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Cecily Neville. 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. He played an important role in the dynastic struggle between rival factions of the ...
- 25 February 1478, Tewkesbury Abbey
- York
The third surviving son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville, George was born in Dublin on 21st October 1449, during his father’s Lieutenancy of Ireland. When he was eleven months old, George’s family returned to England and his early years witnessed the dawn of the political upheaval popularly known as the ‘Wars of the Roses’.
George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence). But not, as I am, royal. Second Murderer. Nor you, as we are, loyal. George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence). Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble. Second Murderer. My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own. 995; George Plantagenet (Duke of Clarence). How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!
Character Analysis George, Duke of Clarence. The third son of the Duke of York is Richard's first victim. He is the unhappy, "false, fleeting, perjured Clarence," who learns only just before his violent death that it is his own brother Richard who has plotted against him. His account of his terrifying dream (I. iv) is one of the most memorable ...
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence. Born: October 29, 1449. Dublin, Ireland. Died: February 18, 1478. Tower Hamlets, London, England (Age 28) George in History. George Plantagenet was born the third surviving son of Richard, Duke of York, in Dublin, while his father was stationed there as lieutenant of Ireland.
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The king impatiently by-passed the city and made for the town of Warwick where he proclaimed himself king once again. George, Duke of Clarence, who had been recruiting in the west country, ostensibly for the Earl of Warwick, now met with his brother three miles outside the town of Warwick and the two were reconciled.
About Richard III. Shakespeare's Richard III covers events in the latter years of the Wars of the Roses — that is, from the attainder and execution of George, Duke of Clarence, in 1478, to the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485. That war, a prolonged, intermittent conflict between the two noble houses of Lancaster and York which ...
