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Richard, Duke of York

King By Right

ISBN: 1445647443

Richard, 3rd Duke of York is frequently used to recall the colours of the rainbow with the mnemonic 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain', wrongly believed to be the Grand Old Duke of York who had 10,000 men, or mistaken for his youngest son, Richard III.

Richard, Duke of York

The son of a traitor, he inherited a dukedom aged four, became the wealthiest man in England at thirteen and later rebelled against his king, and if he is remembered, it is as a man who ignited the Wars of the Roses. Further eclipsed by two of his sons, who would become the mighty warrior Edward IV and the recently rediscovered Richard III, he is an ancestor of the Tudor monarchs and fifteenth great-grandfather to Queen Elizabeth II, yet the man himself is obscured from view.

Matthew Lewis pushes aside the veils of myth and legend to challenge the image of Richard as a man whose insatiable ambition dragged a nation into civil war, revealing a complex family man with unparalleled power and responsibilities. The first person ever recorded to use the Plantagenet name, he pushed the political establishment to its limits, dared to fight back and was forced to do the unimaginable.

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BMG Cumbria

Really excellent read. Lovely flowing, easy to understand, writing style and comprehensive account of Richard Duke of York's life and his attempts at freeing the monarchy from the controlling interests of the nobility, intent on feathering their own nests, under the inadequate Henry VI.

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Addicted Bibliophile

For anyone interested in England's Wars of the Roses, this is a must read. Matthew Lewis has done an excellent, well-researched & wonderfully readable job of fleshing out one of the preeminent characters of the era; one who has been largely ignored in the plethora of biographies & general histories of the times.

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Kathy

In Matthew Lewis’s reassessment of the man in his biography, Richard, Duke of York: King by Right, we find a completely different version of things. By gleaning primary documents, Lewis was able to find the man behind the myth, a man who time and again was driven to extreme actions not by his own ambitions, but by the ambitions of others.

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Richard, Duke of York

The son of a traitor, he inherited a dukedom aged four, became the wealthiest man in England at thirteen and later rebelled against his king, and if he is remembered, it is as a man who ignited the Wars of the Roses. Further eclipsed by two of his sons, who would become the mighty warrior Edward IV and the recently rediscovered Richard III, he is an ancestor of the Tudor monarchs and fifteenth great-grandfather to Queen Elizabeth II, yet the man himself is obscured from view.

Matthew Lewis pushes aside the veils of myth and legend to challenge the image of Richard as a man whose insatiable ambition dragged a nation into civil war, revealing a complex family man with unparalleled power and responsibilities. The first person ever recorded to use the Plantagenet name, he pushed the political establishment to its limits, dared to fight back and was forced to do the unimaginable.

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BMG Cumbria

Really excellent read. Lovely flowing, easy to understand, writing style and comprehensive account of Richard Duke of York's life and his attempts at freeing the monarchy from the controlling interests of the nobility, intent on feathering their own nests, under the inadequate Henry VI.

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Addicted Bibliophile

For anyone interested in England's Wars of the Roses, this is a must read. Matthew Lewis has done an excellent, well-researched & wonderfully readable job of fleshing out one of the preeminent characters of the era; one who has been largely ignored in the plethora of biographies & general histories of the times.

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Kathy

In Matthew Lewis’s reassessment of the man in his biography, Richard, Duke of York: King by Right, we find a completely different version of things. By gleaning primary documents, Lewis was able to find the man behind the myth, a man who time and again was driven to extreme actions not by his own ambitions, but by the ambitions of others.

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