An excellent piece on Richard’s other elder brother:
http://sunnesandroses.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-forgotten-son-of-york.html


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  1. […] Bridge, York was sufficiently confident of his welcome to return to Ireland (with his second son, Rutland) and was able to use it as a secure base to plot the overthrow of Henry VI’s […]

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  2. […] in 1460. To learn more, go to Battlefields of Britain As the 3rd Duke of York and his second son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, were killed at the battle, I imagine that New Year’s Eve was a time of utter sorrow for their […]

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  3. […] was joined by his two eldest sons, seventeen-year-old Edward Earl of March and sixteen-year-old Edmund Earl of Rutland, and his sister’s sons, John and Edward Bourchier. The Yorkist army was greatly outnumbered by […]

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  4. […] we’re concerned, of course, he is the man credited with having slain (with some brutality) young Edmund of Rutland immediately after the Battle of Wakefield at the end of December 1460. It’s thought that this act […]

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