Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick

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Edward Plantagenet , and Edward of York , (* 21st February 1474 / 75 in Warwick Castle ; † beheaded on 28. November 1499 at the Tower Hill in London ) was the 17th Earl of Warwick and 7th Earl of Salisbury .

He was the son of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449-1478), and his wife Isabella Neville (1451-1476), daughter of the "kingmaker" Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick . He was the nephew of two of the three English kings from the house of York , Edward IV and Richard III. , and after the death of Richard III. probably the last male descendant of the Plantagenet family . Of his three siblings, only Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury , survived infancy. Both were excluded from the line of succession after the condemnation and execution of their father as treason and exiled to Hutton Castle in Yorkshire in 1483. Even so, Edward was given the title of Earl of Warwick to succeed his grandmother Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick .

After Richard's death in 1485, the House of York was succeeded by Henry VII from the House of Tudor to the English throne. This left Edward imprisoned in the Tower, but at the same time awarded him the title of Earl of Salisbury, which had rested after the death of his father. In 1487, rumors of Edward's death spread, the opponents of the Tudor king used by spreading a rumor of Edward's successful escape and in his place the boy Lambert Simnel as King Edward VI. presented. Heinrich, for his part, presented the real Edward. The insurgents were beaten. Edward stayed in the tower. In 1491 the appearance of another pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck as the alleged Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York , one of the princes in the Tower , led to a rebellion. After their suppression in 1497 Warbeck was imprisoned in the Tower, where he made the acquaintance of Edward. In 1499 both were executed, allegedly because of an attempt to escape in which a guard had died, but presumably because Heinrich feared that Edward could assert his legitimate claim to the English crown. According to some sources, Ferdinand of Aragón also explicitly demanded Edward's death, as he “saw no security in the line of succession as long as the Earl of Warwick was alive”, and therefore his daughter Catherine of Aragon did not become a fiancé of the heir to the throne Arthur Tudor in a contested one Kingdom wanted to send.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trevor Royle: The Wars of the Roses; England's first civil war. Abacus, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-349-11790-4 , p. 456
  2. ^ Charles Knight: The Popular History of England: An illustrated History of Society and Government from the earliest Period to our own Times. Volume 2. Bradbury and Evans 1857, London, p. 232, online version
predecessor Office successor
Anne Neville Earl of Warwick
1475-1499 		Title expired
Title restored Earl of Salisbury
1485-1499 		Margaret Pole
personal data
SURNAME Plantagenet, Edward, 17th Earl of Warwick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edward of York; Warwick, Edward Plantagenet 17th Earl of; Salisbury, Edward Plantagenet 7th Earl of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English heir to the throne
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1474 or February 21, 1475
PLACE OF BIRTH Warwick Castle
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1499
Place of death Tower Hill in London