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Jun 29, 2014 · The king, who, during the conferences, resided at Berkhamstead and acted as umpire, in due time gave his award. The Yorkists appear to have had scanty justice. They were heavily mulcted, for the benefit of their living foes, and ordered to build a chapel for the good of the souls of the lords slain at St. Albans.
The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars (wars between citizens of the same nation) fought in medieval England from 1455 to 1487. For thirty-two years a bitter struggle for the English throne was waged between two branches of the same family, both descended from Edward III and both claiming that they were the rightful kings.
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When King Edward died young and suddenly in April everyone assumed his 12 year-old son, also called Edward, would be crowned. Instead, in three dramatic and puzzling months, the young king’s uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester executed friends and then deposed his nephew on the grounds that the boy and his siblings were illegitimate.
King of England 1422-61 & 1470-71 1422-71 His weakness as king led to the violence of the 1450s and 1460s. He was criticised for allowing ‘evil councillors’ to dominate and he fell into a virtual coma in 1453. Although he regained his senses, he never recovered his full vigour. This sharpened rivalries amongst those left to run the kingdom.
• If we accept Griffiths’s and Ross’s ‘occasional’ king, is there still a place in the explanation for Carpenter’s and Watts’s depiction of the nobility? • Is Johnson’s depiction compatible with those immediately before? • Johnson suggests that Henry VI remained king for so long because there was
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Wars of the Roses. England’s gradual defeat in the Hundred Years’ War destabilized the realm and undermined the authority of the English monarchy. Over a century of war, England lost all of its French territories with the exception of Calais. English nobles who had lost their French
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during a decade that saw mounting political turmoil, rising civil disorder and military confrontation, and eventually culminated, in 1461, in the deposition of the last Lancastrian king of England.
