The white-faced knight is most special, his family not only has a longstanding allegiance to the Lancaster family, his loyalty is guaranteed. Of course, there are no permanent loyalties, only permanent interests, but for now come the Martin family is more loyal to the Tudor royal family.
By this point, it's important to mention that Edward's grandfather, Henry VII, was a collateral member of the House of Lancaster, a nobleman from Wales. And the maternal ancestor of the Tudors was johnbeaufort, the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Prince of England in the century, and his mistress, kathereswynford, whose father was none other than King Edward III.
Normally, an illegitimate child would not be able to claim a right to the throne, but the situation was complicated in the year by the official marriage of the Duke of Lancaster and Catherine when John Beaufort was aged...
Both the Pope and the Parliament of England issued separate proclamations the following year retroactively recognizing John Beaufort as the legitimate legitimate son of the Duke of Lancaster. The Duke of Lancaster's other legitimate son, King Henry IV, also recognized the legitimacy of John Beaufort's legitimate children, but declared that they had no right to the throne.
John Beaufort's granddaughter, Sheriff Marguerite Beaufort, also heir to the throne, married Edmond Tudor, Earl of Richmond. Also the father of Henry VII.
And while Henry Tudor was in exile in Brittany, his mother, Edward's grandfather's mother, Countess Margaret Beaufort, remarried in England and lurked in rival Yorkist England plotting her son's future.
So when the Lancasters became heirs, Henry VII declared himself heir to the Lancaster throne. He was qualified to succeed to the throne of England.
Henry VII soon succeeded in landing in England and defeated Richard III of the House of York at the Battle of Bosworth Plain in 2007, and immediately assumed the throne as King Henry VII.
And by marrying Richard III's niece, Elizabeth of York, the Sheriff of York, the debate over the legitimacy of his succession was put to rest.
This marriage between rival families ended the War of the Roses and created a new dynasty, the descendants of the combined Lancastrian and Yorkish dynasties, and combined the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York to form the coat of arms of the Tudor dynasty, the red and white "Tudor Rose".
Let's rationalize John Lancaster - John Beaufort - Greta Beaufort (Edmond Tudor) - Henry VII. -Henry VIII - Edward VI. This straightens out the point and can that the Tudors were well looked after by Lady Luck to be the royal family of England.
The Yorks, who could be direct, must have had some disaffection for the Tudor Crown, and after the Lancasters became extinct, the Tudor Crown, in place of the Lancasters, became the object of allegiance for them, the Knights.
"Knight Devereaux, taking the liberty of asking!" Edward, seeing that he was younger and closer to his own family, took him to pry the three apart.
"I wonder how much your family spends each year?" Hearing Edward ask these words, the first reflection in Devereaux's mind was the Furen family who often went against him, who had found someone to pry into his family's secrets, preparing to deliver a heavy blow.
But he did remember that it was his bannerman, His Majesty Edward, who had come to inquire, and it was unlikely that he would have been willing to be a scout, and even if he had been, there were not many people who could afford to hire him.
"Beloved feudal lord, your poor knight has to count every shilling every month to get by!" Spending it all together, Knight Devereaux's brow had furrowed into a mountain, and that young face suddenly became a bitter melon.
"Almost every shilling in my pocket is emptied every month by what I spend on banquets and hunting, and I have to get a knight's suit for my brother Pieter, and my sisters have to buy all those pretty dresses that are in vogue in France every month ..." Don't look at the de Frow Knight was a man, but the layers of his nagging were no less than those of an older woman of fifty or sixty.
"Stop, my dear knight, I already know your situation! No need for more!" Edward hastily stopped Devereaux's long speech, saving Knight Bruno and Knight William, who were already on the verge of a breakdown. And Steward Howard had already begun to close his eyes, so please ignore him.
Devereaux had the good sense to shut his mouth in the face of Edward's stopping him, but by the look on his face he couldn't get enough of it, so it was a good thing that he was stopped or there would have been a big story behind it. Edward couldn't help but pat his chest in celebration.
"Damn! He still hasn't come up with a specific number after such a long paragraph? In the face of Fengjun are not honest, it seems to be able to become a knight are not stupid ah!" Edward sighed in his heart.
But thank goodness for Butler Howard, he's such an available talent!
"Your Majesty! Knight Devereaux spends almost a hundred pounds a month, and that's my most conservative estimate!" Steward Howard quietly came to Edward's side again and gently floated out a sentence. Then he left Edward some distance away again, pretending as if nothing had happened, and was there as a sentry as if nothing had happened!
Edward estimated the annual income of the Knight of Devereaux, which, assuming fifteen hundred acres of land were planted with grain, would be at most nine hundred pounds a year, so how could he have spent twelve hundred pounds?
Seemingly seeing Edward's confusion, the godforsaken Lord Butler, too, had come to Edward's side, explaining as if no one else was there.
"Since his father, the old Devereaux Knight, the Martin family has been subletting the estate to copper-filled merchants to raise sheep for what is estimated to be eighteen years now, and taking twelve hundred pounds a year!" Howard's words really shocked Edward.
I can't imagine that the knights have now sublet the symbol of knighthood, the fief, for eighteen years!
Think about it, who would want to stay in the countryside when you can live happily in the flowery world of London, besides, you don't have to manage the manor, and you can get more money every year than what you have earned by working hard, so why not?
Edward does not know, at that time, the Devereaux knight is not bad, just a year by year rent. There are also nobles almost years, hundreds of years of rent out, the consequences of this is when your family for a long time is not in the manor, the manor gradually become his, and some is their own family extinct, your manor is his. More pitiful is to meet a loser, spend all the savings, the manor was pawned.
This is one reason for the collapse of the feudal economy and the rise of capitalism.
"So, what about Bruno Knight and William Knight?" "William Knight still runs his own business, and Bruno Knight has sublet!"
Edward hadn't expected Knight William, the most likely grand old man to sublet, to run the business himself, while Knight Bruno, who liked to read, sublet it out!
Next Edward made a remark that surprised the crowd.
"So, Knights I wonder if you would be willing to sublet the manor to me?"