A Curious Execution: George, Duke of Clarence and the Malmsey Wine

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Today we are going to explore George, Duke of Clarence and his very unusual manner of death…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence by an unknown artist of the English school (1597-1603). Held in a private collection.

Map showing counties of England.

Illumination showing an example of homage in the medieval period by an unknown artist (1293). From the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Orientales 1B31.

Photograph from Cardiff Castle (Wales). Entrance hall to castle apartments: Gothic revival, stained glass windows showing George, duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. Taken by Wolfgang Sauber (2011).

The marriage of Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville, from the illuminated manuscript Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre, by Jean de Wavrin (15th century). Held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 85.

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, submits to Margaret of Anjou, engraved by Edmund Evans (1864). From James William Edmund Doyle, "Edward IV" in A Chronicle of England: B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, pp. p. 417.

Illustration of the Battle of Barnet (14 April 1471) on the Ghent manuscript, a late 15th-century document (source: Ghent University library, MS236). Image is scanned from p. 45 of Cheetham's The Life and Times of Richard III.

Illustration of the Battle of Tewkesbury 4th May 1471, also from the Ghent manuscript.

Photograph of the purported site of Henry IV’s death in the Wakefield Tower of the Tower of London. Taken by “Richard Nevell” (2014).

Photograph from Cardiff Castle (Wales). Showing Richard III and Anne Neville. Taken by VeteranMP (2013).


Quoted texts:

Michael Hicks, ODNB entry on George, Duke of Clarence

Primary source materials and their translations all reproduced by Andrew Dalby in “Towards a New Solution of the Butt of Malmsey Problem” at https://www.academia.edu/22547862/Tow...

William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene iv


Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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