January

1 January 1477

Richard, son of the Duke of Clarence, dies at Warwick Castle

2 3 4 January 1477

Isabel Neville's body reaches Tewkesbury Abbey. Isabel was married to George Duke of Clarence

5 January 1477

Charles the Rash, Duke of Burgundy, dies in the snow besieging the town of Nancy

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8 9 January 1463

Death of William Neville, Lord Fauconberg, Earl of Kent

10 11 12 13 14 January 1476

Anne Plantagenet, Richard's oldest sister, dies

15 January 1478

Wedding of Richard Duke of York aged 4 to Anne Mowbray aged 5 in St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Abbey

16 January 1469

Richard's first judicial commission in Salisbury; two Lancastrian nobles are executed for treason

17 18 January 1486

Elizabeth of York marries Henry Tudor

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22 23 24 25 January 1477

Isabel Neville buried in Tewkesbury Abbey

26 January 1956

The Fellowship of the White Boar goes public as a fully organised society

27 January 1483

King Edward IV made Francis Lovell a Viscount

28 January 1457

Henry Tudor born

29 30 31 January 1446

Anne Richard's sister married Duke of Exeter

January - February 1478

Richard attends parliament. George is tried and condemned to death

January 1483

Parliament grants Richard the hereditary palatinate of Cumberland and Wardenship of the West March

January 1484

January 6 - 21: Richard on progress in the south and east, returning to Westminster on the 21st.

23 January to 23 February - Richard's only parliament meets in Westminster. Richard III's parliament recognises his title to the throne

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