As early as two years ago, Marin gave up Cork, an important port in the south of Ireland, to Count Edward, so that Count Edward and his 5,000 soldiers and horses would have a place to live, so as not to be used as cannon fodder by Louis XII to storm Calais. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

With the secret help of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce under Marin, Earl Edward quietly moved to Cork City, Ireland, with 5,000 soldiers and horses.

Louis XII was very annoyed by the departure of Count Edward, but he was too busy to fight for hegemony in Italy and did not have time to pay attention to Edward.

Moreover, Edward explained, it was to establish a logistics base in Cork as a large rear for attacking the British. Although Louis XII was dissatisfied, he felt that the Count of Edward, as the only male heir to the House of York and the only contender for the throne of Henry VII, still needed support. Therefore, Louis XII chose to provide a certain amount of money and food, so that Count Edward could afford to raise 5,000 soldiers and horses.

As for King James IV of Scotland, he welcomed the Earl of Edward's move to Ireland. Therefore, the Kingdom of Scotland's support for Earl Edward was no less than that of France.

After arriving in Cork City, Count Edward and his army drew on the Earl of Desmond on the edge of Cork City. Fitzgerald's panic.

You must know that Desmond, as a major force on the island of Ireland, is only three or four thousand soldiers. So, taking advantage of Count Edward's unstable foothold, Count Desmond launched an attack. However, Count Edward's troops were not weak, and with the strong city of Cork as a backing, he held the city and ran in with the army.

Later, Maurice, Earl of Desmond. Fitzgerald saw that he could not eat Count Edward's army, so he formed an alliance and co-opted instead.

Edward needed the support of his allies because he was not on hold. So, the two sides got together......

Later, Morris. At the beginning of 1502, Fitzgerald used the army of Earl Edward to form a huge coalition of 7,000 men, conquering the Kingdom of Munster, which was in the southwest of Desmond, and eliminating the McCarthy family, the royal descendants of the Kingdom of Munster before the invasion of England.

The southwestern part of the island of Ireland, the southwest of the Kingdom of Munster, has long been divided into two parts since the establishment of the Desmond Earl. One part was the Count of Desmond, founded by the invading English nobility, which occupied most of the area. However, the southwestern part of the island of Ireland has been occupied by the Kingdom of Desmond, founded by the descendants of the Kingdom of Munster. Desmond's repeated attacks were stubbornly resisted by the McCarthy royal family.

But this time, after enlisting the army brought by Earl Edward, the Count of Desmond finally came down in one fell swoop and wiped out the country founded by the indigenous Irish.

Later, the two families divided the kingdom of Desmond, and the kingdom of Desmond gained most of the territory to the north. Count Edward, on the other hand, was given a small part of the coast.

Although Earl Edward was slightly dissatisfied with this, because this was the home of Desmond, he put up with it for the time being. After all, his great enemy was Henry VII, not Maurice. Fitzgerald. If it were possible, Edward would still want to win them over.

The current island of Ireland can be said to be torn apart. Although Britain invaded the island of Ireland, its control over the island of Ireland was also very low because the mainland could not be controlled.

The British really wanted to control the island of Ireland until the time of James I, the monarch of the Stuart dynasty, who sent a large army in 1609 to completely conquer the entire island of Ireland.

At present, however, the distribution of power on the island of Ireland is very complex. In addition to Dublin and the surrounding territories, there are three major kingdoms on the island of Ireland – the Earldom of Kildare, the Earldom of Ormond and the Earldom of Desmond. These three kingdoms were the first Norman nobles to be divided for their military exploits during the Norman invasion.

Later, because England did not attach importance to Ireland for a long time, the three countries were actually very independent and independent. Their situation, somewhat like that of the German vassal states, had a higher degree of autonomy.

Later, British rule over Ireland was long ruled by the earls of the three earl states, who were responsible for extorting "tribute" from other native powers on the island of Ireland to the British king. Even the easternmost territories directly under the British Crown, including Dublin, have long been managed by the three earls, and the British crown is only responsible for collecting territorial taxes, and the management is still delegated to the three earls.

It can be said that the real managers on the island of Ireland are these three earls......

However, since Henry VII established the Tudor dynasty in 1485, the practice of the three earls jointly administering Ireland was changed, and the Earl of Kildare was appointed as the Governor of the Island of Ireland. Fitzgerald was in power alone, controlling the island of Ireland.

This caused a strong resentment among the two traditional powers, the kingdoms of Desmond and Ormond, because their power was gone......

So, in the fake Richard Perkin. When Warbeck occupied Cork City and used it as a base to oppose Henry VII, Maurice, Earl of Desmond. Fitzgerald gave a great deal of support for the False Richard to overthrow Henry VII. Of course, the fake Richard failed in the end and was beheaded. But Morris. The alienation of Fitzgerald and the Tudor dynasty became a reality. Of course, because the island of Ireland was too remote at the time, and Cork City had already been declared a free trade city by the British royal family, and was no longer under the control of the Desmond Earl. So, Henry VII didn't know much about Maurice. Fitzgerald's question. Or that even if understood, there is no evidence that Morris. Fitzgerald supported the false Richard. Because, Cork City is not part of the Desmond Country......

Speaking of which, the Lords of Desmond and the Kingdom of Kildalb are still from the same family, the Fitzgeralds. It's just that from the Norman conquest to the present, hundreds of years have passed. The previous family affection is long gone. Jealous of the Earl of Kildare's monopoly on power, the Earl of Desmond and the Kingdom of Kildare were already hostile to each other.

Thomas, Earl of Ormond. Butler, although dissatisfied with the seizure of power, is not as good as Morris. Fitzgerald, like that, was opposed. However, it is unlikely that the kingdom of Ormond will continue to diehard. At least, Henry VII, who would not have been loyal to the Earl of Ormond, had been stripped of his authority.

Of course, in addition to the three kingdoms, there are two other kingdoms canonized by the British crown on the island of Ireland - the kingdom of Wexford on the southeast coast of the island of Ireland and the kingdom of Ulster on the northeast coast of the island of Ireland. However, both countries are relatively small and have little say in politics.

In addition, most of the island of Ireland is controlled by various states established by local powers. For example, the Kingdom of Desmond, which was previously wiped out by the Earl of Desmond and Earl Edward, was a small regime established by the descendants of the royal family of the Kingdom of Munster in Ireland itself before the Norman invasion. Much of the northern and western parts of the island are still under the control of small local powers. Although they were divided, if the English wanted to expand, the local forces would still unite to resist.

Therefore, the three major kingdoms were not able to continue to expand. However, the McCarthy dynasty, located at the southwestern tip of the island of Ireland, was allied with no small native states nearby. Therefore, when they were besieged by the combined forces of Desmond and Edward's army, no one came to save them, so they could only be wiped out like this......