Richard (Plantagenet), of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge

circa 1375 - 1415  (40 years)

• Name	Richard (Plantagenet)  [1]
  Suffix	of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
  Birth	circa 1375	Conisbrough Castle, Conisbrough, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	26 July 1406  [1]
  	Knighted
  Hereditary Title	1 May 1414  [1]
  	[1st, 3rd, or 4th] Earl of Cambridge [E., 1340 or 1362 or 1414]
  	He was, on 1 May 1414, created in Parliament Earl of Cambridge. On this creation Courthope remarked: "For this creation there is neither Charter nor Patent, but only investiture in Parliament; it was the opinion of Lords Lyndhurst and St. Leonards, as expressed in their argument on the Wensleydale Peerage, that such investiture 'vested in him a transmissible inheritance to his legal heirs.'" The title was formerly held by his elder brother, Edward, 2nd Duke of York, who had earlier ceased to be Earl of Cambridge either by resignation or deprivation of title. [1]
  Office	Almoner of England  [1]
  Office	Between Aug. and Dec. 1406  [1]
  	Ambassador to Denmark
  Office	Constable of Brimpsfield Castle  [1]
  Death	5 Aug. 1415	Southampton, Hampshire, England   [2]
  Will	15 Aug. 1446  [2]
  Probate	4 Sept. 1446	York, Yorkshire, England   [2]
  Burial	Chapel of "God's House", Southampton, Hampshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I433	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	30 June 2018

  
  

  Father	Edmund (Plantagenet), of Langley, 1st Duke of York,   b. 5 June 1341, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England d. 1 Aug. 1402, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Isabella (Ivrea), of Castile,   b. 1355   d. 1392 (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	11 July 1372	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England   [3]
  Family ID	F220	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lady Anne Mortimer,   b. 27 Dec. 1390   d. Sept. 1411 (Age 20 years)
  Marriage	circa 1408  [1]
  	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. [1]
  Papal dispensation	23 May 1408  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Richard (Plantagenet), 3rd Duke of York,   b. 22 Sept. 1411   d. 30 Dec. 1460, Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (Age 49 years)   2. Lady Isabel (Plantagenet), of Cambridge   d. 2 Oct. 1484
  Family ID	F221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jan. 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Hon. Maud de Clifford   d. 26 Aug. 1446
  Marriage	circa 1414  [1]
  Family ID	F222	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 June 2018

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge Arms of the 1st and 2nd Dukes of York of the 1385 creation [France (ancient) and England quarterly, a label of three points argent, each point charged with three torteaux] with an additional difference of a bordure of Spain. (From B.M. MS. Cott., Julius C. vii.) Source: A. C. Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1969), pp. 144 and 378.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [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 495. [S9] H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford D.N.B., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), A. Tuck, "Edmund [Edmund of Langley], first duke of York (1341–1402), prince".