Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk ( born August 17, 1473 Shrewsbury, † 1483? ) Was the sixth child and second son of Edward IV and his wife Elizabeth Woodville. He and his elder brother Edward V became known after the death of her father and her disappearance in 1483 as the Princes in the Tower.
Life
Richard was the younger brother of the Prince of Wales and later King Edward V and 1474 was honored with the title of Duke of York. At the age of four years, on 15 January 1478 he was awarded the five-year Anne Mowbray, the heiress of the Dukes of Norfolk, married, so that his father Edward IV could now have this inheritance. 1481 Richard the title of the Duke of Norfolk was awarded, resulting in significant discord with relatives and thus other possible heirs of Mowbray, especially with Johann Howard led. In the same year the young Anne Mowbray and Richard died was eight years old widower.
After the death of Edward IV on April 9, 1483 Richards brother as King Edward V and Richard himself was heir to the throne. However, it quickly came to clashes between the Edward V. Richards family and mother, Elizabeth Woodville and the uncle employed by Edward IV as Regent of the two boys, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. When Eduard V. fell into the hands of Gloucester, retired Elizabeth Woodville with Richard and their daughters in the sanctuary of Westminster Abbey back.
Around the same time was by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Robert Stillington, the claim propagated to the marriage between Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville was invalid, Edward IV was already engaged at the time of his wedding. There is no evidence that Gloucester was behind this rumor, or whether he was only forced to take action because now threatened the reign of a king's illegitimate. After lengthy negotiations, gave Elizabeth Woodville and her second son, Richard, in the care of her brother.
On June 25, 1483 Gloucester was as Richard III. proclaimed king, while Edward V and Richard were set in the Tower. The measure adopted by Act of Parliament titulus regius declared the marriage of Edward IV to be invalid and the children illegitimate. Both probably died there or were murdered. More information is given on the Princes in the Tower.
Since the bodies of the two boys were never found, it was at the beginning of the Tudor period repeatedly impostor, posing as one of the sons of Edward IV. The most famous of them was Perkin Warbeck, who claimed in 1490 to be Richard of Shrewsbury, and supported by numerous opponents of the Tudors almost a decade the crown of Henry VII threatened.
The children later skeletons found in 1674 are not assigned to the prince with certainty. Again, refer to the Princes in the Tower.