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King Henry VI of England was executed in the Tower of London.
The English military commander, Edmund Beaufort, was executed.
Drer, a German Renaissance painter and printmaker, was born in Nuremberg, Germany.
The only heir apparent to the English throne to ever die in battle was Edward of Westminster, who died at 17 years old.
