The Princes in the Tower, page 41
Thursday, 7 August 1483
Howard writes to his son, Thomas, with King Richard at Warwick.
Princes in safekeeping.
Monday, 11 August 1483
Howard leaves London for Suffolk and progress to Walsingham.
c. Monday, 15 September 1483
York: Langton letter.
Princes alive.
Friday, 19 December 1483
King Richard: Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, to travel to London.
Tuesday, 23 January–Friday, 20 February 1484
Parliament: Titulus Regius (Act of Succession) Richard III.
Monday, 1 March 1484
Elizabeth Woodville reconciles with King Richard, places daughters in his care.
Wednesday, 10 March 1484
King Richard (via Langton) writes to Pope Innocent VIII concerning ‘secrets of my heart’.
Thursday, 11 March 1484
King Richard (via Langton) writes to Charles VIII of France to explain ‘certain matters concerning us’.
Saturday, 1 May 1484
York: Popplau delivers letter to King Richard from Margaret of Burgundy.
Popplau reports ‘sons of princes’ kept at Pontefract Castle ‘just as close as if in captivity’, believes Edward IV’s sons kept in secret place.
Saturday, 24 July 1484
Sandal Castle, Royal Nursery: ‘children together at breakfast’.
Tuesday, 2 November 1484
Edward V’s majority (fourteenth birthday).
November 1484
‘Lord Bastard riding to Calais.’
Brackenbury returned ‘from the Lord Bastard’.
Wednesday, 1 December 1484
‘Edward bastard late called King of England the fifth’ (no prayers for Edward V offered in government records).
Monday, 6 December 1484
John Nesfield travels to Jersey in Channel Islands with two unnamed persons by letter of passage from King Richard.
Wednesday, 9 March 1485
Signet Office: order to deliver clothing to ‘John Goddeslande fotemane [footman] unto the lord Bastard’.
Monday, 22 August 1485
Bosworth: death of Richard III, Howard and Brackenbury.
Tuesday 23 August–Sunday 28 August 1485
Henry Tudor searches north.
Saturday, 3 September 1485
London: Henry Tudor proclamation, ‘If there were a claimant to the crown by descent from King Edward. He was to show himself; and he [Henry] would help him to get crowned’.
Sunday, 30 October 1485
Westminster Abbey: Henry Tudor crowned Henry VII.
Monday, 23 January 1486
Henry VII Parliament: repeals official bastardy of Edward IV’s children.
Edward V (15) now able to claim inheritance/throne.
Tuesday, 27 February 1486
Langton in Malines, Burgundy.
Thursday, 20 April 1486
Yorkshire: Francis Lovell rebellion.
Tuesday, 25 April 1486
Midlands: Lovell rebellion on behalf of King Edward.
Saturday, 29 April/Sunday, 1 May 1486
Guernsey: King Edward set free, travels to Yorkshire, placed in safekeeping of Lovell.
Monday, 10 July 1486
London, Westminster: Elizabeth Woodville takes out forty-year lease on Cheneygates Mansion.
Sunday, 13 August 1486
Edward V issues grant of office in Ireland.
Dates reign from summer 1486 in Ireland.
After Friday, 29 September 1486
Henry VII sends Herald to Ireland on ‘his secret business’; Edward V interviewed by Herald.
Lovell and Edward V cross to Burgundy.
Wednesday, 29 November 1486
Henry VII receives word of Yorkist uprising with many enemies on the sea and ships taken; arrests made in Henry’s household.
Wednesday, 27 December– Monday, 1 January 1487
Burgundy: King Maximilian obtains war chest.
Money provided to rebels abroad by Lincoln, Abbot of Abingdon and others.
c. Friday, 2 February–Saturday, 3 March 1487
News of King Edward in Ireland reaches England.
Elizabeth Woodville deprived of possessions and income, sent to Bermondsey Abbey.
Sunday, 18 February–Monday, 19 February 1487
London: Edward, Earl of Warwick, (11) taken out of Tower and exhibited.
Friday, 9 March 1487
Lincoln flees the ‘kynges grace’ and joins Lovell.
Mid-March 1487
East Anglia: Henry VII makes urgent journey to de la Pole and Howard family heartlands; Dorset arrested nearby, imprisoned in Tower.
Sunday, 25 March 1487
Lincoln sending gold and silver north.
Wednesday, 18 April 1487
Clerk entry for ‘son of Clarence’ (meaning Edward V) in Malines, Burgundy.
End of April 1487
Burgundy: Preparations for Edward V’s invasion of England under way with Margaret and Maximilian.
