But new complications were now at hand; the aspect of affairs was suddenly changed by the death of the old king on January 2, 1377, and political affairs took a new complexion on the accession of his young grandson, Richard II., the only surviving child of the Black Prince.
DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD III.
| Edward III. = Philippa of Hainault. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edward the Black Prince. | Lionel of Clarence = Elizabeth De Burgh. | John of Gaunt = (1) Blanche of Lancaster. (2) Constance of Castile. (3) Catherine Swinford. | Edmund, Duke of York. | Thomas, Duke of Gloucester. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Richard II., 1377-1399. | Philippa of Clarence = Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March. | Henry IV., 1399-1413. | Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, died 1477. | John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset. | Edmund of York, killed at Agincourt. | Richard of Cambridge = Anne Mortimer. | Edmund Earl of Stafford = Anne of Gloucester. | ||||||||||||||||
| Roger of March, killed in Ireland, 1398. | Richard, Duke of York, killed at Wakefield, 1460 = Cicely Neville. | Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, killed at Northampton, 1460. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Edmund of March, died 1425. | Anne Mortimer = Richard, Earl of Cambridge. | Henry V., 1413-1422. | Thomas of Clarence. | John of Bedford. | Humphrey of Gloucester. | John of Somerset, died 1444. | Edmond of Somerset, killed at St. Albans. | Edward IV., 1461-1483. | George of Clarence. | Richard III., 1483-1485. | Humphrey, Earl of Stafford. | ||||||||||||
| See opposite, among descendants of Edmund Duke of York. | Henry VI., 1422-1461. | Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond = Margaret Beaufort. | Edward of Warwick, executed 1499. | Margaret of Salisbury, executed 1541. | Henry, Duke of Buckingham, executed 1483. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Henry, | Edmund, | John, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| killed in the War of the Roses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry VII, 1485-1509 = Elizabth,, daughter of Edward VI. | Edward V. 1483. | Richard of York. | Elizabeth = Henry VII. | Edward, Duke of Buckingham, executed 1521. | |||||||||||||||||||
FOOTNOTES:
[22] So called from Jacques Bonhomme, the nickname of the typical French peasant.
[23] Sometimes also called Navarette; it lies beyond the Ebro, near Logroño.