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“A Wrong Whom Conscience and Kindred Bid Me to Right:” A Reassessment of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, and the Usurpation of Henry IV*

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Douglas Biggs
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Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge, Duke of York. Just the mention of the name for most historians conjures the image of an historical figure with all the moral fortitude and intelligence of Rowan Atkinson's Black Adder. The fourth surviving son of Edward III, born too late to join in the glorious campaigns of his father, young Edmund became a pawn in the futile games of Plantagenet martial diplomacy. After his father's death, all of Edmund's incursions into the political arena resulted in total failure. Abroad, Earl Edmund's “monumental stupidity” in Portugal tore asunder John of Gaunt's grand strategy to acquire the throne of Castile. At home, Edmund of Langley's “lazy and indifferent” support of Richard II during the appeal of treason against the Duke of Ireland and a number of the young king's other favorites ensured the success of Thomas of Woodstock and the appellants. Though Edmund served as custodian of the realm during Richard's Irish campaign of 1394 and presided over Parliament the following year, such high office overmatched the Duke of York's abilities. Duke Edmund's “fatuous” vacillation in the face of Henry of Lancaster throughout the summer of 1399 cost Richard his throne. As the noted historian and natural philosopher David Hume observed, “The Duke of York was left as guardian of the realm; a place to which his birth entitled him, but which both his slender abilities, and his natural connections with the Duke of Lancaster, rendered him utterly incapable of filling in such a dangerous emergency.” Edmund of Langley's choice to “remain as neuter” in response to Henry of Bolingbroke, along with his treacherous submission to Duke Henry, allowed him and his family to survive the usurpation unscathed. But the new king could find no use for a man who possessed such titanic infidelity, and Henry quickly cast the loathsome York from council and government. Though York lived on until 1402 he remained on the periphery of the Lancastrian establishment. Even Duke Edmund's death attracted little notice, being, as-it-were, only a footnote to his colorless, uninspiring existence.

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Albion , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 253 - 272
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Copyright © North American Conference on British Studies 1994

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A version of this paper was delivered at the 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. I am grateful for the comments of the participants, especially those of Nigel Saul, Chris Given-Wilson, Colin Richmond, W. M. Ormrod, James Gillespie, and Joel Rosenthal.

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24 The Sheriff of Nottingham received an order to hold the castle of Nottingham against any save the king on 7 July (C.C.R., 1391–99, p. 507). Peter Courtenay, Constable of Windsor, received a letter close ordering him to distrain all those who ought to defend the castle in time of war on 12 July (C.C.R., 1391–99, p. 507).

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31 Dunstanburgh castle was held by Robert Swynhoe from 1 July (P.R.O., DL 29/11987), Kenilworth was held from 2 June by Robert Harbortel who purchased food and artillery for its defense (P.R.O., DL 42/15 f. 73).

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34 Walsingham, Thomas, Annales Ricardi Secundi et Henrici Quarti, ed. Riley, Henry Thomas (London: Rolls Series, 1866)Google Scholar: “Ipse vero Dux Eboraci protestabatur publice Ducem injuriose exhaeredatum; neque velle se molestare qui in justa cause venerat, ad repentendure daereditatem debitam sibi jure” (p. 244).

35 Traison et Mort, p. 186.

36 Johan Spicer et Walter Salesbury, vallets missis ad explorand de statum et proposite Henry Ducas Lancaster in denar eius libertas per manus proper pro vadris et expono suis eumodo et redemdo an exproloracoe praedicta. xxvi s. viii d.” (P.R.O., E 403/563 m. 15).

37 For a discussion of this Lancastrian propaganda see Strohm, Paul, “Saving the Appearances: Chaucer's Purse and the Fabrication of the Lancastrian Claim,” in Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context, ed. Hanawalt, B. A. (Minneapolis, 1992), pp. 21–40Google Scholar.

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40 Edward Hall proposed somewhat the same view of York's role, claiming that after Henry's entry into London he turned to York “whose help he much used” (Chronicle; Containing the History of England [London, 1809], p. 12Google Scholar). Rapin de Thoyras espoused much the same view as Hayward in the late seventeenth century (The History of England Written in French, trans. Tindal, N., 15 vols. [London, 1725–1731], 1: 472Google Scholar).

41 Strangely stubbs and Ramsay accepted this view of events and Edmund of Langley's role within them. Stubbs, William, Constitutional History of England, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1880) 2: 548Google Scholar; SirRamsay, James Henry, Genesis of Lancaster, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1913) 2: 353Google Scholar.

