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Title: Wars of the Roses (1455-85)


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Wars of the Roses(1455-85)
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  • Name, badges
  • Beginning of hostility
  • Situation in England
  • Henry VI, Richard Plantagenet
  • Result
  • Aftermath

3
  • Civil war in England
  • House of York vs. House of Lancaster
  • (both branches of Plantagenet royal house)
  • Named in 19.century
  • Badges

4
Beginning of the hostility
  • The end of reign of Edward III in 1377
  • John of Guant (Lancaster)
  • Richard II Plantagenet (York)

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Situation in England
  • England in bad condition (100 years war)
  • Low number of people
  • Kapitalism
  • Ex-soldiers

6
Henry VI, Richard Plantagenet
  • Henry VI.
  • a weak king, got mad, Yorks claim the
    throne
  • 1453 Henry became insane, Richard Plantagenet,
    Duke of York, named a Lord Protector
  • 1455 Henrys recovery
  • 1455, May 22 First Battle of Albans

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Result 11
  • 30.10.1485 Henry Tudor became a king
  • (closer to Lancaster)
  • But married to Elizabeth of York
  • So the score is 11

8
Aftermath
  • The end of Plantagenets dynasty
  • Replaced by Tudor dynasty
  • People were fed up with wars
  • New people in authorities

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