1480-Apr 1483 Edward IV's Last Years
1480-Apr 1483 Edward IV's Last Years is in 15th Century Events.
Capture of Berwick
On 30 Mar 1296 Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 21) captured Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland [Map] from William "Hardy" Douglas 2nd Lord Douglas (age 56). Richard Cornwall (age 44) was killed during the course of the siege.'When the town had been taken in this way and its citizens had submitted, Edward spared no one, whatever the age or sex, and for two days streams of blood flowed from the bodies of the slain, for in his tyrannous rage he ordered 7,500 souls of both sexes to be massacred. So that mills could be turned by the flow of their blood.' - Account of the Massacre of Berwick, from Bower's Scotichronicon. 
On 24 Aug 1482 Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle (age 20) was knighted by King Richard III of England (age 29) at Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland [Map] during the Capture of Berwick.
Mowbray Succession Changed
In Jan 1483 King Edward IV of England (age 40) had Parliament re-enact earlier legislation regarding the Mowbray succession so that his son, Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke of York (age 9), who had married Anne Mowbray 8th Countess Norfolk (who had died in 1481), would continue to benefit from them effectively dis-inheriting William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 57) (who was subsequently created Earl and Marquess) and John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) (who would become an ardent supporter of Richard III following Edward's death.
Funeral of Edward IV
On 10 Apr 1483, in the morning, the coffin of King Edward IV of England (deceased) was moved to St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Palace [Map]. Bishop Edward Story sang the masses. Richard Fiennes 7th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 68), Chamberlain to Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 46), offered on the Queen's behalf.
On 17 Apr 1483 the coffin of Edward IV (deceased) was carried to Westminster Abbey [Map] by Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle (age 21), John Savage (age 39), Thomas Wortley (age 50), Thomas Molyneux (age 38), probably John Welles 1st Viscount Welles (age 33) who had married Edward's daughter Cecily), John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne (age 41), Walter Hungerford (age 19), Guy Wolston (age 50), John Sapcote (age 35), Thomas Tyrrell (age 30), John Risley, Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 15), John Norreys, Louis de Bretelles and John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch.
Those in the procession included:
Thomas St Leger (age 43), widow of Edward's sister Anne.
William Parr (age 49).
William Stonor (age 33).
Henry Ferrers (age 40).
James Radclyffe (age 43).
George Browne (age 43).
Gilbert Debenham (age 51).
John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) walked in front of the coffin with Edward's personal arms.
John Marlow Abbot Bermondsey followed by:
Bishop Thomas Kempe (age 93).
Bishop John Hales (age 83) (Bishop of Chester?).
Bishop Robert Stillington (age 63).
Bishop Edward Story.
Bishop William Dudley (age 58).
Cardinal John Morton (age 63) (as Bishop of Ely).
Bishop Edmund Tuchet (age 40) (as Bishop of Rochester).
Bishop Peter Courtenay, and.
Bishop Lionel Woodville (age 36).
Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 59) brought up the rear.
Cardinal Thomas Bourchier (age 65), then Archbishop of Canterbury, took no part due to infirmity.
John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 21); the King's nephew,.
William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings (age 52).
Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset (age 28).
William Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Huntingdon (age 32) (some sources say Earl of Huntingindon?).
William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley (age 57).
Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby (age 48).
Richard Fiennes 7th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 68).
John Dudley 1st Baron Dudley (age 82).
George Neville 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny (age 43).
John Tuchet 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet (age 57).
Walter Devereux Baron Ferrers of Chartley (age 51).
Edward Grey 1st Viscount Lisle (age 51).
Henry Lovell 9th Baron Marshal 8th Baron Morley (age 7).
Richard Woodville 3rd Earl Rivers (age 30).
John Brooke 7th Baron Cobham (age 35).
Richard Hastings Baron Willoughby (age 50).
Croyland Chronicle. 20 Apr 1483The body of the deceased king being accordingly interred with all honor in due ecclesiastical form, in the new collegiate chapel of Windsor [Map], which he had erected of the most elaborate workmanship, from the foundations;
On 20 Apr 1483 King Edward IV of England (deceased) was buried at the Altar, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 59) celebrated the mass. John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk (age 58) attended. John de la Pole 1st Earl Lincoln (age 21) was chief mourner. John Savage (age 39) and Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle (age 21) were pall-bearers.
