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2 days ago · The Wars of the Roses were a series of bloody civil wars for the throne of England between two competing royal families: the House of York and the House of Lancaster, both members of the age-old royal Plantagenet family. Waged between 1455 and 1485, the Wars of the Roses earned its flowery name because the white rose was the badge of the Yorks ...
5 days ago · Henry VII l Henry Vlll l Edward Vl l Mary I l Elizabeth I l. ( Lady Jane Grey reigned as Queen for just 9 days.) Age 28-52. Great-great-great-grandson of Edward III. Married Elizabeth (daughter of Edward IV ). Seven children. Buried in Westminster Abbey. Henry Tudor became King Henry Vll of England and Wales after defeating Richard lll at the ...
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From the accession of Henry VII. to the death of Henry VIII. The battle at Bosworth finally decided the disputes between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which so much English blood had been shed. Henry VII. was the victorious representative of the house of Lancaster, and the male heirs of Edward IV. being now dead, he united the claims of ...
2 days ago · Elizabeth Stanley was born abt 1423. n.b. She is sometimes named as Anne Stanley. Parents: Sir Thomas Stanley (born bef 1405 and died 11 Feb 1459), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord of Latham and Knowsley, 1st Lord Stanley, Constable & Justice of Chester; and Joan Goushill (born abt 1401 and died c 27 Apr 1466), who was the daughter and heiress ...
4 days ago · Sir Godfrey Boleine, Lord Mayor, 1457 (Henry VI.), was grandfather to Thomas, Earl of Wiltshire, the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth. He was a mercer in the Old Jewry, and left by his will £1,000 to the poor householders of London, and £2,000 to the poor householders in Norfolk (his native county), besides large legacies to the London prisons ...
4 days ago · As a great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England, Mary had once claimed Elizabeth's throne as her own and was considered the legitimate sovereign of England by many English Catholics, including participants in a rebellion known as the Rising of the North. Perceiving Mary as a threat, Elizabeth had her confined in various castles and manor ...
3 days ago · She was the widow of Thomas Williams, a Yeoman of the Guard, and the daughter of a Putney shearman, Henry Wyckes, who had served as a gentleman usher to King Henry VII. The couple had three children: Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (c. 1520 –1551), who was Elizabeth Seymour's second husband.
