Anne of Gloucester
Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford (30 April 1383 – 16 October 1438) was the eldest daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, and Eleanor de Bohun.
Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was king of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.
Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe.
His long reign of 50 years was the second-longest in medieval England (after that of his great-grandfather Henry III) and saw vital developments in legislation and government, in particular the evolution of the English Parliament, as well as the ravages of the Black Death.
Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed by his mother, Isabella of France, and her lover Roger Mortimer.
At age seventeen he led a successful coup d'état against Mortimer, the de facto ruler of the country, and began his personal reign.
After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337.
This started what became known as the Hundred Years' War.
Following some initial setbacks, this first phase of the war went exceptionally well for England; victories at Crécy and Poitiers led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny, in which England made territorial gains, and Edward renounced his claim to the French throne.
This phase would become known as the Edwardian War.
Edward's later years were marked by international failure and domestic strife, largely as a result of his inactivity and poor health.
Edward III was a temperamental man but capable of unusual clemency.
He was in many ways a conventional king whose main interest was warfare.
Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs, but modern historians credit him with some significant achievements.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, 1st Duke of Liria and Jérica, 1st Duke of Fitz- James( 21 August 1670 – 12 June 1734) was an Anglo- French military leader, illegitimate son of King James II of England by Arabella Churchill, sister of the 1st Duke of Marlborough.
Berwick was a successful general in the pay of Louis XIV of France.
Ernest Blackie
Ernest Morell Blackie( 19 August 1867 – 1943) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Blackie was born in Leamington Spa and educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and the University of London.
Ordained in 1891, he was a curate at St Mark's Gloucester and then a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral until 1900.
He later became the rector of Limpsfield and then St Paul's York Place, Edinburgh before becoming the vicar of Windsor and an Honorary Chaplain to the King.
From 1921 to 1937 he was a residentiary canon at Lincoln Cathedral and for seven years a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln( five as Suffragan Bishop of Grantham and two as Bishop of Grimsby) before his final appointment as Dean of Rochester, a position he held until his death in 1943.
In 1903 Blackie married Caroline Stewart, daughter of James Haldane Stewart Jr. and Emily Leveson- Gower of Titsey Place.
Her father was the son of James Haldane Stewart senior( the 19th century ecumenical prelate) and Mary Dale, daughter of David Dale.
Emily Leveson- Gower was a member of one of Britain's most aristocratic families and was a descendant of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle- upon- Tyne, Clarence, Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick or Warwick the Kingmaker William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford and John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex as well as Henry VII of England and James V of Scotland.
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (7 January 13558 or 9 September 1397) was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, 1st Earl of Huntingdon( c. 1352 – 16 January 1400), KG, of Dartington Hall in Devon, was a half- brother of King Richard II( 1377 – 1399), to whom he remained strongly loyal.
He is primarily remembered for being suspected of assisting in the downfall of King Richard's uncle Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester( 1355 – 1397)( youngest son of King Edward III) and then for conspiring against King Richard's first cousin and eventual deposer, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV( 1399 – 1413).
Nicholas Colfox
Sir Nicholas Colfox( flourished 1400) was a medieval English knight who in 1397 was involved in the murder of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, uncle of King Richard II, apparently on the orders of the king.
Colfox's involvement in the killing may have been alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer's" Nun's Priest's Tale", in which a duplicitous fox is referred to as a" Colfox" and described as" liking to murder men".
Antigone of Gloucester, Countess of Tankerville
Antigone of Gloucester was an English noblewoman and the illegitimate daughter of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester( 1390 – 1447).
She was the granddaughter of King Henry IV.
She is thought to have been born between 1425 and 1428.
Her date of death is not known, but it was later than 1450.
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Aubigny( 29 July 167227 May 1723), of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was an illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.
Ralph Basset, 3rd Baron Basset of Drayton
Ralph Basset, 3rd Baron Basset of Drayton( or alternatively 4th Baron Basset) KG( 1335 – 10 May 1390) was a medieval English soldier knight, one of the earliest appointed Knights of the Garter.
He was the son of Ralph Basset and his wife Alice, the daughter of Nicholas, Baron Audley.
His father predeceased his own father Ralph Basset, 2nd Baron Basset of Drayton in 1335 so Ralph junior thus succeeded his grandfather in 1343 to the title and estates at the age of 8.
In 1355 he was summoned to join the army of the Black Prince in the French campaign and in 1356 was present in the English victory at Poitiers.
On his return he was called to the House of Lords.
In 1359 he was with Edward III in France on his campaign to claim the French throne which ended with Peace of Brétigny the following year.
He was present at other French campaigns in 1365 and 1368, and in the latter year was admitted to the Order of the Garter to fill the empty place caused by the death of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.
In 1369 he was back in France fighting in a diversionary campaign under the Duke of Lancaster.
On the accession of King Richard II in 1377 he was yet again ordered to France, serving firstly in an abortive campaign under Sir John Arundel and secondly under Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
In 1385 he was in a disastrous campaign in Spain with John of Gaunt.
He died without issue in 1390, leaving a widow Joan, and was interred in Lichfield cathedral.
His heirs were Thomas Stafford, 3rd Earl of Stafford and Alice, wife of Sir William Chaworth.

Question: When did Thomas Of Woodstock, 1St Duke Of Gloucester's father die?
Answer: 21 June 1377