![]() So, Henry VII's children would have both Yorkist and Lancastrian blood. (from Lancashire) and she did too, through her mother (from Yorkshire). Political move: he had a clear right to the throne through his father He then marriedĮdward IV's daughter Elizabeth to make sure his child will have goodĬhances of becoming the next king. Years of his reign, he got rid of all of his competitors. Henry Tudor proclaimed himself King Henry VII. Were related to the House of Lancaster, and Henry Tudor was a strongĬandidate for the position of king because most of the major LancastrianĪnd Yorkist candidates had killed each other during the thirty years of Henry Tudor, a princeįrom Wales gathered an army to fight against Richard III. The Lancastrian faction won the deciding battle. ![]() The fighting stopped suddenly at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 when Southerners were very displeased with the supposed killing of the two Had a lot of support from the northern part of England, but the King Richard's rule as king had problems with the house of Lancaster. Richard then made himself King Richard III as he was the next Yorkist in 'protection') which is when they mysteriously disappeared. Richard was evidently not a very nice man, because he sent young EdwardĪnd his younger brother to the Tower of London (he said it was for their He was in charge of some important laws, including the martial law. His uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester made himself regent Unusually mature and capable and older than his years - he was still aĬhild. Was the supposed to become the next king. Henry VI managed to get his position as king backįor a short period of time, but then Edward took it away from him again.Įdward IV died in 1483, and his son Edward V was the next Yorkist ruler Richard's son Edward becomes King Edward IV in 1461 and Henry VI leavesĮdward IV ruled happily without many problems until 1470, when Henry VI Have any right to take the throne because Henry did not become king in the Richard Duke of York's argument was that the relatives of Henry VI did not Related to Henry IV, the "hero" in Shakespeare's play Richard II.) Not very strong leader who had some mental health problems. The king at the time was the Lancastrian Henry VI, a very religious but The war began in 1455 when Richard, Duke of York started to question the Uniforms which had white or red roses on them. The roses were not officially on the Houses' coats of arms, but have a Shall send, between the Red Rose and the White,Ī thousand souls to death and deadly night. Grown to this faction in the Temple garden, Warwick: And here I prophesy: this brawl today, Mentioned in one of Shakespeare's plays, 'Henry VI': In Renaissance literature, during Shakespeare's days. House of York was a white rose and the House of Lancaster was a red rose The reason is the fact that the symbol of the The name of this period and the association with the roses came later, Their opponents, the House of York (family descendedįrom Edward III) and their supporters were called the Yorkist faction. Henry's supporters were a group that were the Overthrown and killed by Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke, who was a part of The king at the time - King Richard II died without an heir. Both thought they were the rightful heirs to the throne. One of the families consisted of descendants of Edward III and the other Life in the English ranks in the War of the Roses.). This means that there was a lot more loss of The Hundred Years War (this was because in the War of the Roses all theīattles took place in England, and during the Hundred Years' War a lot ofįighting happened in France. It lasted around thirty years but was more destructive for England than The reason for the conflict was the fact that both of these houses wanted York (Lancaster and York are counties in the North of England). Period of war between two houses the House of Lancaster and the House of The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) is the term that is used to describe a Tato funkce bohužel nefunguje na prohlížeči Opera. TIP: V tomto článku, stejně jako kdekoliv jinde na tomto webu, si můžete neznámá slovíčka jednoduše vyhledat ve slovníku tak, že na slovo v textu dvakrát kliknete tlačítkem myši.
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