House of York

• References:
  • POLE - BARON MONTAGU in [Burkes Extinct]
  • MONTAGU in [Complete Peerage]

Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (see here),
mar Cicely Neville [descendant of Edward III],
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1447-53,
killed in Battle of Wakefield 1460,
the phrase "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" refers to him,
had issue:

1. Edward IV, deposed Henry VI 1461,
   reigned 1461-70, deposed 1470, reigned 1471-83,
   mar Elizabeth Woodville and had issue:
   1. Elizabeth Plantagenet, born 1466, mar 1486 to Henry VII and had issue [House of Tudor].
   2. Cicely Plantagenet, born 1469, mar John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles and had issue.
   3. Edward V, born 1470, reigned 1483, murdered 1483.
   4. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, born 1473, murdered 1483.
      It was him who Perkin Warbeck claimed to be in the Yorkist opposition to Henry VII 1491. Warbeck executed 1499.

   
   

2. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (see here),
   mar Isabel Neville [descendant of Edward III],
   Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1461-70 and 1472-8,
   had issue:
   1. Margaret Plantagenet, last of the Plantagenets,
      mar Richard Pole, Duke of Suffolk,
      she was executed 1541,
      had issue:
      1. Henry Pole, Baron Montagu, born c.1495,
         mar Jane Neville [descendant of Edward III] and had issue:
         1. Katherine Pole, mar Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and had issue.

         2. Winifred Pole, born est c.1515, mar Thomas Barrington and had issue.

   2. Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, born 1475,
      it was him who Lambert Simnel claimed to be 1487, Simnel captured 1487,
      Warwick was executed by Henry VII to secure his throne, 1499.

   
   

3. Richard III, reigned 1483-5,
   assumed to have had his two nephews killed,
   the play Richard III (and here) by Shakespeare spans 1477-85,
   see also the movie Richard III (1995),
   killed by Henry VII at Bosworth 1485, crown taken by House of Tudor.
   Shakespeare gave him the line: "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

• The nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" may refer to Richard III, although there are many other theories.

• The Plantagenet line sunk so low that Margaret Plantagenet's great-granddaughter married a joiner, and her son was a mender of old shoes.

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