Conisburgh, Richard of (1385 - 1415)

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Plantagenet

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1385-07-20 (baptism date)

Death Date: 1415-08-05

Notes

'May have been the product of his mother's illicit liaison with John Holland, earl of Huntingdon (d. 1400)' [ODNB]; attainted for treason against Henry V and beheaded

Parents

Mother: Castile, Isabel of (1355 - 1392)

Father: Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402)

Marriages/Other Unions

Mortimer, Anne (1388 - 1411)
Type: marriage
Union began: 1408-5-23
Union ended: n.d.
Clifford, Maud ( - 1446)
Type: marriage
Union began: 1414
Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Female

Plantagenet, Constance (1375 - 1416)

Offspring

From Mortimer, Anne (1388 - 1411)
Male offspring: York, Richard of (1411 - 1460)
From Mortimer, Anne (1388 - 1411)
Female offspring: Plantagenet, Isabel ( - 1484)

Titles

4th Earl of Cambridge
Assumed: 1414-05-01
Vacated: 1415-08-05

Details of Offices

	Began
Almoner of England, England
Constable, Gloucestershire
Keeper, Channel Isles	1412 -5 -18

Event Naming Patron

Event Type	Date	Location	Troupe
Performance	1413 - 1414	Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon	Lord Richard (of York)'s Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name	Patron	Troupe Type	# of events
Lord Richard (of York)'s Minstrel/s	Conisburgh, Richard of (1385 - 1415)	Entertainers/Minstrels	1

Bibliographic Sources

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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.