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3 a- y^ rB ^^ •-1 s^ Kl ■4^ O ON W ?s ^ o c ?r ? 494 CAMBRIDGE II. 1362. I. Edmund,(^) 5/7/^^ "of Langley," 5th s. of King Edward III, by Philippe, sister to Jeanne, wife of William (of Juliers), Earl of Cambridge abovenamed, was L 5 June 1344, and was cr. EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, 13 Nov. 1362. On 6 Aug. 1385 he was cr. Duke of York. He ii. I Aug. 1402, III. 1402 2. Edward,(^) Duke of York, Duke OF AuMALE, to Earl of Cambridge,^') Earl of Rutland, s. and 1414. h. On 25 Feb. 1389/90, he was cr., 1;./)., EARL OF RUTLAND, before 12 Aug. 1396, EARL OF CORK [I.], and on 29 Sep. 1397, DUKE OF AUMALE. On 3 Nov. 1399 he was deprived of his Dukedom. In May 1414 he was restored to any titles of which he had been deprived in 1399, provided that they had not been granted elsewhere, which proviso prevented his restoration to the Dukedom of Aumale. Certainly in cr before 141 4, by resignation or deprivation, he had ceased to be Earl of Cambridge. He d. s.p., 25 Oct. 1415, being slain at Agin- court. IV. 1414 I. Richard,() j/}7i?d"'oFCoNisBURGH,"or"oF York," to 2nd s. of Edmund, DuKEOpYoRKand EarlofCambridge, 1415. by his 1st wife, Isabel, da. and coh. of Pedro, King of Castile and Leon, and br. to Edward, Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge last abovenamed, was i>. at Coningsburgh Castle, co. York, about 1375. King Richard II was his godfather. Knighted 26 July 1406 ; Ambassador to Denmark, Aug. to Dec. 1406. He was, on i May 1414, cr. in Pari. EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.(') Almoner of England, and Con- stable of Brimpsfield Castle. He m., istly (Papal disp. to remain in marriage contracted without consent of their parents, 10 Kal. June 1408), Anne,() only sister of Edmund, Earl of March (who d. s.p. 19 Jan. 1424/5), da. of Roger (de Mortimer), Earl of March, by Eleanor, da. of Thomas (de Holand), Earl of Kent. He m., 2ndly, about 1414, Maud, the divorced wife of John (Nevill), 6th Lord Latimer, da. of Thomas (de Clif- ford), Lord Clifford, by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas (de Ros), Lord Ros. Having conspired (with Scrope of Masham and Grey of Heton) to (^) See vol. i, p. 183, note "c" as to the attribution, since the time of Charles II, of the name of "Plantagenet" to the descendants of Geoffrey of Anjou. V.G. (•>) In a patent dated 5 Nov. (1402) 4 Hen. IV, he is called "Edwardus Dux Ehoraci Comes Cantabrugie Rutlandie et Conagie." See Sand/ord, p. 381. (') "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.'" [Courthope). (^) This lady transmitted to her grandson Edward IV (who, through her, was h. gen. of Edward III), the right to the Crown, her grandmother, Philippe, Countess of March, being only da. and h. of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 2nd surv. s. of Edward III.