Editing Greenwich (section)

===Plantagenet===
Subsequent monarchs were regular visitors, with [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]] making his will here, and [[Henry V, King of England|Henry V]] granting the manor, for life, to [[Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter]], who died at Greenwich in 1426. The palace was created by [[Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester]], Henry V's younger brother and regent to his son [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] in 1447; he enclosed the park and erected a tower ([[Greenwich Castle]]) on the hill now occupied by the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich|Royal Observatory]]. The Thames-side palace was renamed the [[Palace of Placentia]] or Pleasaunce by Henry VI's consort [[Margaret of Anjou]] after Humphrey's death. The palace was completed and further enlarged by [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]], and in 1466 it was granted to his queen, [[Elizabeth Woodville|Elizabeth]].<ref name=Green/> Edward IV had previously been given permission by the Pope to establish a [[Franciscans|Franciscan]] [[friary]] of [[Order of Friars Minor|Observant Friars]] in Greenwich, this was done in 1485, two years after his death; the first Observant House in England, it was located on land adjacent to the palace.<ref name="HERR">{{cite web |title=Greenwich Greyfriars |url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=2999a72a-088a-4c5e-b2d1-18ba214920c4&resourceID=19191 |website=Historic England Research Records |publisher=Heritage Gateway |access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref> After rejecting papal authority in 1534, the Franciscan Observants were suppressed; refounded as Franciscan Conventual, the friary was dissolved in 1538, then re-established in 1555 for Observants, before the friars were finally expelled in 1559 and the friary was demolished in 1662.<ref name="HERR"/>

Ultimately it was because the palace and its grounds were a royal possession (with a useful hill) that it was chosen as the site for [[Charles II of England|Charles II's]] Royal Observatory, from which stemmed Greenwich's subsequent global role as originator of the modern [[Prime Meridian]].