- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- of
Yorkist rule and
initiating that of the Tudors. The
Battle of
Stoke Field was the
decisive engagement in an
attempt by
leading Ricardian Yorkists to...
- 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...
- wars in
England fought between the
Yorkist and
Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.
Edward inherited the
Yorkist claim to the
throne at the age of...
-
Roses had just
broken out. Edmund, a Lancastrian, was
taken prisoner by
Yorkist forces less than a year later. He died of the
plague in
captivity at Carmarthen...
- been
contending for the
English throne since the late 1450s. In 1461 the
Yorkist claimant, Edward, Earl of March, was
proclaimed King
Edward IV and defeated...
