Richard III hears of an uprising in Kent, followed the next day with the news that Henry Stafford, second duke of Buckingham, had turned against him. Buckingham’s rebellion mainly failed due to lack of support for him and bad weather.
Tags: Buckingham, Richard III
At a meeting of Parliament Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claims his right to the English crown. A compromise is reached and sworn on in an Act of Accord, according to which the Duke of York is the heir to the throne instead of Henry VI’s son Edward.
Tags: Family, Henry VI, Richard Duke of York
Truce of Hesdin between Edward IV of England and Louis XI of France. In it, Louis renounced all aid to the Lancastrians.
Diana E. S. Dunn, ‘Margaret (1430–1482)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. [accessed online 20 Jan. 2011]
Tags: Edward IV, France, Margaret of Anjou
Birth of Richard, the infant son of George, duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville. His mother had died on 22 December 1476, two and a half months after his birth. Richard died a few days later on 1 January 1477.
Tags: George of Clarence, Isabel Neville
Fotheringhay Castle (photo by Smb1001, via Wikimedia Commons)
Richard, the youngest surviving child of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, on 2 October 1452. He would ascend the throne in 1483 as Richard III.
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Edward IV flees to Burgundy, after the rebels under Earl of Warwick, who had by then sided with his former enemy Margaret of Anjou, invaded England with the help of French troops to restore Henry VI. Edward was accompanied by his brother-in-law Anthony, Earl Rivers, and William Lord Hastings. It seems his brother Richard (later Richard III) followed later after trying to gather to support for Edward in England.
Tags: Edward IV, Nevilles, Richard III
Death of William Hobbes, royal physician to Richard III. Hobbes had a long career in the service of the House of York, first to Richard, duke of York, then to his sons Edward IV and Richard III.
He obviously remained proud of this service, even after Henry Tudor claimed the throne, as he asked for the following inscription on his tombstone:
Here lies William Hobbys, formerly physician and surgeon of the most illustrious duke of York, and his sons the most illustrious kings Edward IV and Richard III, whose souls may God protect, amen.
He was buried in Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, London.
ODNB on ‘Hobbes, William (d. 1488)’
His will can be found in: Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Hustings, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688, Volume 2, ed.by Reginald R Sharpe, London, 1890, pp.590-591
Tags: Contemporaries, Richard III
Birth of John de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, only son of William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer.
As a child, John was married Margaret Beaufort, but the marriage contract was dissolved in February 1453 by Henry VI. In 1458 he married instead Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard, duke of York, and Cecily Neville, a sister of Edward IV and Richard III. They had 11 children.
Michael Hicks, ‘Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk (1442–1492)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. [accessed online 30 Aug. 2015]
Tags: Alice Chaucer, de la Pole
Battle of Blore Heath, Staffordshire, first major battle of the Wars of the Roses, won by the Yorkist forces under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, against the Lancastrians under James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley, who fell in the battle.
A short description of the various battles of the Wars of the Roses can be found on the website of the Richard III Society.
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Birth o
f Anna von Kleve (Anne of Cleves). She was the second of the children of Johann (III), duke of Jülich-Kleve (1490–1539), and Maria (1491–1543), heir of Jülich.
She married in 1539 Henry VIII as his fourth wife. He took a dislike to her and they were divorced 1540. She survived Henry by 10 years and died on 16 July 1557.
Retha M. Warnicke, ‘Anne [Anne of Cleves] (1515–1557)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. [accessed online 31 Aug. 2015]
Tags: Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII