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43 In 1877 Queen Victoria paid to build a memorial chapel at the parish church of King's Langley to house the tomb of Edmund of Langley. During this process the tomb was opened and the contents examined. Five of Edmund's lower dorsal vertebrae were fused together as were two cervical vertebrae. The intense pain associated with such advanced arthritis would have left York unable even to move from his bed for weeks and perhaps months as a time. Even today with drug treatments, surgery, and physical therapy it takes tremendous will power and effort for people with this condition to go about their restricted daily lives, let alone ride a horse and remain active in political affairs (Evans, John, “Edmund of Langley and His Tomb,” Archaeologia 46 (1878): 297–328CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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45 Et ensi luy fist prince de Gales, duc de Comewaille, et cont de Cestre, et sur ceo luy fist amesner ensi arraiez par le due Deverwyk, uncle at nostre dit seignur le roi, a la see a luy ordeigne et assigne en parlement a cause de la principalte suisdit” (R.P., 3: 426); Wylie, James Hamilton, History of England under Henry IV, 4 vols. (London, 1884–1898), 1: 65Google Scholar.

46 Archbishop Roger supposedly levied “les pluseurs griefs & damages, wastes & destructions” upon the temporalities of his see (R.P., 3: 427).

47 R.P., 3: 459. For a text of the final judgment and a testament to York's presence at Shrewsbury when the announcement was made on 15 October 1400, see C.P.R., 1401–1405, p. 49.

48 York's attendance at Council on 4 and 9 December 1399 see, Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, 7 vols., ed. SirNicholas, N. Harris (London, 1834–1837), 2: 100, 101Google Scholar. It is difficult to accept J. L. Kirby's assertion regarding York's withdrawal from government by using only lack of Council attendance (Henry IV of England [London, 1970], p. 92Google Scholar). Though the first meetings of Henry's Council were unusually large and distinguished, attracting an average of fifteen men per meeting and counting among their number Edmund, Duke of York, and seven earls, such distinguished men soon abandoned the council and its work to those whose attention to governmental detail and administrative procedure exceeded their own. Few bishops and great peers attended after this except when Council took up matters which directly affected their interests. Brown, Alfred, “King's Councillors in Fifteenth-Century England,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th ser., 19 (1969): 98CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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50 York received appointments for the counties of Cambridge, Essex, Norfolk, Northampton, and Wiltshire, as well as Lincoln for the parts of Holand and Kesteven (C.P.R., 1399–1401, pp. 556–67); C.P.R., 1401–1405, p. 515–520.

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55 The list of witnesses for Henry IV's Charters are compiled from the Charter Rolls (P.R.O., C 53/168–173).

56 The close relationship between York and Henry may have existed from long before the summer of 1399. Even in the midst of the political upheaval in 1387–88, Henry found himself losing 26s. 8d. “ad pilam manualem” (hand ball) to two of York's retainers (Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 120 vols. [London, 1840–1958], 30: 35Google Scholar). York also stood by Henry as his bail after his imprisonment and before his rendezvous with Mowbray at the lists of Coventry (Traison et Mort, p. 142). Goodman suggests relations between York and Gaunt were equally as cordial because of their proximity in age and other factors (John of Gaunt, pp. 247–48).

57 The original grant of the office was 10 October 1399 (C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 31). Sir Baldwin Bereford, a Ricardian knight, held the office before York (C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 16; C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 127). The man appointed tender, Thomas Gyssyng, was most likely one of York's esquires.

58 C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 31. Edmund of Langley's passion for the hunt is best displayed in the often quoted passage from John Hardying's Chronicle: “When all [the] lordes to Councell and Parlyament [went,] / He woulde to hunt and also to hawkeyng” (The Chronicle of John Hardyng [London, 1812], p. 340–41Google Scholar).

59 Without exception York is referred to in all Henry IV's official documents from Exchequer and Chancery warrants for issue, to patents, to charter witness lists, and even entries on the issue and receipt rolls as “annuclo clarissimio nostro.”

60 P.R.O., C 53/167.

61 P.R.O., C 53/166; P.R.O., E 403/561.

62 Even at Michaelmas term 22 Richard II (1398–99) York's 500 mark annuity was 100 marks in arrears (P.R.O., E 403/561). For Henry's payment of arrears owed York see, P.R.O., E 403/564, 569. On 24 November 1399 Henry ordered the sheriff of Cambridge to pay his uncle £20 per annum for life and all arrears from the time of Edward III (C.C.R., 1399–1405, p. 15.

