23
Apr
23 APRIL 1445
Wedding of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou
Tags: Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou
25
Apr
25 APRIL 1464
Battle of Hedgeley Moor, Northumberland. The Yorkist forces were led by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (brother of Richard Neville ‘The Kingmaker’), the Lancastrians by the Duke of Somerset, supported by Sir Ralph Percy, Lords Roos and Hungerford, and Sir Ralph Grey. The Lancastrian force soon gave way and fled, except for Sir Ralph Percy, who died in the battle.
Tags: Battles, Northumberland
22
Apr
22 APRIL 1451
Birth of Queen Isabella I of Castile, the mother of Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife.
Isabella married on 19 October 1469 Ferdinand of Aragon. During Isabella’s reign the last Moorish kingdom in Spain, Granada, fell on 2 January 1492, ending centuries of peaceful religious co-existence between Muslims, Christians and Jews. In the same year, on 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Isabella died on 26 November 1504.
Tags: Spain
22
Apr
22 APRIL 1444
Birth of Elizabeth of York, sixth child and third daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville, in Rouen, Normandy. Married before February 1458 to John de la Pole, eldest son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer. Her eldest son John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln, was considered heir to the throne of Richard III after the death of Edward of Middleham.
Tags: Family
21
Apr
21 APRIL 1509
Death of Henry VII (Tudor) at Richmond Palace. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
Tags: Henry Tudor
17
Apr
17 APRIL 1397
Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
Tags: Books
16
Apr
16 APRIL 1470
Birth of a short-lived child to George, duke of Clarence, and his wife, Isabel Neville, on a ship off Calais. Some sources say that it was a boy, others that it was a girl named Anne. This was their first child.
15
Apr
15 APRIL 1452
14
Apr
14 APRIL 1471
Battle of Barnet, Hertfordshire, defeat of Warwick and his brother Montagu, who both fell in the battle. Richard is said to have been in command of the vanguard.
Read more about a possible different location for the battle here.
Tags: Barnet, Battles, Edward IV, Hertfordshire, Richard III
11
Apr
11 APRIL 1471
