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.


CHAPTER XIV.
RICHARD II.
1377-1399.