Edward PLANTAGENET

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• Fact: Earl of Warwick and Salisbury

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Excerpt from Blood Royal: Edward had a pitiable life. His mother died after giving birth to a little brother, who died soon afterwards. He was barely three when his father was executed for treason. His remaining family was basically his sister Margaret and his aunt, Anne, Duchess of Gloucester, afterwards Queen of England. When he was eight, he was knighted by Richard III along with the king's son. He may have been considered as heir by Richard after his own son died. However, for whatever rason, Richard later ordered Edward confined to Sheriff Hutton Castle and then nominated John De La Pole ( d. 1487), Earl of Lincoln, his sister's son, as his heir. After Richard's III defeat at Bosworth (22 Aug 1485), Henry VII sent Robert Willoughby to Sheriff Hutton Castle to bring Edward to London and imprison him in the Tower "for no other crime than being the son of (George, Duke of) Clarence," and nephew of two kings. Two years later, amid rumors of Edward's death, Lambert Simmel, impersonating Edward, was, with Yorkist support, crowned in Ireland in 1487 as Edward VI, King of England. Henry VII had no choice but to prove the falseness of the impersonation and so had the ral Edward taken from the Tower and paraded to St. Paul's for mass. He was then returned to the Tower where he spent the next twelve years, until another captured importor, Perkin Warbeck (who had impersonated Richard, Duke of York, the second of the two princes who disappearaed from the Tower), drew the unsuspecting Edward into an excape plan which failed. Warbeck was executed 23 Nov 1499. Edward was tried for conspiring to depose the king ("a clearly trumped-up charge"), pleaded quilty ("in mere simplicity from his total ignorance of the world"), and was beheaded ("judicially murdered") 28 November 1499.

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• Fact: 28 Jun 1461, Duke of Clarence
• Fact: 25 Mar 1471/2, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury
• Fact 2: 20 May 1472, Great Chamberlain of England

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George Plantagenet, K.G., sixth but third surviving son, was born at Dublin Castle on 21 Oct. 1449. He was created Duke of Clarence by his brother King Edward IV on 28 Jun 1461. He was first summoned to Parliament on 28 Feb 1466/7.
He joined his father-in-law in the rebellion against the King (his brother) in favour of the deposed King, Henry VI, but, changing sides, assisted in King Edward's victory at Barnet on 14 Apr 1471. In this battle his wife's father was slain whereupon he, 'in consideration of that his marriage', was created Earl of Warwick and Earl of Salisbury on 25 mar 1471/2, and on 20 May 1472 made Great Chamberlain of England. Isabel Neville died at Warwick Castle on 22 Dec 1476, and was buried at Tewkesbury. He proposed a second marriage with Mary, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, a match which was much opposed by the Queen Consort. He was accused of high treason against his brother King Edward IV, found guilty, and attainted on 8 Feb 1477/8, whereby all his honours were forfeited. He was executed in the Tower aged twenty-eight in 18 Feb 1478, said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abby.

George married Isabel NEVILLE on 11 Jul 1469 in Calais, church of Notre Dame. Isabel (daughter of Richard NEVILLE and Anne DE BEAUCHAMP) was born on 05 Sep 1451 in Warwick Castle, England; died on 12 Dec 1476 in Warwick Castle; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isabel and George had a child that born and died at sex, 1470; buried Calais.