num_pages: 224
description: From the author of The Last Days of Richard III comes the first full biography of George Duke of Clarence brother of Kings Richard III and Edward IVLess well-known than his brothers Edward IV and Richard III George Duke of Clarence has so had little written about him that historians are faced with a series of questions: Where was he born? What was he really like? Was it his unpredictable behavior that set him against his brother Edward IV? George played a central role in the Wars of the Roses played out by his brothersbut was he for York or Lancaster? Who was really responsible for his execution? Is the story of his drowning in a barrel of wineas he did in Richard IIItrue? And was false fleeting perjur'd Clarence in some ways the role model behind the 16th-century defamation of Richard III? Finally where was he buried and what became of his body? Can the DNA used recently to test the remains of his younger brother Richard III also reveal the truth about the supposed Clarence bones in Tewkesbury? John Ashdown-Hill exposes the myths surrounding this pivotal and central Plantagenet with remarkable results.
language: English
title: The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother
publisher: The History Press