Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
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Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. He was, and styled himself as, "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Hen
c. 16th-century drawing based on contemporary portrait (from the Recueil d'Arras)
Gloucester in the frontispiece of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1445
Jacqueline, Countess of Holland and Zeeland, c. 1435
Illuminated miniature of Humphrey and his second wife Eleanor from Thomas Walsingham's Book of Benefactors to St Albans, 1431. Cotton MS Nero D VII, British Library
Jacqueline, of the House of Wittelsbach, was a noblewoman who ruled the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut in the Low Countries from 1417 to 1433. She was also Dauphine of France for a short tim
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
…Countries. Humphrey was associated with contemporary ideals of chivalry and was regarded by some as embodying aspects of that tradition. His marriage to Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, played a significant role in his political and military activities in the Low Countries. His learned, widely read, scholarly approach to the early…
Portrait of Jacqueline by Lambert van Eyck
Jacqueline of Bavaria and Margaret of Burgundy before the walls of Gorinchem, 1417