by Alison Weir
Macdougall, Norman: James IV (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1989)
Minster Lovell Hall: Official Handbook (Department of the Environment, HMSO, 1977)
Palmer, Alan: Princes of Wales (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979)
Palmer, Alan and Veronica: Royal England: A Historical Gazeteer (Methuen, 1983)
Peck, F.: Desiderata Curiosa (1799) (for the tale of Richard Plantagenet of Eastwell)
Platt, Colin: The National Trust Guide to Late Mediaeval and Renaissance Britain (National Trust, 1986)
Platt, Colin: The Traveller’s Guide to Mediaeval England (Secker and Warburg, 1985)
Poole, Austin Lane: Late Mediaeval England (2 vols, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1958)
Rae, Dr John: Deaths of the English Kings (1913)
Robinson, John Martin: The Dukes of Norfolk: A Quincentennial History (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982)
Royal Britain (The Automobile Association, 1976)
Weinreb, Ben and Hibbert, Christopher: The London Encyclopaedia (Macmillan, 1983)
Westminster Abbey: Official Guide (various editions)
Wickham, D. E.: Discovering Kings and Queens (Shire Publications, 1973)
Wilkinson, B.: The Late Middle Ages in England, 1216–1485 (1969)
For the Wars of the Roses
Alderman, Clifford Lindsey: Blood Red the Roses: The Wars of the Roses (1971)
Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses (ed. Elizabeth Hallam, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988)
Cole, Hubert: The Wars of the Roses (Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973)
Goodman, Anthony: The Wars of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society, 1452–1497 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981)
Kinross, John: The Battlefields of Britain (David and Charles, Devon, 1979)
Lander, J. R.: The Wars of the Roses (Alan Sutton, 1990)
Pollard, A. J.: The Wars of the Roses (Macmillan, 1988)
Ross, Charles: The Wars of the Roses (1976)
Rowse, A. L.: Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses (Macmillan, 1966)
For Edward IV and His Family
Clive, Mary M.: This Sun of York: A Biography of Edward IV (Macmillan, 1973)
Davies, Katharine: The First Queen Elizabeth (Lovat Dickson, 1937)
Falkus, Gila: The Life and Times of Edward IV (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)
Hicks, M. A.: False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence (Alan Sutton, 1980)
Ross, Charles: Edward IV (Eyre Methuen, 1974)
Scofield, Cora L.: The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth (2 vols, 1923, reprinted by Frank Cass and Co. 1967)
Simons, Eric N.: The Reign of Edward IV (1966)
For Richard III
Cheetham, Anthony: The Life and Times of Richard III (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972) (revisionist)
Drewett, Richard and Redhead, Mark: The Trial of Richard III (Alan Sutton, 1984)
Given-Wilson, Chris and Curteis, Alice: The Royal Bastards of Mediaeval England (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984) (for details of Richard III’s bastard children)
Hammond, P. W. and Sutton, Anne F.: Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field (Constable, 1985)
Hanham, Alison: Richard III and his Early Historians (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1975)
Kendall, Paul Murray: Richard the Third (Allen and Unwin, 1955) (revisionist; for many years, the definitive biography, but now largely discredited)
Lamb, V. B.: The Betrayal of Richard III (The Research Publishing Company, 1959) (revisionist)
Markham, Sir Clements: Richard III: His Life and Character (1906) (revisionist)
Potter, Jeremy: Good King Richard? (Constable, 1983) (revisionist)
Ross, Charles: Richard III (Eyre Methuen, 1981) (traditionalist; the definitive biography)
St Aubyn, Giles: The Year of Three Kings: 1483 (Collins, Glasgow, 1983)
Seward, Desmond: Richard III: England’s Black Legend (Country Life Books, 1983) (traditionalist)
