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  2. May 26, 2020 · Did Richard III want to marry his niece, Elizabeth of York? It’s unlikely, barring any new discoveries of letters that say otherwise, that we’ll ever have conclusive evidence that...

  3. In fact, the Portuguese offer was a double royal marriage, with their young Duke of Beja being proposed as husband for Richard’s 19-year-old niece, Elizabeth of York. 1 From these circumstances there arose an extraordinary rumour that Richard III planned to marry his niece.

  4. Jul 5, 2017 · The Ick Factor: Richard III & Elizabeth of York. On July 5, 2017 By RSB In The House of York. Speaking of the Tudor Myth, a fun little twist to exanining Richard III is seeing two wildly divergent schools of thought on him. While there are presumably some objective histories of his life and reign, most fall into two camps: those that revile him ...

  5. Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England.

  6. Apr 8, 2022 · Elizabeth of York was the eldest daughter of the Yorkist king Edward IV, sister of the princes in the Tower, and niece of Richard III. Her marriage to Henry VII was hugely popular, for the union of the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster was seen as bringing peace after years of dynastic war.

  7. Mar 23, 2023 · History | March 23, 2023. ‘The Lost King’ Dramatizes the Search for Richard IIIs Remains. The Monarch’s Life Was Even More Sensational. A new film offers a sympathetic portrait of the...

  8. Mar 11, 2021 · Richard III (1452–85) was the last Yorkist king of England, whose death at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 signified the end of the Wars of the Roses and marked the start of the Tudor age. Many myths persist about the last Plantagenet king, whose remains were discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012; three years later he was reburied in ...