Birth of Richard of Shrewsbury, second son and sixth child of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, at Shrewsbury.
Birth of Catherine of York, ninth child and sixth daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, at Eltham Palace, Greenwich. Married to William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon. After his death on 9 May 1511 she took a voluntary vow of chastitity. Died on 15 November 1527 at Tiverton Castle, Devon.
Birth of Mary of York, second daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, at Windsor Castle. She did not marry.
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Birth of Anne of York, second child and eldest surviving daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, sister of Edward IV and Richard III. Married in 1447 to Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter. They had one daughter. In the Wars of the Roses Exeter sided with Lancaster. They separated in 1464 and were divorced in 1472. She then married Sir Thomas St Leger and they had a daughter, Anne.
Illustration: Anne of York and Sir Thomas St Leger, her second husband
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Margaret, George and Richard, the three youngest children of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, stay for a few weeks at the house, which had belonged to Sir John Fastolf, in Southwark, where they are visited every day by their eldest brother Edward, Earl of March (later Edward IV).
Bibliography: Christine Weightman, Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess. Amberley Publishing, Chalford, 2009. ISBN 978 1 84868 099 9 (paperback)
Illustration: Old London Bridge in 1616 with Southwark Priory, now Cathedral, in the foreground, by Claes van Visscher
Tags: Edward IV, George of Clarence, House of York, Margaret of Burgundy, Richard III
Birth of William Plantagenet, 4th son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. He died young.
Death of Cecily Neville (mother of Edward IV and Richard III) at Berkhamstead Castle, Hertfordshire. She was buried with her husband Richard and son Edmund at St Mary and All Saints Church, Fotheringhay.
A young man is crowned as Edward VI in Dublin. The Tudor government identified him later as Lambert Simnel, though it is not sure who he actually was.
Bibliography: Smith, G, ‘Lambert Simnel and the King from Dublin’. The Ricardian, Vol. X, No.135 (December 1996), pp.498-536. (or see here)
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Birth of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, in Rouen, Normandy. Fifth child and second surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. He died with his father in the Battle of Wakefield, 30 December 1460.
The following article was first presented as one of the famous ‘Scrabble’ talks to members and friends of our Branch at a General Meeting. To encourage speakers from within the Branch, some draw a Scrabble tile from a bag and are asked to prepare a ten-minute talk on a subject with a Ricardian or medieval connection beginning with the letter they have drawn.
Ludlow (for a map, click here) is believed to be one of the series of castles built to hold back the unconquered Welsh. Walter de Lacy who was second in command to William Fitz Osbern, who came over with William the Conqueror, owned land around Ludlow in Shropshire, and began the building. His sons, Roger and later Hugh, built the earliest surviving parts of the castle. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: House of York, Richard III, Shropshire
