Richard 'of Conisburgh' Of YORK

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• Name: Richard Of Cambridge
• Fact: 1 May 1414, Earl of Cambridge

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Having conspired (with Scrope of Masham and Grey of Heton) to depose King Henry V and set up in his place the Earl of March (the heir general of King Edward III), Richard of Cambridge, Earl of Cambridge, was attained and beheaded at Southampton Green on 5 Aug. 1415, buried in the Chapel of 'God's House' at Southampton.

Richard married Anne DE MORTIMER on 23 May 1408 in with Papal dispensation. Anne (daughter of Roger VI DE MORTIMER and Alianor I DE HOLAND) was born on 27 Dec 1390; died in Sep 1411; was buried in King's Langley, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Maud DE CLIFFORD about 1414. Maud (daughter of Thomas DE CLIFFORD and Elizabeth DE ROS) died on 25 Aug 1446; was buried in Abbey of Roche, co. York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Burial: Beeleigh Abbey, Maldon, Essex

Family/Spouse: Thomas GREY. Thomas died before 26 Jul 1443. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Henry BOURCHIER before 25 Apr 1426. Henry (son of Sir William BOURCHIER and Anne Of GLOUCESTER) was born in 1406; died on 04 Apr 1483; was buried in Bylegh by Maldon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Lord Mortimer of Wigmore
• Fact: Earl of March
• Fact: Earl of Ulster
• Name: Richard of York
• Fact: 19 May 1426, 3rd Duke of York
• Burial: 30 Jul 1476, Fotheringhay

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Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, son and heir, was born on 21 Sep 1411, and was nephew and heir of Edward 'of Norwich'. He was restored as 3rd Duke of York on 19 ay 1426, though his father's attainder was not reversed till 1461. In right of his mother, heiress of the line of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 3rd son of Edward III, he claimed the throne in 1460 against the Lancastrian Dynasty represented by King Henry VI.

Richard assumed the name 'Plantagenet' apparently about 1448. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, was slain at Wakefield on 30 Dec 1460, fighting against the supporters of King Henry VI.

Richard married Cecily DE NEVILLE between 1437 and 1438. Cecily (daughter of Ralph DE NEVILLE, K.G. and Joan BEAUFORT) was born on 03 May 1415 in Raby Castle; died on 31 May 1495 in Berkhamsted Castle; was buried in Fotheinghay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Isabel BARRE before 1472. Isabel died between 01 Mar 1488 and 1489. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Lord Cromwell

Humphrey married Joan STANHOPE between 14 Feb 1455 and 1456. Joan (daughter of Richard STANHOPE and Maud CROMWELL) died on 10 Mar 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth FERRERS before 02 May 1462. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry FERRERS and Isabel DE MOWBRAY) died on 23 Jan 1482/3. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Viscount Bourchier

William married Anne WOODVILLE before 15 Aug 1467. Anne (daughter of Richard WOODVILLE and Jacquetta Of LUXEMBOURG) died on 30 Jul 1489; was buried in Warden, Bedfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth SCALES. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas DE SCALES and ? UNKNOWN) died on 02 Sep 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Henry DE HOLAND before 30 Jul 1447, and was divorced on 12 Nov 1472. Henry (son of John DE HOLAND and Anne STAFFORD) was born on 27 Jun 1430 in Tower of London; died in Sep 1475 in Found dead in the English Channel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas SAINT LEGER between 1472 and 1473. Thomas was born in Ulcombe, Kent, England; died on 8 Nov 1483 in Beheaded at Exeter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: bet. 1461-1470, King of England
• Fact 1: Between 1471-1483, King of England

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Edward IV Plantagenet, eldest surviving son and heir, born at Rouen 28 Apr 1442, known as Earl of March till he succeeded his father on 30 Dec 1460 as 4th Duke of York, proclaimed King of England by his supporters on 4 mar 1461, and crowned at Westminster on 29 June 1461, deposed by Richard Neville 'the Kingmaker', 1st Earl of Warwick and 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and fled to Flanders, returned to England 14 Mar 1471, and defeated Warwick and the Lancastrians at Barnet on 14 Apr 1471, and at Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471, died at Westminster 9 Apr 1483, buried St. George's Chapel, Windsor; married, privately, at the manor house of the bride's father at Grafton Regis, co. Northhampton, 1 May 1464, Elizabeth Wydeville (Woodville), born about 1437, crowned at Westminster 26 May 1465, died testate at Bermondsey Abbey, where for some time she had resided, or had been compelled by King Henry VII to reside, on 8 June 1492, buried with the King, her second husband.

