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The Yorkists. The Yorkist conquest of the Lancastrians in 1461 did not put an end to the Wars of the Roses, which rumbled on until the start of the sixteenth century. Family disloyalty in the form of Richard III's setting aside of his nephews, the young King Edward V and his brother, was part of his downfall.
The House of York descended in the male line from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, the fourth surviving son of Edward III. In time, it also represented Edward III's senior line, when an heir of York married the heiress-descendant of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, Edward III's second surviving son.
Sep 3, 2024 · House of York, younger branch of the house of Plantagenet of England. In the 15th century, having overthrown the house of Lancaster, it provided three kings of England—Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III—and, in turn defeated, passed on its claims to the Tudor dynasty.
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As Richard IIfell into tyranny through the 1390s, his exiled cousin Henry of Bolingbroke, son of the Duke of Lancaster, returned to England to claim the throne. The childless Richard was forced to abdicate, and Lancastrian rule began on 30 September 1399. Henry was a famed knight, serving with the Teutonic Knights on crusade in Lithuania and undert...
The second Lancastrian king was Henry V. At 27, he had a playboy image. Henry had been at the Battle of Shrewsbury aged 16. He was hit in the face by an arrow that left a deep scar on his cheek. In the instant he became king, Henry set aside the companions of his riotous princely lifestyle in favour of piety and duty. Aware that he could face the s...
King Henry VIwas 9 months old when his father died. He is the youngest monarch in English and British history, and within weeks he became King of France on the death of his grandfather Charles VI. Child kings were never a good thing, and England faced a long minority government. Henry was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 6 November 1429 aged 7 and i...
On 30 December 1460, Edward, son of Richard, Duke of York, was proclaimed king in place of Henry VI. Edward was 18, at 6’4” the tallest monarch in English or British history, charismatic but prone to overindulgence. In 1464, he announced that he had married a Lancastrian widow in secret. The match outraged the nobility, who had been planning a marr...
Edward’s oldest son was proclaimed King Edward V. His father’s early death when his heir was just 12 raised the spectre of minority government again at a time when France was renewing aggression against England. Edward had been raised in his own household at Ludlow since he was 2 years old in the care of his mother’s family. Edward IV appointed his...
Richard, Duke of Gloucester ascended the throne as King Richard IIIon 26 June 1483. He distanced himself from his brother’s reign, launching a scathing attack on its corruption. A combination of this, his unpopular policies to reform the realm, the uncertainty surrounding his nephews, and efforts to promote the cause of the exiled Henry Tudor cause...
Yorkists. This conflict became known as the Wars of the Roses after the conflict had finished. The Wars of the Roses ended in 1485, following Henry Tudor’s victory over Richard III at Bosworth and...
Jun 27, 2018 · Yorkists. The three kings of England between 1461 and 1485 ( Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III) were so named because they were descended from Richard of York.
Yorkist Kings and the Nobility. The Nobility in late 15th Century England. England in the 15th century was very hierarchical: an individual’s social standing was largely dependent on their social class and the family they were born into which, in turn, was closely related to their wealth.
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