Saturday, 5 May 1487
Rebels from England arrive in Ireland.
Tuesday, 15 May 1487
Middelburg, Holland: First Burgundian-Habsburg fleet on behalf of Edward V sails to Ireland.
Friday, 25 May 1487
Ireland: Burgundian-Habsburg fleet arrives.
Sunday, 27 May 1487
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin: Coronation of Edward V (aged 16).
Burgundy: second Burgundian-Habsburg fleet prepared for Edward V.
c. Tuesday, 29 May 1487
Dublin: Edward V’s Parliament.
Waterford: coins for King Edward minted.
Monday, 4 June 1487
Piel Island, north-west England: Edward V’s armada invades England.
Early June 1487
Burgundy: second fleet for Edward V diverted to Brittany by Maximilian.
Friday, 8 June 1487
Masham, North Yorkshire: King Edward writes to city of York.
City denies King Edward access.
Tuesday, 12 June 1487
York: Northumberland’s army leaves city, heads south to Henry VII.
Yorkists attack city gates and cry ‘King Edward’.
Northumberland returns army to York.
Thursday, 14 June 1487
York: Northumberland’s army departs, heading north.
Saturday, 16 June 1487
Battle of Stoke.
Edward V’s death/injury/escape?
Death of Lincoln.
Lovell ‘put to flight’ with ‘many other’.
Northumberland and Stanley brothers not present.
Lincoln’s sister, Katherine de la Pole, imprisoned in Tower of London.
c. Friday, 9 November 1487
London: boy captured at Stoke Field named as ‘Lambert Simnel’.
Date of King Edward’s coronation (Sunday 27th) recorded as Thursday (24th).
Household plot against Henry VII foiled, four of king’s servants hanged at Tower Hill.
Sunday, 25 November 1487
Coronation of Elizabeth of York; Elizabeth Woodville, Sir Edward Woodville and Dorset not present.
Sunday, 16 December 1487
Proof of life, Edward V.
Burgundy: receipt from Maximilian’s court for delivery and payment of pikes for the army that Margaret of York ‘sent at the time (across the sea) to serve her nephew, son of King Edward, late her brother’ (no prayers offered for Edward V).
Thursday, 19 June 1488
Scotland: James IV issues safe conduct to Lovell and English rebels.
Monday, 23 June 1488
Henry VII sends Sir Richard Edgecombe on urgent mission to Ireland to issue pardons, guarantee loyalties and recognition of Henry as king.
Saturday, 12 July 1488
Dublin, Ireland: Edgecombe gives Kildare secret verbal message from Henry VII.
Kildare stalls for time; privately consults with Irish Council.
Wednesday, 30 July 1488
Kildare recognises Henry VII as king; other Irish lords follow.
Reign of King Edward in Ireland comes to an end.
January 1489
Thomas Howard released from Tower under oath of allegiance.
February 1489
London: Irish lords visiting Henry VII do not recognise ‘Lambert Simnel’ as Dublin King.
On or before Saturday, 21 November 1489
Dorset released from Tower.
Sunday, 8 May 1491
St George’s Chapel, Windsor: Edward V’s Garter stall allocated to Prince Arthur (aged 4½).
Political death of Edward V.
The Survival of Richard, Duke of York
Monday, 16 June 1483
Tower: Richard of York joins Edward V in royal apartments.
Monday, 21 July 1483
Tower: abduction attempt.
Princes taken into care of Brackenbury, Tyrell involved.
Probable date Buckingham orders boys separated.
York moves into accommodation in or near the Lions Tower.
Thursday, 24 July 1483
Howard arrives in London to carry out king’s orders; visits York at Tower.
Friday 25 July 1483
Howard appointed Admiral of England.
Sir Edward Brampton granted £350 from Ports.
c. Saturday, 2 August 1483
York sails to France with Henry and Thomas Peirse.
c. Wednesday, 6 August 1483
York arrives in Paris.
Thursday, 11 March 1484
King Richard (via Langton) writes to Charles VIII of France to explain ‘certain matters concerning us’.
c. September 1484
Henry Tudor and followers arrive in Paris.
York (aged 11) moves south and then to northern France.
c. End of 1484
York arrives in (Burgundian) Hainault; resides in nearby French city of Tournai.
Tournai: York said to receive education at Cathedral Choir school.
c. Christmas 1484–early 1485
France: Dorset with Henry Tudor.
London: Elizabeth Woodville writes to Dorset to make peace with King Richard.
Dorset deserts Tudor, is captured at Compiègne, en route for Flanders.
Monday, 22 August 1485
Bosworth: death of Richard III, Howard and Brackenbury.
