The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . RICHARD III. of England has beenexecrated by poets, dramatists andhistorians. Popular opinion regardshim as deformed in body and un-principled in spirit. He was theyoungest son of Richard, Duke ofYork, and was born at FotheringayCastle in Northamptonshire in was created Duke of Gloucesterin 1461, on the accession of hisbrother, Edward IV., who claimedthe throne as a descendant of Phil-ippa, only daughter of the Duke ofClarence, who was the second son ofEdward III. It is charged that hiscareer of bloody
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . RICHARD III. of England has beenexecrated by poets, dramatists andhistorians. Popular opinion regardshim as deformed in body and un-principled in spirit. He was theyoungest son of Richard, Duke ofYork, and was born at FotheringayCastle in Northamptonshire in was created Duke of Gloucesterin 1461, on the accession of hisbrother, Edward IV., who claimedthe throne as a descendant of Phil-ippa, only daughter of the Duke ofClarence, who was the second son ofEdward III. It is charged that hiscareer of bloody crimes began whenhe joined his brother Clarence in themurder of the Prince of Wales afterthe battle of Tewkesbury. In 1472S (4a ats^= ^r( Richard married Anne, widow of the ^-^ <£^ Lancastrian Prince of Wales, and daughter of the Earl of Warwick,the King-maker; her sister having previously married hisbrother Clarence. The latter prince stood in the way ofRichards ambition, who fomented the intrigues whichproved fatal to him. On the death of Edward IV. in 1483,Richard became
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