- York, 3rd Duke of York. It was
through Anne Mortimer's
lineage that the
Yorkists derived their main
claim to the throne.
Following Edmund of Langley's death...
- The
Yorkists lost
custody of
Henry in 1461
after the
Second Battle of St Albans, but
defeated the
Lancastrians at the
Battle of Towton. The
Yorkist Edward...
-
between an
estimated 50,000 soldiers in a
snowstorm on Palm Sunday, the
Yorkist army
achieved a
decisive victory over
their Lancastrian opponents. As a...
-
period of
Yorkist rule and
initiating that of the Tudors. The
Battle of
Stoke Field was the
decisive engagement in an
attempt by
leading Yorkists to unseat...
- Edward's
victory was
followed by 14
years of
Yorkist rule over England.
Formerly a key
figure in the
Yorkist cause,
Warwick defected to the Lancastrians...
- July 1460,
where the king was
captured and
taken into
captivity under the
Yorkists.
Queen Margaret, who also had been on the field,
managed to
escape with...
- 1485, the
battle was won by an
alliance of
Lancastrians and
disaffected Yorkists.
Their leader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond,
became the
first English monarch...
-
uncle Jasper Tudor, a Lancastrian, and
William Herbert, a
supporter of the
Yorkist branch of the
House of Plantagenet.
During Henry's
early years, his uncles...
- his wife
Elizabeth of York, he was
through his
mother the
nephew of the
Yorkist kings of
England Edward IV and
Richard III and the
cousin of
Edward V and...
-
sanctuary there from
Lancastrian supporters who had
deposed his father, the
Yorkist king
Edward IV,
during the
course of the Wars of the Roses.
Edward was...
