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 the style of 'Richard Plantaginet, commonly called Duke of York.' He is described in the 'Concordia,' which recognised him as heir-apparent, as 'the right high and myghty Prynce Richard Plantaginet, duke of York' (Rot. Parl. v. 375, 378). A passage in Gregory the chronicler (p. 189) implies that York assumed the name as early as 1448, when he did not venture to emphasise his dynastic claims more openly (, Lancaster and York, ii. 83). The pedigrees given by the Yorkist chroniclers, and evidently those which York laid before parliament, are all carried back to Geoffrey 'Plantagenet' and the counts of Anjou. None of them applies the name Plantagenet to any member of the family between Geoffrey and Richard (, pp. 16, 258, 260;, ed. Hearne, p. 527; Chron. ed. Davies, p. 101; Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles, p. 170). The distinction is preserved by the Tudor historians and in the dramatis personæ of Shakespeare's historical plays. But Shakespeare in 'King John,' and one passage of the first part of 'Henry VI' (act iii. sc. 1,1. 172), uses the word as a family name of the whole dynasty (cf. ). The last legitimate male bearer of the name was Edward Plantagenet, earl of Warwick, grandson of York, executed in 1499. The last illegitimate bearer of the name is usually supposed to have been Arthur Plantagenet, viscount Lisle [q. v.], a natural son of Edward IV (Complete Peerage, v. 117; Fœdera, xiv. 452). But an entry (not original) in the parish register of Eastwell, Kent, states that a 'Richard Plantagenet died here on 22 Dec. 1550,' and according to a circumstantial story related by Peck in his 'Desiderata Curiosa' (1732), on the authority of Heneage Finch, earl of Nottingham, this Richard was an illegitimate son of Richard III, who was born in 1469, and, after the accession of Henry VII, worked as a bricklayer at Eastwell until about 1547. The story cannot be regarded as established (Gent. Mag. 1767, xxxvii. 408; Notes and Queries, 6th ser. viii. 103, 192, ix. 12;, Tales of Great Families, 2nd ser. vol. i.; , Last of the Plantagenets).

The sovereigns of the Angevin dynasty appear in this dictionary under their Christian names. Other members of the family are noticed under the following headings:—, Viscount Lisle (1480?–1542), see ;, surnamed Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster (1245–1296), see ; , Earl of Cornwall (d. 1300), see under , Earl of Cornwall (1209–1272); of Woodstock, Earl of Kent (1301–1329), see ;  de Langley, first duke of York (1341–1402), see ; , 'The Black Prince' (1330–1376), see ; , second duke of York (1373?–1415), see ; , Earl of Warwick (1475–1499), see ;  (d. 1212), see ; , Duke of Clarence (1449–1478), see ;  of Cornwall (1235–1271), see ; , Earl of Lancaster (1281?–1345), see ; , first Duke of Lancaster (1299?–1361), see ; , Duke of Gloucester (1391–1447), see ;  of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316–1336), see ;  of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340–1399), see ;  of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (1389–1435), see ;  of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (1338–1368), see ; , Countess of Salisbury (1473–1541), see ; , Earl of Cornwall (1209–1272), see ; , Earl of Cambridge (d. 1415), see ;, Duke of York (1412–1460), see ; , Duke of York (1472–1483), see ; , Earl of Lancaster (1278–1322), see ; of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk (1300–1348), see ;  of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (1356–1397), see ; , Duke of Clarence (1387–1421), see.

 PLANTAGENET, ARTHUR, (1480?–1542), born about 1480, was a natural son of Edward IV by one Elizabeth Lucie. As an esquire of Henry VIII's bodyguard he received a quarterly salary of 6l. 13s. 4d. from June 1509 (cf. King's Book of Payments). He married, in 1511, Elizabeth, widow of [q. v.], and daughter of Edward Grey, viscount Lisle, and obtained a grant, on 13 Nov. of that year, of lands in Dorset, Sussex, and Lancashire, which had come to the crown by the attainder of Empson and Dudley in 1510. On 8 Feb. 1513 he obtained a protection (from his creditors) on going to sea with the expedition to Brittany. The ship in which he sailed struck upon a rock, and he and his companions were saved from death almost by miracle. ‘When he was in the extreme danger [and all hope gone] from him,’ wrote Admiral Howard to the king on 17 April, ‘he called upon Our Lady of Walsingham for help, and of[fered unto her] a vow that, an it pleased God and her to deliver him out of that peril, he would never eat flesh nor fish till he had seen her.’ Accordingly, although Howard was reluc-