Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester

(1390-1447)

15th-century English noble

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Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier, and literary patron. He was (as he styled himself) "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England, the brother of Henry V, and the uncle of Henry VI. Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years' War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew. A controversial figure, he has been characterised as reckless, unprincipled, and fractious, but is also noted for his intellectual activity and for being the first significant English patron of humanism, in the context of the Renaissance.

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Born	3 October 1390
Died	23 February 1447 (aged 56) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Zodiac	Libra
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