Earl of Richmond

Brother of England, how may we content This widow lady? In her right we came, Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way, To our own vantage.

We will heal up all; For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne And Earl of Richmond, and this rich fair town We make him lord of.

Call the Lady Constance: Some speedy messenger bid her repair To our solemnity.

I trust we shall, If not fill up the measure of her will, Yet in some measure satisfy her so That we shall stop her exclamation.

Brother of England, how may we content this widow lady? In her right we came, which we, God knows, have turned another way, to our own vantage

We will heal up all, for we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne and Earl of Richmond, and this rich fair town we make him lord of.

Call the Lady Constance.

Some speedy messenger bid her repair to our solemnity.

and by my faith this league that we have made will give her sadness very little cure brother of england how may we content this widow lady in her right we came which we god knows have turned another way to our own vantage

We will heal up all, for we'll create young Arthur Duke of Britannia, and Earl of Richmond, and this rich fair town we make him lord of.

Call the Lady Constance.

Some speedy messenger bid her repair to our solemnity.

He had already gained the personal friendship and favor of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the king's son.

The duke, while Earl of Richmond, had courted and won to wife after a certain delay Blanche, daughter and co-heiress of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and Chaucer is by some believed to have written The Assembly of Fowls to celebrate the wooing, as he wrote Chaucer's Dream to celebrate the wedding of his patron.

The marriage took place in 1359, the year of Chaucer's expedition to France, and as in The Assembly of Fowls, the formel, or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, begs that her choice of a mate may be deferred for a year.

1358 and 1359 have been assigned as the respective dates of the two poems already mentioned.

Enter King Edward, Derby, Prince Edward, Audley, and Artois.

Robert of Artois, banished though thou be From France, thy native country, yet with us Thou shalt retain as great a signory; For we create thee Earl of Richmond here.

And now go forwards with our pedigree.

Who next succeeded Philip Lebew?

and allied him with the Royal House of France.

But standing as he did in such close relations with the King, Edmund Tudor, the son of Sir Owen, by the Queen Dowager Catherine, was raised by Henry VI through the dignity of Earl of Richmond, and the title, of course, descended to Henry, who was his only son.

This was all that he could claim by right of his father.

But his mother, Margaret Beaufort, only daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, was the lineal heiress of John of Gaunt.

edward the fourth recovered his throne in the spring of next year margaret of anjou and her son the prince only reached england the day warwick was defeated and slain at barnet and they were finally defeated themselves a month later at tewkesbury all then was lost for the house of lancaster the prince was killed on the field but apparently after the battle not in it His unhappy father, Henry VI, was only a few days later put to death within the Tower.

The Civil War had already made politicians quite unscrupulous, and there was now no direct issue of the line of John of Gaunt remaining, except the descendants of Catherine Swynford.

Nor could there have been much immediate danger to the House of York from such a stripling as the Earl of Richmond, now little more than fourteen years old, if there had not been some apparent defect in his title.

Nevertheless, it was clear now that he could no longer remain safely, even in Wales, and his uncle Jasper took him across the sea, hoping to find asylum for him in France.

Enter King Edward, Derby, Prince Edward, Audley, and Artois.

Robert of Artois, banished though thou be from France, thy native country, yet with us thou shalt retain as great a signory; for we create thee Earl of Richmond here.

And now go forwards with our pedigree.

Who next succeeded Philip Le Beau?

He had already gained the personal friendship and favor of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the king's son.

The duke, while Earl of Richmond, had courted and won to wife after a certain delay Blanche, daughter and co-heiress of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and Chaucer is by some believed to have written The Assembly of Fowls to celebrate the wooing, as he wrote Chaucer's Dream to celebrate the wedding of his patron.

The marriage took place in 1359, the year of Chaucer's expedition to France, and as in The Assembly of Fowls, the formel, or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, begs that her choice of a mate may be deferred for a year.

1358 and 1359 have been assigned as the respective dates of the two poems already mentioned.