Edward V (Plantagenet), King of England

1470 - 1483  (12 years)

• Name	Edward V (Plantagenet)  [1]
  Suffix	King of England
  Born	2 Nov. 1470	Westminster, London, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	26 June 1471  [1]
  	Earl of Chester
  Hereditary Title	26 June 1471  [1]
  	Prince of Wales
  Decoration	18 April 1475  [1]
  	Knighthood
  Decoration	15 May 1475  [1]
  	Knight of the Garter (K.G.)
  Regnal Name	Edward V  [1]
  Died	1483	Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I365	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	7 July 2018

  
  

  Father	Edward IV (Plantagenet), King of England,   b. 28 April 1442, Rouen, Normandy ,   d. 9 April 1483, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England  (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Woodville,   b. circa 1437,   d. 8 June 1492, Bermondsey, Surrey, England  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Married	1 May 1464  [2]
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry		Arms of Plantagenet quartering France Modern: Royal Arms of England (c.1400–1603) Quarterly France Modern and England. Occasionally found in the form, Quarterly England and France Modern. [France Modern: Azure three fleurs de lis or.] [England: Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or.] Source: Boutell's Heraldry, rev. J. P. Brooke-Little (1970), p. 208.
  		Arms of the Plantagenet and Tudor Princes of Wales (Modern) Quarterly, France Modern and England, a label of three points Argent. (As they appear in St. Mary's Church, Oxford.) Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 1035, citing the Visitation of Oxfordshire, 1566.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Horrox, "Edward V (1470-1483), king of England and lord of Ireland". [S9] Oxford D.N.B., H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), R. Horrox, "Edward IV (1442-1483), king of England and lord of Ireland".