Richard (Plantagenet), 1st Duke of York

1473 - 1483  (9 years)

• Name	Richard (Plantagenet)  [1]
  Suffix	1st Duke of York
  Born	17 Aug. 1473	Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	28 May 1474  [1]
  	1st Duke of York [E., 1474]
  Decoration	18 April 1475  [1]
  	Knighthood
  Decoration	15 May 1475  [1]
  	Knight of the Garter (K.G.)
  Died	1483	Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I362	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	19 June 2018

  
  

  Father	Edward IV (Plantagenet), King of England,   b. 28 April 1442, Rouen, Normandy ,   d. 9 April 1483, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England  (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Woodville,   b. circa 1437,   d. 8 June 1492, Bermondsey, Surrey, England  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Married	1 May 1464  [2]
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne (Mowbray), suo jure Countess of Norfolk,   b. 1472,   d. 1481  (Age 9 years)
  Married	15 Jan. 1477/78	St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Last Modified	19 June 2018
  Family ID	F188	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "Opposition to Richard III's seizure of power surfaced quickly, and in July 1483 there was an unsuccessful conspiracy to rescue the two princes from the Tower. But by September Richard's opponents had adopted Henry Tudor as their claimant for the throne, which strongly implies that they believed Edward V and his brother to be dead. The fate of the princes has been the subject of considerable controversy, but their murder on Richard's orders late in the summer of 1483 remains the most probable explanation for their disappearance. The lack of any public statement about their death meant that uncertainties persisted. No pretender emerged in Richard III's own brief reign, but in the 1490s Perkin Warbeck's claims to be Richard, duke of York, gained considerable backing, not all of it factitious." --Oxford D.N.B. (Rosemary Horrox)

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Horrox, "Richard, duke of York and duke of Norfolk (1473-1483), prince". [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Horrox, "Edward IV (1442-1483), king of England and lord of Ireland".