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1442 - 1483 (40 years)
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Name |
Edward IV 'Plantagenet' King Of ENGLAND [1, 3] |
- 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. [1]
- 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. [2]
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Birth |
28 Apr 1442 [1, 3] |
Gender |
Male |
Fact |
bet. 1461-1470 |
King of England [3] |
Fact 1 |
Between 1471-1483 |
King of England [3] |
Death |
09 Apr 1483 |
Palace of Westminster [1, 3] |
Burial |
St. George's Chapel, Windsor [3] |
Person ID |
I21296 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
18 May 2018 |
Father |
Richard PLANTAGENET, b. 21 Sep 1411 d. 30 Dec 1460, Battle of Wakefield (Age 49 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Mother |
Cecily DE NEVILLE, b. 03 May 1415, Raby Castle d. 31 May 1495, Berkhamsted Castle (Age 80 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Married |
Bef 18 Oct 1424 [1, 4] |
Marriage |
Between 1437 and 1438 [3] |
Family ID |
F06840 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Elizabeth WOODVILLE, b. Abt 1437 d. 7 or 8 June 1492 (Age 55 years) |
Marriage |
01 May 1464 |
Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire [3] |
Children |
| 1. Elizabeth PLANTAGENET, b. 11 Feb 1465, Westminster d. 11 Feb 1503, Tower of London (Age 38 years) [Birth] |
| 2. Mary PLANTAGENET, b. Aug 1467, Windsor d. 23 May 1482, Greenwich (Age 14 years) [Birth] |
| 3. Cecily PLANTAGENET, b. 20 May 1469 d. 24 Aug 1507, Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight (Age 38 years) [Birth] |
| 4. Edward V 'Plantagenet' King of ENGLAND, b. 4 Nov 1470, In Sanctuary at Westminster [Birth] |
| 5. Margaret PLANTAGENET, b. 1 Apr 1472, Windsor d. 11 Dec 1472 (Age 0 years) [Birth] |
| 6. Richard PLANTAGENET, b. 17 Aug 1473, Shrewsbury d. Abt 1483 (Age 9 years) [Birth] |
| 7. Anne 'of York' PLANTAGENET, b. 2 Nov 1475, Westminster d. 23 Nov 1511 (Age 36 years) [Birth] |
| 8. George PLANTAGENET, b. Mar 1477, Windsor d. Mar 1479, Windsor Castle (Age 2 years) [Birth] |
+ | 9. Katherine PLANTAGENET, b. Abt 14 Aug 1479, Eltham Palace, Kent, England d. 15 Nov 1527, Tiverton (Age 48 years) [Birth] |
| 10. Bridget PLANTAGENET, b. 10 Nov 1480, Eltham d. 1517, Dartford (Age 36 years) [Birth] |
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Family ID |
F06831 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
17 May 2018 |
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Sources |
- [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).
- [S9498] Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland.
- [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese.
- [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.
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