Issue of Edward III of England the Yorks left Richard III as king, supported and then betrayed by his cousin Buckingham, the descendant of Thomas of Woodstock. Finally, the Yorks were dislodged by the remaining Lancastrian candidate, Henry VII of the House of Tudor, another descendant of John of Gaunt, who married the eldest daughter of Yorkist King Edward IV. Edward, the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales. The eldest son of Edward III who predeceased his father and never became king. Edward's only surviving child was Richard II who ascended to the throne but produced no
The Troublesome Reign of King John Peter Ackroyd have defended the Shakespearean attribution. Candidates put forward for the author of "The Troublesome Reign" include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele, among others, alone or in various collaborative combinations; no scholarly consensus has been achieved. The main historical sources for "The Troublesome Reign" are thought to be the "Chronicles" of Raphael Holinshed and "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", and perhaps Richard Grafton's "Chronicle at Large", which recapitulates much of the material in John Foxe's book. The Troublesome Reign of King John The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England, commonly called The Troublesome Reign of