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Edmund of Rutland

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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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4 responses to “Edmund of Rutland”

  1. Plantagenet Ireland and Poynings’ Law | murreyandblue

    […] 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. The truth about the Christian New Year’s Eve…. | murreyandblue

    […] 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. The Traitor’s Arms? | murreyandblue

    […] 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. Visit Skipton Castle, home of the slayer of Edmund of Rutland….? – murreyandblue

    […] 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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