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  1. Feb 24, 2020 · The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) was a dynastic conflict between the English nobility and monarchy which led to four decades of intermittent battles, executions, and murder plots. The English elite...

  2. www.historic-uk.com › HistoryofEngland › The-Wars-of-the-RosesWars of the Roses - Historic UK

    Mar 8, 2018 · The Wars of the Roses. The Plantaganet King Henry VI was a weak king, married to an ambitious French princess, Margaret of Anjou. At this time, there was a complex series of rivalries and jealousies at court between powerful noble families. The Queen and her circle of nobles were known as Lancastrians after Henry’s surname of Lancaster.

  3. Wars of the Roses, (1455–85) Series of dynastic civil wars between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne. The wars were named for the emblems of the two houses, the white rose of York and the red of Lancaster. Both claimed the throne through descent from Edward III.

  4. Feb 12, 2020 · The multiple initial causes of the Wars of the Roses, and the reasons why they continued, may be briefly summarised as: the increasing tendency to murder kings and their young heirs, a strategy begun by Henry Bolingbroke in 1399 CE. the incapacity to rule and then illness of Henry VI of England.

  5. Wars of the Roses (1455–85), in English history, the series of civil wars that preceded the rise of the Tudors. Fought between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, the wars were named years afterward from the supposed badges of the contenders: the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster.

  6. Feb 6, 2012 · The Wars of the Roses is the 19th-century name given to the English civil wars fought roughly between 1450 and 1509. The principal conflicts took place in 1459–1461 (First War), 1469–1471 (Second War), and 1483–1485 (Third War).

  7. Jul 15, 2020 · published on 15 July 2020. The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487 CE) was a four-decade struggle between two branches of the descendants of Edward III of England (r. 1327-1377 CE). These two family groups: the Lancasters and Yorks, would swap places on the throne of England several times until Henry Tudor won the wars and made himself King Henry VII ...

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