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67 This total is based on the Exchequer of Receipt, Receipt Rolls (E 401/617–623) and Issue Rolls (E 403/562–573), and the relevant Exchequer Warrants for Issue (E 404/15–17).

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70 P.R.O., E 401/621, 622.

71 P.R.O., E 401/622.

72 The Exchequer promised repayment of the £100 by 9 August, 6 Henry IV (1406) (P.R.O., E 401/623). Perhaps part of the reason for Edmund of York's preference at the Exchequer was his constant attendance at court, which Gerald Harriss argues went a long way towards receiving prompt payment of annuities (Harriss, G. L., “Preference at the Medieval Exchequer,” Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 30 (May 1957): 17–40CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

73 R.P., 3: 205–06.

74 C.P.R., 1385–1389, p. 62.

75 C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 501.

76 Order to customers in Kingston on Hull to pay £400 to the Duke of York dated 24 November 1399 (C.C.R., 1399–1405, pp. 15–16). Order to customers in St. Botolphus to pay 500 marks to the Duke of York on the same date (C.C.R., 1399–1405, p. 18).

77 Such problems in finding the money to support the dignity of Richard's first ducal creations were not restricted to York, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester suffered the same problems. For all of the troubles he encountered see, C.P.R., 1377–1381, p. 60, 372; C.P.R., 1385–1389, pp. 55, 147, 209, 224, 479; and R.P., 3: 206. For the Duke of Gloucester's problems in realizing his payments compare the views of Goodman, , The Loyal Conspiracy, pp. 90–92Google Scholar and Tuck, , Richard II and the English Nobility, pp. 101–02, 128Google Scholar.

78 C.P.R, 1399–1401, p. 501.

79 P.R.O., E 404/16/676.

80 Issue Rolls show York's payments at Michaelmas were fairly close to the yearly annuity promised for both 1 and 2 Henry IV (P.R.O., E 403/564. 565, 569, 570).

81 Though Henry did clear some of the arrears which the government owed Duke Edmund, the king could not clear them all, and the crown still owed the arrears of £239 6s. 8d. from the subsidies on wool which York received from the port of London at Duke Edward's death in 1415 (Johnson, , Richard Duke of York, p. 6Google Scholar).

82 C.P.R., 1401–1405, p. 93.

83 Grant of the lordship 10 October 1399, C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 31. Custody of the Mowbray estates within the lordship, 12 May 1400 (C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 280).

84 Grant made 28 November 1399, C.P.R., 1399–1401, pp. 144–45.

85 Grant made 4 December 1399, C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 151.

86 Grant made for Raleigh 30 April 1400, C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 262, for Hadleigh and Rochford-York, 17 July 1400, C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 354.

87 Richard II alienated the manors within the Duchy of Cornwall extensively, and for a number of years he retained only one manor, Penkneth, (Hatcher, John, Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall, 1300–1500, [Cambridge, 1970], pp. 137–39Google Scholar).

88 For a complete list of the charges against Richard, see, R.P., 3: 417–21Google Scholar.

89 The Prince's claim to Rising was in Chancery only shortly before 5 November 1402 (C.P.R., 1401–1405, p. 171).

90 C.P.R., 1401–1405, p. 209.

91 C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 79.

92 the only exceptions were two insignificant confirmations for Thomas, Earl of Kent, on 1 December 1399, giving the young earl 200 marks yearly and granting him six tuns of wine per annum at the port of Southampton. The price of these confirmations was a hefty 100 marks paid into the hanaper, which suggests Henry's largesse had to be purchased (C.P.R., 1399–1401, p. 163). Though both John and Thomas Holand attended Council on 4 and 9 December (P.O.P.C., 2: 100, 101), and witnessed two royal charters on 10 December 1399 (P.R.O., C. 33/168 m. 26), their subsequent rebellion suggests the familial bonds between the Holands and the king were not strong.

93 Percy received all of the military posts along the northern march, as well as the Isle of Man, and cash, assignments, and tallies from the exchequer averaging roughly £8,700 per annum from 1399–1402 (see Bean, , “Henry IV and the Percies,” p. 223Google Scholar). Neville, by contrast received the Honor of Richmond, which provided the Earl with roughly £1,418 per annum (Jones, M., Ducal Brittany, [Oxford, 1970], p. 181, and chapter 7 in generalGoogle Scholar).

94 McFarlane, K. B., The Nobility of Later Medieval England (Oxford, 1973), p. 281Google Scholar.