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Edward, Prince of Wales, kneeling before his father, King Edward III. Richard of Bordeaux was the younger son of Edward, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent.Edward, eldest son of Edward III and heir apparent to the throne of England, had distinguished himself as a military commander in the early phases of the Hundred Years' War, particularly in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
Earl of Mar and Garioch (1459) John Stewart, Earl of Mar and Garioch: 1459: 1479: New creation Lord Erskine (1429) Robert Erskine, 1st Lord Erskine: 1429: 1453: de jure Earl of Mar; died Thomas Erskine, 2nd Lord Erskine: 1453: 1494: de jure Earl of Mar Lord Hay (1429) William Hay, 1st Lord Hay: 1429: 1462: Created Earl of Errol, see above Lord ...
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Audley chose the barren heathland of Blore Heath to set up an ambush. [9] On the morning of 23 September 1459 (Saint Thecla's day), a force of some 10,000 men took up a defensive position behind a 'great hedge' on the south-western edge of Blore Heath facing the direction of Newcastle-under-Lyme to the north-east, the direction from which Salisbury was approaching.
4 September – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, politician (executed 1483) 1456 11 June – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III (died 1485) 1457 28 January – King Henry VII of England (died 1509) Richard Grey, knight, half brother of Edward V (executed 1483) Approximate date – Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (died 1525) 1458
Prince Richard b. 1944 2nd Duke of Gloucester, 2nd Earl of Ulster, 2nd Baron Culloden: Dukedom of Edinburgh (3rd creation) merged in the Crown, 2022: Dukedom of Edinburgh (4th creation) is a life peerage and therefore not hereditary: Alexander Windsor b. 1974 styled Earl of Ulster: Heir-apparent to the Dukedom of Gloucester
Richard, Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returns on a second visit to Ireland. [3] The Irish Parliament, meeting at Drogheda, upholds his authority against Henry VI, and an English Act of Attainder. Richard Hygons, English composer, begins fifty years of service at Wells Cathedral.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.