f Gaunt = Catherine Swynford
----------+------------
| |
John Beaufort, Cardinal Beaufort,
Earl of Somerset, legitimated by Act
legitimated by Act of of Parliament
Owen Tudor = Catherine, Parliament
| widow of |
| Henry V. |----------------------
| | |
| John, 1st Duke of Somerset Edmund,
| | 2nd Duke of
| | Somerset,
| | killed at
| | St. Albans,
| | 1455
| | ------------+----
| | | |
Edmund Tudor = Margaret Henry, Edmund,
Earl of Richmond, | 3rd Duke of 4th Duke of
d. 1456 | Somerset, Somerset,
HENRY VII. executed after executed after
(1485-1509) the battle of the battle of
Hexham, 1464 Tewkesbury, 1471]

10. =The Invasion of France. 1475.=--In =1475= Edward invaded France.
If he could have secured the steady support of the Duke of Burgundy he
might have accomplished something, but the Duke's dominions were too
scattered to enable him to have a settled policy. He was sometimes led
to attack the king of France, because he had interests as a French
vassal; whilst at other times he threw all his strength into projects
for encroachments in Germany, because he had also interests as a
vassal of the Emperor. When Edward landed Charles was anxious to carry
on war in Germany, and would give no help to Edward in France. Louis
XI., who preferred a victory of diplomacy to one of force, wheedled
Edward into a seven years' truce by a grant of 75,000 crowns, together
with a yearly pension of 50,000, and by a promise to marry the Dauphin
Charles to Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the king of England.
Louis also made presents to Edward's chief fo