One Throw of the Dice: The Life of Richard of Conisborough

Description

The life of Richard of Conisborough, earl of Cambridge, was short and only memorable for the unsuccessful plot against Henry V in 1415, on the eve of the Agincourt campaign. However, his life has some hsitorical signifi-cance. Two of his grandsons became kings of England as Edward IV and Richard III and he had royal ancestors through both parents. Bryan Dunleavy portrays his life against the background of plots during the reign of Henry IV and describes his own fateful conspiracy of 1415. There have always been questions about Richard’s paternity. Was Edmund of Langley really his father, and was he really a Plantagenet? intriguing questions which may cause us to reconsider whether the Yorkists were Plantagenets after all!