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(the house of york was a cadet branch of the english royal “house of plantagenet”)
(3 of its members became ‘kings of england’ in the late 15th century.
(the ‘house of york’ was descended in the male line from ‘edmund of langley’, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of ‘Edward III’, but also represented Edward’s senior line, being cognatic descendants of ‘Lionel’, Duke of Clarence, Edward III’s second surviving son)
(it is based on these descents that they claimed the ‘english crown’)
(compared with the ‘house of lancaster’, it had a ‘senior claim’ to the ‘throne of england’ according to ‘cognatic primogeniture’ but ‘junior claim’ according to the ‘agnatic primogeniture’)
(the reign of this dynasty ended with the death of ‘Richard III’ of ‘england’ in 1485)
(it became extinct in the male line with the death of “Edward Plantagenet”, 17th Earl of Warwick in 1499)
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