age 64 years)
Mother	HAINAULT, Queen Phillipa , b. 24 Jun 1314, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium Mons, Hainaut, Belgiumd. 15 Aug 1369, Windsor, Berkshire, England (Age 55 years)
Marriage	24 Jan 1328	York, Yorkshire, England [1, 2]
Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Yorkshire, , England. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 16 Jan 1327 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 22 May 1999, LANGE.
Family ID	F16615	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	HOLLAND, Dutchess Joan de , b. 1380, Lancashire, England Lancashire, Englandd. 12 Apr 1434 (Age 54 years)
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Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

Family 2 CASTILE, Princess Isabell Perez , b. 1355, Morales de Campos, Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain Morales de Campos, Valladolid, Castile-León, Spaind. 23 Nov 1392, Castle Rising, Norfolk, England (Age 37 years)

Marriage Aft 1 Jan 1371 Holme Lacey, Hertsfordshire, England

Children

1. ENGLAND, Princess Constance , b. Abt 1374, York, Yorkshire, England

York, Yorkshire, Englandd. 28 Nov 1416, Reading, Berkshire, England

(Age 42 years)

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Last Modified 24 Jan 2022

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Edmund of Langley, Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge was born on 5 June, 1341, at at the Royal Palace of Kings Langley in Hertfordshire. He was the fourth surviving son of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, daughter of William III, 'the Good' Count of Holland and Hainaut, and Joan of Valois.

Edmund was granted the Earl of Surrey's lands north of the Trent, which lay mostly in Yorkshire, on the death of the latter. In 1359 he accompanied his father the King on an unsuccessful military expedition to France, at the age of twenty-one, King Edward created his son Earl of Cambridge.

Edmund participated in several military expeditions in France in the 1370s, In 1369 he served with John Hastings, earl of Pembroke, on campaign in Brittany and Angoulême. The next year he saw action in France again when he joined Pembroke to relieve the fortress of Belle Perche. He then accompanied his brother, Edward, the Black Prince on the campaign and was present at the siege and and merciless sack of Limoges.

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Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, 1st Earl of Cambridge, KG (5 June 1341 – 1 August 1402) was a younger son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, the fourth of this Royal couple's five sons who lived to adulthood. Like so many medieval princes, Edmund gained his identifying nickname from his birthplace of 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 Ann Mortimer, great-granddaughter of Lionel of Antwerp, Edward III's second son, that the Yorkist faction in the Wars of the Roses made its claim on the throne (the other party in the Wars of the Roses, the incumbent Lancasters, being the male descendants of his elder brother, John of Gaunt) who was Edward III's third son.On the death of his godfather, the Earl of Surrey, Edmund was granted the Earl's lands north of the Trent, primarily in Yorkshire. In 1359 he joined his father King Edward III on an unsuccessful military expedition to France and in 1361 was made a knight of the Garter. In 1362, at the age of twenty-one, he was created Earl of Cambridge by King Edward. Some argue that Edmund had little aptitude for war, but he took part in several military expeditions to France in the 1370s, and when his tomb was opened in the 1870s his skeleton showed evidence of wounds that strongly suggests his martial abilities have been under-rated. In 1369 he brought a retinue of 400 men-at-arms and 400 archers to serve with John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, on campaign in Brittany and Angoulême. The following year he first joined Pembroke again on an expedition to relieve the fortress of Belle Perche and then accompanied the Black Prince on the campaign which resulted in the siege and sack of Limoges. In 1375 he sailed with Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, to relieve Brest, but after some initial success a truce was declared.

In 1381 he led an abortive expedition to join with the Portuguese in attacking Castile, but after months of indecisiveness a peace was again declared (between Spain and Portugal) and Edmund had to lead his malcontented troops home.

He was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports on 12 June 1376 and held office until 1381. He acted as Keeper of the Realm in 1394/95 when Richard II campaigned in Ireland and presided over Parliament in 1395. He was also keeper of the realm in 1396 during the king's brief visit to France to collect his child-bride Isabella. The Duke was left as Custodian of the Realm in the summer of 1399 when Richard II departed for an extended campaign in Ireland. In late June the exiled Henry Bolingbroke landed at Bridlington in Yorkshire. He raised an army to resist Bolingbroke, then decided instead to join him, for which he was well rewarded. He thereafter remained loyal to the new Lancastrian regime as Bolingbroke overthrew Richard II to become King Henry IV.On 6 August 1385, Edmund was elevated to Duke of York[2]

Towards the end of his life, in 1399, he was appointed Warden of the West March for a short period.[3]

