Edward V

Edward V
1470-83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).

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▪ king of England

born Nov. 2?, 1470, London
died 1483?
 king of England from April to June 1483, who was deposed and possibly murdered by King Richard III.

      The eldest surviving son of King Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth (Woodville), Edward was born at Westminster Abbey while his father, momentarily deposed, was in exile in Holland. In June 1471, after Edward IV had crushed his foes and reclaimed his crown, young Edward was made prince of Wales. The boy was sent with his mother to Ludlow, Shropshire, in 1473 to be titular ruler of Wales and the Welsh Marches (border region between England and Wales), and he seems to have stayed at Ludlow, except for brief intervals, for the remainder of his father's reign.

      Upon the death of Edward IV on April 9, 1483, the 12-year-old Edward became king, and his uncle Richard, duke of Gloucester, was made protector of the realm. Conflict between Gloucester and the Woodville nobles who dominated Edward V soon led the duke to arrest the leaders of the Woodville party and secure possession of Edward and his younger brother. The two princes were housed in the Tower of London, which at that time served as a royal residence as well as a prison.

      Edward V's brief reign came to an end on June 26, when an assembly of lords and commons, accepting Gloucester's claim that Edward IV's marriage was invalid and his children illegitimate, proclaimed Gloucester King Richard III. Soon afterward the two princes disappeared from the Tower forever. It is possible they were murdered by Richard's agents in August 1483, but responsibility for the crime has also been attributed to the powerful Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, and to Richard's successor, King Henry VII. Skeletons found in the Tower in 1674 are thought to be those of Edward and his brother.

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