The Hollow Crown

The genealogy which explains the usurpation of the crown of England by the Lancastrians and the Wars of the Roses

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The red text in the genealogy below shows the passage of the Crown from the Plantagenets, to the alternating claims of the Houses of Lancaster and York, to the Tudors, and the relationships by which dynastic change was justified.

Key
Plantagenets	Lancastrians	Yorkists	Beauforts/Tudors	Mortimers	Nevilles
			Edward III 13 November 1312 to 21 June 1377 Reigned 1327 to 1377 Married Philippa of Hainault (c 1310 to 1369) (1) Plantagenet
John Neville, 3^rd Baron Neville 1337 to 1388 Married Maud Percy and Elizabeth Latimer	Edward The Black Prince 15 June 1330 to 8 June 1376 Married Joan the Fair Maid of Kent (1326 to 1385), landholder of Kirkbymoorside and Farndale	Lionel of Antwerp 29 November 1338 to 17 October 1368 Duke of Clarence Married Elizabeth de Burgh (1332 to 1363), heir to the earldom of Ulster Married Violante Visconti, daughter of the Lord of Pavia (1354 to 1386)	John of Gaunt 6 March 1340 to 3 February 1399 Married Blanche of Lancaster (1342 to 1368) Duke of Lancaster Married Constanza of Castile (1354 to 1394) Married Katherine Swynford (1349 to 1403)		Edmund of Langley 5 June 1341 to 1 August 1402 1^st Duke of York Married Isabella of Castile (1355 to 1392) Married Joan Holland (1380 to 1434)	Thomas of Woodstock 7 January 1355 to 8 September 1397 Duke of Gloucester Married Eleanor de Bohun (1365 to 1399)
			With Blanche of Lancaster	With Katherine Swynford (who he married in 1396 but had a relationship with during his marriage with Constanza) They were all given the name Beaufort, a French lordship that had once been part of the Lancastrian estates The Beauforts were born extramaritally with Katherine Swynford but legitimised as descendants when Henry later married Katherine
Ralph Neville, 1^st Earl of Westmorland 1364 to 1425 Married Margate Stafford and then Joan Beaufort (daughter of John of Gaunt and granddaughter of Edward III)	Richard II 6 January 1367 to 14 February 1400 Reigned 1377 to 1399 Married Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois (2) Plantagenet	Philippa Plantagenet 16 August 1355 to 5 January 1382 5^th Countess of Ulster Married Edmund Mortimer, 3^rd Earl of March	Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke) 1367 to 20 March 1413 Reigned 1399 to 1413 Married Mary de Bohun Married Joan of Navarre (3) Lancaster
	Roger Mortimer 11 April 1374 to 20 July 1398 4^th Earl of March Married Alianore Holland, Countess of March	Elizabeth Mortimer Married Harry Hotspur Philippa Mortimer Married Earls of Pembroke and Arundel Edmund Mortimer Married Catherine, daughter of Owen Glyndwr		John Beaufort 1373 to 16 March 1410 1^st Earl of Somerset Married Margaret Holland	Henry Beaufort c 1375 to 11 April 1447 Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester	Joan Beaufort c 1377 to 13 November 1440 Married Robert Ferrers Married Ralph Neville, 1^st Earl of Westmorland
					From Edmund of Langley
Richard Neville 1400 to 1460 Married Alice Montagu, 5^th Countess of Salisbury	From Roger Mortimer	Cecily Neville 1415 to 1495 Married Richard, Duke of York
