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  Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Despite the opposition of Margaret of Anjou, on 27 March, York was appointed Protector of the Realm and Chief Councillor.
York resumed the office of Protector, an although he surrendered it when the king recovered in February 1456, it seemed that this time Henry was willing to accept that York and his supporters would play a major part in the government of the realm.
Richard's eldest son finally succeeded in putting the House of York on the throne in 1461 as Edward IV of England.
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 Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk (17 August 1473–1483?) was the sixth child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville.
The Regency council under Richard Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester, concluded that this was a case of bigamy, invalidating the second marriage and the legitimacy of all children of Edward IV by this marriage.
Richard's might have been the smaller of two skeletons discovered in a chest in the Tower in 1674, but there is as yet no evidence one way or the other.
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 The House of York
Richard’s first wife, Anne Mortimer, was sister and afterwards heiress to the Earl of March and to the claims of her great-grandfather, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second son of Edward I, thus giving her Yorkist successors a superior claim to the throne over the House of Lancaster.
As badges, he used the white rose of York, the sun in splendour, and the white rose en soliel, as well as the lion, the bull and the hart, the falcon and fetterlock of the dukes of York, and a white rose incorporating red petals, a forerunner of the Tudor rose.
The attainder was reversed in 1495 on the petition of Ratcliffe's son Richard.
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 Richard III
King Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was the King of England from 1483 until his death and the last king from the House of York.
Richard was born at Fotheringay Castle, the fourth son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (who had been a strong claimant to the throne of King Henry VI) and Cecily Neville.
A lasting mystery surrounding the accession of Richard was the disappearance and presumed death of Richard's nephews, known as the Princes in the Tower.
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 Quaest.io on 1483
April - King Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York reside in the Tower of London.
October - A rebellion by the Duke of Buckingham is crushed by Richard III.
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (born 1473)
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 Colleges of secular canons: Shrewsbury | British History Online
All the manors in or near Shrewsbury held at Domesday by the bishop or by the church of St. Chad were later accounted part of St. Chad's parish.
38) Richard Abel, who secured a prebend at the age often in 1302 and became dean in 1323, was the son of a baron of the exchequer.
Robert of Shrewsbury seems to have had private property in the town, witnessed local charters, and was warden of Shrewsbury mint in the 1190s: Eyton, i.
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 PLANTAGENET of York
Son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, a noble who had been executed for treason by Henry V of England in 1415, and of Anne Mortimer, who, like her husband, was a direct descendant of Edward III.
Richard thus had an excellent claim on the throne of England, which he began to press in 1448 by assuming the long-disused surname of Plantagenet.
Third son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville, and the brother of King Edward IV.
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 Princes in the Tower
Richard had always been a loyal and trusted supporter of his brother King Edward IV, who was the boys father.
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, was the second son of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester was crowned King Richard III on 6 July 1483.
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 The 1st Stanley Earl of Derby from LANCASHIRE WORTHIES, 1874
Daughter and sole heiress of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, Henry VI.'s Captain, she was the great-grand-daughter of John of Gaunt-" time-honoured Lancaster." Her grandfather, John, Earl of Somerset, was the son of John of Gaunt by his mistress, Catherine Swynford, whom he afterwards married, and his offspring by whom an act of parliament legitimised.
If Richard would permit him to return to England and marry one of the daughters of Edward IV., no other dowry than the favour of the King would be asked for with her.
When Richard was killed and the battle over, the battered crown which had fallen from his helmet during the conflict was, according to a plausible tradition, placed by Lord Stanley or his brother on the head of the victorious Richmond.
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 Richard III Society--Online Library
King Edward the Fourth married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Wydeville, and widow of John Lord Grey of Groby, at Grafton, Northamptonshire, on the 1st May, 1464, and by her had issue, three sons, Edward, Richard, George, and seven daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Cecily, Margaret, Anne, Katherine, and Bridget.
In those of Henry the Seventh, from 1492 to 1505, her name does not occur; and this account of her, imperfect as it is, must be closed with the remark, that she is said to have died at Quarera, in the Isle of Wight (38).
Bridget of York, the seventh daughter and youngest child of Edward the Fourth, was born at Eltham, in Kent, on the 10th of November, 1480, and the next day was baptized by the Bishop of Chichester.
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 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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The population of New York City, now seven millions, was estimated by Dutch officials to have been one thousand in 1656, a date near the one at which the Halsteads first appeared at a nearby point.
The Duke at once transferred a tract embracing what is now New Jersey and Long Island to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
It was at Elizabeth-town and Shrewsbury that the early New Jersey Halsteads lived, begining, it is thought, about 1721, and where they were concentrated for generations." Page 57 JONAS (1) HALSTEAD was the immigrant ancestor of the most numerous branch of the Halstead family.
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 New York-breds Bulletin Board
Richard Migliore, riding his second winner of the day, was aboard for trainer Patrick Reynolds, who claimed the chestnut colt for $60,000 for Doneson and Dubb.
Richard Migliore was aboard Beebe Lake as eight-fillies loaded into the gate in front of the grandstand.
