King of England Edward V Plantagenet

1470 - 1483  (12 years)

• Name	Edward V Plantagenet  [1]
  Title	King of England
  Birth	4 Nov 1470	Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	He was never crowned, and his 86-day reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III
  		Execution of Princes in the Tower
  Death	1483	Tower of London, London, England   [1]
  	One of the Princes in the Tower
  Burial	Westminster, London, England   [2]
  	Westminster Abbey
  		Tomb of the Princes in the Tower
  Person ID	I12975	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	King of England Edward Plantagenet, IV,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster, London, England (Age 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Queen Consort of England Elizabeth Woodville,   b. 1437, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England d. 8 Jun 1492, Surrey, England (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1 May 1464	Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Marriage End	Death of King Edward in 1483
  Family ID	F5771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 Nov 1470 - Westminster, Middlesex, England Death - 1483 - Tower of London, London, England Burial - - Westminster, London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Execution of Princes in the Tower

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for King of England Edward Plantagenet http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=42010149423&indiv=try [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Princes in the Tower http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2248. "Here lie interred the remains of Edward V King of England, and Richard, Duke of York, whose long desired and much sought after bones, after above an hundred and ninety years, were found by most certain tokens, deep interred under the rubbish of the stairs that led up to the Chapel of the White Tower, on the 17th of July in the year of our Lord 1674. Charles the second, a most merciful prince, having compassion upon their hard fortune, performed the funeral rites of these most unhappy princes among the tombs of their ancestors, anno domini 1678" Burial: Westminster Abbey Westminster Greater London, England Find A Grave Memorial# 2248 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2248