Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York

Family/Spouse: Cecily Neville. Cecily (daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort) was born on 3 May 1415 in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died on 31 May 1495 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward Plantagenet, King of England IV was born on 28 Apr 1442 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 9 Apr 1483 in Westminster Palace, London, England; was buried in St.George's Chapel, Windor Castle, England.
2. King of England Richard III Plantagenet was born on 2 Oct 1452 in Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire, England; died on 22 Aug 1485 in Battle of Bosworth Field.
3. George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence was born on 21 Oct 1449 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland; died on 18 Feb 1477 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England.
4. Anne "of York" Plantagenet was born on 10 Aug 1439 in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England; died on 14 Jan 1476 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
5. Elizabeth "of York" Plantagenet was born on 22 Apr 1444; died after Jan 1503.
6. Edmund Plantagenet was born on 17 May 1443 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 30 Dec 1460 in Battle of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Notes:

Died:
executed for treason

Richard married Anne de Mortimer about 1406. Anne (daughter of 4th Earl of March Roger Mortimer and Alianore Holland) was born on 27 Dec 1390; died in Sep 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Isabella Perez, Princess of Castile and Leon about 1 Mar 1372 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. Isabella (daughter of King of Castile III Pedro and Maria Juana de Padilla) was born in 1355 in Morales, Tordesillas, Spain; died on 23 Dec 1392 in Langley, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Alianore Holland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Nov 1312

Edward married of Hainault Philippa d'Avesnes on 24 Jan 1327 in York Minster, Deangate, Yorkshire, England. Philippa (daughter of William I "The Good" d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut and Jeanne de Valois) was born on 24 Jun 1314 in Le Quesnoy, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Philippa of Hainault

Notes:

Walter of Stapeldon was bishop of Exeter, and in 1319 served on an English diplomatic mission to the Low Countries to negotiate a naval agreement. As part of their responsibilities, the emissaries also visited Hainaut and gave Philippa the once-over. It is interesting that she was even then being considered as a possible future queen of England, nearly a full decade before Queen Isabella finally closed the negotiations.

A document from their trip gives a fairly full physical description of the young girl: she was well built, without any obvious deformity; good hair, neither light nor dark; neat head, with a somewhat bulbous forehead (considered a sign of beauty); her eyes were dark brown, almost black, and fairly close together (NOT a good sign). Her nose was all right, except the tip was a bit broad and the nostrils a tad large. The lips were full, especially the lower one. Her teeth were good, some whiter than others, and the lower row was noticeably irregular while the upper row protruded just a bit--not too much. Her skin was brownish, not the translucent white of a romance heroine. She resembled her father a good deal (a good sign as it suggested she was more masculine and might well have more sons than daughters), both parents were very fond of her, and all the courtiers of Hainaut thought well of her too, as far as the envoys were able to determine.

According to her mother, Philippa would have her ninth birthday at the next feast of the Nativity of St John Baptist (24 June), which puts her birth on or near that day in the year 1310. She was thus about two and one-half years older than her future husband, and would have been about 45 when she bore her last child Thomas in 1355. -- John Carmi Parsons (edited)

III married Maria Juana de Padilla. Maria was born about 1334 in Seville, Andalucia, Spain; died in Jul 1361 in Seville, Andalucia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, b. 1342. This nobleman, at the time of his father's death, was in minority, yet, by reason of his singular knowledge and parts, he was employed at eighteen years of age to treat with the commissioners of the King of France, touching a peace betwixt both realms. In the 1st Richard II [1377], he was sworn to the privy council and, in two years afterwards, constituted lord lieutenant of Ireland, in which government he d. in 1381. His lordship m. the Lady Philippa Plantagenet, dau. and heir of Lionel, Duke of Clarence (by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. and heir of William, son and heir of John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster), by whom he had issue, Roger, his successor; Edmund (Sir), m. the dau. of Owen Glendour, and his issue is said to have settled in Scotland; John (Sir), who, being arraigned in parliament, temp. Henry VI, for treasonable speeches, was condemned and executed; Elizabeth, m. 1st to Henry Percy, the celebrated Hotspur, and 2ndly, to Thomas, Lord Camois, K.G.; Philippa, m. 1st to John, Earl of Pembroke, 2ndly, to Richard, Earl of Arundel, and 3rdly to John Poynings, Lord St. John.

His lordship d. in 1381, and was s. by his eldest son, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 384, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]

Edmund married Phillipa Plantagenet on 15 Feb 1367 in Queen's Chapel, Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. Phillipa (daughter of Lionel "of Antwerp" Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence and Elizabeth de Burgh) was born on 16 Aug 1355 in Eltham Palace, Kent, England; died on 5 Jan 1382 in Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Alice FitzAlan. Alice (daughter of 10th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan and Eleanor "of Lancaster" Plantagenet) was born in 1352 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 17 Mar 1416. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]