Edward IV

Another was high in the councils of Henry V. I have omitted one whom I should not fail to mention, Adjudica Cascadin, who was a member of the Dunce Parliament of Henry IV, so called because there were no lawyers in it.

It is true that in the time of Edward IV a Cascadin did stoop to trade, but it was trade of the most dignified, honorable sort.

He was a goldsmith, and his guild, as you know, were the bankers and international clearance house for people, king, and nobles.

Besides, it is stated on good authority that there was a great scandal wherein the goldsmith's wife was mixed up in an intrigue with the noble King Edward.

So George Plantagenet, he is the best way to know George, I think, which is sad.

I hate, I hate to just call him the middle brother, but he is most known for being King Edward IV's younger brother.

and King the Future, King Richard III's older brother.

So he was one of many kids, unfortunately, just because of the times, not a lot of them made it, but he's probably most well-known for being the middle brother of two kings during one of the spiciest seasons of British history, which is during the Wars of the Roses.

And I want to point out really quick that we have two books in front of us.

One is on Edward IV and one is on Richard III.

And I bought these books for Megan last Christmas.

Yes.

We have Henry VI in 1461.

We have Edward IV in 1470.

We have Henry VI again in 1471.

Edward V, of course, in 1483, and Richard III in 1485.

As someone related to the House of Lancaster on both sides of his family tree, Henry had to appeal to political opponents from across the floor.

He had to be presented as bipartisan for his plan to work.

And this was the reason that he pledged very, very wisely that he would marry Elizabeth of York, the eldest daughter of Edward IV and the sister to those two missing princes.

This marriage would give Yorkist supporters and officials a degree of emotional and political investment in the new Tudor regime.

Richard locked the boys up in the Tower of London, claiming it was for their protection, but they would never be seen again.

Conveniently, Uncle Richard uncovered a priest who swore that Edward IV had been betrothed to another woman before he wed Elizabeth.

He also dug up the old accusations of witchcraft, claiming Jaquetta and Elizabeth had used dark magic to ensnare Edward into an unholy union.

Richard added that the Woodville women had placed a curse upon his own body.

I mean, I'm trying to think of a sort of a Western equivalent, like around a similar time period.

I mean, he's almost like an Edward IV type character or maybe Henry VI, someone like that, like a few hundred years ago, but...

in came through a period of where a lot of history was happening at once like in the case of in england that i'm talking about it was the wars of the roses and in this case in japan it was the which is the warring states period like um obviously history happens at the exact same speed wherever you are whenever you are but you know what I'm talking about right a lot of stuff is happening at once and so often then those kind of periods become the focus of TV and film and books and all of these things and Date Masamune is no exception right

no yeah he lived well interestingly as well for a warlord from that time period he was born kind of later in the Sengoku period and he lived well into the Edo era A lot of the famous warlords from that time, like Oda Nobunaga, who we could do an episode on at some point, who you almost certainly know if you have any interest in Japanese history.