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Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York

1411 - 1460

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Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (21 September 1411 – 30 December 1460), also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate and claimant to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the ruling House of Plantagenet by virtue of being a direct male-line descendant of Edmund of Langley, King Edward III's fourth surviving son. However, it was through his mother, Anne Mortimer, a descendant of Edward III's second surviving son, Lionel of Antwerp, that Richard inherited his strongest claim to the throne, as the opposing House of Lancaster was descended from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of Edward III. He also inherited vast estates and served in various offices of state in Ireland, France and England, a country he ultimately governed as Lord Protector during the madness of King Henry VI. His conflicts with Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou, and other members of Henry's court, as well as his competing claim to the throne, were leading factors in the political upheaval of mid-fifteenth-century England, and a major cause of the Wars of the Roses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York has received more than 2,469,583 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York is the 1,459th most popular politician (down from 1,448th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 363rd in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Politician.

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York is most famous for being the father of King Edward IV.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York ranks 1,459 out of 15,577Before him are Symon Petliura, Carol I of Romania, Caroline Bonaparte, Egon Krenz, Peter I of Portugal, and Margaret Theresa of Spain. After him are Jehu, Ladislaus I of Hungary, Tvrtko I of Bosnia, Viktor Orbán, Meñli I Giray, and Baldwin I, Latin Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1411, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York ranks 1After him are Thomas of Bosnia and Juan de Mena. Among people deceased in 1460, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York ranks 2Before him is Prince Henry the Navigator. After him are Pachacuti, James II of Scotland, Gilles Binchois, John IV of Trebizond, Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, Guarino da Verona, Michael Szilágyi, Ma Huan, Petr Chelčický, and Gonçalo Velho Cabral.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York ranks 348 out of 7,765Before him are Marie of Romania (1875), Tristan (535), Anne Hathaway (1556), Thomas Paine (1737), Jackie Stewart (1939), and John Galsworthy (1867). After him are Richard Attenborough (1923), Colin Firth (1960), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Francis William Aston (1877), and Ronald Coase (1910).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York ranks 67Before him are David II of Scotland (1324), Anne Neville (1456), Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Marie of Romania (1875), and Tristan (535). After him are Æthelflæd (869), Oswald Mosley (1896), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Theresa May (1956), Boudica (33), and Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453).