Richard III and His Rivals: Magnates and Their Motives in the Wars of the Roses

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A&C Black, Jan 1, 1991 - History - 447 pages
Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch, the equal of the great nobility. He is seen here in the company of his fellows: Warwick the Kingmaker, Clarence, Northumberland, Somerset, Hastings a the Wydevilles. His relations with these rivals, all of whom submitted to him or were crushed, show him in different moods and from various vantage points.
 

Contents

Society and Politics in FifteenthCentury England
1
2 Idealism in Late Medieval English Politics
41
3 Attainder Resumption and Coercion 14611529
61
The Hungerford Foundations 13251478
79
5 The Piety of Margaret Lady Hungerford d 1478
99
Prehistory foundation and Refoundation 140978
119
George Duke of Clarence as Good Lord
133
8 Edward IV the Duke of Somerset and Lancastrian Loyalism in the North
149
14 Richard Ills Cartulary in the British Library MS Cotton Julius BXII
281
George Neville Duke of Bedford 146583 His Identity and Significance
291
16 The Last Days of Elizabeth Countess of Oxford
297
17 Richard III and Romsey
317
The Warwick Inheritance
323
19 The Beauchamp Trust 143987
337
20 The Neville Earldom of Salisbury 142971
353
The Fourth Earl of Northumberland 147089
365

The Hungerford Experience
165
The Moleyns Ransom and the Hungerford LandSales 145387
185
11 The Changing Role of the Wydevilles in Yorkist Politics to 1483
209
12 Lord Hastings Indentured Retainers?
229
A Study in Character
247
22 The Yorkist Rebellion of 1489 Reconsidered
395
23 The Case of Sir Thomas Cook 1468
419
Index
435
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