Edward IV (Plantagenet), King of England

1442 - 1483  (40 years)

• Name	Edward IV (Plantagenet)  [1]
  Suffix	King of England
  Birth	28 April 1442	Rouen, Normandy   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Coronation	28 June 1461	Westminster, London, England   [1]
  Regnal Name	Edward IV  [1]
  Death	9 April 1483	Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England   [1]
  Person ID	I354	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	7 July 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard (Plantagenet), 3rd Duke of York,   b. 22 Sept. 1411   d. 30 Dec. 1460, Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Lady Cecily Neville,   b. 3 May 1415   d. June 1495 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1429  [2]
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Woodville,   b. circa 1437   d. 8 June 1492, Bermondsey, Surrey, England (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1 May 1464  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Princess Elizabeth (Plantagenet), of York,   b. 11 Feb. 1465/66, Westminster, London, England d. 11 Feb. 1502/03, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England (Age 37 years)   2. Mary (Plantagenet),   b. 1467   d. 1482 (Age 15 years)   3. Cecily (Plantagenet),   b. 1469   d. 1507 (Age 38 years)   4. Edward V (Plantagenet), King of England,   b. 2 Nov. 1470, Westminster, London, England d. 1483, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England (Age 12 years)   5. Margaret (Plantagenet),   b. 1472   d. 1472 (Age 0 years)   6. Richard (Plantagenet), 1st Duke of York,   b. 17 Aug. 1473, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England d. 1483, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England (Age 9 years)   7. Anne (Plantagenet),   b. 1475   d. 1510 (Age 35 years)   8. Katherine (Plantagenet),   b. 1479   d. 1527 (Age 48 years)   9. Bridget (Plantagenet),   b. 1480   d. 1513 (Age 33 years)
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 June 2018

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Plantagenet quartering France Modern: Royal Arms of England (c.1400–1603) Quarterly France Modern and England. Occasionally found in the form, Quarterly England and France Modern. [France Modern: Azure three fleurs de lis or.] [England: Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or.] Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 208.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford D.N.B., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Horrox, "Edward IV (1442-1483), king of England and lord of Ireland". [S9] H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford D.N.B., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), C. Harper-Bill, "Cecily [Cicely] [née Cecily Neville], duchess of York (1415–1495), Yorkist matriarch".