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War of Roses

The War of the Roses was a civil war in England between the House of Lancaster and the House of York for control of the English throne from 1455-1485. Richard, Duke of York challenged King Henry VI's rule and claimed the throne, sparking armed conflict. The war saw the defeat and deaths of key figures from both houses, weakening the nobility and paving the way for the Tudor dynasty to seize power in 1485 and bring an end to the Middle Ages in England.

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War of Roses

The War of the Roses was a civil war in England between the House of Lancaster and the House of York for control of the English throne from 1455-1485. Richard, Duke of York challenged King Henry VI's rule and claimed the throne, sparking armed conflict. The war saw the defeat and deaths of key figures from both houses, weakening the nobility and paving the way for the Tudor dynasty to seize power in 1485 and bring an end to the Middle Ages in England.

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The War of the Roses

War of the Roses


1455-1485

Civil war in England, for the throne between the two


branches of the Plantagenet dynasty - Lancaster (in
the arms of a red rose) and York (in the arms of a
white rose). The death of the war the main
representatives of the two dynasties, and a large
part of the nobility has facilitated the establishment
of the Tudor absolutism.
The reason for the war became a dissatisfaction a significant part of English society the
failures in the Hundred Years War and the policies pursued by the wife of King Henry
VI, Queen Margaret and his minions (the king was weak-willed person, also sometimes
fall into complete oblivion).

Margaret of Anjou and her son Henry VI-third and the last King of England of
Prince Edward. Statue in the the House of Lancaster.
Luxembourg Gardens in Paris Only one of the kings of England, who wore
during the Hundred Years War and after it the
title of "King of France", who actually was
crowned (1431), and he reigned in France
The opposition was led by Richard
Duke of York, who demanded the
regency over the incompetent king,
and later - the English crown.
The basis for this claim was the fact
that Henry VI was the great-grandson
of John of Gaunt - the fourth son of
King Edward III, and York - the
great-grandson of Lionel - the third
son of the king (the female line, in the
male line he was the grandson of
Edmund - the fifth son of Edward III),
Richard II - King of England also the grandfather of Henry VI,
(1377-1399), a representative Henry IV took the throne in 1399,
of the Plantagenet dynasty, the violently forcing King Richard II to
grandson of King Edward III, abdicate.
son of Edward the Black
Prince.
The confrontation turned into a war in 1455, when at the First Battle at
St Albans celebrated the victory Yorkists, shortly after which the
English Parliament declared Richard of York protector of the kingdom
and heir of Henry VI.
In 1460, at the Battle at Wakefield, Richard of York was
killed. Party of the White Roses was headed by his son,
Edward, in 1461 crowned in London as Edward IV.

In the same year, the Yorkists


were won victory at Mortimer's
Cross and at Taunton. As a
result, the main Lancastrian
forces were defeated, and King
Henry VI and Queen Margaret
fled the country (the king was
soon caught and imprisoned in
the Tower).
. The fighting resumed in 1470, when
sided with the Lancastrian the Earl of
Warwick and the Duke of Clarence(the
younger brother of Edward IV) and
was returned to the throne of Henry VI.
Edward IV with his other brother, the
Duke of Gloucester fled to Burgundy,
from where he returned in 1471. The
Duke of Clarence moved again to the
side of his brother - and Yorkists won a
victory at Barnet and Tyuksberri. In the
first of these battles was killed Earl of
Warwick, in the second was killed
Prince Edward - the only son of Henry
VI, - that, along with followed in the
Edward and his brother the Duke same year in the Tower death (probably
of York in the Tower. murder) of the Henry was the end of
Picture of Paul Delaroche, the Lancastrian dynasty.
XIX century.
Edward IV - the first king of the House of York - reigned in peace until his
death, which followed all of a sudden in 1483, when for a short time became
the king his son, Edward V.

Edward IV-King of England in 1461-


1470 and 1471-1483, a
representative of York's Plantagenet
Edward V-King of England from 9
line, seized the throne during the April to 25 June 1483, the son
Wars of the Roses. of Edward IV; was not crowned
The result of the war

The Wars of the Roses actually drew a line


under the English Middlle Ages. On the
battlefields, in prisons died not only all direct
descendants of Plantagenets, but much of the
English lords in knights. Asccession of the
Tudors in 1485 is the beginning of a new time
in English history.

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