Richard PLANTAGENET

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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]

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

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Name:
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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• Also Known As: Elizabeth Wydeville

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Elizabeth was queen consort of Edward IV, King of England.

Excerpt from Blood Royal: Elizabeth and Edward had Edward V, uncrowned ing of England, and Richard of York, the two princes in the Tower who were believed murdered after the usurpation of the throne by their uncle, Richard III.

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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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• Also Known As: Richard Wydeville
• Fact: 1st Earl Rivers

Richard married Jacquetta Of LUXEMBOURG before 23 Mar 1436/7. Jacquetta (daughter of Pierre Of LUXEMBOURG and Marguerite DE BAUX) was born in 1415; died on 30 May 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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• Fact: Was heir general in her issue of the Crown of England transmitting the right to the Crown to her grandson Edward IV

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• Fact: 6th Earl Neville of Raby Castle
• Fact: 1397, 1st Earl of Westmorland

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Ralph Neville, K.G., 4h Lord Neville of Raby, P.C., son and heir of John de Neville, 3rd Lord Neville of Raby, by Maud, daughter of Henry de Percy. Margaret Stafford was born before 164 (aged twenty-four at her father's death). They had nine children. She died on 9 June 1396, and was buried at Brancepeth, Durham. He took part in the Earl of Buckingham's expedition to Brittany, where he was knighted at St. Omer in July 1380. He succeeded his father on 17 Oct 1388, and was summoned to Parliament from 6 Dec 1389, by writs directed 'Radulpho de Nevyll de Raby'. From 1389 till 1424 he was continually employed on the Border in negotiating truces and peace with Scotland. He was married for the second time before 20 Feb 1397 to Joan Beaufort, widow of Robert Ferrers. She was born about 1379. He was created Earl of Westmorland on 29 Sep 1397. His near alliance to the House o Lancaster (being son-in-law of John of Gaunt), led him to forsake the King, and take a prominent part in the elevation of Henry of 'Bolingbroke' the exiled Duke of Lancaster, to the throne as King Henry IV. Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, died testate at Raby Castle on 21 Oct. 1425, and was buried at Staindrop, Durham. His second wife, on whom the lordships of Middleham and Sheriff-Hutton, with other extensive lands, were between he and her sons on the one side, and the grandsons of her husband by his first wife on the other, which resulted in the elder branch espousing the cause of Lancaster, and Salisbury and his brothers, that of York.

Ralph married Joan BEAUFORT before Feb 1397. Joan (daughter of John Of GAUNT and Katherine DE ROET) was born about 1379; died on 13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Joan De Beaufort

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• Fact: Count of St. Pol

Pierre married Marguerite DE BAUX in 1405. Marguerite was born in 1394; died in 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of Francesco de Baux, Duke of Andria, and Sueva Orsini