Posts Tagged ‘Humphrey of Gloucester’
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Feb
23 FEBRUARY 1447
Death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, aged 56. He was the youngest son of Henry IV, brother of Henry V and Lord Protector to his young nephew Henry VI, who was only nine months when he succeeded his father. Humphrey is buried at St Albans Cathedral.
(Photograph of the Chantry of Humphrey of Gloucester in St Albans Cathedral © Dorothea Preis)
