Richard, Earl of Cambridge (d. 1415) - illegitimate??

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Richard, Earl of Cambridge (d. 1415) - illegitimate??

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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:26:44
From: "John Higgins" <jthiggins@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Richard, Earl of Cambridge (d. 1415) - illegitimate??
To: "Gen-Med" _gen-medieval@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:gen-medieval@rootsweb.com)

The grandfather of King Edward IV was Richard "of Conisburgh", Earl of
Cambridge, who was executed in 1415 after being implicated in a plot against King
Henry V shortly before the battle of Agincourt. A recently published history
of that battle, written by Juliet Barker, discusses the "Southampton plot"
in which Richard was involved, and an endnote in the book mentions (rather
off-handedly) that Richard was "probably illegitimate". I hadn't heard of this
conjecture before, and I'm not presently able to check out the limited
sources mentioned by the author. Is anyone familiar with this story - or what the
basis for it is?



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Date: 22 Dec 2003 00:30:41
From: _batruth@hotmail.com_ (mailto:batruth@hotmail.com) (Brad Verity)
To: _GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com)
Subject: Re: Britain's Real Monarch

There is contemporary evidence that Duchess Cecily Neville's father-in-law
Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge, was illegitimate, as historian T.B.
Pugh discusses. His mother's affair with John Holland was reported in
chronicles in the 1380s (when Richard was conceived and born), and Edmund of
Langley, Duke of York, curiously makes no mention or provision at all in his will
for his younger son.

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