Edmund, Earl of Rutland

Edmund, Earl of Rutland (17 May 1443 – 30 December 1460) was the fourth child and second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville.

Oldhall was replaced by John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, who also held the office of Lord High Steward of Ireland.

According to Parliamentary decisions during his term, the Irish subjects were only bound to answer writs by the Great Seal of Ireland, held by the Lord Chancellors.

On the other hand, the House of Lancaster found its main Irish supporter in the person of James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond.

By the account given by Roderick O'Flanagan in his 1870 biography of Edmund: Urged by his tutor, a priest named Robert Aspell, he was no sooner aware that the field was lost than he sought safety by flight.

This was an impolitic appeal, for it denoted hopes of the House of York being again in the ascendant, which the Lancastrians, flushed with recent victory, regarded as impossible.

Thus fell, at the early age of seventeen, Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.However this story does not appear in any of the accounts of the battle written by the chroniclers of the time.