Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales
Edward of Middleham (* 1473 in Middleham in the county of North Yorkshire, † April 9, 1484 ibid ) was the only son of the ruling from 1483 to 1485 the English King Richard III. and his wife Anne Neville, the younger daughter of the " kingmaker " Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. 1478 gave him his uncle Edward IV, the dignity of Earl of Salisbury. Richard III. appointed his son on July 19, 1483 to the nominal governor of Ireland, raised him to the Duke of Cornwall and determined him on August 24, 1483 for the seventh Prince of Wales.
Life
The few who transmitted knowledge about the short life of Edward Middlehams we owe to the unknown author of the last, the time period 1459-1486 extensive part of the Croyland Chronicle. Since 1472 Richard, then Duke of Gloucester and his wife Anne Neville lived on their estate in Middleham in the North of England, where Richard as " Constable of England " and " Warden of the Forests North of the Tenth " for the safety of the English-Scottish limit provided.
Edward, who wore his nickname after his birthplace and his health remained fragile life, spent most of his life on the country estate of his, always because 'around him worried parents in Middleham.
An exception was Edwards on August 19, 1483 commencing trip to York, which led over Pontefract, where on August 24, 1483 Richard III. his son the Prince of Wales appointed. The new heir to the throne experienced on August 30, 1483 the solemn entry of his parents in York and their solemn coronation on September 8, 1483 at the Cathedral of York. Mid- September 1483, he left with his mother to town to return to Middleham.
Edward's death on April 9, 1484, his parents rushed into a deep crisis that is increasingly rejecting broad strata of the population felt next to the personal loss of her son, in the death of Edward Middlehams - on 1 death of Edward IV - a judgment of God, and especially the saw evidence of Richard's to blame for the removal of his nephew Edward V and Richard of York.
"You could - as reported by the clerk of the Croyland Chronicle - to see his parents in a bordering almost on madness state due to her sudden grief. "
Edward of Middleham, was buried in the parish of Sheriff Hutton, a small village in North Yorkshire. Since Anne Neville could bear no more children, Richard III decided. on August 21, 1484 to appoint John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, the eldest son of his sister Elizabeth and her husband John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk as the new heir to the throne. Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, the son of his in 1478 for high treason, sentenced to death brother George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence was excluded from the succession.