YORKISTS:

Edward the Fourth, 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483

BORN: 28 April 1442, Rouen, France.
PARENTS: Richard, Duke of York (1411 - 60),
Cecily Neville (1415 - 95).
MARRIED: Elizabeth Woodville (1437 - 92),
1 May 1464, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire.
ACCEDED: 4 March 1461
CROWNED: 28 June 1461, Westminster Abbey.
(deposed: 3 October 1470
restored: 11 April 1471)
DIED: 9 April 1483,
Westminster Palace.
INTERRED: St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
CHILDREN: (1) Elizabeth of York (married Henry VII) (1466 - 1503)
(2) Mary (1467 - 82)
(3) Cecily (1469 - 1507)
(4) Edward V (Princes in the Tower)
(1470 - 83)
(5) Margaret (1472 - infancy)
(6) Richard, Duke of York (Princes in the Tower) (1473 - 83)
(7) Anne (1475 - 1511)
(8) George, Duke of Bedford (1477 - 79)
(9) Catherine (c. 1479 - 1527)
(10) Bridget (1480 - 1517)

+ 3 illegitimate children

COEVAL
PERSONS:
Scottish Crown:
James III (Stuart)

Archbishops of Canterbury:
Thomas Bourchier

Popes:
Pius II
Paul II
Sixtus IV

NOTABLE
EVENTS:
War of the Roses:
Battle of Towton, 29 March 1461.
Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 25 April 1464.
Battle of Hexham, 15 May 1464.
Battle of Bamburgh Castle, June 1464.
Battle of Edgcote, 26 July 1469.
Battle of Empingham, 12 March 1470.
Battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471.
Battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471.

Contemporary portrait of Edward the Fourth