Edward PLANTAGENET

1475 - 1499  (24 years)

• Name	Edward PLANTAGENET  [1, 2]
  Birth	21 Feb 1475	Warwick Castle, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Earl of Warwick and Salisbury   [2]
  Death	28 Nov 1499	Beheaded on Tower Hill   [1, 2]
  Burial	Bisham Abbey, Berkshire   [1]
  Notes	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.
  Person ID	I44519	Main Tree
  Last Modified	17 May 2018

  
  

  Father	Sir George PLANTAGENET, K.G.,   b. 21 Oct 1449, Dublin Castle d. 18 Feb 1478, Put to death in the Tower (Age 28 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Isabel NEVILLE,   b. 05 Sep 1451, Warwick Castle, England d. 12 Dec 1476, Warwick Castle (Age 25 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	11 Jul 1469	Calais, church of Notre Dame   [1, 2, 3]
  Family ID	F06852	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Fact - - Earl of Warwick and Salisbury Burial - - Bisham Abbey, Berkshire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.