The Wars of the Roses

 

The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil conflicts that span all over Medieval England from 1455 to 1485. Those conflicts were fought between two houses, the House of Lancaster, and the House of York when they both claimed the throne through descent from the sons of the late King Edward III, who died of stroke in 1377, and Edward “The Black Prince”, who unfortunately died of dysentery in 1376, shortly before his father’s death. Even though Edward III had three surviving sons, The Black Prince’s son, the ten-year-old Richard II succeeded to the the throne in 1377. When that generation was skipped from the throne, Edward III’s surviving sons made two separate families. Henry III created the House of Lancaster, whose sigil was a red rose, and Edmund of Langley founded the House of York, whose sigil was a white rose. That struggle to fight over the throne was famously called, the Wars of the Roses.

In the year 1399, decades before the conflict, the Lancasters gained the throne when Henry IV overthrew his cousin and King, Richard II, taking over his over to become the new king until the year 1413 when the Henry IV died of illness, his crown was gifted to his heir to the throne, Henry V. But unfortunately, in 1422 during a military campaign to grow his army, he died of dysentery, leaving the crown to his infant son, Henry VI. While growing up as a king his whole life full of people who advise him how to be king and with desperate help from the French, Henry was convinced to marry Margaret of Anjou, who then became the Queen consort of England in 1445. Margaret was a ruthless woman and really does not trust the king’s most closest friend and advisor, Richard, 3rd Duke of York. After gaining the king’s trust more than

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