- 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...
- of
Lancaster and York,
creating a new
royal dynasty which inherited the
Yorkist claim as well,
thereby resolving the conflict. The Wars of the
Roses had...
-
Lancastrian cause in
fighting the
civil wars
against Edward IV, a
member of the
Yorkist branch of the
House of Plantagenet.
After Edward retook the
throne in 1471...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- wars in
England fought between the
Yorkist and
Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.
Edward inherited the
Yorkist claim when his father, Richard, Duke...
- The
Fellowship of the
White Boar, Richard's
badge and a
symbol of the
Yorkist army in the Wars of the Roses. Its
membership was
originally a
small group...
- the king. The
Yorkist force based at
Middleham Castle,
Yorkshire (led by the Earl of Salisbury)
needed to link up with the main
Yorkist army at Ludlow...
