Richard III (Plantagenet), King of England

1452 - 1485  (32 years)

• Name	Richard III (Plantagenet)  [1]
  Suffix	King of England
  Born	2 Oct. 1452	Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	From 26 June 1483 to 22 Aug. 1485  [1]
  	King of England
  Coronation	6 July 1483	Westminster, London, England   [1]
  Regnal Name	Richard III
  Died	22 Aug. 1485	Bosworth Field, near Ambion Hill, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I369	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	22 June 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard (Plantagenet), 3rd Duke of York,   b. 22 Sept. 1411,   d. 30 Dec. 1460, Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England  (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Lady Cecily Neville,   b. 3 May 1415,   d. June 1495  (Age 80 years)
  Married	1429  [2]
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Anne Neville,   b. 11 June 1456, Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, England ,   d. 16 March 1484/85, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 28 years)
  Married	Before July 1474  [3]
  Children	1. Edward (Plantagenet), of Middleham, Prince of Wales,   b. Middleham, Yorkshire, England ,   d. March 1483/84
  Last Modified	19 June 2018
  Family ID	F194	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Plantagenet quartering France Modern: Royal Arms of England (c.1400–1603) Quarterly France Modern and England. Occasionally found in the form, Quarterly England and France Modern. [France Modern: Azure three fleurs de lis or.] [England: Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or.] Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 208.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Horrox, "Richard III (1452-1485), king of England and lord of Ireland". [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), C. Harper-Bill, "Cecily [Cicely] [née Cecily Neville], duchess of York (1415–1495), Yorkist matriarch". [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), M. Hicks, "Anne [née Anne Neville] (1456-1485), queen of England, consort of Richard III".