Tudor-Craig, Pamela: Richard III (National Portrait Gallery, 1973, 1977)
Woodward, G. W. O.: King Richard III (Pitkin, 1972)
The Princes in the Tower
Crawford, A.: ‘The Mowbray Inheritance’ (The Ricardian, June, 1981)
Jenkins, Elizabeth: The Princes in the Tower (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Molleson, Theya: ‘Anne Mowbray and the Princes in the Tower: a Study in Identity’ (The London Archaeologist, Vol. 5, no. 10, Spring 1987)
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower (ed. Langdon-Davies, Jackdaw Series, 1965)
Tanner, L. E., and Wright, W.: ‘Recent Investigations Regarding the Fate of the Princes in the Tower’ (Archaeologia, LXXXIV, 1934)
Williamson, Audrey: The Mystery of the Princes (Alan Sutton, 1978)
The Tower of London
Charlton, John: The Tower of London: Its Buildings and Institutions (HMSO, 1978)
Hibbert, Christopher: The Tower of London (Readers’ Digest, 1971)
Mears, Kenneth J.: The Tower of London: 900 Years of English History (Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1988)
Minney, R. J.: The Tower of London (Cassell, 1970)
Picard, Barbara Leone: The Tower and the Traitors (Batsford, 1961)
Rowse, A. L.: The Tower of London in the History of the Nation (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972)
Somerset Fry, Plantagenet: The Tower of London: Cauldron of Britain’s Past (Quiller Press, 1990)
Wilson, Derek: The Tower, 1078–1978 (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Henry VII
Chrimes, S. B.: Henry VII (Eyre Methuen, 1972)
Chrimes, S. B.: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII (1966)
Grant, Alexander: Henry VII (Methuen, 1985)
Lenz-Harvey, N.: Elizabeth of York, Tudor Queen (1973)
Macalpine, Joan: The Shadow of the Tower: Henry VII and his England (BBC Publications, 1971)
Rees, David: The Son of Prophecy: Henry Tudor’s Road to Bosworth (Black Raven Press, 1985)
Williams, Neville: The Life and Times of Henry VII (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973)
The Tudor Period
Bennett, Michael: Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke (Alan Sutton, 1987)
Durant, Horatia: Sorrowful Captives: The Tudor Earls of Devon (Griffin Press, 1960)
Elton, G. R.: England under the Tudors (Methuen, 1955)
Mackie, J. D.: The Earlier Tudors, 1485–1558 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1952, 1966)
Morris, Christopher: The Tudors (Batsford, 1955)
Plowden, Alison: The House of Tudors (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976)
Routh, C. R. N.: Who’s Who in History, Vol. II, England 1485–1603 (Blackwell, Oxford, 1964)
Sir Thomas More
Marius, Richard: Thomas More (Dent, 1984)
Ridley, Jasper: The Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More (Constable, 1982)
Strong, Sir Roy: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (2 vols, National Portrait Gallery, 1969) (for a discussion on paintings of the More family group)
Trapp, J. B. and Herbrüggen, H. S.: The King’s Good Servant: Sir Thomas More, 1477/8–1535 (National Portrait Gallery, 1977)
Wilson, D.: England in the Age of Thomas More (1978)
Index
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Accord, Act of, 1460 17
Albany, Duke of 53
Alcock, John, Bishop of Worcester and Ely 40, 59, 75, 81, 88
Ambien Hill, Leics 214–15
André, Bernard 6–7, 28, 63, 158, 168, 223, 226, 231
Anne de Beujeu, Regent of France 191, 199
Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Queen of France 58
Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford and Buckingham 67
Anne of York (see Plantagenet, Anne)
Antwerp, Flanders 55, 241
Archaeologia 27, 251
Archaeological Resource Centre, York 253
Argentine, Dr John 3, 11, 108, 140, 178, 255
Armstrong, Professor C. A. J. 3
Arnold, Richard 183
Arras, Treaty of 60
Arthur, Duke of Brittany 165
Arthurian Legends, The 8
Ascham, Roger 9
Ashby St Legers, Northants 98
Ashford, Kent 176
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 167, 254
Ashmole, Elias 254
Ashmole MS. 149
