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Follow the family trees of two historic nobles’ houses

1386-1422
The famous warrior king of
1390-1411 1375-1415 1385-1461 1401-1437 England who scored a famous
The mother of Richard Plantagenet The father of Richard Plantagenet and A Welsh soldier and courtier, Queen consort of England from 1420 victory over the French at the
and grandmother of King Edward IV husband to Anne de Mortimer, Richard Owen Tudor was descended to 1422, Catherine of Valois was the Battle of Agincourt, Henry V
and King Richard III, Anne de Mortimer of Conisburgh was the 3rd Earl of from a Welsh prince, Rhys ap daughter of Charles VI of France. She was the second English monarch
was descended from royalty through Cambridge and a prominent figure in Gruffudd. After fighting at was married to Henry V in 1420. In to stem from the House of
her mother and grandparents. She the Southampton Plot against Henry V. Agincourt he was awarded December 1421, she gave birth to the Lancaster after his father, King
died of childbirth. He was caught and executed. English rights and went on future Henry VI. Later, after Henry Henry IV.
to serve in the household of V’s death, she went on to form a
Catherine of Valois after Henry relationship with Owen Tudor.
V’s death. They were possibly
married in secret in 1429.

1411-1460 1415-1495
The son of Anne de Mortimer and The wife of Richard Plantagenet, Cecily 1421-1471
Richard of Conisburgh, Richard of York Neville was the Duchess of York and Henry VI was the third king
became a key Yorkist leader during the was well known for her beauty and from the House of Lancaster. He 1430-1482
early parts of the Wars of the Roses, piety. She gave birth to two later kings became king at just nine months The wife of Henry VI, Margaret
winning numerous battles and even of England, Edward IV and Richard III. old. He suffered from periods of of Anjou was the niece of Charles
becoming Lord Protector for a time. She outlived her husband by 35 years. madness throughout his life and VII. Widely held to be responsible
was deposed by Edward IV and for the Wars of the Roses after
the House of York. excluding the Duke of York from
the Great Council in 1455.

1452-1485 1442-1483
King of England for just two The first Yorkist king of England,
years, Richard III was the last Edward IV ruled the country in 1437-1492
king from the House of two spells, from 1461 to 1470 Spouse of King Edward IV from 1453-1471
York and the last of the and then after an overthrow and 1464, Elizabeth Woodville was The only child of Henry VI and
House of Plantagenet. subsequent restoration, from 1471 one of the most powerful women Margaret of Anjou. After the
Richard was famously to 1483. He was succeeded by his in England during the Wars of battle of Towton he was exiled in
defeated by Henry younger brother Richard III. the Roses. She gave birth to the France with his mother. He was
Tudor at the Battle Princes in the Tower and Elizabeth killed in battle in Tewkesbury.
of Bosworth Field. of York, future wife of Henry Tudor,
King Henry VII of England.

1431-1456 1443-1509
1470-1483 Edmund Tudor was the first son Margaret Beaufort was the
One of the famous Princes in of Owen Tudor and Catherine daughter of the Duke of
the Tower, Edward V was a 1473-1483 of Valois. Henry VI made him Somerset and the great-great
son of Elizabeth Woodville and The second son of Elizabeth Woodville the Earl of Richmond in 1452. granddaughter of King Edward
uncrowned king for just 86 days. and King Edward IV, Richard was the He married Margaret Beaufort III. She gave birth to the future
He was succeeded infamously second famous member of the Princes in in 1455. Henry VII at just 13 years old.
by his uncle and Lord Protector, the Tower. Richard was almost certainly
Richard of Gloucester, later King murdered along with Edward and
Richard III of England. disposed of in secret.
1457-1509
The only child of Edmund Tudor and
1466-1503 Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII spent
The only daughter of Elizabeth Woodville, years in exile before defeating Richard
Elizabeth of York played a key part in ending the III at the Battle of Bosworth. He
Wars of the Roses, marrying the Lancastrian ally married Elizabeth of York, thus uniting
Henry Tudor on 18 January 1486, establishing the Houses of York and Lancaster,
the Tudor Dynasty. ending the Wars of the Roses.

Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury
(the Princes in the Tower) were
imprisoned in the Tower of London
and most probably executed
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