great nephew. However knowing that this threat could easily be tackled by Henry VII who had the actual Earl of Warwick in the tower of London‚ he quickly changed his identity to Richard‚ Duke of York. This is where it becomes a threat to Henry‚ with a very weak claim to the throne himself‚ a Duke of York imposter would be highly difficult to disprove as the priest who had buried the bodies of the children was dead so could not justify their identity. In reality‚ the plot had probably been pre planned
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Cited: Tey‚ Josephine. The Daughter of Time. New York City: Simon & Schuster New York‚ 1995. Print.
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1485‚ Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth. The defeater‚ Henry Tudor‚ was crowned King Henry VII. It was in the Tudors’ interest to paint Richard as a villain. Henry VII is also a suspect. He married the princes’ sister‚ Elizabeth of York‚ strengthening his claim
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announcing that he has made a decision and is committed to being bad. Richard’s line‚ ‘I am determined to prove a villain’ foreshadows Shakespeare’s intent for the whole play. The Yorks have just regained the throne with Edward IV’s coronation. “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York” Richard announces his plan to set his brothers against each other. Richard informs us in the first scene that things have swung round to his family’s side‚ but we immediately learn
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1461: The Battle of Towton was fought during the Wars of the Roses on 29 March 1461‚ near the village Towton in Yorkshire. It was the "largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil". According to chroniclers‚ more than 50‚000 soldiers from York and Lancaster fought for hours on a snowstorm on that day‚ (which was a Palm Sunday.) A newsletter said a week after the battle reported that 28‚000 died on the battlefield. The fight brought about a monarchical change in England. Edward IV displaced
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remove Richard III from the throne and place Henry Tudor upon it; making him the one who ultimately‚ had the most power. It is evident from the fact that on Christmas day 1483 Henry Tudor announced that when he became king he would marry Elizabeth of York (the daughter of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV) that Tudor was in contact with the Woodvilles. The Duke of Buckingham was married to
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Explain why Richard Duke of Gloucester made himself King in 1483? England in mid-1483 was an unstable and dangerous place. The King‚ Edward IV‚ had died‚ and turmoil raged as to who was to be his sons‚ King Edward V’s Protector and rule as Regent until the King was old enough to rule by himself. Richard Plantagenet‚ Duke of Gloucester and Uncle to Edward V‚ became a contender for this right and eventually surpassed this ambition to rule as Regent and instead became King in his own right. There are
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Swiss-trained French mercenaries in Henry’s garrison and their tactics never before seen on English soil and Thomas‚ Lord Stanley’s last minute decision to support Henry‚ Richard was killed and Tudor took his crown. Thus Henry’s success in replacing Richard of York as king of England‚ would not be as we know it had Richard not made the dramatic charge that resulted in his death‚ but whether the success would ever have occurred is still yet to be explored. Henry’s first real aspirations of reclaiming the throne
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discuss the impact of these over mighty nobles and the impact of king Henry VI and Edward IV. Firstly‚ Henry VI’s noble‚ Somerset contributed greatly to unrest during this period; Somerset was sent by the king to protect France. Despite the Duke of York appearing to be a much better alternative to Somerset‚ the king still chose him. Somerset made a mess of things in France and proceeded to loose most of the territories; this contributed to England loosing power and caused a lot of unrest in the
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Was Henry VII ever in serious danger of losing the crown after 1485? It is possible to agree that Henry VII was in serious danger of losing the crown after 1485 due to rebellions like Lambert Simnel‚ Perkin Warbeck and Lovell. However‚ it is also possible to disagree with this statement because Henry held the two princes people were trying to pretend to be and Henry was also well prepared for these rebellions. The Lovell rebellion in 1486 was the first of a series of rebellions Henry faced. It
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