Ayton, N. Yorkshire 157
Bacon, Sir Francis 12–13, 23, 121, 170, 192, 222, 229, 232–3, 236, 239, 245
Banastre, Gilbert 133
Banastre, Ralph 188
Barnard Castle, Yorks 51, 133, 140
Barnet, Battle of, 1471 25, 30, 94
Barnet, Herts 87
Barrow, Thomas, Lord Chancellor 214
Barton, Dr Saxon 197
Basin, Thomas, Norman Chronicler 61
Basle, Switzerland 7
Basley, Mr 95
Baynard’s Castle, London 15, 25, 88, 97, 126, 128, 160
Beauchamp, Anne, Countess of Warwick 33, 35–6, 150–1
Beauchamp family 5, 35, 42
Beaufort, Edmund, Duke of Somerset 30
Beaufort family 15–16, 68, 154–5
Beaufort, Joan, Countess of Westmorland 15
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby 62, 131, 137, 152–4, 172, 179–84, 189, 200, 213, 221, 229–30, 237
Beaugency, France 2, 191
Beaulieu Abbey, Hants 35
Becket, St Thomas à 58
Bedford, Dukes of (see John of Lancaster; Tudor, Jasper)
Beja, Duke of 213
Berkeley family 46
Berkeley, Charles, later Earl of Nottingham 52, 135
Bermondsey Abbey, Southwark 233–4
Bernall, Richard 35
Berwick-upon-Tweed 55
Bianca of Savoy, Duchess of Milan 42
Bibliothèque Municipale, Lille 3
Bishopsgate, London 97
Bishop’s Palace, The, St Paul’s Churchyard 88
Black Book of the Household, The 38, 89
Black Friars Monastery, London 27
Blanche Sanglier, herald 216
Blaybourne, an archer 24
Bodleian Library, Oxford 5–6
Bodmin, Cornwall 187
Bohun, Eleanor de, Duchess of Gloucester 67
Bohun, Mary de, Countess of Derby 67
Boleyn, Anne, Queen of England 250
Bona of Savoy 19
Borgia, Cesare 132
Bosworth, Battle of, 1485 12, 166–7, 170, 177, 214–17, 220–1, 225, 227, 234, 243, 256
Boteler (see Butler)
Bourchier, Thomas, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury 64, 85–6, 88, 91, 96, 109–111, 137, 178
Bow Bridge, Leics 217
Brackenbury, Elizabeth 170
Brackenbury, Sir Robert 6, 129–30, 141–2, 147–50, 156–61, 164, 170, 216, 225, 252
Bradford, Professor E. W. 257
Bradgate Manor, Leics 20
Brampton, Sir Edward 239, 241
de Braose family 15
Bray, Sir Reginald 11, 179–80, 182, 220
Brecknock Castle, Brecon 107, 151, 172, 179, 187
Brecon, Wales 71–2, 148–9, 151
Brereton, Humphrey 7, 213
Brescia, Italy 5
Bridgenorth, Salop 152
Bridget of York (see Plantagenet, Bridget)
British Library, London 5, 12, 86, 99, 126, 137, 205, 235
Buck, Sir George 10, 12, 31, 118–19, 172, 205, 207–9, 224
Buck, Sir George the Younger 12, 209
Buck, John 12
Burdett, Thomas 44–5
de Burgh family 15
Burgundy, Duke of (see Charles the Bold)
Burleigh, Lord (see Cecil, William)
Butler, Eleanor 118–20, 122, 124, 170, 224
Butler family 133
Butler, Ralph, Lord Sudeley 118
Butler, Sir Thomas 118
Caius, John, of Cambridge 8
Calais, France 24, 54, 65–6, 128, 141, 160, 173, 243–5
Cambrai, Bishop of 241
Cambridge, Earl of (see Richard of Conisburgh)
Cambridge, University of 107, 116, 133
Camden, William 12, 252, 254
Canterbury, Archbishop of (see Bourchier, Thomas)
Canterbury Cathedral, Kent 23, 58, 59, 131
Cardiff Castle 151
Carmarthen Castle 153
Carmeliano, Pietro 3, 5–7, 28, 129, 131, 168, 223
Carmelite Friars, Church of the, Doncaster 123
Carmelite Friars, Church of the, Norwich 118
Catesby, William 98–9, 136, 142, 151, 211–12, 216, 220
Caxton, William 41, 133
Cecil, William, Lord Burleigh 118–19
Cecily, Marchioness of Dorset 208
Cecily of York (see Plantagenet, Cecily)
Cely, George 106
Cely Letters, the 2, 52
Chapuys, Eustache 224
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Franks 20
Charles VIII, King of France, formerly the Dauphin 42, 53, 60, 61, 191, 236
Charles II, King of Great Britain 89, 251–2, 254
Charles V (I, King of Spain) Holy Roman Emperor 224
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy 23, 43, 235
Charnwood Forest, Leics 20
Chaucer, Geoffrey 41, 133
Cheapside, London 88
Chelsea, London 97, 175
Chertsey Abbey, Middlesex 27, 161
Christ Church, Canterbury 130
de Clare family 15
Clarence, Dukes of (see Lionel of Antwerp; Plantagenet, George)
Clement, Dr John 174–5
Clercq, J. du 21
Cobb, Old Mother 25–6
College of Arms, The, London 5–6, 11–12, 133, 149, 167
