George duke of Clarence

Clarence, George, 1st duke of

Clarence, George, 1st duke of (1449–78). Reputed to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey, Clarence was the younger brother of Edward IV. As an impressionable youth he was enticed by a promise of the crown to support Warwick the Kingmaker (whose daughter Isabel he married) against his brother. In the event Henry VI was restored and in 1471 Clarence abandoned Warwick to help Edward IV recover the throne. In the early 1470s he was high in Edward's favour, lavishly rewarded with half of the Warwick inheritance. But his truculence (he quarrelled with Richard of Gloucester over the division of the spoils), incompetence, and insubordination exasperated the king. Arrested in 1477, and condemned for treason in a show trial before his peers, he was executed secretly in the Tower, by means never officially revealed.

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Clarence, George, 1st duke of

Clarence, George, 1st duke of (1446–78). Reputed to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey, Clarence was the younger brother of Edward IV. He was enticed by a promise of the crown to support Warwick the Kingmaker (whose daughter Isabel he married) against his brother. After Henry VI had been restored in 1470, Clarence abandoned Warwick to help Edward IV recover the throne. In the early 1470s he was high in Edward's favour, but his truculence and insubordination exasperated the king. Arrested in 1477, he was executed secretly in the Tower, by means never officially revealed.

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Clarence, George Plantagenet, Duke of

Clarence, George Plantagenet, Duke of (1449–78) One of EDWARD IV of England's younger brothers. He intrigued with the Burgundians and fell out with both Edward and his other brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (RICHARD III of England); he was found guilty of high treason and is supposed to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.

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