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Edward IV of England

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Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. A member of the House of York, he was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, the series of civil wars fought between Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.

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