Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland

Also known as: Edmund / Edmund earle of Rutland · Family: House of York · Role: younger son · First appears: Henry VI 56

Around 1459, Edmund fled secretly through Wales into Ireland with his father, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, where they were received with joy and honour: “Whervpon he with his yoonger sonne Edmund earle of Rutland, secretlie fled into Wales”. His sibling Edward IV, then Earl of March, was also named in the Yorkist cause.

In 1460, Henry VI’s parliament at Coventry attainted Edmund for high treason, along with Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, Edward IV, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, confiscating their goods and possessions. An act was also made against Edmund and his father at the prompting of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, William de la Pole, Earl of Wiltshire, and John Beaumont, Viscount Beaumont; Henry VI provided that the attainted nobles might be pardoned and restored if they came to him humbly. Later, Edmund was included with Edward IV in the required oath of fealty to Henry VI.