Another of the conspirators, the Count of Maine, was Margaret's uncle.

It was significant that the Duke of Somerset had found a place in the train of Charles of Charolais.

On the other hand the warmest advocates of the French alliance could hardly press for closer relations with a king whose ruin seemed certain, and even Warwick must have been held back by the utter collapse of the royal power when the League attacked Lewis in 1465.

Deserted by every great noble, and cooped up within the walls of Paris, the French king could only save himself by a humiliating submission to the demands of the Leaguers.
[Sidenote: The Woodvilles] The close of the struggle justified Edward's policy of inaction, for the terms of the peace told strongly for English interests.

The restoration of the towns on the Somme to Burgundy, the cession of Normandy to the king's brother, Francis, the hostility of Britanny, not only detached the whole western coast from the hold of Lewis, but forced its possessors to look for aid to the English king who lay in their rear.