Edward IV of England
King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483
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He seized England's crown at nineteen after his father died in battle, lost it to a former ally nine years later, then won it back by force — and held it until a death that left his sons in the Tower and his brother on the throne.
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Edward inherited the Yorkist claim in December 1460 when his father, Richard, Duke of York, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield. Within months he'd defeated Lancastrian forces at Mortimer's Cross and Towton and deposed Henry VI to become king at eighteen. His 1464 marriage to Elizabeth Woodville fractured his alliance with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick — the "Kingmaker" — who joined Edward's own brother George, Duke of Clarence, in a 1470 revolt that briefly restored Henry VI. Edward fled to Flanders, returned with an army in March 1471, and won back the crown at Barnet (where Warwick die…
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