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Facts

Date 1455 - 1485
Location United Kingdom • England
Participants house of Lancaster • house of York

Did You Know?

  • The Yorkists were related to female relatives of Edward III's second and fourth sons, whereas the Lancastrians were connected to Edward through his third son.
  • Margaret of Anjou reportedly once let her 7-year-old son pick the manner in which two captured Yorkists would be executed; he chose beheading.
  • The Battle of Towton during the Wars of the Roses was one of the deadliest battles ever fought in England.

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Battle of Bosworth Field
The Houses of Lancaster and York
House of Plantagenet
Henry VI
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Edward V, Edward IV, and Elizabeth Woodville
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Timeline

battles of Saint Albans
May 22, 1455; February 17, 1461
Battle of Towton
March 29, 1461
Battle of Tewkesbury
February 17, 1471
Battle of Barnet
April 14, 1471
Bosworth Field, Battle of
Battle of Bosworth Field
August 22, 1485

Key People

Richard III
Richard III
king of England
Henry VII
Henry VII
king of England
Edward IV
Edward IV
king of England
Henry VI
Henry VI
king of England
Richard Neville, 16th earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, 16th earl of Warwick
English noble
Richard, 3rd duke of York
English noble
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou
queen of England
Derby, Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of
Thomas Stanley, 1st earl of Derby
English noble
Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford
Welsh noble
John de Vere, 13th earl of Oxford
English soldier
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, portrait miniature from his Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, 1477; in Lambeth Palace Library, London
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
English noble
John Tiptoft, 1st earl of Worcester
English Yorkist leader
Sir James Tyrrell
English soldier
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd duke of Somerset
English noble
John Neville, earl of Northumberland
English noble
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
English noble
Humphrey Stafford, 1st duke of Buckingham
English noble
Henry Beaufort, 3rd duke of Somerset
English noble
John Howard, 1st duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal
English noble
William Hastings, Baron Hastings
English soldier and diplomat

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