Arthur PLANTAGENET, 1st Viscount Lisle

1475 - 1542  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Arthur PLANTAGENET
  Suffix	1st Viscount Lisle
  Birth	Between 1461 and 1475	, Calais,, France   [1]
  	at this time Calais was a possession of England.
  Gender	Male
  Note	Arthur was an illegitimate child of Edward IV.
  Death	3 Mar 1542	, Tower of London, London, Middlesex County, England, 51.508056,-0.076111   [1]
  	in 1540 several members of the Plantagenet household in Calais were arrested on suspicion of treason. Arthur was one of those arrested. The actual conspirators were executed, and Arthur was sent to the Tower of London. He was imprisoned there for two years before the king decided to release him. Strangely, when he received news of his pending release he suffered a heart attack and died two days later.
  		Tower_of_London Tower of London, England
  Person ID	I73949	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward IV PLANTAGENET, king of England,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Normandy, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Eleanor TALBOT, (Or Butler)   d. 1468
  Family ID	F34923	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth GREY, , Baroness Lisle   d. 1526
  Marriage	Y  [3]
  Family ID	F22849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Honora GRENVILLE,   b. 1493, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England d. Apr 1566 (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1529  [4, 5]
  	at the time of Honor's marriage to Arthur she was a widow of Sir John Bassett. Arthur and Honor had no issue.
  Family ID	F774	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S2058] Britain's Royal Families, 2058. (Reliability: 2). [S2058] Britain's Royal Families, 2058. Page 142. [S2058] Britain's Royal Families, 2058. [S2278] Pedigree of the Family of Grenville, 2278. (Reliability: 2). [S8831] Magna Carta Ancestry 2nd Ed., 8831. (Reliability: 3). Vol. 4, p. 420.