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Edmund, Earl of Rutland
Edmund, Earl of Rutland was the second surviving son of Richard, Duke of York, younger brother of Edward IV and older brother to Richard III. Born 1443, styled Earl of Rutland. He died at the age of seventeen in 1460 after the Battle of Wakefield during the Wars of the Roses, executed on the orders of the Lancastrian Lord Clifford. His head was displayed on the gates of York, England, along with his father's and uncle's Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury.
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