They denounced the management of the French war and the loss of Normandy (1449–50), the power that first William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk, and then Edmund Beaufort, second duke of Somerset, enjoyed at court and in the provinces and Wales, and the way in which York, Richard Neville, fifth earl of Salisbury, and Salisbury's son, Richard Neville, sixteenth earl of Warwick, were sidelined in government and as recipients of royal favour. The loyalty of certain English nobles and gentry, even bishops, to Henry VI was tested during the early 1450s when his cousin, Richard, third duke of York, and his allies criticized the king's counsellors and policies for public and personal reasons.
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