Edward IV came to the throne with two aims: to restore the system of justice and to improve royal finances, both of which had suffered during the reign of Henry VI. Edward proved himself an able ruler, and during his reign, which was briefly interrupted, the country enjoyed a well-deserved period of peace.

When Edward became King at the age of 18, he was described by many as a beautiful young man, about 2 metres (6 feet) tall, with polished manners and a genial disposition.

Edward married Elizabeth WOODVILLE on 01 May 1464 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard WOODVILLE and Jacquetta Of LUXEMBOURG) was born about 1437; died in 7 or 8 June 1492. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Burial: Between 22 and 29 Jul 1466, Fotheringhay

Elizabeth married John DE LA POLE between 1458 and Aug 1461. John (son of William DE LA POLE and Alice CHAUCER) was born on 27 Sep 1442; died between 29 Oct 1491 and 27 Oct 1492; was buried in Wingfield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Charles I The Bold Duke Of BURGUNDY on 03 Jul 1468 in Dame. Charles (son of Philip III The Good Duke Of BURGUNDY and Isabel Of PORTUGAL) was born on 10 Nov 1433; died on 05 Jan 1477 in Killed - Battle of Nancy; was buried in St. George's Church, Nancy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: 28 Jun 1461, Duke of Clarence
• Fact: 25 Mar 1471/2, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury
• Fact 2: 20 May 1472, Great Chamberlain of England

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George Plantagenet, K.G., sixth but third surviving son, was born at Dublin Castle on 21 Oct. 1449. He was created Duke of Clarence by his brother King Edward IV on 28 Jun 1461. He was first summoned to Parliament on 28 Feb 1466/7.
He joined his father-in-law in the rebellion against the King (his brother) in favour of the deposed King, Henry VI, but, changing sides, assisted in King Edward's victory at Barnet on 14 Apr 1471. In this battle his wife's father was slain whereupon he, 'in consideration of that his marriage', was created Earl of Warwick and Earl of Salisbury on 25 mar 1471/2, and on 20 May 1472 made Great Chamberlain of England. Isabel Neville died at Warwick Castle on 22 Dec 1476, and was buried at Tewkesbury. He proposed a second marriage with Mary, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, a match which was much opposed by the Queen Consort. He was accused of high treason against his brother King Edward IV, found guilty, and attainted on 8 Feb 1477/8, whereby all his honours were forfeited. He was executed in the Tower aged twenty-eight in 18 Feb 1478, said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abby.

George married Isabel NEVILLE on 11 Jul 1469 in Calais, church of Notre Dame. Isabel (daughter of Richard NEVILLE and Anne DE BEAUCHAMP) was born on 05 Sep 1451 in Warwick Castle, England; died on 12 Dec 1476 in Warwick Castle; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reigned: Between 1483 and 1485

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Richard III Plantagenet, youngest son, born 2 Oct 1452, created Duke of Gloucester by his brother King Edward IV 1 Nov. 1461, Lord Protector 1483, deposed his nephew Edward V and usurped the throne 26 June 1483, crowned King of England 6 July 1483, slain at the Battle of Bosworth 22 Aug. 1485 fighting against the invader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.

Richard III was king for barely two years, but once he was dead, historians, clerics and even playwrights fell over themselves to blacken his name. Most of the propaganda was designed to serve the Tudor dynasty, which began when Henry VII's army defeated and killed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in more recent time,s historians have questioned whether Richard III really deserves his evil reputation.

Tall, lean, and with slender limbs. Richard was a handsome man. Contrary to William Shakespeare's portrayal of the King in 'The Life and Death of King Richard III', there is no evidence that Richard was a hunchback, although he might have had one shoulder slightly higher than the other. Devoted to his brother Edward, and reliable in all the many tasks Edward asked him to do, Richard was undoubtedly courageous and proved in his very short reign to be an energetic, painstaking, and just ruler.

