Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

Humphrey of Lancaster
Duke of Gloucester
c. 16th-century drawing based on contemporary portrait (from the Recueil d'Arras)
Born3 October 1390
Died23 February 1447 (aged 56)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Burial4 March 1447
St Albans Abbey
SpouseJacqueline of Hainaut
(m. 1422, ann. 1428)
Eleanor Cobham
(m. 1428–1431, ann. c. 1441)
IssueArthur of Gloucester (illegitimate);
Antigone, Countess of Tankerville (illegitimate)
HouseLancaster
FatherHenry IV of England
MotherMary de Bohun

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.Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years' War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew.