EDWARD III.
(1307-1377)
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Edward, Lionel, Duke John of Edmund, Duke of
the Black Prince of Clarence Gaunt of York
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RICHARD II. Philippa = Edmund HENRY IV. |
(1377-1399) | Mortimer, (1399-1413) |
| Earl of | |
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| (1) HENRY V. (2) John, Duke |
| (1413-1422) of Bedford |
| | (3) Thomas, Duke |
Roger Mortimer, HENRY VI. of Clarence |
Earl of March (1422-1461) (4) Humphrey, |
| Duke of |
| Gloucester |
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Edmund Mortimer, Anne = Richard, Earl of Cambridge
Earl of March |
Richard, Duke of York
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Edward, Earl of March,
afterwards EDWARD IV.]

11. =The Battle of Wakefield. 1460.=--The struggle, which had at first
been one between two unequal sections of the nobility, each nominally
acknowledging Henry VI. as their king, thus came to be one between the
Houses of Lancaster and York. The queen, savage at the wrong done to
her son, refused to accept the compromise. Withdrawing to the North,
she summoned to her aid the Earl of Northumberland and the Lancastrian
lords. The