Saturday, 3 September 1485
London: Tudor proclamation ‘claimant to the crown by descent from King Edward to show himself; and he [Henry] would help him get crowned’.
Sunday, 30 October 1485
Westminster Abbey: Henry Tudor crowned Henry VII.
Monday, 23 January 1486
Henry VII Parliament: repeals official bastardy of Edward IV’s children.
Edward V and Richard of York able to claim inheritance/throne.
End of April 1487
Burgundy: York and Peirses sail to Portugal with Sir Edward Brampton’s wife.
Saturday, 16 June 1487
Battle of Stoke.
Edward V’s death/injury/escape?
Late summer 1487
Portugal: news reaches York of defeat of Edward V.
York (aged 14) sends Thomas Peirse to Elizabeth Woodville.
Thomas Peirse remains in England.
Early 1488
Henry VII sends spies to Portugal.
Wednesday, 30 July 1488
Reign of King Edward in Ireland comes to an end.
Tuesday, 4 November 1488
Scotland: James IV issues safe passage to English rebels from Ireland at ‘urging of Margaret of Burgundy’.
August 1489
Henry VII sends Richmond Herald to Portugal.
Monday, 17 August 1489
York reaches majority (sixteenth birthday).
November 1489
London: last recorded appearance of Elizabeth Woodville at court; unprecedented meeting during Elizabeth of York’s confinement.
Monday, 16 November 1489
Windsor, Black Book: by this date York’s Garter stall allocated to William Stanley.
Political death of York as duke and heir to throne.
On or before Saturday, 21 November 1489
Dorset released from Tower.
c. 1489–90
Portugal: Henry Peirse advises York to travel to Ireland to Lords Kildare and Desmond (who helped his brother).
Peirse dies of plague.
Tuesday, 2 February 1490
Scottish Treasurer’s Office: records item to ‘the herald that come from Ireland and past [proceeded] to the Duchess of Burgundy’.
Thursday, 19 May–Sunday, 22 May 1491
London: Halneth Mauleverer and others stand surety for Dorset’s loyalty.
c. November 1491
York (18) sails to Ireland.
Monday, 4 June 1492
Dorset receives pardon, required to give wide-ranging guarantees of loyalty to King Henry and report any treasons and conspiracies in writing.
Dorset’s heir (Thomas, 14) made King Henry’s ward.
Friday, 8 June 1492
Bermondsey Abbey: death of Elizabeth Woodville.
After Tuesday, 10 July 1492
Henry VII loyalist, Thomas Butler, made Keeper of the Chancery Records in Ireland.
Summer 1492
York to France at French King Charles VIII’s invitation/offer of support.
October 1492
Paris: 100 English supporters join York.
Saturday, 3 November 1492
Peace treaty of Étaples prevents support by Charles VIII.
York leaves France.
Late 1492
York with Margaret of Burgundy.
Monday, 14 January–Thursday, 14 March 1493
London: Lord Fitzwalter to array 500 men on behalf of York as king.
Sir Gilbert Debenham and Sir Humphrey Savage join rebellion for York.
Sir William Stanley joins rebellion for York as titular head.
Sunday, 25 August 1493
Dendermonde, Burgundy: York and Margaret write to Queen Isabella of Spain to confirm his identity and request support.
Late summer–early autumn 1493
Proof of life, Richard, Duke of York.
Burgundy: York gives full account of his story, beginning at the Tower.
Nobles and many others in England flock to him, including Elizabeth of York’s Yeoman.
7 December 1493
Vienna: York attends funeral of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor; first official public appearance; Maximilian recognises York as King Edward’s heir.
Summer 1494
York rises against King Henry.
Monday, 1 December 1494
Ireland: all records of Edward V’s coronation and Parliament destroyed on Henry VII’s orders.
Mid-January–February 1495
London: English nobles arrested and executed, including William Stanley and Sir Simon Montford.
Saturday, 4 April 1495
Zeeland: English ships threaten York’s invasion fleet.
Friday, 8 May 1495
York fleet moved to Texel, northern Holland.
Burgundy: Margaret’s supplication to Pope Alexander VI on behalf of her nephew, York.
Wednesday, 1 July 1495
Texel: York’s invasion fleet sails to England.
Friday, 3 July 1495
Lands at Deal, Kent.
100-plus of York’s men killed or captured.
Approximately 400 executions follow.
c. Tuesday, 7 July 1495
York’s fleet arrives in Ireland.
Saturday, 12 September 1495
London: four Dutchmen supporting York hanged in river at St Katherine’s.
Mid-September 1495
