Ontario High School History of England . following table shows Henry VIFs Lancastrian descent : EDWARD III IJohn of Gaunt=Catherine Swynford (mistress andI then wife) John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, d. 1410 (born out ofwedlock, but legitimated by Richard II) I John, Duke of Somerset (d. 1444) Margaret Beaufort,=Edmund Tudor, Earl ofa devout lady, the | Richmond (son of Owenfounder of the LadyMargaret professor-ships at Oxford andCambridge (d. 1509) I HENRY VII (who married theYorkist heiress Elizabeth) Tudor and Catherineof France, Henry Vswidow) 161 CHAPTER VIII SOCIETY AT THE CLOSE OF THE M
Ontario High School History of England . following table shows Henry VIFs Lancastrian descent : EDWARD III IJohn of Gaunt=Catherine Swynford (mistress andI then wife) John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, d. 1410 (born out ofwedlock, but legitimated by Richard II) I John, Duke of Somerset (d. 1444) Margaret Beaufort,=Edmund Tudor, Earl ofa devout lady, the | Richmond (son of Owenfounder of the LadyMargaret professor-ships at Oxford andCambridge (d. 1509) I HENRY VII (who married theYorkist heiress Elizabeth) Tudor and Catherineof France, Henry Vswidow) 161 CHAPTER VIII SOCIETY AT THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES 1. The Lawlessness of the Upper Classes The great nobles.—The victory at Bosworth gave Eng-land a real master in the person of Henry VII. Englishkingship, now to be so powerful, had had a troubled the nine kings who had ruled since Edward I died,four were murdered, and a fifth escaped this fate only bydeath in battle. For a long time the royal control was sorelaxed that some of the nobles seemed to rival the king.
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