Wars of the Roses Game of Thrones

 Wars of the Roses Game of Thrones, really understanding of the Wars of the Roses is convoluted and complicated business.

May 22, 1455 – Jun 16, 1487.

Wars of the Roses, (1455–85), in English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife for control of the throne of England between two competing royal families: the House of York and the House of Lancaster, both members of the age-old royal Plantagenet family. Waged between 1455 and 1485, the Wars of the Roses earned its flowery name because the white rose was the badge of the Yorks, and the red rose was the badge of the Lancastrians. Remembered mostly as an English-only affair, on the 550th anniversary of the Battle of Tewkesbury, a key event in the wars, it is worth remembering how the wider politics of late-Medieval Europe, particularly France, shaped this important and often commemorated, part of English history, particularly the French king, Louis XI, and his main adversary, Charles, Duke of Burgundy, were able to exploit these divisions.
While Warwick favored an alliance with Louis, Edward preferred an alliance with the Duke of Burgundy. French king as Burgundy ruled over the Low Countries, which constituted much of modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. As such, Edward believed an alliance with Burgundy would provide England with stronger commercial ties with many Flemish and Dutch towns. Henry VI was troubled all his life by recurring bouts of madness, during which the country was ruled by regents. The regents didn't do any better for England than Henry did, and the long Hundred Years War with France sputtered to an end with England losing all her possessions in France except for Calais. In England itself, anarchy reigned. Nobles gathered their own private armies and fought for local supremacy which afforded the pretext for a blaze of plebeian discontent and patrician lawlessness
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