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Although they posed no immediate threat to Warwick's own power, Warwick resented the influence this group had over the King and, with the aid of Edward's disaffected younger brother George, Duke of Clarence, Warwick led an army against Edward.

Edward's and successor
On 9 July, from Kenninghall, Norfolk, she wrote to the privy council with orders for her proclamation as Edward's successor.
When his brother Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the 12-year-old King Edward V. As the new king travelled to London from Ludlow, Richard met and escorted him to London where he was lodged in the Tower of London.
In 927 Edward's successor Athelstan conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time.
Edward's successor, Mary Tudor, re-established Roman Catholicism in England and restored the Mass in all the churches.
This strengthened his acceptability as Edward's successor, but fatally split his own family, driving Tostig into alliance with King Harald Hardrada (" Hard Ruler ") of Norway.
Upon the death in 1553 of Henry VIII's successor, Edward VI, Edward's Catholic half-sister Mary I became queen.
Ælfweard, Edward's eldest son by Ælfflæd, had ranked above Æthelstan in attesting a charter in 901, and Edward may have intended Ælfweard to be his successor as king, either of Wessex only or of the whole kingdom.
He was executed for treason by Edward's brother and ultimate successor, Richard III.
Radclyffe's prominence in the kingdom was shown by his inclusion among the signatories to the letters patent of 16 June 1553 settling the crown on Lady Jane Grey as Edward's successor ; but he nevertheless won favour with Queen Mary, who employed him in arranging her marriage with Philip II of Spain, and who created him Baron Fitzwalter in August 1553.
Edward's son and successor, Henry, the sixth Earl, was a distinguished soldier and politician.
Edward's father was killed during the Wars of the Roses, thus ending the above-mentioned conflict and the throne of England reverted to Richard III's successor, Henry Tudor, a descendent of Edward III of England through his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort.
It was a time of great religious upheaval in the country as Edward's successor, his sister Mary I, reintroduced Roman Catholicism, before Anglicanism was once again reimposed under Elizabeth I.
Michael enjoyed even greater popularity at court than his father, becoming one of the most trusted and intimate friends of Edward's successor, Richard II.

Edward's and was
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.
Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.
The exact terms of the submission are not known in total, but Gruffydd was not required to assist Edward in war nor attend Edward's court.
Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.
In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.
Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.
was combined with the words of Edward's second book, ' Take eat in remembrance.
Ælfweard died within weeks of his father and Æthelstan was inaugurated as king of all of Edward's lands in 925.
Elizabeth was placed in Edward's household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.
Smith was not among those granted annuities by the 16th Earl, but Edward's tutor, Thomas Fowle, a former fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, was rewarded with one in 1558.
It was during Edward's reign that England became a Protestant nation as opposed to a Catholic one in schism from Rome.
Similar to Edward's proclamation was the Galway Statute enacted in Ireland in 1527, which banned certain types of ball games, including hockey.
He convinced Hitler that he had Edward's support ; but this, like his belief that he had impressed British society, was a tragic delusion.
On 22 June 1483, a sermon was preached outside St. Paul's Cathedral declaring Edward's children bastards and Richard the rightful king.
Urgent letters were sent ordering Bruce to support Edward's commander, John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey ( to whom Bruce was related ) in the summer of 1297 ; but instead of complying, Bruce continued to support the revolt against Edward.
The Earl of Richmond, Edward's nephew, was to head up the subordinate government of Scotland.
The funeral of John Entwistle, the famous bass guitarist of The Who, was held at St Edward's Church Stow-on-the-Wold on 10 July 2002.
This extended to Edward's elder sister, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor, who was a pious and devout Catholic.
Elizabeth was interviewed by one of Edward's advisers, and she was eventually found not to be guilty, despite forced confessions from her servants Catherine Ashley and Thomas Parry.

Edward's and Earl
His struggles for power against Godwin, Earl of Wessex, the claims of Canute's Scandinavian successors, and the ambitions of the Normans whom Edward introduced to English politics to bolster his own position caused each to vie for control Edward's reign.
In 1054, Edward's Earl of Northumbria, Siward, led a very large invasion of Scotland.
Whatever Edward's wishes, it was likely that any claim by William would be opposed by Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, a member of the most powerful family in England.
* October – A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward's former ally, the Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
On the night of 29 April Richard met and dined with Earl Rivers and Edward's half-brother, Richard Grey, but the following morning Rivers and Grey, along with the king's chamberlain, Thomas Vaughan, were arrested and sent north.
After a violent clash between the people of Dover and the visiting Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, Edward's brother-in-law, Godwin was ordered to punish the people of Dover ( as he and Leofric, Earl of Mercia had done in Worcester, in Leofric's own earldom ).
The murder is thought to be the source of much of Edward's later hatred for the Earl and one of the primary reasons for Godwin's banishment in autumn 1051.
Edward's nephew, Earl Ralph, who had been one of his chief supporters in the crisis of 1051 – 52, may have received Sweyn's marcher earldom of Hereford at this time.
Hugh Cressingham, King Edward's treasurer in Scotland, was anxious to avoid any unnecessary expense in prolonging the war and he persuaded the Earl to reject this advice and order a direct attack across the bridge.
Edward's half-brother, the Earl of Kent, married Mortimer's cousin, Margaret Wake ; other nobles, such as John de Cromwell and the Earl of Richmond, also chose to remain with Mortimer.
Initial operations were launched under the captaincy of Mortimer, Lancaster ( Edward's brother Edmund ) and William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.
William Montague, Earl of Salisbury, Edward's companion in the 1330 coup, died as early as 1344.
One of the earls created in 1337, William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, died in 1360, and the next year Henry of Grosmont, perhaps the greatest of Edward's captains, succumbed to what was probably plague.
# Lady Mary Tudor ( 1673 – 1726 ), married Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater ; after Edward's death, she married Henry Graham, and upon his death she married James Rooke.
Finding her way to France, she made an ally of her cousin, King Louis XI of France, and at his instigation she allowed an approach from Edward's former supporter, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who had fallen out with his former friend as a result of Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, and was now seeking revenge for the loss of his political influence.
Meanwhile, the messages brought back by Edward's agent Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter and others grew steadily worse: Isabella had publicly snubbed Stapledon ; Edward's political enemies were gathering at the French court, and threatening his emissaries ; Isabella was dressed as a widow, claiming that Hugh Despenser had destroyed her marriage with Edward ; Isabella was assembling a court-in-exile, including Edmund of Kent and John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond.
It was because of this that Edward's former staunch ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as " The Kingmaker " switched his allegiance to the House of Lancaster.
In the early years of his reign, Edward's governance of England was dependent upon a small circle of supporters, most notably his cousin, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
Edward's march was unopposed at the beginning because he was moving through lands that belonged to the Percys, and the Earl of Northumberland was indebted to the Yorkist king for the return of his northern territory.

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