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 1452 - 1485 (32 years)
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| Name |
Richard PLANTAGENET [1] |
| Prefix |
King of England |
| Suffix |
III |
| Born |
2 Oct 1452 |
Fotheringhay Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Clan |
[2] |
| Plantagenet dynasty and “House of York” |
| TitleOfNobility |
Between 22 Jun 1483 and 1485 |
England [2] |
| King of England |
| Coronation |
6 Jul 1483 |
London, England [2] |
| Crowned King of England |
| FamilySearch ID |
LYF4-PHY |
| MilitaryService |
1485 [2] |
| Battle of Bosworth Field: Died |
| Name |
Richard Bossu d'ANGLETERRE [2] |
| Name |
Richard III [2] |
| Occupation |
[2] |
| Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector, Knight of the Garter, Knight of Bath, Commissioner of Array, King of England |
| Buried |
1485 |
Leicester, Leicestershire, England [1] |
| Died |
22 Aug 1485 |
Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England [1] |
| Person ID |
I594779694 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
6 Oct 2024 |
| Father |
Richard OF YORK, 3rd Duke of York, b. 20 Sep 1411, Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, England , d. 30 Dec 1460, Yorkshire, England (Age 49 years) |
| Mother |
Cecily NEVILLE, Duchess of York, b. 3 May 1415, Raby Castle, Durham, England , d. 31 May 1495, Berkhamsted Castle, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
18 Oct 1429 |
Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire, England [1] |
| Family ID |
F536732205 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Anne NEVILLE, Queen of England, b. 11 Jun 1456, Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, England , d. 16 Mar 1485, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 28 years) |
| Married |
12 Jul 1472 |
St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London, England [2] |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
6 Oct 2024 |
| Family ID |
F536732207 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Katherine HAUTE, d. Yes, date unknown |
| Children |
| | 1. Katherine PLANTAGENET, b. 1468, d. 1487 (Age 19 years) |
| | 2. Richard PLANTAGENET, b. 1469, Eastwell, Kent, England , d. 22 Dec 1550, Eastwell Park, Kent, England (Age 81 years) |
| | 3. John PLANTAGENET, b. 11 Mar 1478, Pontefract, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England , d. 1491, London, City of London, Greater London, Engand (Age 12 years) |
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| Last Modified |
6 Oct 2024 |
| Family ID |
F536732208 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England.
Richard was created Duke of Gloucester in 1461 after the accession of his brother King Edward IV. In 1472, he married Anne Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. He governed northern England during Edward's reign, and played a role in the invasion of Scotland in 1482. When Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's eldest son and successor, the 12-year-old Edward V. Arrangements were made for Edward V's coronation on 22 June 1483. Before the king could be crowned, the marriage of his parents was declared bigamous and therefore invalid. Now officially illegitimate, their children were barred from inheriting the throne. On 25 June, an assembly of lords and commoners endorsed a declaration to this effect, and proclaimed Richard as the rightful king. He was crowned on 6 July 1483. Edward and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, called the "Princes in the Tower", were not seen in public after August, and accusations circulated that they had been murdered on King Richard's orders, after the Tudor dynasty established their rule a few years later.
There were two major rebellions against Richard during his reign. In October 1483, an unsuccessful revolt was led by staunch allies of Edward IV and Richard's former ally, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Then, in August 1485, Henry Tudor and his uncle, Jasper Tudor, landed in southern Wales with a contingent of French troops, and marched through Pembrokeshire, recruiting soldiers. Henry's forces defeated Richard's army near the Leicestershire town of Market Bosworth. Richard was slain, making him the last English king to die in battle. Henry Tudor then ascended the throne as Henry VII.
Richard's corpse was taken to the nearby town of Leicester and buried without ceremony. His original tomb monument is believed to have been removed during the English Reformation, and his remains were wrongly thought to have been thrown into the River Soar. In 2012, an archaeological excavation was commissioned by the Richard III Society on the site previously occupied by Grey Friars Priory. The University of Leicester identified the skeleton found in the excavation as that of Richard III as a result of radiocarbon dating, comparison with contemporary reports of his appearance, identification of trauma sustained at the Battle of Bosworth and comparison of his mitochondrial DNA with that of two matrilineal descendants of his sister Anne. He was reburied in Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015.
