Edward V 1470 1483 King of England Princes Tower London regal royal kingly princely imperial sovereign ruler monarch potentate
Edward V (2 November 1470 – possibly 3 September 1483) was King of England from 9 April 1483 until his deposition two months later. His reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who succeeded him as Richard III. Along with his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, Edward was one of the Princes in the Tower, who disappeared after being sent (ostensibly for their own safety) to the Tower of London. Responsibility for their deaths is widely ascribed to Richard III, and the actual events remained controversial for centuries. Author Alison Weir states that the ultimate responsibility can only lie with Richard III, considering the time line of the events, and what Richard III had done, and more significantly what he had not done, to distance himself from the disappearance of the sons of Edward IV. The mysterious disappearance of a boy claimant to the English throne, possibly at the hands of his uncle, mirrors the presumed death of Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, in 1203. Along with Edward VIII and the disputable Matilda and Jane, Edward V is one of only four English monarchs since the Norman Conquest never to have been crowned. If, as seems likely, he died before his fifteenth birthday, he is the shortest-lived monarch in English history (his great-nephew Edward VI died in his sixteenth year).
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