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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 Richard...
This is particularly evident in the question as to whether or not Richard III made plans to marry his niece, Elizabeth of York, in 1485. What exactly the nature of their relationship was has been eroded by time, but there is far too much smoke around the issue for there not to have been at least a reasonably-sized fire.
Richard’s brief life—he died on the battlefield in 1485 at age 32, losing the throne to Henry VII—has sparked debate ever since, with two competing views emerging in the centuries after his ...
Fifth, there is the rumor in early 1485 that Richard meant to marry his niece, Elizabeth of York, after his wife’s (Anne Neville) death. Sixth, there is the fact that after Henry defeated Richard at Bosworth in the summer of 1485, he did in fact marry Elizabeth of York after re-legitimizing her and her siblings.
On March 20 1485, two weeks after the death of his wife, Anne, Richard publicly denied one such outlandish rumour. The word was that he had poisoned her so he could marry his niece.
Was there a romance between Richard III and his niece? Early 1485 was a very dark time in Richard’s life. After losing his son, his wife Queen Anne was terminally ill and they were urged to abstain from intimate contact. He was still only 32 and it would be his duty as a widower to remarry and produce heirs.
He also was able to marry Anne Neville, the daughter of the earl of Warwick, and gain a share of her substantial wealth. Richard and Anne only had one child together, a son named Edward, around ...
