what happened to thomas cromwell's children?
Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
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 Mary and the children travel to London to greet the recently travelling Bolingbroke – " a handsome , jolly knight , richly caparisoned , splendidly horsed " – who is very popular with the city 's residents , unlike his father . The Earl of Derby pays homage to King Richard , who decides that Harry will become his squire . Gaunt succeeds in getting Arundel ousted from court . Mary dies of the plague , as does Queen Anne and Gaunt 's wife Constance . 

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 The series follows the exploits of Richard IV 's unfavoured second son Edmund ( who calls himself " The Black Adder " ) in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and in the final episode his quest to overthrow him . Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not the Nine O 'Clock News , the series covers a number of medieval issues in Britain in a humorous and often anachronistic manner - witchcraft , Royal succession , European relations , the Crusades and the conflict between the Crown and the Church . The filming of the series was highly ambitious , with a large cast and much location shooting . The series also features Shakespearean dialogue , often adapted for comic effect . 

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 By the end of the series , events converge with accepted history , when King Richard IV and his entire family are poisoned , allowing Henry Tudor to take the throne as King Henry VII . He then rewrites history , presenting Richard III as a monster , and eliminating Richard IV 's reign from the history books . In reality , Richard , Duke of York , one of the Princes in the Tower , was only twelve years old ( and perhaps two years dead ) when the Battle of Bosworth Field took place in 1485 , and thus too young to have had two adult sons . One notable anachronism is Edmund ´ s title , Duke of Edinburgh , as Scotland was an independent kingdom ruled by a different royal house from its inception in the ninth century until 1603 ( with the exception of some periods during the turmoil of the Scottish Wars of Independence ) though given that this is an alternate history , it is possible that Henry Tudor falsified the history of Scotland as well . 

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 The famine and the Scottish policy were felt to be a punishment from God , and complaints about Edward multiplied , one contemporary poem describing the " Evil Times of Edward II " . Many criticised Edward 's " improper " and ignoble interest in rural pursuits . In 1318 , a mentally ill man named John of Powderham appeared in Oxford , claiming that he was the real Edward II , and that Edward was a changeling , swapped at birth . John was duly executed , but his claims resonated with those criticising Edward for his lack of regal behaviour and steady leadership . Opposition also grew around Edward 's treatment of his royal favourites . 

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 In the later half of 1660 , Charles 's joy at the Restoration was tempered by the deaths of his youngest brother , Henry , and sister , Mary , of smallpox . At around the same time , Anne Hyde , the daughter of the Lord Chancellor , Edward Hyde , revealed that she was pregnant by Charles 's brother , James , whom she had secretly married . Edward Hyde , who had not known of either the marriage or the pregnancy , was created Earl of Clarendon and his position as Charles 's favourite minister was strengthened . 
