Richard (Plantagenet), 3rd Duke of York

1411 - 1460  (49 years)

• Name	Richard (Plantagenet)  [1]
  Suffix	3rd Duke of York
  Birth	22 Sept. 1411  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Dec. 1460	Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  	Killed at the Battle of Wakefield [1]
  Person ID	I366	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	30 June 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard (Plantagenet), of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge,   b. circa 1375, Conisbrough Castle, Conisbrough, Yorkshire, England d. 5 Aug. 1415, Southampton, Hampshire, England (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Lady Anne Mortimer,   b. 27 Dec. 1390   d. Sept. 1411 (Age 20 years)
  Marriage	circa 1408  [2]
  	The marriage took place secretly, without parental consent, and was validated on 23 May 1408 by papal dispensation. It brought Richard no financial benefit, since Anne's only income was an annuity of £50 granted for her maintenance by Henry IV in 1406. It did, however, result in Richard's offspring's being the heirs general of Edward III. [2]
  Papal dispensation	23 May 1408  [2]
  Family ID	F221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Cecily Neville,   b. 3 May 1415   d. June 1495 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1429  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Edward IV (Plantagenet), King of England,   b. 28 April 1442, Rouen, Normandy d. 9 April 1483, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England (Age 40 years)   2. Edmund (Plantagenet), Earl of Rutland   d. 30 Dec. 1460, Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England + 3. George (Plantagenet), Duke of Clarence,   b. 21 Oct. 1449, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland d. 18 Feb. 1477/78, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England (Age 28 years) + 4. Richard III (Plantagenet), King of England,   b. 2 Oct. 1452, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. 22 Aug. 1485, Bosworth Field, near Ambion Hill, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 June 2018

  
  

• Heraldry		Arms of Richard (Plantagenet), 3rd Duke of York Quarterly, 1st and 4th, quarterly, France Modern and England, overall a label of three points each charged with three torteaux (House of York); 2nd, quarterly, Castile and León (House of Castile and León); 3rd, quarterly, barry Or and Azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon Argent (Mortimer) and Or a cross Gules (de Burgh); and overall an inescutcheon Gules, three lions passant guardant Or, a bordure Argent (Holland, Earl of Kent).
  		Arms of 2nd & 3rd Dukes of York (1385 creation) [Plantagenet] France Modern and England quarterly, a label of three points argent, each point charged with three torteaux. The same arms as were borne previously by the Dukes of York (1385 creation), except that France (ancient) was replaced by France Modern in the 1st and 4th quarters during the reign of Henry IV.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford D.N.B., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), J. Watts, "Richard of York, third duke of York (1411–1460), magnate and claimant to the English throne". [S22] G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), The Complete Peerage, (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II (1912), page 494. [S9] H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford D.N.B., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), C. Harper-Bill, "Cecily [Cicely] [née Cecily Neville], duchess of York (1415–1495), Yorkist matriarch".