[1] But to let this passe as a cold discourse of a cof|fen of bones couered with clods of claie;King Iohns children. you shall vnderstand that he left behind him posteritie of both sexes. For he had issue by his wife queene Isabell two sonnes, Henrie who succéeded him in the king|dome, and Richard; thrée daughters, Ioane married to Alexander king of Scotland, Isabell coupled in matrimonie with the emperour Frederike the se|cond, [page 196] and Elianor whome William earle of Gloce|ster had to wife. He had also another daughter (as some haue left in writing) called Elianor.