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Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (21 September 1411 – 30 December 1460), also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate and claimant to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the ruling House of Plantagenet by virtue of being a direct male-line descendant of Edmund of Langley , King Edward III 's fourth ...
Edward V (2 November 1470 – c. mid-1483) [1] [2] was King of England from 9 April to 25 June 1483. He succeeded his father, Edward IV, upon the latter's death.Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reign as King Richard III; this was confirmed by the Titulus Regius, an Act of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. 15th-century English siblings who disappeared The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection. Edward V at right wears the garter of the Order of the Garter beneath his left knee. The Princes in the ...
Perkin Warbeck's personal history is fraught with many unreliable and varying statements. [3] Warbeck said that he was Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, who had disappeared mysteriously along with his brother Edward V after Richard, Duke of Gloucester, succeeded to the throne as King Richard III following the death of King Edward IV, his eldest brother, in ...
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (17 August 1473 – c. 1483) was the second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. Richard and his older brother, who briefly reigned as King Edward V of England , mysteriously disappeared shortly after their uncle Richard III became king in 1483.
This is a list of alumni of the University of York, listed in alphabetical order by surname.The University of York, founded in 1963, has among its alumni many who have become notable, including at least twenty Members of the United Kingdom Parliament, five members of the House of Lords, two Members of the Scottish Parliament, one Member of the European Parliament and several ministers of non ...
The dukedom therefore passed to Richard's son, who became Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York. Being descended from Edward III in both the maternal and the paternal line gave Richard a significant claim to the throne if the Lancastrian line should fail, and by cognatic primogeniture arguably a superior claim. [2]
This is a list of York University people. It includes notable graduates and faculty of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada institution, as well as graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School prior to its affiliation with York in 1969. See also Notable alumni of Osgoode Hall.