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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,220
(Silver, 0.56 grams, 8.81 mm.).
Circa 1440-1460 AD. A silver hawking leg ring or vervel inscribed '+Earle of Rutland' in derivative black letter script, for a female merlin or sparrowhawk (due to the youth of Edmund Plantagenet who died aged 17).
PROVENANCE:
Ex Bursnall collection, Leicestershire, UK; acquired in the 1960's.
FOOTNOTES:
Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland was executed after the Battle of Wakefield (probably by John Clifford) and was the son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (a great-grandson of Edward III, father of Edward IV and one of the most powerful English magnates during the Wars of the Roses between the Yorkists and Lancastrians). The first Earl of Rutland was Edmund Plantagenet (grandson of Edward III and executed following the Southampton Plot against Henry V), uncle to Richard. The Earldom of Rutland has historically been closely linked to the Duchy and House of York.
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