Duke of Gloucester
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Duke of Gloucester is a British royal title, often conferred on one of the sons of the reigning monarch. The first four creations were in the Peerage of England and the last in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; the current creation carries with it the subsidiary titles of Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden.
Prince Richard, the current Duke of Gloucester
Image: Thomas Woodstock
Image: Humphrey Gloucester
Image: King Richard III
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
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Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock (left, identified by his arms) jousting in Vannes, Brittany, with John V The Conqueror, Duke of Bretagne, KG. Circa 1480, from a MS of Froissart's Chronicles in the British Library, London
Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel; Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester; Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham; Henry, Earl of Derby (later Henry IV); and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, demand that Richard II let them prove by arms the justice of their rebellion
Murder of Thomas of Woodstock in Calais