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1459 in England - Wikipedia. Events from the year 1459 in England . Incumbents. Monarch – Henry VI. Lord Chancellor – William Waynflete. Lord Privy Seal – Lawrence Booth. Events. 23 September – Wars of the Roses: at the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, Yorkists under Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.
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This timeline gives a chronological listing of the main events in English history for the years 1450 – 1459. The monarch for this period was Henry VI. 1450 (15th April) Battle of Formigny. This was a major battle fought between the French and English and was a victory for the French. 1450 (2nd May)
However, in October 1459 the Yorkist forces in England were defeated by the Lancastrians, and the duke of York fled to Ireland. This " Declaration of Independence " was passed by the Irish parliament in Drogheda in the following winter to ensure support for York, confirming him in his office and making it a treasonable offense for anyone to ...
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On this day in 1459 the ‘Wars of the Roses’ between the houses of Lancaster and York took on an increased ferocity. Parliament had not met for three and a half years, since March 1456, when it had been dissolved following the resignation of Richard, duke of York, as Protector and the nominal resumption of authority by the mentally-unstable ...
When Pope Pius II (r. 1458–61) summoned the leading statesmen and church prelates in Europe to Mantua in July 1459 to discuss the mounting of a crusade to free Constantinople from Turkish domination, Nogarola was already something of a veteran speaker at official occasions.
