Imprisoned in the Tower of London w/ brother Edward V, neve r to be seen again.

Earl of Surrey & Warenne. Earl of Nottingham. His creatio n as the Duke of York established the tradition that the 2n d son of the Sovereign is made so. K.G. Made a Knight of t he Bath later that year. all titles forfeited.

Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Nor folk (17 August 1473– 1483?) was the sixth child and secon d son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville . He was born in Shrewsbury.

He was a younger brother of Elizabeth of York, Mary of York , Cecily of York, Edward V of England and Margaret of York . He was also an older brother of Anne of York, George Plan tagenet, Duke of Bedford, Catherine of York and Bridget o f York.

He was created Duke of York in 1474. In January 15 1478, wh en he was about 4 years old, he married the 5-year-old Ann e de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, who had inherited th e vast Mowbray estates in 1476. Because York's father-in-la w's dukedom had become extinct when Anne could not inheri t it, he was created Duke of Norfolk in 1481.

His father died on 9 April 1483. Thus his brother Edward, P rince of Wales, became King of England, and Richard his Hei r Presumptive. This was not to last. Robert Stillington, th e Bishop of Bath and Wells, presented evidence that Edwar d IV had contracted a secret marriage to Lady Eleanor Talbo t in 1461. Talbot was still alive when Edward married Eliza beth Woodville in 1464. The Regency council under Richard P lantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester, concluded that this wa s a case of bigamy, invalidating the second marriage and th e legitimacy of all children of Edward IV by this marriage . Both Edward and Richard were declared illegitimate and re moved from the line of succession on 25 June 1483. The Duk e of Gloucester, as a surviving younger brother of Edward I V, became King Richard III. The Duke of York was sent to th e Tower of London by King Richard in mid-1483. What happene d to him and his brother— the Princes in the Tower— after t hat has been the subject of much speculation and debate. I n the 1490s, Perkin Warbeck claimed to be Richard, Duke o f York, but he was an imposter. Richard's might have been t he smaller of two skeletons discovered in a chest in the To wer in 1674 , but there is as yet no evidence o ne way or the other.

The comedy series The Black Adder features an alternative h istory where Richard succeeded his uncle to the throne as K ing Richard IV of England (reigned 1485– 1498, though Richa rd has two grown up sons in The Black Adder in 1485, in rea lity he would have been twelve years old) before being pois oned and succeeded by King Henry VII.

• Married: 15 Jan 1478 in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Palace
• Change Date: 21 Dec 2007