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Show The history of tho Plaulagonet fam. Hy of England Is n peculiar one. It Is tab! that Kulk, tho first P.arl of Anjou, having gone ou a pilgrimage to Home to expiate a crime, was scourge I there with broom twlge (rirVjnfir genctta) and thenceforth assumed the name of the plant lu question. The last of Hie Plautagenet sovereigns wat Hlchard III, who wai sUIn at the batllo of Hoiworlh Pleld, IHJ. Henry VII, his successor, was tho first of the Tudors, and wat allied to the Plan-lageneU Plan-lageneU only on tho side of hi mother, Msrgant, Countess of Richmond, |