Brief Life History of Isabel
When Isabel of Cambridge was born about 1409, in Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, England, her father, Richard of Conisbrough, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was 25 and her mother, Anne de Mortimer, Countess of Cambridge, was 22. She married Thomas Grey about 1422. She died on 2 October 1484, in Little Easton, Essex, England, at the age of 76, and was buried in Little Easton, Essex, England.
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- Isabel Plantagenet Bourchier, "Find A Grave Index"
- Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents
- Isabel of Cambridge at Wikipedia
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
German: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman, from orfe, a species of freshwater fish. Alternatively, a habitational name from Urff near Kassel, formerly Orpha.
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