The Wars of the Roses were a series of conflicts during
the fifteenth century which involved most of the
English nobility between supporters of two rival cadet
branches of the royal House of Plantagenet
About The war of ROses
There were many issues at stake, sometimes including
who should be king. Writers during the Tudor period
simplified the story of events into a battle for the
throne between the Houses of York and Lancaster.
The first Tudor king, Henry VII, belonged to the
Lancastrian family and he married Elizabeth
Plantagenet, a princess from the House of York. He
adopted the badge of the Tudor Rose (a white rose of
York within a red rose of Lancaster) as a symbol of the
peace he claimed to have brought to England by
uniting their families. The name of the Wars of the
Roses developed as a result of this symbolism.
The Wars of the Roses lasted for more than half a century. Most of those
involved in the conflict’s beginning were long dead by the time it ended.
The only major players to live through the entire period were women and
churchmen. All of the principal noble families of the age, and many
gentry families too, became embroiled in the politics of the wars. Quite
often local disputes became the trigger for major incidents within the
Wars.
The power struggle ignited around social and financial troubles following the
Hundred Years' War, unfolding the structural problems of bastard feudalism,
combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of King Henry VI which
revived interest in the House of York's claim to the throne by Richard of York.
Historians disagree on which of these factors was the main reason for the wars
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May
1471) was King of England from 1422
KING HENRY VI
to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471,
and disputed King of France from
1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry
V, he succeeded to the English
throne at the age of nine months
upon his father's death, and
succeeded to the French throne on
the death of his maternal
grandfather, Charles VI, shortly
afterwards.
House of York, younger branch of the House of Lancaster, a cadet branch of the
house of Plantagenet of England. In the house of Plantagenet. In the 15th century it provided
15th century, having overthrown the three kings of England—Henry IV, Henry V, and
THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER
house of Lancaster, it provided three Henry VI—and, defeated by the house of York,
kings of England—Edward IV, passed on its claims to the Tudor dynasty.The last
Edward V, and Richard III—and, in turn remaining fragment of Lancastrian title was that
defeated, passed on its claims to the which Henry VII derived through the Beaufort family
Tudor dynasty. , comprising Gaunt’s legitimized natural children. By
the time Henry VII had inaugurated the Tudor
monarchy, the Lancaster lands were firmly in the
hands of the crown.
Neither side used a rose as its sole
symbol.
The Wars of the Roses take their name from
the color of the roses—red for Lancaster and
white for York—that each house supposedly
used as their emblem. This legend took root
after William Shakesp and others wrote about
it, but most modern historians maintain that
neither side was identified solely by a floral
symbol. The white rose was just one of many
badges used by the Yorks, and the red rose of
Lancaster was likely not adopted until the
1480s, when the conflict was nearly over. The
name “Wars of the Roses,” meanwhile, wasn’t
coined until the 19th century.
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