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Edmund, Earl of Rutland

1443 - 1460

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Edmund, Earl of Rutland (17 May 1443 – 30 December 1460), was the fourth child and second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville. He was a younger brother of Edward, Earl of March, the future King Edward IV who came to the throne in 1461, the year after Edmund's death. He was born in Rouen, then the capital of English-occupied France and his father held the office of Lieutenant of France. He was killed at the age of 17 either during or shortly after the Battle of Wakefield, during the Wars of the Roses. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Edmund, Earl of Rutland is the 14,966th most popular politician (down from 14,132nd in 2024), the 4,507th most popular biography from France (down from 4,304th in 2019) and the 857th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edmund, Earl of Rutland ranks 14,966 out of 19,576. Before him are John Podesta, Themba Masuku, Georgi Kyoseivanov, Fujiwara no Koretada, Mehdi Frashëri, and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. After him are Ernestas Galvanauskas, Jean-Jacques Willmar, Femke Halsema, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Cevdet Yılmaz, and Garret FitzGerald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1443, Edmund, Earl of Rutland ranks 15. Before him are Girolamo Riario, Pedro Arias Dávila, Piero del Pollaiolo, Gilbert, Count of Montpensier, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony, and Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.  Among people deceased in 1460, Edmund, Earl of Rutland ranks 17. Before him are Petr Chelčický, Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, Gonçalo Velho Cabral, Francesco II Acciaioli, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmund, Earl of Rutland ranks 4,507 out of 6,770. Before him are René Bazin (1853), Francis Blanche (1921), Charles Perrin (1875), Medhi Benatia (1987), Serhou Guirassy (1996), and Édouard Ménétries (1802). After him are Loïc Wacquant (1960), Georges Verriest (1909), Jean Vilar (1912), Norbert Eschmann (1933), Paul Chocque (1910), and Albert Dupontel (1964).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Edmund, Earl of Rutland ranks 857. Before him are Michel Maffesoli (1944), Simone Segouin (1925), Victor Bérard (1864), Jean-Claude Gaudin (1939), Luc Ferry (1951), and Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway (1648). After him are Claude Cheysson (1920), Érik Orsenna (1947), Jean, Count of Paris (1965), Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne (1618), Roselyne Bachelot (1946), and Alain Peyrefitte (1925).

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