On 22 August 1485, the 8,000-strong army of Henry Tudor faced Richard's 12,000-strong army in fields just outside the town of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire. Richard's support soon ebbed away, but he himself dived courageously into the thick of battle, coming within a sword's length of Henry Tudor before he was cut down.

Richard married Anne NEVILLE on 12 Jul 1472 in Westminster. Anne (daughter of Richard NEVILLE and Anne DE BEAUCHAMP) was born on 11 Jun 1456 in Warwick Castle, England; died on 16 Mar 1485 in Westminster Palace; was buried in Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas GREY in Oct 1466 in Greenwich. Thomas (son of John GREY, Knt. and Elizabeth WOODVILLE) was born in 1451; died on 20 Sep 1501; was buried in Astley, co. Warwick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Sir George MANNERS, Knt. about 1490. George (son of Sir Robert MANNERS, Knt. and Alianor DE ROS) was born about 1470 in of East Compton,Surrey, and Etal, Northumberland; died on 27 Oct 1513 in died testate of illness at the siege of Tournay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Henry VII King Of ENGLAND on 18 Jan 1486 in Westminster. Henry (son of Edmund TUDOR and Margaret BEAUFORT) was born on 28 Jan 1457 in Pembroke Castle, Wales; died on 21 Apr 1509 in Richmond Palace; was buried in Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Viscount John WELLES. John died on 9 Feb 1498. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas KYME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward V Plantagenet, son and heir born in sanctuary at Westminster on 4 Nov. 1470 while his father was in exile, succeeded father as King of England 9 Apr 1483, but was deposed by his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, 25 June 1483, before he had been crowned said to have died in the Tower, with his brother Richard, but appears to have been living at the accession of King Henry VII; if murdered, then at the direction of that King rather than by King Richard III.

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• Fact: Said to have been murdered in the Tower with his older brother
• Fact: 28 May 1474, Created Duke of York

Richard married Anne DE MOWBRAY on 15 Jan 1478 in Westminster. Anne (daughter of John DE MOWBRAY, VII and Elizabeth TALBOT) was born on 10 Oct 1472; died on 19 Nov 1481 in Greenwich; was buried in Chapel of St. Erasmus, Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas HOWARD on 4 Feb 1495 in Greenwich. Thomas (son of Sir Thomas HOWARD and Elizabeth TYLNEY) was born in 1473; died on 25 Aug 1554. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William COURTENAY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Was a Nun

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• Residence: 3rd Earl of Suffolk

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Excerpts from Blood Royal: edmund was imprisoned in the Tower for seven years and, "without any further proceedings against him, was beheaded on Tower Hill.

Edmund married Margaret SCROPE before 10 Oct 1496. Margaret (daughter of Richard SCROPE and Eleanor WASHBOURNE) died between Feb 1514 and 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: A Priest

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• Fact: Unmarried
• Fact: Killed while fighting for the French King

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• Fact 4: 1484-85, Chief Gov. of Ireland, as Lord Lieut.
• Fact: 13 Mar 1467, Earl of Lincoln
• Fact 1: 18 Apr 1475, K.B.
• Fact: 1483, President of the Council of the North
• Fact 2: 7 Jul 1483, Bearer of the orb at the Coronation of King Richard III

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John married (2) the daughter and heiress of John Golafre. No issues.

Family/Spouse: Margaret FITZ ALAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Archbishop of Richmond

Family/Spouse: Henry LOVEL. Henry died on 13 Jun 1489 in Slain with a gun at Dixmude in Flanders; was buried in Calais. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Catherine STOURTON between 1497 and 08 Jun 1501. Catherine (daughter of William STOURTON and Margaret CHIDIOCK) died on 25 Nov 1521 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Countess of Salisbury

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Excerpt from Blood Royal: Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, was the devoted governess of the young Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, King of England, and was considered by the Princess as a second mother. Margaret was mother of Reginald Pole, Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, who refused to support Henry VIII in his break with Rome. Henry VIII has her imprisoned in the Tower where she would remain about two years, suffering "by the severity of the weather and the insufficiency of her clothing." Early on the morning of 27 May 1541, she was beheaded, despite the fact she was nearing the age of seventy. "The executioner was a clumsy novice, who hideously hacked her neck and shoulders before the decapitation was accomplished." When Pole heard of his mother's execution ("without trial or formal charge"), he is reported to have said, "I am now the son of a martyr." It is believed that Henry VIII, despite the fact that he had once called her the most saintly woman in England, was executing Margaret because he could not get at the son.

