Titulus Regius

Titulus Regius

"Titulus Regius" ("the royal title" in Latin) is a statute of the Parliament of England, issued in 1483, by which the title of King of England was given to Richard III of England.

It is an official declaration that describes why the Parliament had found (the year before) that the marriage of Edward IV of England to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid, and consequently their children were illegitimate (and, therefore, debarred from the throne), and why Richard III was proclaimed the rightful king.

The act was repealed by the first parliament of the new king, Henry VII. Henry VII also ordered his subjects to destroy all copies of it (and all related documents) without reading them. So well were his orders carried out that only one copy of the law has ever been found. A copy of the law was transcribed by a monastic chronicler into the Croyland Chronicle, where it was discovered by Sir George Buck more than a century later during the reign of James I.

The text of the repealing Act has not survived in the records of Parliament, but a contemporary law report ( [http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/lawyearbooks/display.php?id=154428 Year Book 1 Henry VII, Hil., plea 1] ) reproduces part of the text as follows:

...that the said Bill, Act and Record, be anulled and utterly destroyed, and that it be ordained by the same Authority, that the same Act and Record be taken out of the Roll of Parliament, and be cancelled and brent, and be put in perpetual oblivion.

The 100-year gap during which "Titulus Regius" was censored coincided with the ruling period of the Tudor Dynasty. During this period, Richard III was shown as a usurper by writers such as William Shakespeare. (See Richard III (play)).

See also

* [http://www.richard111.com/titulus_regius.htm Original text of Titulus Regius]


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