NameThomas of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Duke of Gloucester
Birth7 Jan 1355, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England
Death8 Sep 1397, Prince's Inn, Calais, France
Death Memomurdered
BurialCollegiate Church of the Holy Trinity
OccupationPrince of England
Spouses
Birthabt 1366
Death3 Oct 1399, Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London
Notes for Thomas of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas Plantagenet of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
Acceded: 6 AUG 1385, Hoselow Lodge, Tividale
Interred: Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity
Earl of Buckingham, Earl of Essex, Duke of Aumale. Murdered. Weir says killed 8/9 Sep 1397 as does The Complete Peerage, but others show 15 Sep. The Complete Peerage vol.V,pp719-729 & p.136. Smothered at the Inn he was staying at.
Prince Thomas PLANTAGENET of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester was born on 7 Jan 1355 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. He died on 9 Sep 1397 in Calais, Pas-De-Calais, France. He was buried in St. Edmunds, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Plantagenet, surname, originally nickname, of the English royal house of Anjou or the Angevin dynasty, founded by Geoffrey IV, count of Anjou (1113-51), husband of Matilda (1102-67), daughter of King Henry I of England. The name is derived from the Latin planta (“sprig”) and genista (“broom plant”), in reference to the sprig that Geoffrey always wore in his cap. Reigning from 1154 to 1485, the Plantagenet kings, in the main line of descent, were Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II; through the house of Lancaster, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI; and through the house of York, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III.
Married 1374 to de Bohun, Eleanor, Lady
Child 1: de Bohun, Humphrey of Buckingham, Earl of Buckingham, b. ABT 1381
Child 2: Plantagenet, Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford, b. APR 1383
Child 3: Plantagenet, Joan of Gloucester, b. ABT 1384
Child 4: Plantagenet, Isabella of Gloucester, a Nun, b. 12 MAR 1385
Child 5: Plantagenet, Philippa of Gloucester, b. CIR 1389
Notes for Thomas of Woodstock Plantagenet 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock. Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham also bore these arms
Thomas of Woodstock had borne the royal arms of England, but within a white bordure, to indicate that he was a younger son of the sovereign.
Notes for Eleanor (Spouse 1)
Lived as a Nun at Barking Following her husbands murder
Child 1: de Bohun, Humphrey of Buckingham, Earl of Buckingham, b. ABT 1381
Child 2: Plantagenet, Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford, b. APR 1383
Child 3: Plantagenet, Joan of Gloucester, b. ABT 1384
Child 4: Plantagenet, Isabella of Gloucester, a Nun, b. 12 MAR 1385
Child 5: Plantagenet, Philippa of Gloucester, b. CIR 1389