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Note: Death: 5 Aug 1415 in Southampton Green, Hampshire where he was executed for treason.
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From Wikipedia:
Richard was born about 20 July 1375[1] at Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, the second son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and his first wife, Isabella of Castille. On his father's side he was the grandson of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, and on his mother's side the grandson of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile and Leon, and his favourite mistress, María de Padilla (d.1361). His godfather was King Richard II.[2]
Richard was two years younger than his brother, Edward, and according to Harriss, since he received no lands from his father, Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and was not mentioned in either his father's or his brother's wills, he may have been the child of an illicit liaison between his mother and John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter.[3]
Although the young Richard received no lands or income when his father, Edmund of Langley, made his will on 25 November 1400, before her death on 23 December 1392 his mother, Isabel, had named King Richard II as her heir, requesting him to grant her younger son an annuity of 500 marks. The King complied, providing his godson on 3 February 1393 with an annuity of £100 from the revenues in Yorkshire which Isabel had formerly received, and on 16 March 1393 with a further annuity of £233 6s 8d from the Exchequer. According to Pugh, further largess from the King might have been expected when Richard came of age; however, that was not to be. Richard II was deposed in 1399, and according to Harriss, Richard of York 'received no favours from the new King, Henry IV'. After Henry IV's accession, Richard's annuities, his sole source of income, were either paid irregularly, or not paid at all.[4]
From April 1403 to October 1404 Richard commanded a small force defending Herefordshire against the Welsh rebel leader, Owain Glyndwr, but otherwise performed no notable military service. However it was during this period, according to Pugh, that Richard established the relationships with the Mortimer and Cherleton families which brought about his marriage to Anne Mortimer.[5] Richard's only other significant appointment during this period came in August 1406 when, together with the Bishop of Bath, Lord Fitz Hugh, and Lord Scrope, he was chosen to escort King Henry's daughter, Philippa, to Denmark for her marriage to King Eric. Richard was knighted in July of that year, perhaps in anticipation of this embassy.[6] Pugh notes that during this three-month embassy to Denmark, Richard would have become well acquainted with Lord Scrope, who married Richard's stepmother, Joan Holland (d.1434), in September 1411, and with whom Richard later became involved in the Southampton Plot of 1415 which cost them both their lives.[7]
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