ABSTRACT
In the tapestry that begins Jane Shore legend, there is, necessarily, both warp and woof. The first involves the fifteenth-century transition between the Wars of the Roses and the inception of the Tudor dynasty, over which much historical ink has been shed and not a little bitterness provoked. Richard did not live to see victory in the early spring of 1461; the spoils accrued to his son, Edward. With the assistance of the powerful Nevill family, headed by the Earl of Warwick, Edward routed the Lancastrian forces at Towton in Yorkshire, and was crowned in London the following June. There was discontent even closer to home, too, which Warwick wasted no time in exploiting. Edward's brother George, the Duke of Clarence, was apparently ambitious and reckless, a problematic combination. His brother's permission no longer at issue, Clarence had married Warwick's daughter Isabel.
