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Good Duke Humphrey
Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Henry
IV., said to have been murdered by Suffolk and Cardinal Beaufort. (Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iii. 2.)
Called “Good,” not for his philanthropy, but from his devotion to
the Church. He was an out-and-out Catholic.
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