Edward IV

By (author): "Keith Dockray"
Edward IV
ISBN0750919426
ISBN139780750919425
AsinEdward IV
Original titleEdward IV: A Source Book (Sutton History Paperbacks)
Edward IV (1461-83), so often overshadowed by his younger brother and eventual successor Richard III is a controversial figure in his own right. Was he a lazy and licentious lightweight who much preferred his mistresses to his minsters and had little taste for the arduous day-to-day businsess of government? Or was he, rarther, a wise and successful monarch who laid the foundations for over a century of Tudor rule?