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3 days ago · Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England .
- Richard III
George Frederick Cooke as Richard III, by Thomas Sully....
- Anne Neville
Anne Neville (11 June 1456 – 16 March 1485) was Queen of...
- Leicester Cathedral
Vaughan Porch (1897) by George Frederick Bodley Vaughan...
- Wars of The Roses
105,000 dead [4] The Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), known at...
- House of Plantagenet
It culminated in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, when...
- Edward of Middleham
Birth and titles. Edward was born at Middleham Castle, a...
- Battle of Bosworth Field
The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ər θ /...
- Grey Friars Priory
Greyfriars, Leicester, was a friary of the Order of Friars...
- House of York
House of York; As descendants of King Edward III in the male...
- Edward, Earl of Warwick
Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (25 February 1475 –...
- Richard III
3 days ago · The House of Tudor ( / ˈtjuːdər /) [1] was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. [2] They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd, a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois. The Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) for 118 years ...
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- Henry VII (first Tudor king)
5 days ago · Henry VII of England ruled as king from 1485 to 1509 CE. Henry, representing the Lancaster cause during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE), defeated and killed his predecessor the Yorkist king Richard III of England (r. 1483-1485 CE) at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 CE. Known as Henry of Richmond or Henry Tudor before he was crowned, Henry ...
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Mar 29, 2024 · Wars of the Roses. John Howard, 1st duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal (born c. 1430—died August 22, 1485, near Market Bosworth, Warwickshire, England) was an English lord who supported the Yorkist kings in the Wars of the Roses. John Howard was the son of Sir Robert Howard by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, the 1st Duke of Norfolk ...
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Apr 1, 2024 · John de Vere, 13th earl of Oxford (born Sept. 8, 1442—died March 10, 1513) was an English soldier and royal official, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the Roses.He helped to restore the deposed King Henry VI (1470) and later (1485) to secure the English throne for the last surviving male claimant from the house of Lancaster, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, afterward King Henry VII.
Apr 5, 2024 · 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 ...
