{"id":3044,"date":"2022-01-26T18:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2022-01-26T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:28:48","slug":"edward-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/middle-ages\/edward-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward V (1483-1483)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The life of King Edward V was a short one, and it ended in tragedy. He was born in 1470 and became king at the age of just twelve, after his father, <a href=\"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/middle-ages\/edward-iv\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2253\">King Edward IV<\/a>, passed away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward V was the son of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV. He was\u00a0made prince of Wales in June 1471.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His uncle Richard duke of Gloucester, was named protector while Edward was a child, took control of the country. However, Edward&#8217;s uncle was not popular with the Woodvilles, and they soon began to demand that Edward take control of the throne himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1483, Edward&#8217;s uncle arrested Edward V and his younger brother Richard and <a href=\"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/middle-ages\/the-princes-in-the-tower\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3024\">locked them in the Tower of London<\/a>. He claimed that the children were illegitimate and therefore had no claim to the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed that he had them killed so that he could keep control of the throne for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward&#8217;s death was a sad end to a short life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward&#8217;s uncle Richard, duke of Gloucester was crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/middle-ages\/richard-iii\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2371\">Richard III<\/a> in 1483 just a few months after his brother Edward IV died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two skeletons found in the Tower in 1674 during the reign of <a href=\"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/stuarts\/king-charles-ii\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1461\">Charles II<\/a> are thought to be those of Edward V and his brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life of King Edward V was a short one, and it ended in tragedy. He was born in 1470 and became king at the age of just twelve, after his father, King Edward IV, passed away. Edward V was the son of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV. He was\u00a0made prince of Wales in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}