#this is very interesting in terms of the tendency to read humphrey as villainous or plotting against henry vi

[une-sanz-pluis]

In the end, if there is a single theme in the duke's career, it is one of obedience to Henry's personal authority, something which was gaining definition only at this time. The king's new prominence must play an important part in explaining his acquiescence during the years which followed. Faced with the destruction of his wife, a series of threats to his property and, finally, a thoroughly dubious charge of treason, Gloucester was unresisting. Was this because he accepted the central pretension of Suffolk's rule, that it was backed by the will of the king?

John Watts, Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship (Cambridge University Press, 1996)