His father was Richard‚ Duke of York‚ and his mother was Cicely Neville. When Richard’s father died‚ his eldest son Edward took the throne in 1460‚ and Richard III became admiral of England in 1461. In 1483 King Edward died‚ and his son was his heir. Soon after‚ King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville’s marriage was declared illegal because of a pre-contract of marriage between Edward IV and Lady Eleanor Butler; and Edward’s heir was considered illegitimate. Four days later Richard III seized the throne
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Richard’s brother‚ Edward‚ became Edward IV and created him Duke of Gloucester. In 1470‚ Edward and Richard were exiled when Henry VI was briefly restored to the throne. The following year‚ they returned to England and Richard contributed to the Yorkist victories at Barnet and Tewkesbury which restored Edward to the throne. He was King of England for two years‚ from 1483 until his death in 1485‚ then Henry Tudor took the throne as Henry VII. Richard was the last Yorkist king of England‚ whose death
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is the Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century. The Hundred Years’ War ‚ in which England lost practically all its lands in France‚ ended in 1453‚ but there was no peace in the country. The feudal struggle had broken out and the atmosphere in this country was instable and uncertain leading to the civil war in the fifteenth century. The War of the Roses was a series of dynastic civil war for the throne of England between supporters of two rival branches of the royal house Plantagenet: the house
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ruled by Henry VII. This war had erupted among the two rival houses of Lancaster and York‚ over the dispute for the crown of England. The Wars Of The Roses has been given this distinct name because the badges of the Lancaster and York house are a red rose and a white rose (Robinson para:2) One of the known causes of the war is that both houses are descendents of the late Edward III. Other presumed causes are the bad decision of Henry VI to surround his kingdom with nefarious noblemen‚ the unhappiness
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Explain why Edward IV’s death opened up such a bitter family feud in the weeks from 9th April to 26th June 1483 (12 marks) Edward IV‚ king of England‚ died suddenly and prematurely at Windsor castle – perhaps from a stroke‚ or peritonitis or even a chill caught while on a fishing trip – in April 1483 aged only 40 years. He had enjoyed a relatively successful reign‚ by the standards of the day‚ restoring peace after the disordered period of Lancastrian rule and providing his subjects with some much
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What Was It? The War of the Roses was a civil war in England that lasted from 1455-1487. These thirty years of warfare were even more destructive to England than the Hundred Years War had been in the previous century. (Most of the fighting in the Hundred Years War took place in France‚ which meant most of the military damage affected the French peasantry rather than the English. In the War of the Roses‚ most of the fighting occurred in England‚ and thus the loss of life and property was much greater
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battlefield. The fight brought about a monarchical change in England. Edward IV displaced Henry VI as King of England‚ getting the head of the Lancastrians and his key supporters out of the country. Battle of Barnet 1471: The Battle of Barnet was a close engagement in the Wars of the Roses. The action‚ along with the Battle of Tewkesbury‚ secured the throne for Edward IV. On 14 April 1471 near Barnet‚ then a small town north of London‚ Edward led the Yorkists in a fight against the Lancastrians‚ which
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series of civil wars in England during the reigns of Henry VI‚ Edward IV and Richard III. They were marked by a ferocity and brutality which are practically unknown in the history of English wars before and since. The honest yeoman of Edward III’s time had evolved into a professional soldier of fortune‚ and had been demoralized by the prolonged and dismal Hundred Years’ War‚ at the close of which many thousands of ruffians‚ whose occupation had gone‚ had been let loose in England. At the same time
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Explain why Richard Duke of Gloucester made himself King in 1483? England in mid-1483 was an unstable and dangerous place. The King‚ Edward IV‚ had died‚ and turmoil raged as to who was to be his sons‚ King Edward V’s Protector and rule as Regent until the King was old enough to rule by himself. Richard Plantagenet‚ Duke of Gloucester and Uncle to Edward V‚ became a contender for this right and eventually surpassed this ambition to rule as Regent and instead became King in his own right. There are
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THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR - the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) was perhaps the first national war in Europe - after Norman conquest England was a rising power‚ strong monarchy‚ no involvement in conflicts‚ - English knights began rob their continental neighbours; simply because they were more powerful - the fact that Edward III and Henry V had genealogical claims to the French throne was but an explanation for robbing - the war was not a result of dynastic ambitions but a national matter‚
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