Collier, Payne 95
Collins, Jane 35
Commines, Philippe de 6, 14, 25–6, 31, 49, 53, 61, 117–19, 129, 149, 154, 168, 202, 211
Cork, Ireland 238
Cornwallis, Sir William 11
Corporation of London 91
Cotton, Sir Robert 12
Cottonian Library, British Museum 4
Courtenay, Edward, later Earl of Devon 250
Courtenay family 185, 188, 238
Courtenay, Henry, Marquess of Exeter 250
Courtenay, Lord William, later Earl of Devon 244
Coventry, City of 150, 155
Cripplegate, London 62
Cromwell, Oliver 251
Crosby Place, Bishopsgate, London 97
Crosby, Sir John 97
Crowland (see Croyland)
Croyland Abbey, Lines 3–4
Croyland Chronicle, The xiv, 2–5, 8–9, 12, 26, 28, 30–1, 33–4, 37, 43, 47–50, 53, 58, 61–2, 64–5, 67, 70–1, 73, 77–80, 84, 88, 90–2, 102–3, 105, 107, 110–11, 114, 120, 122–9, 139, 142–5, 149, 157, 166–7, 171, 182–3, 185–7, 192–4, 196–7, 199, 203–17, 221, 223–5
Curteys, Piers 115, 137
Curzon, Sir Robert 244
Cutte, Sir John 11
Dacre, Lord 141
Darcy, Elizabeth 39
Dartford Priory, Kent 41
Dauphin of France (see Charles VIII)
Davy, Henry 173
Deal, Kent 237
Dean, Forest of 189
Denmark, King of 53
Desmond, Earls of 51, 213
Devon, Earls of (see Courtenay)
Dighton, John 156–60, 169–70, 245–6
Doncaster, Yorks 155
Droget, John 133
Drogheda, Ireland 51
Dublin Cathedral 234
Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland 173
Dudley, John, Lord 141
Dunstable, Beds 25
Durham Cathedral 131
Durham, City of 200
Dymmock, Andrew 60
Dynham, John, Lord 128, 245<
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Eastwell Church, Kent 176
Eastwell Park, Kent 176–7
Edgecote, Battle of, 1469 24
Edmund of Langley, Duke of York 15
Edward the Confessor, King of England 83
Edward I, King of England 89
Edward II, King of England 139, 165
Edward III, King of England 14–15, 22, 67, 219, 222
Edward IV, King of England 3, 5–6, 11, 17–19, 21–35, 37–71, 74–5, 78–83, 88–90, 92, 94, 99, 102–6, 108, 116–122, 124–9, 133–4, 144, 146–7, 149, 153–4, 162, 166–7, 169, 170–1, 173, 176, 181, 184, 189, 191–2, 196–8, 200, 207–8, 210, 216, 218, 222, 224–5, 227, 231–2, 234, 236, 239–43
Edward V, King of England: Birth 25–6, 83; created Prince of Wales, etc. 26, 42; recognised as Edward IV’s heir 39; household 39–41; education 39–40; Guardian of the Realm 41–2; negotiations for his marriage 42, 58; dominated by the Wydvilles 41, 57, 60, 64–5, 73–4, 92; appearance 59; character and intelligence 59–60, 114–15; proclaimed King of England 63; bidding prayer for him 64, 96; coronation plans 65–6, 69–70, 73, 82, 90, 97–9, 109, 113, 115, 123; summoned to London, 1483 65–6, 69, 75; learns of father’s death 69; expected age of majority 74; comes under control of Gloucester as result of coup 79–81; deprived of retainers and servants 81, 108, 142, 172; enters London in state 87–8; lodges in the Tower 88–9, 95, 106, 126; learns royal duties 93–4; fears of death 108, 135, 140; possible jaw disease 108, 177–8, 255; reunited with brother York in the Tower 111, 171; coronation postponed 115, 123; claim to throne impugned 114, 116–21; deposed 126–7, 135, 143; informed of deposition 135; plots to free him 143–7, 155, 165, 172, 182–3; also mentioned 2–3, 58, 72–3, 77–8, 83, 85–6, 90, 93, 96–7, 99–103, 105–7, 111, 113–15, 123, 126, 172–4, 184, 192, 222, 240, 242; see also under ‘Princes in the Tower, The’
Edward VI, King of England 173
Edward of Clarence, Earl of Warwick (see Plantagenet, Edward)
Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales 16, 25–7, 30, 34, 68
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales 35, 48, 96, 97, 142, 150,155–7, 162, 171, 185, 192, 197–9
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 12, 251
Elizabeth of York, Queen of England 7, 23, 35, 42, 53, 60–2, 144, 173, 180, 182, 185, 190, 194, 196, 199, 202–14, 219–24, 226, 228–30, 235, 238, 244
Eltham Palace, Kent 37
Ely Place, Holborn 103
Erber, The, Downgate Street, London 34, 42
Erasmus, Desiderius 5–7, 171, 174
Esteney, John, Abbot of Westminster 83