Person:Richard Plantagenet (76)

Richard Plantagenet
b.1247
d.1256
Facts and Events
Name Richard Plantagenet
Gender Male
Birth? 1247
Death? 1256
Reference Number? Q75382075?

Disputed Lineages

Recent scholarship has questioned Richard's existence. The only surviving evidence for him appears to be late. Margaret Howell, for example, in her article on Eleanor of Provence in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, states that "[i]t is likely that Eleanor bore only five children." (The five were Edward I, Margaret, Beatrice, Edmund, and Katharine.)

References
  1.   Howell, Margaret. Eleanor, in Matthew H.C.G. (ed.), and Brian (ed.) Harrison. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: in association with The British Academy. (Oxford University Press).