When her father died in 1483 she was not yet four years of age but like her older siblings found herself in sanctuary at Westminster and declared illegitimate under the terms of Titulus Regius which accepted Bishop Stillington’s declaration that Edward was pre-contracted in marriage to Lady ...
England to King Henry VII of England andElizabeth of York. Henry's older brother Arthur was due to succeed their father as king, but Arthur died when he was fifteen, leaving Henry VIII next in line for accession to the throne of England. In 1509, Henry VII died, and the seventeen-year...
and he became incensed when King Henry refused to pay his ransom – possibly because he was afraid of the Mortimers, whose strong claim to the throne had been passed over in his own favour. Edmund therefore
Henry Abramson is a specialist in Jewish History and Thought, serving as Dean of Lander College for Men, Touro University. A native of northern Ontario, Canada, he earned his PhD in History from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the Jews of Ukraine, published by Harvard Univers...