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  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (January 7, 1355 – September 8 (or 9), 1397) was the thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa.
Thomas was murdered in Calais in 1397 on behalf of his nephew, King Richard II of England, causing an outcry amongst the nobility of England which is considered by many to have added to Richard's unpopularity.
Woodstock's wife's younger sister, Mary de Bohun, was subsequently married to Henry "Bolingbroke," who eventually became Henry IV of England.
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 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (January 7 1355 – September 8 (or 9), 1397) was the thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Queen Philippa.
Thomas was murdered in Calais in 1397 on behalf of his nephew, King Richard II of England.
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Early life, Offspring and heirs, References, 1355 births, 1397 deaths, Natives of Oxfordshire, Lord High Constables, Dukes in the Peerage of England and Knights of the Garter.
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 John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the third son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan "the fair maid of Kent", daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, a son of Edward I.
Later in 1386 he married Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaster.
His military servies were interrupted by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1394 (which may be connected with his earlier troubles with the Staffords).
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 Duke of Buckingham
On July 16, 1377, Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III of England, was created Earl of Buckingham.
His son, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was restored to the title upon Henry VII's ascension to the throne in 1485, but he was ultimately executed for treason in 1521 due to his opposition to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief advisor.
Dukes of Buckingham and Normanby (Peerage of the Unitd Kingdom)
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 AllRefer.com - Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of 1355–97, English nobleman; youngest son of Edward III.
He was betrothed (1374) to Eleanor, heiress of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and became earl of Buckingham at the coronation of Richard II (1377).
In 1385 he was created duke of Gloucester and soon emerged as the head of the baronial party, which in 1386 forced Richard to dismiss Michael de la Pole, 1st earl of Suffolk (see under Pole, family), as chancellor.
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 Earls of Westmorland - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
WESTMORLAND Ralph Neville, 4th Baron Neville of Raby, and 1st earl of Westmorland (1364-1425), eldest son of John, 3rd Baron Neville, and his wife Maud Percy (see Neville, Family), was knighted by Thomas of Woodstock, afterwards duke of Gloucester, during the French expedition of 1380, and succeeded to his father's barony in 1388.
In 1391 he was put on the commission which undertook the duties of constable in place of the duke of Gloucester, and he was repeatedly engaged in negotiations with the Scots.
He was a member of the council of the north in 1569 when he joined Thomas Percy, 7th earl of Northumberland, and his uncle Christopher Neville, in the Catholic rising of the north, which had as its object the liberation of Mary, queen of Scots.
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 Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He was the son of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
On his father's death in 1397 Holland became 3rd Earl of Kent, and was elected a Knight of the Garter.
At that time Kent's uncle Richard II was removing from power Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, and his associates, and sent Kent to arrest his own uncle - Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel.
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 Edward III of England Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Most notable among the dukes that Edward created was the Duke of Lancaster, Henry of Grosmont, Edward's most trusted military commander and one of his followers who helped him remove Roger Mortimer and his mother from power.
He had two sons: Edward, Duke of York, killed fighting alongside Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt, and Richard, Earl of Cambridge, executed by Henry V for treason (involving a plot to place heir presumptive Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Cambridge's brother-in-law and cousin, on the throne).
Thomas, who was one of the Lords Appellant influential under Richard II, was murdered or executed for treason, likely by the order of Richard II; his eventual heir was his daughter Anne, who married into the Stafford family, whose heirs became the Dukes of Buckingham.
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 AllRefer.com - Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He joined Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and the other baronial opponents of Richard II in 1387 and was one of the five lords appellant who "appealed" (i.e., accused) the king's favorites of treason and secured their conviction in the Merciless Parliament of 1388.
Gloucester was placed in his custody, and he was possibly responsible for his murder.
Although created duke of Norfolk in 1397, he began to fear that the king might turn on him and confided in the other remaining lord appellant, the duke of Hereford (later Henry IV).
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 Gloucester Thomas of Woodstock Duke Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
He was betrothed (1374) to Eleanor, heiress of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and became earl of Buckingham at the coronation of Richard II He was the king's lieutenant in France (1380), but returned to England after the failure of his siege of Nantes.
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 My Lines - Person Page 251
Thomas, "of Woodstock," 1st Duke of Gloucester, 13th Earl of Essex, and Earl of Buckingham was took, along with a small group of associates, known as the lords appellant, virtual control of the King Richard II's government.
