Susan — thank you for putting Rutland's death in context. To term it an atrocity, as has been done, one has to shoot a freeze frame of that event and not include its place in the whole mess of the WOTR. If one takes up arms, as he did at 17, well one can be killed. Shakespeare's Clifford highlights the ickiness of the series of battles, the Hatfield-McCoy type feuds within the whole. But he is of course a caricature.
If Edmund had lived, he may have committed "atrocities". Edmund comes across as such a whiny whimp in that first source that I can't blame Clifford for putting him out of his misery. Great post — once again cutting through the propaganda of the time! I've been reading up on the Cliffords, and I actually think there may be something to Clifford being behind Rutland's death.
Clifford's widow was so terrified when the Yorkists gained the throne that she sent her two sons into hiding. Unlike Rutland, they really were children both were under ten , so the fact that she felt this was necessary indicates she had reason to believe Edward IV or, more likely, his mentor, Neville the Kingmaker was seeking specific revenge against the family. There had been a long-standing feud between the Cliffords and the Nevilles, going back to the end of the reign of Richard II.
This despite the fact that Neville had no landed holdings in that county, and that the Clifford family had long styled themselves lords of Westmorland. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Biographies England Add category.
Cancel Save. Fan Feed. Universal Conquest Wiki. She means that, since Richard's former allies including Aumerle , have fallen from grace, there must now be new favorites in the court. Aumerle may no longer be a "violet," but someone will have sprung up to replace him.
The rather bizarre scene at the climax of Act V, scene iii, in which the Duke and Duchess of York argue with King Henry over Aumerle's fate, seems to beg explanation, but it is difficult to know quite what to make of it.
The ritualistic spectacle of Aumerle and the Duchess formally pleading in rhymed couplets for the king's forgiveness is placed against the counterpoint of York's insistence that Aumerle be executed as a traitor.
What are we to make of York's almost fanatical insistence that the king execute his son? One possibility is that the conflicts of loyalty which have been tearing at York since the beginning of the play--the enormous burden of responsibility left to him when Richard made him Lord Governor of England during the Irish war, his failure to defend Richard's kingdom against the invading Bolingbroke, the painfully difficult decision to abandon Richard's cause and leave the kingdom open to Bolingbroke's invasion--have left York with the sense that his value systems have been overturned.
All he has left to cling to, perhaps, is his firm conviction that he must remain loyal to the King of England--who now is Bolingbroke. Even if it requires turning in his own son as a traitor, York seems to be obsssed with the idea of maintaining his loyalty to the king. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Mini Essays. Summary Act V, scene ii-iii. Queen Margaret of Anjou had the heads of York, Edmund of Rutland and Richard Neville Earl of Salisbury impaled on spikes and displayed over Micklegate Bar, the western gate through the York city walls, York's was crowned with a paper crown in derision.
The slaying of Rutland is said to have infuriated his elder brother, Edward, Earl of March, who was in Wales at the time of the battle, and vowed revenge. Clifford was killed at Dintingdale on 28 March , the day before the decisive Yorkist victory at Towton, he was struck by an arrow in the throat after having carelessly removed his gorget.
He is reported to have been buried in a pit, along with others slain there. Edmund and his father were interred at Pontefract Priory. After his brother ascended the throne as Edward IV, Clifford was attainted, meaning that his title and estates were forfeited, at the first parliament of the new reign, on 4 November During an elaborate ceremony, their bodies were reburied in the family vault at the Church of St Mary and All Saints at Fotheringhay on July
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