1483-1486

• What date did Edward IV die?

  9th april 1483
• Who attempted to have Edward V coronated straight away?

  the Woodvilles
• What did Edward's will say should happen if he died?

  Gloucester should act as protector
• What did the Woodvilles have control of at the time of Edward's death?

  Edward V, the Crown's fleet and the treasury
• Who informed Gloucester of his brother's death?

  Lord Hastings
• Who else quickly wrote to Richard offering support?

  Buckingham as he gathered 300 men
• Where did Gloucester agree to meet Earl Rivers, on their way to London?

  Stony Stratford
• After Richard got control of Edward V at Stony Stratford, who did he have locked up?

  Earl Rivers, Richard Grey and Thomas Vaughan
• On what date was Richard Duke of Gloucester made protector?

  10th May 1483
• To what date did Edward V's coronation get delayed to?

  24th June 1483
• On 10th June 1483, Richard summoned men to London from where?

  York and Hull
• Who was arrested at a Council meeting on the 10th June?

  Lord Hastings, Archbishop Rotherham of York and Bishop Morton of Ely
• Why did Gloucester have Hastings executed?

  conspiring with the Woodvilles
• On what date was Edward's younger son, Richard also locked up in the Tower?

  16th June 1483
• On 22nd June, who preached that the Princes were illegitimate?

  Ralph Shaw
• Why was Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville supposedly illegitimate?

  He was already betrothed to Eleanor Talbot
• On what date was Rivers, Vaughan and Grey executed?

  25th June 1483
• What date was Richard III declared King?

  26th June 1483, coronated 6th July
• When is Richard coronated?

  6th July 1483
• What positions was Buckingham given by Richard?

  • Steward of the South East
  • Constable of all castles
  • estates worth £700 per year
• What positions did Lord Howard receive under Richard?

  Lord High Admiral and Duke of Norfolk
• Who was created Warden of the Scottish Border?

  Earl of Northumberland
• Out of 54 nobles serving on Richard's Council, how many served under Edward IV?

  24
• Who was put in charge of an Oyer and Terminer in the South East, in August 1483?

  Buckingham
• Buckingham's rebellion:

  • 11th October 1483, Daubenay led an uprising in the South East and London
  • 18th Oct, Grey and the Courtenays rebel in the West
  • Buckingham led a rebellion in Wales
  • Kent and East Anglia had uprisings too
• Who put down the rebellions in London?

  Norfolk
• How did Sir Humphrey Stafford help stop Buckingham?

  torched castles and destroyed a bridge to slow his advancement
• Who captured Buckingham?


  Sheriff of Shropshire
• What date was Buckingham executed?

  2nd November 1483
• When did Henry Tudor get near to Plymouth?

  the first week of November
• Yorkists who fled to Tudor's court:

  • Thomas Grey
  • Giles Daubeney
• Who was the lieutenant who had kept the Earl of Oxford in custody for 10 years, but released him and fled with him to Tudor?

  Sir James Blount
• How many acts of attainder were passed after Buckingham's rebellion?

  97 attainders
• When was Henry Tudor betrothed to Elizabeth of York?

  December 1483
• Northern gentry were granted estates in the South, a Yorkshire knight, Sir Ralph Ashton, was given what?

  Lieutenant of Dover Castle
• Who was made Treasurer of the Exchequer in 1484?

  Lord Lovell
• Sir Richard Ratcliffe (northern gentry was given lands where?

  Devon, Dorset and Somerset
• Stanley was pardoned and given lands where?

  The Midlands, also kept his lands in Lancashire and Cheshire
• What date was Richard's only Parliament?

  23rd January 1484 to 20th Feburary
• Richard's passings at parliament:

  • all but him are illegitimate
  • compulsory qualifications for jurors
  • made it illegal to sell land without disclosing potential claimants
  • bail was made easier