Edmund of Langley died in his birthplace and was buried there in the church of the mendicant friars. His dukedom passed to his eldest son, Edward.Langley's first wife, Isabella, was a daughter of King Peter of Castile and María de Padilla. They had two sons and a daughter:

Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (killed in action at the Battle of Agincourt)
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (executed for treason by Henry V), ancestor of Kings Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III of the House of York, and all succeeding monarchs of England after King Henry VII.
Constance of York (an ancestor of Queen Anne Neville)
After Isabella's death in 1392, Langley married his cousin Joan Holland, whose great-grandfather Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was the half-brother of Langley's grandfather Edward II; she and Langley were thus both descended from King Edward I. The marriage produced no children.

Langley's first wife, Infanta Isabella of Castile, was the sister of Infanta Constance of Castile, the second wife of Langley's brother John of Gaunt.

His second wife, Lady Joan Holland, a granddaughter of Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales (mother of Richard II), was the sister of Margaret Holland who married firstly to Gaunt's son John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and secondly to Thomas of Lancaster, grandson of John of Gaunt by his son King Henry IV. Another sister, Eleanor Holland was mother-in-law to Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, grandson of John of Gaunt by his daughter Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland. Yet another sister, Alianore Holland was mother to Anne de Mortimer, wife to Langley's son, Richard of Conisburgh. Another sibling of Lady Joan, Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent would father a child by Langley's daughter Constance of York; it has been claimed there was a marriage betrothal between the two, but no evidence that they were officially married.[4]Edmund, the 1st Duke of York is a major character in Shakespeare's Richard II. In the play, Edmund resigns his position as an adviser to his nephew, Richard II, but is reluctant to betray the king. He eventually agrees to side with Bolingbroke to help him regain the lands Richard confiscated after the death of Bolingbroke's father, John of Gaunt. After Bolingbroke deposes Richard and is crowned Henry IV, Edmund discovers a plot by his son, Aumerle to assassinate the new king. Edmund exposes the plot, but his wife Isabella convinces Henry to pardon her son.

Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, 1st Earl of Cambridge, Knight of the Garter, Warden of the West March. Founder of the House of York. Also known as Edmund Plantagenet

Edmund was the seventh of twelve children and fifth of seven son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, brother to Edward the Black Prince and John of Gaunt. Grandson of Edward II King of England and Isabella of France, William I Count of Hainhaut and Joan of Valois.

Edmund was the husband of Isabella, the daughter of King Petro of Castile and Maria de Padilla, and the sister of his brother, John of Gaunt's second wife. They had two sons and one daughter:
* Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
* Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, executed for treason
* Constance of York, ancestor of Queen Anne Neville, the wife of Richard II

Isabel died in 1392, Edmund married his cousin, Joan Holland. She was the granddaughter of Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales, and the great granddaughter of Edmund of Woodstock and the 1st Earl of Kent, the half brother of Edmund's grandfather, Edward II. She was also the sister of Margaret Holland who married John of Gaunt's son, John Beaufort. This marriage was intensely woven with intertwined relationships. They had no issue.

Edmund, as were his peers and siblings, was named after his birth location, Edmund was born at Langley, and became known as Edmund of Langley.

Edmund was granted the lands belonging to his godfather, Richard FitzAlan, the Earl of Surrey, at Richard's death. His father made him a Knight of the Garter in 1362, and Earl of Cambridge in 1362 at the age of twenty-one, finally becoming the Duke of York in 1385. Edmund also became the Constable of Dover Castle and the Warden of Cinque Ports, Keeper of the Realm and Custodian of the Realm.

King Richard II left England for his Irish campaign when Henry Bolingbroke landed in Yorkshire to take the throne. Edmund gathered an army to resist but ended up joining forces with Bolingbroke, and was richly rewarded for his loyalties which extended to King Henry IV.

Edmund of Langley died in his birthplace, and was buried there, in the church of the friars. Originally interred in the Church of the Friary at Langley, the remains of the Duke and his wife were brought to All Saint's, King's Langley, about the year 1574. Contemporary historians and genealogists agree with Evans' view that the skeleton in the leaden coffin is Anne Mortimer's. His dukedom passed to his eldest son, Edward.

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Sources

[S617] Brƒderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), Tree #2243.
Date of Import: Jan 23, 1998
[S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index.
Edward III King of England; Male; Birth: 13 NOV 1312 Windsor, , , England; Death: 21 JUN 1377; Spouse: Phillippa; Marriage: 24 JAN 1328 ; No source information is available.
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