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Authors: Livi Michael

Succession

Livi Michael
SUCCESSION
 
Contents
 

Lancaster and York Family Tree

 

Key Characters

 

Prologue

 

PART I
: 1444–50

 

1. 1444: The Earl of Suffolk Stands Proxy for the King

 

2. The King Prepares to Meet His New Bride

 

3. The New Queen is Deceived

 

4. The Wheel of Fortune

 

5. 1445: The Coronation

 

6. The Earl of Somerset

 

7. The Duke of York

 

8. The Queen Speaks Unwisely

 

9. February 1447: The Duke of Gloucester is Summoned to a Parliament

 

10. The Good Duke Humphrey

 

11. The Duke of York Accepts a Commission

 

12. The New Duke of Somerset

 

13. The Duchess Alice Looks to the Future

 

14. The Duke of Suffolk Suffers a Premonition

 

15. The Duke of Suffolk Writes a Letter

 

PART II
: 1450–55

 

16. The Wedding

 

17. Lady Alice Receives News of Her Husband

 

18. Lady Alice Visits the Queen

 

19. The King’s True Commons

 

20. Richard and Cecily

 

21. Margaret and Henry

 

22. Richard and Henry

 

23. So Pore a Kyng was Never Sene

 

24. March 1452: Dartford

 

25. The Queen Consults Lady Alice

 

26. Margaret Beaufort Comes to Court

 

27. A Sudden and Thoughtless Fright

 

28. Alone

 

29. Duchess Cecily Speaks Her Mind

 

30. The Earl of Warwick Makes a Speech

 

31. The Queen Makes a Resolution

 

32. The Queen Receives a Message

 

The First Battle of St Albans: 22 May 1455

 

PART III
: 1455–58

 

Margaret Beaufort Travels to Wales

 

PART IV
: 1456–62

 

33. The Hanged Man

 

34. The Earl of Warwick

 

35. Cat and Mouse

 

The Battle of Blore Heath: 23 September 1459

 

36. The Queen’s Pledge

 

The Battle of Ludford Bridge: 12 October 1459

 

37. Duchess Cecily

 

38. The Market Square

 

39. Margaret Beaufort Visits Her Mother-in-law

 

The Battle of Northampton: 10 July 1460

 

40. Rain and Treachery

 

41. John Coombe of Amesbury

 

42. Two Sisters

 

43. Richard of York is Reunited With His Wife

 

44. Richard of York Claims the Throne

 

45. Margaret of Anjou Receives the News

 

46. The Queen’s Speech

 

The Battle of Wakefield: 30 December 1460

 

47. The Duke of York is Surrounded

 

48. The Paper Crown

 

49. The Queen Hears the News

 

50. Duchess Cecily Hears the News

 

51. The Three Suns of York

 

The Battle of Mortimer’s Cross: 2 February 1461

 

52. One Hundred Candles

 

53. A Great and Strong-laboured Woman

 

The Second Battle of St Albans: 17 February 1461

 

54. The Little Prince

 

55. Duchess Anne Petitions the Queen

 

56. The New King

 

57. Henry Stafford Receives a Summons

 

58. The Baggage Train

 

59. Recruit

 

The Battle of Towton: 29 March 1461

 

60. The Bloody Meadow

 

61. Flight From York

 

62. The Reckoning

 

63. 4 April 1461: Duchess Cecily Receives a Letter

 

64. The World Turned Upside Down

 

65. Fair and of a Good Favour

 

66. Consequences

 

About the Chronicles

 

Acknowledgements

 

Follow Penguin

 

To Anna Pollard,

a writer’s friend

Lancaster and York Family Tree
 
 
Key Characters
 

Margaret of Anjou
, wife of Henry VI; daughter of René of Anjou and Isabella of Lorraine; niece of Charles VII of France

Edmund Beaufort
, Earl, later 2nd Duke of Somerset; brother of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset; uncle of Margaret Beaufort

Margaret Beaufort
, daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and Margaret Beauchamp; great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; great-great-granddaughter of Edward III

Elizabeth Carew
(
Betsy
), Margaret Beaufort’s nurse

Alice Chaucer
, wife of William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk; granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer

Edward, Prince of Wales
, son of Henry VI and Queen Margaret; also nephew of Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor

Henry VI
of England and France; descended from John of Gaunt, who was the third son of King Edward III

Humphrey
, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of Henry VI; brother of Henry V

Anne Neville
, Duchess of Buckingham; wife of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; sister of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

Cecily Neville
, Duchess of York; wife of Richard, Duke of York

Richard Neville
, Earl of Salisbury; brother of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York; father of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick

Richard Neville
, Earl of Warwick; son of the Earl of Salisbury; nephew of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and Anne Neville, Duchess of Buckingham

Edward Plantagenet
, Earl of March, later King Edward IV; son of Cecily Neville and Richard, Duke of York

Richard Plantagenet
, Duke of York; descended on his mother’s side from Lionel of Antwerp, second son of King Edward III, and on his father’s side from Edmund of Langley, fourth son of King Edward III

John de la Pole
, son of William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer; m. (1) Margaret Beaufort, (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Richard of York

William de la Pole
, Earl, later Duke of Suffolk; m. Alice Chaucer

Henry Stafford
, son of Duke and Duchess of Buckingham; m. Margaret Beaufort

Humphrey Stafford
, 1st Duke of Buckingham; m. Anne Neville, sister of Cecily Neville and the Earl of Salisbury

Edmund Tudor
, Earl of Richmond; half-brother of King Henry VI; m. Margaret Beaufort

Henry Tudor
, son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort, later King Henry VII

Jasper Tudor
, Earl of Pembroke; half-brother of Henry VI; Edmund Tudor’s younger brother

Owen Tudor
, father of Edmund and Jasper; m. Katherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V

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