Thomas (Beaufort), Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter was the youngest son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.
Thomas (Beaufort), Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter was buried in Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, Suffolk, England.
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 (Richard PLANTAGENET - John PLOWDEN )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Thomas PLANTAGENET (Earl of Norfolk) (1 Jun 1300 - ____)
Thomas of Clarence, Duke of Clarence, PLANTAGENET (29 Sep 1388 - ____)
Thomas of Woodstock PLANTAGENET (1st Duke of Gloucester) (7 Jan 1354 - 1397)
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 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402-1460) was best-known as a military commander in the Hundred Years' War and in the Wars of the Roses.
He was the son of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, and Anne of Gloucester, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock and a grand-daughter of Edward III of England.
1481), married Margaret Beaufort, daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and widow of Edmund Tudor.
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 Richard II - MSN Encarta
A younger son of Edward, Prince of Wales (the Black Prince), and Joan, called the Fair Maid of Kent, Richard was born on January 6, 1367, in Bordeaux, France.
He was created Prince of Wales in 1376, the year of his father's death, and was placed in the care of his uncle John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
Led by Richard's uncle Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, in 1388 a coterie of noblemen known in history as the lords appellant “appealed” or accused Richard's adherents of treason, banishing some and having others executed.
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 Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (22 March 1366 – 22 September 1399) was an English nobleman.
She was the eldest daughter of John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave and Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk, who was the eldest daughter of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, a son of Edward I of England and his second Queen consort Marguerite of France.
Later, in 1398, Norfolk quarrelled with Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV), apparently due to mutual suspicions stemming from their roles in the conspiracy against the Duke of Gloucester.
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 Edmund of Langley, duke of York - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
EDMUND OF LANGLEY YORK, Duke of (1341-1402), fifth son of Edward III., was born at King's Langley in Hertfordshire on the 5th of June 1341.
He accompanied his father on a campaign in France in 1359, was created earl of Cambridge in 1362, and took part in expeditions to France and Spain, being present at the sack of Limoges in 1370.
York was a man who preferred pleasure to business, and during the critical events of his nephew's reign he was content to be guided by his more ambitious brothers, the dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester.
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 Henry IV, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1387 he joined the opposition to King Richard II led by his uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and became one of the five “lords appellant” who ruled England in 1388–89.
However, in 1398 after a quarrel with Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk, whose confidence he betrayed to Richard, Hereford was banished for 10 years by the king.
The Percys (Sir Henry Percy, his father, the 1st earl of Northumberland, and his uncle, the earl of Worcester), once the king’s partisans, unexpectedly rebelled and were defeated at Shrewsbury in 1403.
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 24TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lionel of ANTWERP Duke of Clarence was born on 29 Nov 1338 in Antwerp, Belgium - son of Edward III of England.
Edmund of LANGLEY Duke of York was born about 1341 in King's Langley.
Thomas of WOODSTOCK Earl of Buckingham Duke of Gloucest was born on 7 Jan 1354 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, ENGLAND son of Edward III.
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 Category "Dukes in the Peerage of England" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
Category "Dukes in the Peerage of England", British dukes and Peers of England.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE OF [Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of] 1355-97, English nobleman; youngest son of Edward III.
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 Richard II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As Richard began to take over the business of government himself, he sidelined many of the established nobles, such as Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
Instead he turned to his inner circle of favourites for his council, men such as his beloved Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford and Michael de la Pole whom Richard created Earl of Suffolk and made chancellor of England.
In 1397 Richard decided to rid himself of the Lords Appellant who were confining his power, on the pretext of an aristocratic plot.
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 Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, duke of, 1355–97, English nobleman; youngest son of
He was betrothed (1374) to Eleanor, heiress of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, and became earl of Buckingham at the coronation of
In 1385 he was created duke of Gloucester and soon emerged as the head of the baronial party, which in 1386 forced Richard to dismiss Michael de la Pole, 1st earl of Suffolk (see under
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 Mary I of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shortly thereafter, Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally declared the marriage with Catherine void and the marriage with Anne valid.
Under the guidance of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Edward VI instead devised the Crown to the Lady Jane Grey, a descendant of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk, and the Duke of Northumberland's daughter-in-law.
The young Sir Thomas Wyatt led a force from Kent, and was not defeated until he had arrived at London's gates.
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