Edward IV

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noun

1. 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.

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Edward IV British  

noun

1. 1442–83, king of England (1461–70; 1471–83); son of Richard, duke of York. He defeated Henry VI in the Wars of the Roses and became king (1461). In 1470 Henry was restored to the throne, but Edward recovered the crown by his victory at Tewkesbury

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Gregg Mozgala, in two important roles — Edward IV, who succeeds the dead Henry, and Richmond, the play’s hero, who eventually kills Richard — has cerebral palsy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2022

In Josephine Tey’s masterpiece “The Daughter of Time,” Inspector Alan Grant passes a long bed-bound convalescence by reassessing the evidence that Richard III murdered the two sons of Edward IV, the “Princes in the Tower.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020

We learn that John Alec Baker was born in 1927, in Chelmsford, and attended the King Edward IV Grammar School.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017

And the Devil's Parliament of 1459 attainted the Duke of York and his son, the future Edward IV for treason, during the Wars of the Roses.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2013

We gain the following glimpse of the manners of the upper classes in England, four hundred years ago, from the journal of Elizabeth Woodville, subsequently Lady Grey, and finally Queen of Edward IV.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various