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4 days ago · The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a defining period in English history, marked by bloody civil wars between rival factions of the royal House of Plantagenet. The conflict takes its romantic name from the emblems of the two warring parties – the red rose of the House of Lancaster and the white rose of the House of York.
4 days ago · The Wars of the Roses, a series of dynastic conflicts fought between the rival Houses of Lancaster and York, reached a bloody climax at the Battle of Barnet on April 14, 1471. This pivotal clash saw the Yorkist King Edward IV decisively defeat his former ally and Lancastrian defector, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, in a brutal and fog ...
5 days ago · Introduction. On a summer‘s day in 1487, the fields near the village of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire bore witness to the last great battle of the Wars of the Roses. For over three decades, this bitter dynastic struggle had pitted the Houses of York and Lancaster against each other in a fight for the English crown.
2 days ago · The Wars of the Roses. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780300114232; 352pp.; Price: £28.00. Michael Hicks’s new book on the Wars of the Roses seeks to offer a general explanation of the civil wars that dominated English political life in the second half of the 15th century. Declaring that ‘many textbooks on Late Medieval ...
3 days ago · Lancashire was not a rich area in the Middle Ages. The Scottish border wars, the plague known as the Black Death, and the long, drawn-out Wars of the Roses were a drain on resources. Monasticism was strong, with large foundations at Whalley and Lancaster, and many Lancastrians remained faithful to Roman Catholicism even after the Reformation.
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4 days ago · Harlech was designed by the master mason James of St George, and it was part of a chain of castles that were intended to keep the native Welsh in check. During the Wars of the Roses, Harlech played a prominent role. As resistance elsewhere failed, the castle, under the command of Dafydd ap Einion, became the last refuge of die-hard Lancastrians.
4 days ago · It belonged to Lady Margaret Beaufort, who played a major role in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars for the English throne. She acquired it in 1487, two years after her son was crowned ...
