He was the first Yorkist King of England. He was killed aged just 17 at the Battle of Wakefield, possibly murdered by the Lancastrian Lord Clifford who sought revenge for the death of his own father at St Albans five years earlier. #īy the laws of primogeniture, Edmund’s father, Richard of York had a good claim to the English throne, being descended from the second surviving son of Edward III, giving him a slightly better claim to the throne than the reigning king, Henry VI, who descended from Edward’s third son. He was the fifth child and second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. In the he 1430s obtained control-with William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk- of the government of the weak king Henry VI.īut he was later imprisoned when Richard, Duke of York became ‘Lord Protector’, before dying at the Battle of St Albans. Edmund BeaufortĮdmund Beaufort was an English nobleman and Lancastrian leader whose quarrel with Richard, Duke of York was infamous.
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