Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York

Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, 1st Duke of Aumale (* 1373 probably in Norwich, † October 25, 1415 in Agincourt, Agincourt today, during the Battle of Agincourt ) was a grandson of King Edward III.

His parents were Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, fourth son of King Edward III. , And his wife Isabella of Castile, daughter of the Castilian King Pedro I the Cruel.

His younger brother was Richard of Conisburgh, 1st Earl of Cambridge. First, Edward led this adopted by his father title, but in 1414 he gave it back.

King Richard II put Edward in 1390 as the Earl of Rutland, in 1397 as the Duke of Aumale. After Richard II was deposed in 1399 and Henry Bolingbroke, the eldest son of John of Gaunt, the third son of Edward III. , As Henry IV came to the throne, Edward was the title of duke denied the ousted king because of his close personal relationship. However, by the death of his father in 1402 he inherited the title of Duke of easily York.

Unlike his brother Richard, who in 1415 tried to overthrow Henry V and, 5th Earl of March, to be replaced by a descendant of Lionel of Antwerp, Edmund Mortimer, from this but was delivered to the king and eventually executed, Edward stood faithfully Lancaster to his cousin. He accompanied the king in the battle of Agincourt, plunged in the densest fray and could not get up through the thronging people and horses. Edward was pressed into the mud of the battlefield and finally suffocated. He was the highest ranking loss of the British Army during the brilliant victory of Henry V over the French army.

Although Edward had no children from his marriage with Philippa of Mohun, the title of Duke of York did not go for his brother, Richard of betraying Henry V immediately over to his nephew Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York. Richard it was not until 1425, regain the title.