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 YORK. 215 which honours had fallen to htm after the death [25 Oct 1416] of Edward, Duke of York, his [imti^rnal] uricIe/'C^) Aa "Duke of York," he waa kmiffhied hj Hen. VI. on Whitfimiday, 10 Mny 1126, at lioicester, beiuj; thon aged about 15. He had in the pruvioiiH year, on tho death, 19 Jan, M24/5, of hia maUriuU uncle, Edmond (Mortimkr), Karl up March, become KARL OF MAUOHand LORD MOliTIMER DB WIGMORK, as also KARL OF ULSTER [I.], inheriting the rich Lordship of Clare, as also those of Trim and Conuaiight [l.J, and becoming thus, probably, the most powerful subject in the reatin(^) ; CouaUble of England, 20 Jan. 1430 ; eL K.Q., 22 April 1433 ; Oot. Qon. of Franco and Normandy, 1 436-37, and 1440-47; Oh. Qu7. of IreUnd (as L. Ueut), 1447-53, and again 1457-50 ; Protkotor of thr Rbalm, 8 April 1454, and for the second time, Nov. 1455 to Feb. 1456, having meanwhile (thro jealousy of the Duke of Somerset), rebelled against the King, and taken him prisoner at the (first) battle of St. Albans, 22 or 23 May 1455. His party again prevailed, 23 Sep. 1450, at Bloreheath, but, soon afterwards, he and his 1st snrv. son fled to Ireland. He was aUainUd Nov. 1450, tho' reitored Oct 1460, having, meanwhile, again made the King prisoner, at the battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460. Early m Oct 1460 he claimed the Cinnon as his right, but by a compromise, ratified by Pari, on the 3lst of that month, he was satisfied on being declared heir, after the King's demise, to the throne, with rem. to the heirs of his bo<ly. He m. before 18 Oot. 1424, Cecily fat that date aged but 0), yst. da. oE Ralph (Nkvill), 1st Earl or WjnTMORLAifD,(') being 5th da.(<l) hy his second wife, Lady Joan Rbauport, sister of the half- blood to Renry iV., legitimated da. of John (Plantaornit, called "of Ghinnt")t DuKB OF Lancabtbr. He <f. 30 Dec 1460, aged 40, beinff slain in rebellion at the battle of Wakefield, and w{« bur. at Pontefract, his head being placed on the walls of York, but afterwards interred with his body, the whole being finally removed with great pomp, 22 July 1466,(') to Fotheringay. Admon. 15 Dec. 1461, at Lambeth.(^) His widow, who was b. 3 May 1415, survived htm 35 years, is said to have taken Benedictine orders, 1480, and d. at her castle at ])erkham|istead| 81 May 1405, aged 80, having survived her two last sunr. sons, E<lward IV. and Richard III. She was bur, with her husband at Fotheringay. Will dat, 1 April, and pr. 27 Aug. 1405. [Hkkrt PfiANTAQKNSTy Ist 8. aud h. ap., b, in or before 1441| to whom it is Buppoeed(*) Henry VI., was godfather. He d. T.p. in infancy]. IV. 1460, 4- Edward (Plantaobkbt), Dukb of York [1385], to Earl of March [1328], Earl of Cambridgb [18621. and Lord 1461. Mortimkr di Wigmori [1205], also Earl of Ulstxr [1. 1205), 2d but let surv. s. aud h. ; 6. 28 April 1442, at llouen(S) ; tiyUd Earl op March Ull 1460, and was, as such, attainted in the Pari, of (1450), 28 Hen. VL, being restored Oct 1460 ; Constable of Bristol, Nov. 1460 ; tve. totkepeeraget as above, on the death of his father, 30 Deo. 1460. He, in his 18th year, was proolatmed Kinff of England, 4 March 1460/1, as Sdward IV. (po9t confimtmnj, when aU hii Aonourt merged in the Crewn, (•) Sandford. ((>) In the pardon, 8 Aug. 1435, for his intrusion without licence on the lands of the late Earl of March and Ulster, he is described as " Duke of York, Earl of March and Ulster, Lord of Wigmore^ Glare, Trim and Gonnaught" [Pat, ML of Irttand, 13 Hen. VL, No. 81]. (■*) " By which match " he '* became related to most of the greateat nobility of the Kingdom ... by whose assistance he was enabled to bandy for the Grown against the House of Lancaster." [Sand/ord}. (d) See Oenealogittt N.S. iii, p. 110, for the births of the numerous children of the Earl, her father. She herself was his 18th, being the 10th by his second marriage. [Watson's Seise QuaHien of Sdward /F.] '(*) The body of his yr. s. Edmund, Earl of Rutland, also ilain at Wakefield, was removed there at the same date. (0 Polydore Vergil writes of him as " Hie [staturft] pusillus . . . [facie] brevi et compacts asset." • Dr. Shaw in his well known pan^QTric of the still better known L. Protector, his son, the Duke of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III.), says that " the L. Protector represented the verye face of the noble Duke, his father." (*) Whence he was known as " the Rose of Uoueu."