Editing Battle of Tewkesbury (section)

==End of the Lancastrian royal family==
[[File:Siege of London (MS 1168).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right|Yorkist defenders of London sally against [[Thomas Neville (died 1471)|Fauconberg]]’s besieging force.]]
On his way to suppress Fauconberg and the Kentish rebels, Edward passed through London in triumph on 21 May, with the captive Queen Margaret beside him in a chariot. King Henry VI died in the Tower of London that night, at the hands of or by the order of Richard of Gloucester according to several near contemporary accounts.<ref>Rowse, pp. 170–171</ref> However, the most contemporary account only states that Gloucester was there 'along with many others' and the murder was almost certainly on the orders of the new king, Edward IV. The deposed king's death was announced in public that he had died "of pure displeasure and melancholy", but few believed this.

Gloucester later married [[Anne Neville]], the younger daughter of Warwick and the widow of Henry and Margaret's son Edward.

With the deaths of Somerset and his younger brother, the [[House of Beaufort]], who were distant cousins of Henry VI and had a remote claim to succeed him, had been almost exterminated. Only the female line of Somerset's uncle, the [[John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset|1st Duke of Somerset]], remained, represented by [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]] and her son [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]] (later King Henry VII). Henry escaped from Wales with Jasper Tudor, his paternal uncle, and remained in exile in [[Brittany]] for the remainder of Edward's reign. The year after the Battle of Tewkesbury, however, Lady Margaret married [[Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby|Lord Stanley]], one of King Edward's supporters, who later turned against Edward's brother Richard of Gloucester when he became king as Richard III and was instrumental in putting Henry Tudor on the throne.