Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was (as he styled himself) "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fifth son of Henry IV, brother of Henry V, and uncle of Henry VI.

Humphrey of Lancaster
Duke of Gloucester
Gloucester in the frontispiece of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1445
Lord Protector of England
5 December 1422 – 6 November 1429
Regent	Henry VI
Born	3 October 1390 Kingdom of England
Died	== Humphrey, Duke Of Gloucester Media == Arms of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester: Arms of King Henry IV differenced by a bordure argent Jacqueline, Countess of Holland and Zeeland, c. 1435 Illuminated miniature of Humphrey and his second wife Eleanor from Thomas Walsingham's Book of Benefactors to St Albans, 1431. Cotton MS Nero D VII, British Library The interior of Duke Humphrey's Library, the oldest reading room of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford. The site of Humphrey's tomb in the Abbey of St Albans The first page of the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare, illustrating Henry VI, Part 2, with a subtitle emphasising Humphrey's death This historiated initial from an illuminated manuscript commissioned by Humphrey shows his arms, the arms of the kingdom, differenced by a bordure argent. MS Humfrey d2, c. 1442, Bodleian Library 23 February 1447(1447-02-23) (aged 56) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Kingdom of England
Burial	4 March 1447 St Albans Cathedral
Spouse‘s	Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (m. 1423; ann. 1428) Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester (m. 1431; ann. 1441)
Issue	Arthur of Gloucester (illegitimate) Antigone of Gloucester, Countess of Tankerville
House	Lancaster
Father	Henry IV of England
Mother	Mary de Bohun