The Family of Richard III, by Michael Hicks
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The Wars of the Roses were quarrels within the Plantagenet family. They were about family trees – the capacity of family relationships both to unite and to divide – and notoriously about the slaughter of cousins, in laws, brothers, and nephews. The house of York, the dynasty of Richard, Duke of York (the future Richard III), won the first war.The 1460s are about the explosion of Edward IV’s family – his brothers (Richard III and George, Duke of Clarence), his wife and in laws, and his own offspring – and ends in a trial of strength between them. The painful choices are illustrated by George, Duke of Clarence, who measured his own interests against those of his brother and his dynasty, reaching contradictory conclusions. The 1470s are about a second explosion of the house of York, its division into separate nuclear families competing against each other, about the kings preferences, and in 1483 a sudden violent resolution. Richard III claimed to be his brother’s heir. The Yorkist establishment refused and shared in Richard’s destruction.Henry VII, a Yorkist in law, fathered the real heirs to the house of York. Henry VII is ancestor of the houses of Tudor, Stuart, Hanover and Windsor. He helped his wife’s sisters and niece to marry, spreading more widely the Yorkist blood that the true heir Henry VIII found so threatening. Both Henry VII and Henry VIII tried to cut out their dangerous Yorkist heirs but failed. Many thousands of descendants of Richard, Duke of York, survive, some more interested in their lineage than others, and this book concludes with an analysis of Richard's DNA and his 'family' as it exists today.
The Family of Richard III, by Michael Hicks- Amazon Sales Rank: #852554 in Books
- Brand: Hicks, Michael
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, 1.08 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 208 pages
Review Praise for Michael Hicks: Richard III - 'A most important book... compulsive reading' DESMOND SEWARD, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, 'A fascinating odyssey into English history' HISTORY TODAY, Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III - 'A masterful and poignant story' ALISON WEIR, 'Does little for Richard III's tattered reputation' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, Warwick the Kingmaker - 'Immensely well-researched' THE RICARDIAN, Edward IV - 'Michael Hicks' greatest strength is in his eye for detail and ability to discern order from the chaos of the detail' HISTORY: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION and The Prince in the Tower - 'The first time in ages that a publisher has sent me a book that I actually want to read!' DAVID STARKEY.
About the Author Michael Hicks is Professor of History at King Alfred's College, Winchester. He has written extensively on medieval England and is regarded by many as the leading expert on the Yorkist dynasty. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Taunton.
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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Nothing new for Hicks under the Sun of York By Isabella Failing to retrieve the remains of Richard III's evil twin from the river Soar where he had gone fishing on his retirement, Mr Hicks did not however fail to come out during King Richard's Reinterment Week with a book that, according to the author's own words, does not add a comma to the established "scholarly" research but has plenty of venom for those who have indeed done some, whatever their status.Amberley Publishing has very cleverly planned to address all market shares by coming out with books that will please Tudorites on one side and other books to please Ricardians on the other side, but the real question is: does this kind of book please the reader or history fan? The answer is no. No real new content is given for the experts, amateurs and occasional readers will find themselves struggling with a convoluted writing style that would be in any case hardly fit to deliver information if there were any new information to deliver at all and the few known facts are presented in the shade of the same old anti Ricardian bias.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great help in understanding Who's who in the War of the Roses By Pushkin This book gave a very interesting perspective on the period often called the "War of the Roses." At the time, it was called the "Cousin's War" because the main party were all related. However, their relationships are often hard to follow in many books because author's use both their names and their titles. Their titles change throughout the period, so figuring out who is who is often very difficult for an American. This book also gives an interesting explanation of what "family" meant during that period, including in-laws and all. It explained clearly why there was so much inter marrying in families and how they perceived inter marriage at the time. The understanding of "family" in the middle ages was very different from modern concepts of family. To understand the conflict in the Cousin's War and how closely combatants were related, or how far their family bonds were, helps one to understand the war itself. I've been trying to sort out the War of the Roses for some time. This book helps a great deal to understanding not just who the players were, but how they thought about and were related to each other. After all, when almost everyone is named Margaret, Richard, Henry, Edward and Elizabeth, the players can be confusing to sort out. In many families, there were two sons, each named Richard or each named Edward, to add to the confusion. During the war, titles shifted a great deal back and forth between combatants and family members. It is a little confusing for an American to understand that during that period (and others) titles were not always hereditary. They could move from one branch of the family to another, or even from one entirely different family to another. The entire Peerage system is a muddle for those of us in America. When trying to understand the War of the Roses, I found this book not only extremely helpful in identifying individuals and their relationship to each other, but in understanding how the people during that period thought of those relationships. Very helpful to understanding the period and the wars.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Useful information for Yorkist devotees By Triple L As always, books by Michael Hicks can be a mixed bag. He is probably the top expert on Richard III now, but his work for a more general audience can be marred by overly simplistic introductions ("what is a family" in this volume), "humorous" comments that belong in the classroom (in his biography of Richard's queen, Anne's tragic death at a young age becomes her "sell-by date"), generalizations (wickedest king ever--really?), and most of all his disdain for the Ricardians in Richard's camp, admittedly many of them amateur historians, and by implication the many historical novels written about Richard, usually by women. Colleague A.J. Pollard who holds similar views wrote an illustrated popular book, "King Richard and the Princes in the Tower," that included a picture of book jackets of the more lurid type of this fiction. Hicks even doubts the skeleton recently found in Leicester belongs to the king.This book has a lot of useful information and family trees on the many close relatives of the king and his brother King Edward IV. The Wars of the Roses was originally called the Cousins' War as the descendants of four of Edward III's five sons fought each other for the throne. Both the royals and the nobility constantly intermarried to the extent that close relatives often found themselves on opposing sides. It's hard to keep them straight with family names, titles, similar first names, etc so this should help. Hicks mentions at one point that Elizabeth Woodville's son by her first marriage, Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, was a guardian of the Duke of Clarence's son, young Edward, Earl of Warwick, and betrothed his daughter to the boy. But Hicks doesn't connect the dots when he says much later "Edward...was now sole heir to the rest of the Beauchamp inheritance of Warwick the Kingmaker and Anne Beauchamp, but was too young to sue for Richard and Anne's other half; any potential father-in-law however would include it in his calculations." You wonder if this consideration had any part in the power struggle between Woodvilles and Richard after King Edward's death.
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