Edward, Earl of Warwick

The son of George and the nephew of Richard III and Edward IV. Was he ever seen as a threat to the throne or as a potential heir? Where did he reside after the execution of his father? Was he sent to the tower by Richard III or by Henry VII? If he had been spared by Henry, would he have been allowed to marry?
 
After Richard III's son died, some claim that Richard made him his provisional heir, though there are source issues. He was also,in one account, said to be 'unable to distinguish duck from goose' or some such. Some read that as his being mentally wanting, others think it's merely the natural state of someone kept imprisoned as long as he was by Henry VII.

Dickardians love him though, pointing out that post Titulus Regis Richard's motivation to kill the Princes in the Tower applied equally to his other nephew, and the fact that Richard apparently treated him very well and obviously did not kill him could be said to speak volumes.
 
The son of George and the nephew of Richard III and Edward IV. 1) Was he ever seen as a threat to the throne or as a potential heir? 2) Where did he reside after the execution of his father? 3) Was he sent to the tower by Richard III or by Henry VII? 4) If he had been spared by Henry, would he have been allowed to marry?

1) Richard may have named him as his heir (some sources say it was Warwick, others say it was Richard's other nephew Lincoln) and Lambert Simnel impersonated Warwick and tried to claim the throne. So he was seen as a potential heir and did pose a real threat to the throne (Henry certainly thought so- keeping him imprisoned in the Tower from when he was just 10, and then executing him on trumped up charges in 1499).

2) Edward IV made Warwick a wars of his stepson Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset. During Richard's reign I think he was placed into the company of other highborn children, I think his aunt Anne Neville took an interest in him after her son's death.

3) Henry. Richard gave him offices and stuff.

4) No, the Tudors were justifiably paranoid about the numerous people with an arguably better claim to the throne than themselves (see: the De la Poles or indeed anyone with a claim to the throne- Buckingham, Exeter, Salisbury and her kids) and wouldn't want those claims to survive (except through women, whom they married to loyal supporters). Warwick was particularly threatening as the last male member of the Plantagenet dynasty- he was too dangerous to be allowed to reproduce.
 
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