Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent ResearchMarkham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir
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Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research
Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485
[19] The first Earl of Shrewsbury had a large family by two wives, but
the names of all his daughters have not been recorded. Dugdale
mentions none. Collins gives Jane married to James Lord Berkeley.
There were also Elizabeth wife of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and
others, including Eleanor. Buck is mistaken in supposing that
Eleanor's first husband was Sir Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley. His wife
was Alice Deincourt, and he was too old. Eleanor's husband may have
been an unrecorded son of Ralph Butler, Lord Sudeley, who died when a
young man before his father. She must have married Edward IV., when a
widow, in or before 1464. She died at Norwich, and was buried in the
church of the White Friars Carmelites.--Weever's _Funeral Monuments_,
p. 805.
[20] Morton says that 'within few days after he withered and consumed
away' (p. 103).
[21] I. Arthur was married to a daughter and heiress of Edward Grey,
Viscount Lisle, the brother-in-law of Lady Grey. She was the widow of
Edmund Dudley. In 1533 Arthur was created Viscount Lisle. He had
three daughters, and from the second, Frances wife of John Basset of
Umberleigh, co. Devon, General Monk was descended. Arthur Viscount
Lisle died, without male heirs, in 1541.
II. Elizabeth wife of Thomas, eldest son of George Lord Lumley, who
died before his father. From her descends the present Earl of
Scarborough.
[22] Letter from King Richard to Lord Mountjoy.
[23] The text of the grant is given by Dugdale, with the King's signet
and sign manual, given at his manor at Greenwich on July 13, 1483. A
list of the manors follows.--Dugdale's _Baronage_, i. 168.
Mr. Gairdner argues that, in spite of this grant, the Duke had reason
to doubt the fulfilment of the promise when Parliament met. I am
unable to follow him. The King had done all that he possibly could do
until Parliament met, and he had put his good faith and sincerity
beyond doubt by giving Buckingham the profits beforehand, in
anticipation of the approval of Parliament. What could he possibly do
more? There was no shadow of a pretext for any such doubt on the part
of Buckingham.--Gairdner's _Richard III._, p. 136.
[24] He also had to ignore the children of Henry Bourchier, Earl of
Essex, by the Princess Isabel, a sister of Richard Duke of York.
[25] Morton, in Grafton, p. 126.
[26] _Ibid._ p. 127.
[27] _Richard III._ p. 146, quoting from _Royal Wills_, pp. 345-347.
[28] Rous, p. 217. Drake's _Eborac._ p. 117. The fable is fully
exposed by Mr. Davies in his _York Records_.
[29] Rous.
[30] This rumour never reached Fabyan or Rous. It is mentioned by the
Croyland monk.
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