There are varying accounts of her execution. Some sources describe the Countess as refusing to place her head on the block. Stating that she had done nothing traitorous, she fled from the executioner, who chased her around the courtyard, hacking her with the axe.

From "The Worthies of England, 1952, pg 612": On the scaffold, as she stood, she would not gratify the executioner with a prostrate posture of her body." Since the countess refused to put her head on the block, "Here happened an unequal contest betwixt weakness and strength, age and youth, nakedness and weapons, nobility and baseness, a princess and an executioner, who at last dragging her by the hair, grey with age, may truly be said to have took off her head, seeing she would neither give it to him, nor forgive him the doing thereof>' However, the "Dictionary of National Biography" reports that the Countess died with dignity, requesting prayers for those near to her and for the king and queen and his children. She then submitted to the clumsy executioner, an "inexperienced youth," "who hacked her neck and shoulders before the decapitation was accomplished."

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On the death of her brother Richard Plantagenent , Earl of Warwick, on 28 Nov 1499, she became sole heiress, not only to her father, but to the Earls of Warwick and Earls of Salisbury. She was Lady of the Chamber to Queen Katherine of Aragon in 1509. Sir Richard de le Pole died before 18 Dec 1505. In 1538 King Henry VIII struck at the family of Pole, on account both of their descent from King Edward IV's brother George, Duke of Clarence, and of the action of Cardinal Reginald Pole, who hoped that Paul III would publish a Bull of deprivation. Their youngest son, Sir Geoffrey Pole, was sent to the Tower on 29 Aug 1538, followed on 4 November, by their first son Henry, Lord Montagu. Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, was sent to the Tower of London, attainted, and beheaded at the Tower on 28 May 1541. She was the last surviving member of the royal House of Anjou (usually known as the Plantagenets).

Margaret married Sir Richard DE LA POLE, K.G. in Nov 1487. Richard (son of Geoffrey DE LA POLE and Edith ST. JOHN) died before 15 Nov 1505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Earl of Warwick and Salisbury

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Excerpt from Blood Royal: Edward had a pitiable life. His mother died after giving birth to a little brother, who died soon afterwards. He was barely three when his father was executed for treason. His remaining family was basically his sister Margaret and his aunt, Anne, Duchess of Gloucester, afterwards Queen of England. When he was eight, he was knighted by Richard III along with the king's son. He may have been considered as heir by Richard after his own son died. However, for whatever rason, Richard later ordered Edward confined to Sheriff Hutton Castle and then nominated John De La Pole ( d. 1487), Earl of Lincoln, his sister's son, as his heir. After Richard's III defeat at Bosworth (22 Aug 1485), Henry VII sent Robert Willoughby to Sheriff Hutton Castle to bring Edward to London and imprison him in the Tower "for no other crime than being the son of (George, Duke of) Clarence," and nephew of two kings. Two years later, amid rumors of Edward's death, Lambert Simmel, impersonating Edward, was, with Yorkist support, crowned in Ireland in 1487 as Edward VI, King of England. Henry VII had no choice but to prove the falseness of the impersonation and so had the ral Edward taken from the Tower and paraded to St. Paul's for mass. He was then returned to the Tower where he spent the next twelve years, until another captured importor, Perkin Warbeck (who had impersonated Richard, Duke of York, the second of the two princes who disappearaed from the Tower), drew the unsuspecting Edward into an excape plan which failed. Warbeck was executed 23 Nov 1499. Edward was tried for conspiring to depose the king ("a clearly trumped-up charge"), pleaded quilty ("in mere simplicity from his total ignorance of the world"), and was beheaded ("judicially murdered") 28 November 1499.

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• Fact: Prince of Wales