George of York, Duke of Bedford (March 1477 – March 1479) was the eighth child and third son of
Edward IV of England and
Elizabeth Woodville.
George was born in
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
The original c ...
in March 1477, and was created
Duke of Bedford
Duke of Bedford (named after Bedford, England) is a title that has been created six times (for five distinct people) in the Peerage of England. The first and second creations came in 1414 and 1433 respectively, in favour of Henry IV's third so ...
in infancy, probably in 1478, after the former holder of the title,
George Neville, was deprived of the title by act of Parliament, ostensibly for lack of money to maintain the style of a duke. He was appointed the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1478, one of a series of nominal and largely absent lieutenants.
George died aged two. This is considered likely to have been due to an outbreak of
bubonic plague. He was buried in
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
on 22 March 1479.
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References
* pages 139–140.
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1477 births
1479 deaths
15th-century English people
People from Windsor, Berkshire
George Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford
Infectious disease deaths in England
15th-century deaths from plague (disease)
Children of Edward IV of England
Burials at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Royalty and nobility who died as children
Dukes of Bedford
Sons of kings