When Edmund of Langley 1st Duke of York was born on 5 June 1341, in King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edward III King of England, was 28 and his mother, Philippa de Hainaut Queen consort of England, was 30. He married Isabel de Castilla, Duchess of York on 11 July 1372, in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 1 August 1402, in King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 61, and was buried in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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John Wycliffe, English theologian and professor at the University of Oxford, completed a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English. This translation is known as Wycliffe's Bible and was completed around 1382.
From an Old English personal name derived from ēad ‘prosperity, riches’ + mund ‘protector’. It was borne by several early royal and saintly figures, including a 9th-century king of East Anglia killed by invading Danes, allegedly for his adherence to Christianity. In the 16th and 17th centuries, there was a good deal of interchange between Edmund and Edward.
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Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, 1st Earl of Cambridge, Knight of the Garter, Warden of the West March. Founder of the House of York. Also known as Edmund Plantagenet Edmund was the seventh of tw …
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