Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick

Also known as: Edward his heire · Family: House of York · Role: heir and earl · First appears: Edward IV 35

Life events

1477 · Edward IV created Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick.(Edward IV 35)
- With: Edward IV
- “whome king Edward had created earle of Warwike”
1477 · Henry VII attainted Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, who was beheaded.(Edward IV 35 · 📍 the Tower hill)
- With: Henry VII
- “was thrée and twentie yeares after, in the time of Henrie the seauenth, atteinted of treason, and on the Tower hill lost his head.”

parent: George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence “This duke left behind him two yoong infants begot of the bodie of his wife, the daughter of Richard late earle of Warwike: which children by destinie as it were, or by their owne merits, following the steps of their ancestors, succéeded them in like misfortune and semblable euill chance. For Edward his heire”
siblings with Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury “For Edward his heire, whome king Edward had created earle of Warwike was thrée and twentie yeares after, in the time of Henrie the seauenth, atteinted of treason, and on the Tower hill lost his head. Margaret his sole daughter”
sworn: Edward IV “Edward his heire, whome king Edward had created earle of Warwike”
enemies with Henry VII “in the time of Henrie the seauenth, atteinted of treason, and on the Tower hill lost his head”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.