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Edmund was a younger brother of Edward IV Of England and an older brother of Margaret Of Burgundy , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke Of Clarence and Richard III Of England . He was styled Earl Of Rutland . He died at the age of seventeen after the Battle Of Wakefield ( December 30 , 1460) during the Wars Of The Roses , executed on the orders of the Lancastrian Lord Clifford , or by some accounts, by Lord Clifford himself. His head was displayed on the gates of York , England , along with those of his father and of his uncle, Richard Neville, 5th Earl Of Salisbury . In Shakespeare 's play, '' Henry VI, Part 3 '', Rutland is inaccurately portrayed as a small child who is brutally murdered by Clifford after pleading for his life. |