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Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402)

Other Last Name

Plantagenet

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1341-06-05
Death Date: 1402-08-01

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1372-7-11
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1393
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Male

Female

Primary Title

  • 2nd Earl of Cambridge

Titles

  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1361-04
    Vacated: 1402-08-01
  • 2nd Earl of Cambridge
    Assumed: 1362-11-13
    Vacated: 1402-08-01
  • 1st Duke of York
    Assumed: 1385-08-06
    Vacated: 1402-08-01

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Constable, Kent 1376 -6 -12 1380/1 -02 -1
Warden, Kent 1376 -6 -12 1380/1 -02 -1 Cinque Ports also in Sussex
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1377 1378
JP, Kent 1377 1380
Commissioner of Array, Kent 1380
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1386
Privy Councillor, England 1386 -11 -19
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, London 1392
Guardian of the Realm, England 1394 -9 -29 1395 -05 -11 possibly relinquished office 7 May 1395
Guardian of the Realm, England 1396 -8 -6 1396 -08 -22
Guardian of the Realm, England 1396 -9 -27 1396 -11 -16 possibly relinquished office 11 Nov. 1396
Steward of England, England 1398/9 -3 -20 1402 -08 -1
Guardian of the Realm, England 1399 -5 -29 1399 -07 -31 possibly relinquished office 19 July 1399
JP, Essex 1399 1402
Master of the Falcons and Keeper of the Mews, England 1399 -10 -10 1402 -08 -1

Lands

  • Essex
  • London (city-county)

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Earl of Cambridge's Entertainers
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels
Performance - Kenilworth Castle, Kenilworth, Warwickshire Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels
Performance - Leicester Castle, Leicester Castle, Leicestershire Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels
Performance - Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Cambridge's Minstrels Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Earl of Cambridge's Entertainers Langley, Edmund of (1341 - 1402) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

  • 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.