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1483 |
Disappearance of Edward V and the Duke of York – the ‘Princes in the Tower’ |
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1484 |
Edward, Prince of Wales dies – the Earl of Warwick is briefly heir to the throne |
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1484 |
Richard III recognizes his nephew the Earl of Lincoln as his heir |
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1485 |
Battle of Bosworth and accession of Henry VII |
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1486 |
Rising for Warwick against Henry by Lord Lovell and the Stafford brothers |
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1487 |
Lincoln and Lambert Simnel (‘Edward VI’) defeated at Stoke – death of Lincoln |
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1490 |
The Abbot of Abingdon’s plot to rescue the Earl of Warwick from the Tower |
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1491 |
Perkin Warbeck comes to Ireland and is identified as ‘Richard, Duke of York’ |
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1492 |
Margaret of Burgundy recognizes Warbeck as her nephew |
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1495 |
James IV of Scotland recognizes Warbeck as King of England |
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1496 |
Warbeck invades northern England, unsuccessfully |
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1497 |
Warbeck lands in Cornwall but is captured |
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1499 |
Execution of Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick |
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1501 |
Flight of Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, nephew of Richard III |
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1502 |
Attainder of Edmund, who proclaims himself ‘The White Rose’ |
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1506 |
Edmund is captured and imprisoned in the Tower |
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1509 |
Edmund excluded from Henry VIII’s ‘accession pardon’ |
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1513 |
Edmund is executed – his brother Richard de la Pole becomes ‘The White Rose’ |
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1514 |
Recognized as ‘Richard IV’ by France, the White Rose prepares to invade |
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1515 |
English spies try to murder Richard, ‘the king’s most dreaded enemy’ |
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1521 |
Execution of the Duke of Buckingham, for ‘dreaming of the throne |
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1522 |
Francis I of France asks ‘Richard IV’ to invade England |
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1525 |
Richard de la Pole, ‘The White Rose’, is killed at Pavia |
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1531 |
Lord Exeter, male heir presumptive, is sent to the Tower on suspicion of treason |
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1533 |
Bishop Fisher asks Emperor Charles V’s ambassador to depose Henry VIII |
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1534 |
Charles V considers replacing Henry VIII by Mary Tudor and Reginald Pole – but rejects the idea |
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1536 |
The Pilgrimage of Grace, the gravest threat to Henry VIII during his entire reign |
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1537 |
Reginald Pole prepares to land in England but the Pilgrimage is crushed |
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1538 |
Execution of Exeter and Lord Montague, key members of the White Rose party |
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1539 |
Reginald Pole tries and fails to organize an invasion of England |
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1539 |
Attainder of the Countess of Salisbury, the only surviving Plantagenet |
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1541 |
Abortive plot to revive the Pilgrimage of Grace |
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1541 |
Execution of the Countess of Salisbury – ‘last of the White Rose faction’ |
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1547 |
Execution of the Earl of Surrey on suspicion of planning to claim the throne |