Edmund of Langley, first duke of York (1341-1402)
Edmund , first duke of York (1341-1402), prince, brother of John of Gaunt, was the fifth (but fourth surviving) son of Edward III, king of England, and Philippa of Hainault, daughter of William, count of Hainault and Holland.
Edmund was born on 5 June 1341 at his father's manor of Kings Langley in Hertfordshire. He was baptized by the abbot of St Albans. The abbot and the earls of Arundel and Surrey were his godfathers. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, died in 1347 and bequeathed his young godson a glass goblet decorated with gilded silver and standing on a tripod. The earl died without an heir male and the king granted Edmund his lands north of the Trent. These lay predominantly in Yorkshire, and included the castle and Lordship of Conisbrough; the bulk of the inheritance, however, went to Edmund's other godfather, the Earl of Arundel.
1362 he was created Earl of Cambridge; a week later he had a grant for the repair of his castles in Yorkshire
Edmund , married In 1372 ,Isabel, daughter and coheir of Pedro the Cruel, king of Castile and Leon.
Children:
- Edward (Edward of Langley, Edward of York), Earl of Rutland and Duke of Aumale, and succeeded as second Duke of York (c.1373-1415),killed at Agincourt in 1415
- Richard of Conisbrough , Earl of Cambridge (1385-1415), the second son, was born at Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, where he was also baptized about 20 July 1385. He was created Earl of Cambridge in 1414 and was executed the following year for his involvement in the Southampton conspiracy against Henry V
- Constance, wife of Thomas le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester , a woman of an evil reputation, who died on 28 Nov. 1416. They had no children.
Isabel died in Nov. 1393; and in 1395 he married Joan, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent , who, surviving, married three other husbands, and died in 1434.
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