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Issue
Richard and Anne had one son, Edward of Middleham, who was born between 1474 and 1476. He was created Earl of Salisbury on 15 February 1478, and Prince of Wales on 24 August 1483, and died in March 1484, less than two months after he had been formally declared heir apparent. After the death of his son, Richard appointed his nephew John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, as Lieutenant of Ireland, an office previously held by his son Edward. Lincoln was the son of Richard's older sister, Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk. After his wife's death, Richard commenced negotiations with John II of Portugal to marry John's pious sister, Joanna, Princess of Portugal. She had already turned down several suitors because of her preference for the religious life.
Richard had two acknowledged illegitimate children, John of Gloucester and Katherine Plantagenet. Also known as 'John of Pontefract', John of Gloucester was appointed Captain of Calais in 1485. Katherine married William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, in 1484. Neither the birth dates nor the names of the mothers of either of the children is known. Katherine was old enough to be wedded in 1484, when the age of consent was twelve, and John was knighted in September 1483 in York Minster, and so most historians agree that they were both fathered when Richard was a teenager. There is no evidence of infidelity on Richard's part after his marriage to Anne Neville in 1472 when he was around 20. This has led to a suggestion by the historian A. L. Rowse that Richard "had no interest in sex".
Michael Hicks and Josephine Wilkinson have suggested that Katherine's mother may have been Katherine Haute, on the basis of the grant of an annual payment of 100 shillings made to her in 1477. The Haute family was related to the Woodvilles through the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville's aunt, Joan Wydeville, to William Haute. One of their children was Richard Haute, Controller of the Prince's Household. Their daughter, Alice, married Sir John Fogge; they were ancestors to Catherine Parr, sixth wife of King Henry VIII. They also suggest that John's mother may have been Alice Burgh. Richard visited Pontefract from 1471, in April and October 1473, and in early March 1474, for a week. On 1 March 1474, he granted Alice Burgh 20 pounds a year for life "for certain special causes and considerations". She later received another allowance, apparently for being engaged as a nurse for his brother George's son, Edward of Warwick. Richard continued her annuity when he became king. John Ashdown-Hill has suggested that John was conceived during Richard's first solo expedition to the eastern counties in the summer of 1467 at the invitation of John Howard and that the boy was born in 1468 and named after his friend and supporter. Richard himself noted John was still a minor (not being yet 21) when he issued the royal patent appointing him Captain of Calais on 11 March 1485, possibly on his seventeenth birthday.
Both of Richard's illegitimate children survived him, but they seem to have died without issue and their fate after Richard's demise at Bosworth is not certain. John received a 20 pound annuity from Henry VII, but there are no mentions of him in contemporary records after 1487 (the year of the Battle of Stoke Field). He may have been executed in 1499, though no record of this exists beyond an assertion by George Buck over a century later. Katherine apparently died before her cousin Elizabeth of York's coronation on 25 November 1487, since her husband Sir William Herbert is described as a widower by that time. Katherine's burial place was located in the London parish church of St James Garlickhithe, between Skinner's Lane and Upper Thames Street. The mysterious Richard Plantagenet, who was first mentioned in Francis Peck's Desiderata Curiosa (a two-volume miscellany published 1732– 1735) was said to be a possible illegitimate child of Richard III and is sometimes referred to as "Richard the Master-Builder" or "Richard of Eastwell", but it has also been suggested he could have been Richard, Duke of York, one of the missing Princes in the Tower. He died in 1550.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England
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Please open the link and read the full scientific information regarding descendants of Richard III which was produced during the search for his descendants by the University of Leicester.
Descendants of Richard III: none survive to the present day
Richard III left no descendants. Historical records indicate that Richard had one legitimate son (Edward,
died 1484) through his marriage to Anne Neville, and two illegitimate children, John of Gloucester
(thought to have been executed, on the orders of Henry VII in 1499) and Katherine Plantagenet who
appears to have died shortly after her marriage to William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon15. As such, no
descendants of Richard III survive to the present day.
https://le.ac.uk/-/media/uol/docs/richard-iii/genetics/detailed-genealogical-information.pdf
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- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 6 Oct 2024), entry for Cecily Neville, person ID LZQY-SR1. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 6 Oct 2024), entry for Richard PLANTAGENET, person ID LYF4-PHY. (Reliability: 3).
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