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    Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. He was (as he styled...
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    Duke of Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOST-ər) is a British royal title (after Gloucester), often conferred on one of the sons of the reigning monarch. The...
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    English noblewoman, first the mistress and then the second wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. In 1441 she was forcibly divorced and sentenced to life imprisonment...
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    Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III), by his wife Eleanor de Bohun, one of the two daughters...
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    Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (7 January 1355 – 8 or 9 September 1397) was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England...
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  • Antigone of Gloucester (bef. 1424 – aft. 1450) was an English noblewoman and the illegitimate daughter of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447)...
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    peacemaker during the partisan, factional politics of the 1430s, when Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, vied with Cardinal Beaufort for political supremacy...
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    Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace, was an English royal residence that was initially built by prince Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443...
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    Dauphine of France for a short time between 1415 and 1417 and Duchess of Gloucester in the 1420s, if her marriage to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, is accepted...
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    intention was to control Mary's half of the Bohun inheritance (or to allow her husband, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, to control it). There Mary was persuaded...
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    were Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester; Philippa; and Blanche. After his father's accession to the throne of England as...
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  • is so called because his father was Duke of Gloucester at the time of his birth. His father appointed him Captain of Calais, a position he lost after his...
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  • Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is a 1723 tragedy by the British writer Ambrose Philips. It is based on the life of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, youngest...
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    government of England was headed by Henry V's other surviving brother, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who was appointed Lord Protector and Defender of the Realm...
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    was to contribute to his downfall. With the deaths in 1447 of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (shortly after his arrest for treason), and Cardinal Beaufort...
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    with killing Edward, Duke of York, wounding Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and cutting an ornament from the crown of Henry V, King of England. He was overpowered...
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    became jure uxoris Earl of Warwick, but did not inherit the entire Warwick estate as his younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, had married (c. 1472)...
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    of Bedford Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury...
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    Mary de Bohun (category Date of birth unknown)
    possessions. Eleanor became the wife of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Edward III. In an effort to keep the entire inheritance...
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    still young and marriageable, a source of concern to her brother-in-law Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the guardian of her son. Rumours abounded that Catherine...
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    Greenwich Castle (category Former buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
    of Greenwich Palace at the foot of the hill. The castle was previously known as Duke Humphrey's Tower after its builder, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester...
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    III of England, 1452–1485 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 1355–1397 Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham, 1381–1399 John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall...
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    4th Duke of Somerset, and Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, and their families. A less powerful but determining role was played by Humphrey Stafford...
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  • Ends Well. Duke Frederick is the villain (the usurper of Duke Senior) in As You Like It. Duke of Gloucester: Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (hist) appears...
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    regent, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to the Tower of London, allegedly to prepare for his coronation. In June 1483, the Duke of Gloucester requested that...
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    associated with Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and Joan of Navarre, and, through them, St Albans Abbey. Another important patron was John, Duke of Bedford, with...
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    Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, Anne married Richard, Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of King Edward IV and of George, Duke of Clarence, the husband of Anne's...
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    assisting the King's younger brother, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and had been assailed and wounded by the Duke of Alençon.[citation needed] York's intervention...
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    Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Philippa of Luxembourg Caricature of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy See Bouchot, 107–I3...
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    seven years of marriage to Margaret of Anjou, Henry was still childless. After the death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the royal line was at risk, and...
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