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See also:DUKE See also:RICHARD See also:YORK
of (1411-1460), was See also:born on the 21st of See also:September 1411, the son of See also:Richard, See also:earl of See also:Cambridge, second son of See also:Edmund of See also:Langley, See also:duke of See also:York
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By the See also:death of his See also:uncle See also:Edward at See also:Agincourt he became duke of York, and on the death of Edmund See also:Mortimer in 1425 he succeeded to his claims as representing in the See also:female See also:line the See also:elder See also:branch of the royal See also:family
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He had been kindly treated by See also:
His previous experience made him stipulate for full See also:powers and a sufficient See also:revenue
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He did not, however, go to See also:Rouen till June 1441
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During his second governorship York maintained, if he could not improve, the See also:English position in Normandy
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He was again hampered by his See also:political opponents at home, and at the end of 1446 was recalled, on the pretext that his See also:term of office had expired
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The death of Humphrey of Gloucester in See also:February 1447 made York the first See also:prince of the See also:blood
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See also:Suffolk, now Henry's See also:chief See also:minister, found a convenient banishment for a dangerous See also:rival by appointing York to be lieutenant of Ireland for ten years (eth of See also:December 1447)
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York, however, contrived., to put off his departure for eighteen months
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During his See also:absence in Ireland English discontent came to a crisis in See also:Jack See also:Cade's See also:rebellion
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The use made of the names of Mortimer and York, however unauthorized, shows the. trend of popular See also:opinion
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In September 1450 York landed in See also:Wales
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His opponents endeavoured to waylay him, but he came to London with an armed See also:retinue and forced himself into the See also:
He took See also:part in the See also:punishment of Cade's supporters, and discountenanced a proposal in See also:parliament that he should be declared See also:heir to the See also:crown
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In See also: He became See also:constable of England, and his friends obtained office . This was no more than a See also:change of ministers . But a return of the king's illness in October 1455 made York again for a brief space protector . Henry recovered in February 1456, and See also:Margaret, his queen, began to assert herself . Finally, at See also:Coventry, in October, the Yorkist officials were displaced . Still there was no open See also:breach, and in March 1458 there was even a ceremonial reconciliation of all parties at St See also:Paul's in London . York would not again accept See also:honour-able banishment to Ireland, but made no move till the queen's preparations forced him to See also:act . In September 1459 both parties were once more in arms . York protested that he acted only in self-defence, but the See also:desertion of his best soldiers at See also:Ludlow on the 12th of October See also:left him helpless . With a few followers he escaped to Ireland, where his position as See also:lord-lieutenant was confirmed by an Irish parliament, and he ruled in full See also:defiance of the English government . In March 146o the earl of See also:Warwick came from See also:Calais to See also:concert plans with his See also:leader . York himself only landed in England on the 8th of September, two months after Warwick's victory at See also:North- ampton . All pretence of moderation was put aside, and he marched on London, using the full arms of England, and with his See also:sword See also:borne upright before him . On reaching See also:Westminster, York took up his See also:residence in the royal See also:palace, and formally asserted his claim to the See also:throne in parliament . In the end a See also:compromise was arranged, under which Henry was to retain the crown for See also:life, but Richard was to succeed him . On the 8th of See also:November he was accordingly proclaimed heir-apparent and protector . Meantime the queen was gathering her friends, and See also:early in December, Richard went north with a small force . He kept See also:Christmas at See also:Sandal See also:Castle near See also:Wakefield . There, on the 3oth of December, he was hemmed in by a See also:superior force of Lancastrians . Declaring that he had never kept castle in the See also:face of the enemy, Richard rashly offered See also:battle, and was defeated and slain . His enemies had his head cut off, and set it up on the walls of York adorned with a See also:paper crown . Richard of York was not a See also:great statesman, but he had qualities of See also:restraint and moderation, and might have made a good king . He had four daughters and four sons . Edmund, earl of See also:Rutland, his second son, was killed at Wakefield .
The other three were Edward IV., See also:George, duke of See also:Clarence, and Richard III
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See The Paston Letters with Dr See also:Gairdner's Introduction; Three Fifteenth See also:Century Chronicles, and Collections of a London See also:Citizen (published by the See also:Camden Society) ; Chronicles of London (ed
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See also:Kingsford, 1905) ; J
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See also:Stevenson's See also:Wars of the English in France (Rolls See also:Series)
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The French chronicles of Matthieu d'Escouchy, T
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See also:Basin and Jehan See also:Waurin should also be consulted (these three are published by the Societe de l'Histoire de France)
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For See also:modern accoants see especially See also:Sir See also: L . |
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