he royal family who should prove strong enough to
dispossess him. So they accepted

GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE FAMILY OF EDWARD III., SHOWING THE CONNECTION
OF THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER.

EDWARD III. = Phillippa.
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EDWARD LIONEL JOHN EDMUND
(The Black Prince). (Duke of Clarence). (Of Gaunt, (Duke of York).
| | Duke of Lancaster). |
| | | |
RICHARD II. PHILLIPPA = Edward HENRY IV. RICHARD = Anne.
| Mortimer. | (_See second column._)
ROGER MORTIMER HENRY V. |
Earl of Marche). | |
| HENRY VI. RICHARD PLANTAGENET
| | (Duke of York).
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ANNE = Richard EDWARD EDWARD GEORGE RICHARD
of York. (Prince IV. (Duke III.
(_See fourth column._) of Wales). of
Clarence).

The character = denotes marriage; the short perpendicular
line | a descent. There were many other children and
descendants in the different branches of the family besides
those whose names are inserted in the table. The table
includes only those essential to an understanding of the
history.

Henry of Lancaster, who ascended the throne as Henry the Fourth, and
he and his successors in the Lancastrian line, Henry the Fifth and
Henry the Sixth, held the throne for many years.

Still, though the people of England generally acquiesced in this, the
families of the other brothers, namely, of Lionel and Edmund, called
generally the houses of Clarence and of York, were not satisfied. They
combined together, and formed a great many plots an