	Edmund Mortimer 6 November 1391 to 18 January 1425 5^th Earl of March Married Anne Stafford Potential claimant to the Crown during the 1399 Lancastrian Coup His claim was the basis of revolts against the House Lancaster and was later taken up by the House of York in the Wars of the Roses, though Mortimer remained loyal to the Lancastrians	Anne Mortimer 27 December 1388 to 22 September 1411 Married Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge	Henry V 16 September 1386 to 31 August 1422 Reigned 1413 to 1422 Married Catherine de Valois (who later married Owen Tudor in 1428) (4) Lancaster	Edward of Norwich 2^nd Duke of York c 1373 to 25 October 1415	Constance of York c 1375 to 28 November 1416 Countess of Gloucester Married Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester and later Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent	Richard of Conisbrough 20 July 1385 to 5 August 1415 3^rd Earl of Cambridge Married Anne Mortimer The Plantagenet title passed down to Richard through both the Mortimer line (descended from Lionel of Antwerp) and the York Line (descended from Edmund of Langley The descent through Anne Mortimer may have been seen as the stronger link, flowing from Edward III’s second son The House of York began to resent the claim by House Lancaster
				From John Beaufort Senior
Richard Neville The Kingmaker 1428 to 1471 16^th Earl of Warwick Married Anne Beachamp, 16^th Countess of Warwick	Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur Owen Tudor c 1400 to 2 February 1461 Married Henry V’s widow, Catherine de Valois		Henry VI 6 December 1421 to 21 May 1471 Reigned 1422 to 1461 Reigned 1470 to 1471 Married Margaret of Anjou (5) Lancaster (7) Lancaster	John Beaufort 25 March 1404 to 27 May 1444 1^st Duke of Somerset Married Margaret Beauchamp		Richard Plantagenet 21 September 1411 to 30 December 1460 3^rd Duke of York Married Cecily Neville
		Edward of Lancaster Prince of Wales 13 October 1453 to 4 May 1471 Killed aged 17 at the Battle of Tewkesbury	Edward IV 28 April 1442 to 9 April 1483 Reigned 1461 to 1470 Reigned 1471 to 1483 Married Elizabeth Woodville (6) Edwardian York (8) Edwardian York	Edmund 17 May 1443 to 30 December 1460 Earl of Rutland	George Plantagenet 21 October 1449 to 18 February 1478 Duke of Clarence Married Isabel Neville	Richard III 2 October 1452 to 22 August 1485 Reigned 1483 to 1485 Married Anne Neville (10) Ricardian York
				From John Beaufort
Isabell Neville 1451 to 1476 Married George, Duke of Clarence	From Owen Tudor Edmund Tudor c 1430 to 3 November 1456 Earl of Richmond Married Lady Margaret Beaufort	Anne Neville 1456 to 1485 Married Edward, Prince of Wales (Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou’s son, 1453 to 1471) and then Richard Duke of Gloucester, and when he became Richard III was Queen of England		Lady Margaret Beaufort 31 May 1443 to 29 June 1509 Betrothed to John de la Pole Married Edmund Tudor Married Sir Henry Stafford Married Thomas Stanley, 1^st Earl of Derby	Edward Plantagenet 25 February 1475 to 28 November 1499 17^th Earl of Warwick	Edward of Middleham 1473 to 9 April 1484 Prince of Wales Born at Middleham and his effigy is in Sheriff Hutton church Born at Middleham and whilst his burial is unknown, his effigy is in Sheriff Hutton Church
	Henry VII (Henry Tudor) 28 January 1457 to 21 April 1509 Reigned 1485 to 1509 Married Elizabeth of York (11) Tudor		From Edward IV Edward V 2 November 1470 to 1483 Reigned 9 April to 25 June 1483 A Prince in the Tower (9) Edwardian York	Richard of York Duke of York 17 August 1473 to 1483 Married Anne de Mowbray A Prince in the Tower	Elizabeth of York 11 February 1466 to 11 February 1503 A princess banished to Sheriff Hutton Married Henry VII	Mary of York 11 August 1467 to 23 May 1482 Cecily of York, Viscountess Welles 20 March 1469 to 24 August 1507 Margaret of York 10 April to 11 December 1472 Anne of York, Lady Howard 2 November 1475 to 23 November 1511 George Duke of Bedford 1477 to 1479 Catherine Countess of Devon 14 August 1479 to 15 November 1527 Bridget of York 10 November 1480 to 1507
	Henry VIII 28 June 1491 to 28 January 1547 Reigned 1509 to 1547 (12) Tudor