Jenny Driffill Mrs. Garrigan English 12 30 September 2013 The Princes in the Tower One of England ’s greatest scandals was the disappearance and murder of two princes in 1483. The children of King Edward IV‚ Edward V and Richard‚ Duke of York were allegedly "imprisoned" shortly after his death. King Edward ’s brother‚ Richard‚ Duke of Gloucester‚ secretly wanted the throne for himself. He would ’ve gone to extremes to make sure it happened. Yet‚ there is still great debate over him actually
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was the cousin of England’s Kind Edward. It all started because William became outraged when Edward backed down on his promise to give the throne to William and ended up giving the throne to his English brother-in-law‚ Harold. William sailed his army across the English Channel to conquer England. On October 14‚ 1066‚ he met Harold at Hastings and conquered him. On Christmas Day later that year‚ William - now called William the conqueror - was crowned King of England. Immediately after William took
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Explain why Richard Duke of Gloucester made himself King in 1483? England in mid-1483 was an unstable and dangerous place. The King‚ Edward IV‚ had died‚ and turmoil raged as to who was to be his sons‚ King Edward V’s Protector and rule as Regent until the King was old enough to rule by himself. Richard Plantagenet‚ Duke of Gloucester and Uncle to Edward V‚ became a contender for this right and eventually surpassed this ambition to rule as Regent and instead became King in his own right. There are
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No-one expected Henry Tudor to become king of England in August 1485. Explain why he succeeded. Henry Tudor’s hereditary claim was slimmer than that of any English King since William the Conqueror‚ but he was in fact the great-great-grandson of John of Gaunt‚ who was a son of Edward III and the founder of the House of Lancaster. He was descended from John through an illegitimate son who (along with his siblings) was retroactively legitimized but explicitly barred from succession to the throne
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Act 2 Though still sick‚ King Edward IV brokers a reconciliation between Queen Elizabeth‚ Dorset‚ and Rivers and Hastings and Buckingham. Anon‚ Richard appears to reconcile with everyone else when Queen Elizabeth mentions her wish to have Clarence pardoned. To the shock of everyone‚ most especially to King Edward IV himself who claims that he had issued an order reversing Clarence’s condemnation‚ Richard informs the gathered assembly that Clarence is dead and buried‚ adding that the King’s countermand
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Henry VI and Edward IV. The first kingship was an extremely weak one with Henry VI who seemed to show a clear lack of interest in ruling the country‚ and then came Edward IV who was a strong king that sorted out the mess that Henry VI had left behind. However‚ throughout both reigns‚ the nobility seemed to stay the same; the majority of them were over mighty and caused unrest. My essay is going to discuss the impact of these over mighty nobles and the impact of king Henry VI and Edward IV. Firstly
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|And principal subjects. | Long Term Causes of the First Wars (Socio-political Causes) Bastard Feudalism and dynastic legitimacy have been seen as the fundamental cause(s) - the government of England being paralysed by the overgrown power of the insubordinate nobility or
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Introduction: In every scene of a country’s life‚ there has always been a leader at the forefront of it all. Many countries have flourished under the good leaders while they have been destroyed by the bad ones. However‚ the question that begs to be asked is what is a leader and where are they usually found? According to John C. Maxwell‚ a leader is one who knows the way‚ goes the way‚ and shows the way. Leaders know the way and since they know the way‚ they would have to test it out and when that
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Sonnets of Shakespeare Shakespeare’s sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets‚ dealing with themes such as the passage of time‚ love‚ beauty and mortality‚ first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. (although sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim). The quarto ends with "A Lover’s Complaint"‚ a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal. The first 17 poems‚ traditionally
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The Princes in the Tower was written in 1992‚ by the renowned historical writer Alison Weir. The book depicts the famous boy king Edward V‚ his brother and their uncle Richard III. The term princes in the tower is already a famous term for these boys who went missing after the death of their father and was founded in the form of corpse and bones in 1674‚ during this time there were rumours going around the royal circles that their uncle the Duke of Gloucester‚ later Richard III‚ had murdered them
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