He had for several years possessed only the appearance of royal authority: yet was this mere appearance of considerable advantage to the English; and divided the duty and affections of the French between them and the dauphin.

This prince was proclaimed and crowned king of France at Poictiers, by the name of Charles VII.

Rheims, the place where this ceremony is usually performed, was at that time in the hands of his enemies.
Catharine of France, Henry's widow, married, soon after his death, a Welsh gentleman, Sir Owen Tudor, said to be descended from the ancient princes of that country: she bore him two sons, Edmund and Jasper, of whom the eldest was created earl of Richmond; the second earl of Pembroke The family of Tudor, first raised to distinction by this alliance, mounted afterwards the throne of England.
The long schism, which had divided the Latin church for near forty years, was finally terminated in this reign by the council of Constance; which deposed the pope, John XXIII., for his crimes, and elected Martin V.in his place, who was acknowledged by almost all the kingdoms of Europe.

This great and unusual act of authority in the council, gave the Roman pontiffs ever after a mortal antipathy to those assemblies.

The same jealousy which had long prevailed in most European countries, between the civil aristocracy and monarchy, now also took place between these powers in the ecclesiastical body.