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George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (21 October 1449 – 18 February 1478), was the sixth child and third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III.
- A Troubled Childhood
- Heir to The Throne
- Under Warwick’s Influence
- A Final Downfall
- The Execution of A Duke
George was born on 21 October 1449 in Dublin. His father, Richard, 3rd Duke of York was then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for King Henry VI. His mother Cecily came from the powerful Neville family based in the north of England. George was the couple’s ninth child in ten years, the seventh child and third son to survive infancy. His family were soon c...
The wheel of fortune span again for George when his oldest brother took the throne to become Edward IV, the first Yorkist king. George and Richard were now warmly welcomed to the Duke of Burgundy’s court as royal princes and prepared to go home for their brother’s coronation. Edward was 18 and unmarried. Their other older brother Edmund had been ki...
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwickwas a first cousin to George and his brothers. He had helped Edward win the throne, but through the 1460s their relationship soured. By the final years of the decade, Warwick was slipping into rebellion. The earl lacked a male heir so wished to marry his oldest daughter Isabel to George, hoping that it might bring hi...
George’s wife Isabel died on 22 December 1476, almost three months after giving birth to a son who died shortly after his mother. The couple had a daughter, Margaret, and a son, Edward, and had lost their first child, Anne, born at sea when George had fled into exile. Suddenly, on 12 April 1477, four months after Isabel’s death, George had one of h...
On 18 February 1478, aged 28, George, Duke of Clarence, brother to the King of England, was executed. A tradition has grown up that George was drowned in a vat a malmsey, an expensive sweet wine. Some stories even claim this was at his own request, having been permitted to choose the manner of his execution. The truth is that, as his rank allowed, ...
George Plantagenet, duke of Clarence was an English nobleman who engaged in several major conspiracies against his brother King Edward IV (ruled 1461–70 and 1471–83). He was the younger son of Richard, duke of York, whose struggle to gain power precipitated the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between.
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George Plantagenet, Shakespeare's, 'false, fleeting, perjured Clarence', was the third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (1411-60), and Cecily Neville (1415-95) and was born on on 21 October 1449 at Dublin Castle, at a time when his father was serving as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence.
Biography for George, Duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward IV and Richard III, who had him murdered in prison by drowning in a barrel of wine.
George, Duke of Clarence Hugh Ross Williamson describes how, in the fierce dynastic struggles of the later fifteenth century, Edward IV’s brother, George Plantagenet, played a devious and ill-fated part.
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence was a noted soldier and schemer. He had fought with distinction in the War of Roses, but not always for his brother the King. George aided Richard the 'Kingmaker' Earl of Warwick in an attempt to destabilize Edward after his unpopular marriage.
