Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York
Isabella of Castile | |
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Edward, 2nd Duke of York Castilian House of Ivrea | |
Father | Peter of Castile |
Mother | María de Padilla |
Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York (1355 – 23 December 1392) was the daughter of
Life
Isabella was the youngest of the three daughters of King Peter of Castile by his favourite mistress, María de Padilla (d. 1361).[1]
On 21 September 1371, Edward III's fourth son,
As a result of her indiscretions, including an affair with King Richard II's half-brother, John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (d. 1400), whom Pugh terms 'violent and lawless', Isabella left behind a tarnished reputation, her loose morals being noted by the chronicler Thomas Walsingham. According to Pugh, the possibility that Holland was the father of Isabella's favourite son, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, 'cannot be ignored'.[4]
In her will, Isabel named King Richard as her heir, requesting him to grant her younger son, Richard, an annuity of 500 marks. The King complied. However, further largesse which might have been expected when Richard came of age was not to be, as King Richard II was deposed in 1399, and according to Harriss, Isabella's younger son, Richard, 'received no favours from the new King, Henry IV'.[5]
Isabella died 23 December 1392, aged about 37, and was buried 14 January 1393 at the
Isabella was appointed a Lady of the Garter in 1379.[8]
Issue
Isabella and Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, had three children:
- Philippa Mohun, third daughter of John Mohun, 2nd Lord Mohun (c. 1320 – 15 September 1375), and Joan Burghersh (d. 4 October 1404), daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh (c. 1304 – 3 August 1355), 3rd Baron Burghersh. Edward served in numerous administrative offices and military campaigns during the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and was slain at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415.[10]
- Edward. After the death of her husband she was either betrothed to or lived as the mistress of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (9 January 1382 – 15 September 1408), and had a daughter by him, Eleanor Holland (died c. 1459), who married James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley.[12]
- Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385 – 5 August 1415), who married Anne Mortimer, and was beheaded on 5 August 1415 for his role in the Southampton Plot.
Shakespeare and Isabella of Castile
Isabella is depicted, ahistorically, as living in late December 1399 at the time of the Epiphany Rising in Act V of Shakespeare's Richard II.
Footnotes
- ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 75–7; Pugh 1988, p. 89.
- ^ Tuck 2004; Pugh 1988, pp. 89–90.
- ^ Pugh 1988, p. 89.
- ^ Pugh 1988, pp. 90–1; Harriss 2004; Tuck 2004.
- ^ Pugh 1988, pp. 90–2; Harriss 2004.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, p. 898; Pugh 1988, p. 91.
- ^ Cokayne 1959, pp. 898–9; Pugh 1988, p. 91; Richardson II 2011, pp. 496–500.
- ^ Weir 2011, pp. 111
- ISBN 0-900455-25-X
- ^ Anthony Emery, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: East Anglia, Central England and Wales, Vol. 2, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 240.
- ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 75–8.
- ^ Richardson II 2011, pp. 75–8, 500–1; Pugh 1988, p. 79.
Works cited
- Cokayne, George Edward (1959). The Complete Peerage, edited by Geoffrey H. White. Vol. XII(2). London: St. Catherine Press.
- Harriss, G.L. (2004). "Richard, earl of Cambridge (1385–1415)". required.) (subscription required)
- Pugh, T.B. (1988). Henry V and the Southampton Plot of 1415. Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-8629-9541-8.
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1-4499-6638-1.)
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- Weir, Alison (2011). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. London. ISBN 978-1-4464-4911-0.)
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Further reading
- Horrox, Rosemary (2004). "Edward, second duke of York (c.1373–1415)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22356. Retrieved 18 October 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Reston, James, Dogs of God, New York: Doubleday, 2005.
- Tait, James (1896). 'Plantagenet', Edward. Vol. 45. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1890. pp. 401–4. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
External links
- For the tombs of Edmund of Langley and Isabella of Castile, see 'Friaries: King's Langley priory', A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 4 (1971), pp. 446–451.[1] Date accessed: 21 October 2012