By former New York stallion Belong to Me, Belongs to Mony is a half-sister to three winners, and her dam, Do Wah Duchess, by Gate Dancer, is a half-sister to stakes winners Proudest Duke ($325,655) and Cuvee Brut ($314,527) and to stakes-placed winner Pad.
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 NEVILLE of Westmoreland/Kent/Salisbury
Notes: called "the Rose of Raby" (because she was born at Raby Castle in Durham, England) and "Proud Cis" (because of her pride and a temper that went with it).
He was that Earl of Warwick, to whom the House of York owe their ascent to the throne.
A younger son of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury, and a brother of Richard, Earl of Warwick the Kingmaker.
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 chronicle26
Then, late this afternoon, the young Duke Edward and his brother, Edmund Earl of Rutland, as chief mourners led the procession from the castle to the Collegiate Church of the Annunciation and St. Edward the Confessor, at Fotheringay (see p.
Duke Edward moves between tables, smiling, talking to guests, even pouring their wine as he listens to reminiscences about his father, but what we're really seeing is the Yorkist affinity rising like the
With questions still hanging over the Duke of Norfolk regarding his health and the known distaste of the Duke of Suffolk to become involved in matters outside East Anglia, opinion a fortnight ago seemed roughly equally divided between the dukes of York, Somerset and Buckingham.
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 Stony Coral -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The prefix 'Stony' refers to the stones on the bed of the ford, differentiating the town from nearby Fenny Stratford.
The ''Rose and Crown Inn'' at Stony Stratford was reputedly the last place where King Edward V and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York were seen alive in public.
It was here in 1483 that his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester met them to become their legal guardian before taking them to the London to become the "Princes in the Tower".
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/142/stony-coral.html   (464 words)

  
 Bettingadvice :: View topic - FA Cup 1st round
Tamworth are without Richard Dryden after he suffered a perforated eardrum in a clash of heads in training.
York are expected to name an unchanged side for the visit of Conference high-flyers Grays.
Shrewsbury midfielder Neil Sorvel should be available after recovering from a rib injury.
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 New York-breds Bulletin Board
Consigned by Nadine and Thomas Gallo, acting as agent for Langpap Stable of Rochester, New York, the horse was part of a two horse consignment.
For David, last year's winner of the second leg of the Big Apple Triple - the New York Derby, it was the first time he raced at the distance and he set some torrid fractions of :46.2 and 1:10 for six furlongs.
Richard Bomze's homebred, WOOTIE, roared around horses in the far turn and stormed down the stretch to break her maiden by 3 lengths at beautiful Belmont Park.
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 TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval Person Index
Alice (Daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy)
Eleanor (Daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy)
Richard (Duke of York, Prince in the Tower) (- d.1483)
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 DESCENDENTS OF THE SCHUYLER FAMILY OF NEW YORK
He appeared in NYC, with a shipload of goods from the abandoned Scottish Colony of Darien, in the Caribbean (most of which was probably sold through her f.) He was accused of illegally appropriating goods from the site.
The court consisted of the Mayor, (Duane), Recorder, Richard Varick and 5 aldermen.
Representing the widow Rutgers was NY Attorney Gen, Benson, acting privately for his aunt, and unofficially for the state, to uphold the state's Trespass law (along with William Wilcox, John Lawrence and Robert Troup) [8890].
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 Where are they now ? 1963 on
When I left Duke of York in 1963, I continued school in Zambia, studied Aeronautical Engineering at Bristol then worked at the British Aircraft Corporation.
After leaving the Duke of York I returned to Eldoret and in 1967 ended up teaching the Standard threes at the Hill School for a year where Jane Barbour was my first boss.
1st 2 daughters born in bristol uk 1976 and 1978, 3rd as above last 2 boys born in oz 1980 and 1984 both in qld thank heavens brisbane and nambour respectively so at least 2 of us are real queenslanders and the youngest 1 is that rarer species a true blue sunshine coaster.
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 What to See in England - York Minster (By Gordon Home)
The city of York is one of the most famous and interesting in the kingdom.
It was originally the Eborac of the British and the Eboracum of the Romans, who made it an imperial colony, and the capital of Maxima Caesariensis.
There are many fine old churches, and much mediaeval architecture, including the gates of the city, which are wonderfully well preserved, one of the best being Micklegate Bar, where Richard Duke of York’s head was exhibited.
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 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | December 1 | Advent Christian goddess Vesta Michael Moore ...
November 30), or the Sunday nearest to it, commemorating the first and second coming of Christ; the first to redeem, and the second to judge the world.
In recognition of war resisters in all countries imprisoned for opposition to war and conscription.
This was done by publishing a Prisoners for Peace Honour Roll and calling on all members of WRI sections to send postcards and letters to the prisoners.
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 RICHARD WILLIAMS (BOOKDEALER)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Consists of folding craft pattern and outer cover featuring Mr Punch.
Apparently 1st edition as only 13 titles listed on rear.
GIVE ME ARTHUR A Biography of Arthur Shrewsbury.
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