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Edward Lancaster, of Westminster, Prince of Wales

Male 1453 - 1471  (17 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Edward Lancaster, of Westminster, Prince of Wales was born on 13 Oct 1453 (son of King Henry Lancaster, King Henry VI and Margaret, of Anjou); died on 4 May 1471 in Tewkesbury.

    Notes:

    Edward of Westminster (13 October 1453 – 4 May 1471), also known as Edward of Lancaster, was the only son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou. He was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury, making him the only heir apparent to the English throne ever to die in battle.

    Edward was born at the Palace of Westminster, London, the only son of King Henry VI of England and his wife, Margaret of Anjou. At the time, there was strife between Henry's supporters, and Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, who had a claim to the throne and challenged the authority of Henry's officers of state. Henry was suffering from mental illness, and there were widespread rumours that the prince was the result of an affair between his mother and one of her loyal supporters. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormonde, were both suspected of fathering Prince Edward,[1] however, there is no firm evidence to support the rumours, and Henry himself never doubted the boy's legitimacy and publicly acknowledged paternity. Edward was invested as Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle in 1454.

    see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_of_Westminster,_Prince_of_Wales

    Family/Spouse: Anne Neville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  King Henry Lancaster, King Henry VIKing Henry Lancaster, King Henry VI was born on 6 Dec 1421 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England (son of King Henry Lancaster, - King Henry V and Catherine de Valois); died on 21 May 1471 in Tower of London, London, England; was buried in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England.

    Notes:

    Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents.

    Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the dynastic wars, such as the Wars of the Roses, which commenced during his reign. His periods of insanity and his inherent benevolence eventually required his wife, Margaret of Anjou, to assume control of his kingdom, which contributed to his own downfall, the collapse of the House of Lancaster, and the rise of the House of York

    see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England

    Henry married Margaret, of Anjou on 23 Apr 1445 in Titchfield Abbey. Margaret was born on 23 Mar 1430; died on 25 Aug 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Margaret, of AnjouMargaret, of Anjou was born on 23 Mar 1430; died on 25 Aug 1482.

    Notes:

    Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.

    She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses and at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. Due to her husband's frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, and thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, and caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.

    Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king, and she died there at the age of 52.

    see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Anjou

    Children:
    1. 1. Edward Lancaster, of Westminster, Prince of Wales was born on 13 Oct 1453; died on 4 May 1471 in Tewkesbury.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  King Henry Lancaster, - King Henry VKing Henry Lancaster, - King Henry V was born on 9 Aug 1387 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Principality of Wales (son of Henry Lancaster, King Henry IV (Bolingbroke) and Queen Mary de Bohun, Queen of Henry IV); died on 31 Aug 1422 in Château de Vincennes, Vincennes, Kingdom of France; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

    Notes:

    Henry V (9 August 1387 – 31 August 1422) was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second English monarch who came from the House of Lancaster.

    After military experience fighting the Welsh during the revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr, and against the powerful aristocratic Percys of Northumberland at the Battle of Shrewsbury, Henry came into political conflict with his father, whose health was increasingly precarious from 1405 onward. After his father's death in 1413, Henry assumed control of the country and embarked on war with France in the ongoing Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) between the two nations. His military successes culminated in his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) and saw him come close to conquering France. After months of negotiation with Charles VI of France, the Treaty of Troyes (1420) recognized Henry V as regent and heir-apparent to the French throne, and he was subsequently married to Charles's daughter, Catherine of Valois (1401–37). Following Henry V's sudden and unexpected death in France two years later, he was succeeded by his infant son, who reigned as Henry VI (1422–61, 1470–71).

    see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England

    Henry married Catherine de Valois in 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Catherine de Valois
    Children:
    1. 2. King Henry Lancaster, King Henry VI was born on 6 Dec 1421 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England; died on 21 May 1471 in Tower of London, London, England; was buried in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Henry Lancaster, King Henry IV (Bolingbroke)Henry Lancaster, King Henry IV (Bolingbroke) was born on 15 Apr 1367 in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, Engkand (son of John Plantagenet, of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche, of Lancaster); died on 20 Mar 1413 in Westminster Palace, London, England.

    Notes:

    Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413. He was the tenth king of the House of Plantagenet and also asserted his grandfather's claim to the Kingdom of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence his other name, Henry of Bolingbroke /ˈbɒlɪŋbrʊk/. His father, John of Gaunt, was the third son of Edward III, and enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of Henry's cousin Richard II, whom Henry eventually deposed. Henry's mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates, and thus he became the first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets.

    see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England

    Henry married Queen Mary de Bohun, Queen of Henry IV on 5 Feb 1381 in Rochford Hall, Essex. England. Mary (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford and Joan Fitzalan) died in 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Queen Mary de Bohun, Queen of Henry IV (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford and Joan Fitzalan); died in 1394.

    Notes:

    The date and venue of Henry's first marriage, to Mary de Bohun, are uncertain but her marriage licence, purchased by Henry's father, John of Gaunt, in June 1380 is retained at the National Archives. The accepted date of the ceremony is 5 February 1381, at Mary's family home of Rochford Hall, Essex.[2] Alternately, the near-contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart reports a rumour that Mary's sister Eleanor de Bohun kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle and held her at Arundel Castle, where she was kept as a novice nun; Eleanor's intention was to control Mary's half of the de Bohun inheritance (or to allow her husband, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, to control it).[24][25] There Mary was persuaded to marry Henry. They had six children

    Children:
    1. 4. King Henry Lancaster, - King Henry V was born on 9 Aug 1387 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Principality of Wales; died on 31 Aug 1422 in Château de Vincennes, Vincennes, Kingdom of France; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
    2. Thomas Lancaster, of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence was born in 1387; died in 1421.
    3. John Lancaster, of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford was born in 1389; died in 1435.
    4. Humphrey Lancaster, of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester was born in 1390; died in 1447.
    5. Blanche Lancaster was born in 1392; died in 1409.
    6. Philippa Lancaster was born in 1394; died in 1430.