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 120 CAMBRIDGE. II. 1362. 1. Edmund (Plaxtagexet), st]fled " of"] - z t Langley," 5th s. of King Edward III, by Philippft, sister to Jeanne, wife of William (of Juliet-*), Karl of Cambridge above- named, was b. 5 June 1344, and was cr. EARL OK CAMBRIDGE, 13 Nov. 1362. On 6 Aug. 13S5 he was cr. Duke ok York. He d 1 Aug. 1402. III. 1402, :-. Edward (Plaxtagexet), Dbkk of York, to Eahl of CAMiiniDf:E,(") &c., s. and h. In 1 11 ] he was 1414? restored to the Dukedom of Albemarle, at which time. possibly, but eertainly, in Or before that year, he resigned the Earldom of Cambridge. He d. s.p. 25 Oct. 1415, in j 1 IV. 1414, J. KlCnARD (Plaxtagexet), Sttfifitl " OF C0XISIiUllC.il," to 2d s. of Edmund, Duke of York and Kaiii. ok Cambridge (by 141 5. Isabel, da. and coheir of Peter, King Or CaSTTUS and Leon) and br. to Edward, Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge last ahoveu.imou, was b. at Coningsburgh Ca-stle, Co. York, about 1375 ; Knighted 26 July 1406; was Ambassador to Denmark, Aug. to Dee. 1400, and was, on 1 May 1414, cr. in Pari. EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.! 1 ') Was Almoner of England and Constable of Brimsfield Castle. He TO. firstly Anne,(<--) da. of Roger (MOWBMBB), Earl OF March, by Eleanor, da. of Thomas (Holand), Earl OF Kent, which Anne was only sister to Edward, Eabl of March, who d. s.p. 10 Jany. 1424/-'). He m. secondly Maud, da. of Thomas (Clifford), Lord De Clifford, by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas (de Boos] Lord Roos. Having conspired (with Serope of Masham and Grey of Heton) to depose the King (Henry V.) and set up in his room the Earl of Maid abovenamed (the h. gen. of Edward III.) he was attainted and executed 5 Aug. 1415, at Southampton, being bur. in the chapel of " God's House " there. All his honours were consequently forfeited. His widow m. John (Nf.vill), Lord Latimer, who d. s.p. 1430. She d. s.p. about 1446. V. 1426 ? Q. Richard Plaxtagexet, only s. unci h. by 1st wife, 6. 1412. On Whit-Snnday( d ) (1 426) 4 Hen. IV, he to restored as Duke of York, &c, vis., to the honours held by his uncle, Edward, Duke of York, &c., abovenamed. He was probably then, or previously, restored in blood, whereby he would have tvr. his Father as EARL OK CAMBRIDGE, or he may have assumed that Earldom as having been one of the honours sometime held by his said unele.(°) Herf. 31 Dec. 1460, being slain at the battle of Wakefield. See fuller account under " York," Dukedom of, cr. 1385. dignity in 1340 upon his going over to France. This statement is altogether incorrect, as the Marquess of Juliers is named in various state documents as Earl of Cambridge so late as 1353, when in mutual letters of acquittance between liim and King Edw. Ill his rights to the Earldom of Cambridge are preserved ; he was probably therefore possessed of it at his death in 1361. Camden states in his ' Britannia ' that Johnde Hainault [the abovenamed John of Avesnes] came to England and claimed this dignity in Pari, about 1366, but 'returned satisfied at last.' No notice of such claim is found in the Rolls of Pari." (••■) In a patent dated 5 Nov. (1402) 4 Heu. IV, he is written " Edwardus, Dux Eboraci, Comes Contabrur/ioi, Rutlandim ct Corona," See " Sandford," p. 381. ( b ) '■ 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.' " See " Courthope." (•) This Lady transmitted to her grandson Edward IV, who, through her, was fa. gen. of Edward III, the right to the Crown, her grandmother, Philippa, Countess of March, being only da. and h. of Lionel. Duke of Clarence, 2d surv. s. of Edward III. (<1) See Hall's "Chronicles." (°) The judgment against the Earl of Cambridge, his Father, was not, however, reversed by Act of Pari, till 1461. He can hardly be deemed to have sue. to the Earldom of Cambridge, held by his uncle, the Duke of York, as that title had been resigned by the said Duke. i