Edward PLANTAGENET

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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: 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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Isabel and George had a child that born and died at sex, 1470; buried Calais.

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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]

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Richard Neville 'the Kingmaker', Knt., Earl of Warwick juer uxoris, Earl of Salisbury (succeeding his other), son and heir, born 22 Nov 1428; after the recovery of King Henry VI from madness he became a staunch Yorkist and at the first battle of St. Albans on 22 May 1455 'had the good fortune to decide the day and win somewhat easily a military reputation'; defeated the Lancastrians at Northampton on 10 July 1460, and captured King Henry VI whom he brought to London; still in charge of the King in London when the Yorkists were defeated at the battle of Wakefield on 30 December (in which his father was taken prisoner, being beheaded the next day, when he succeeded to the great Neville estate of Middleham, co. York); on 17 Feb 1460/1 put to flight by the Lancastrians at the 2nd battle of St. Alans, and allowed King Henry VI to be recaptured, but having joined the young Duke of York, the entered London; one of the peers who declared the Duke to be King, as Edward IV; commanded the centre in the decisive Yorkist victory at Towton on 29 Mar 1461. The King's marriage, however, in May 1464, to Elizabeth Wydeville and the favour shown to the Queen's relatives alienated him; secretly planned his restoration to authority throughout 1468; allowed to cross to Calais early in 1469; joined by his brother George, Archbishop of York, and by the King's brother, the Duke of Clarence, to whom he there married Isabel, his eldest daughter and co-heiress presumptive; these three joined the Yorkshire insurgents; then suppressed the Lancastrian rising in the North; slain at Barnet on Easter Sunday 14 Apr 1471 s.p.m. buried Bisham Abbey, co. Berks.

Richard married Anne DE BEAUCHAMP. Anne (daughter of Richard DE BEAUCHAMP and Isabel LE DESPENSER) was born about Sep 1426 in Caversham; died about 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]