Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester

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Thomas of Woodstock
Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Aumale, Earl of Buckingham and Earl of Essex
SuccessorHumphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham
Born7 January 1355
Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire
Died8 or 9 September 1397 (aged 42)
Calais, Pale of Calais
SpouseEleanor de Bohun
Issue
Detail
HousePlantagenet
FatherEdward III of England
MotherPhilippa of Hainault
Arms of Thomas of Woodstock: Royal arms of England (arms of his father King Edward III) with difference a bordure argent[1]
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

Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (7 January 1355 – 8 or 9 September 1397)[2] was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.

  1. ^ "marks of cadency in the British royal family". www.heraldica.org.
  2. ^ Weir 1999.