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(Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Like his grandfather, the mad King Charles VI, Henry VI suffered a mental collapse and in the ensuing crisis, the long internecine slaughter of the Wars of the Roses began.

Henry V achieved glory at the Battle of Agincourt, only to die young, leaving a child king to succeed him. Richard's incompetence and tyranny precipitated his deposition by the Lancastrians. In 1377 the great warrior king, Edward III, died leaving his kingdom to his young grandson, Richard II. The Wars of the Roses took place during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War. In this first episode of our two-part series, we’re joined by Curator of Collections and Interiors Dickon Whitewood to discuss what the Wars of the Roses were, how they started and the early battles that ended with Yorkist triumph.LibriVox recording of The Houses of Lancaster and York with the Conquest and Loss of France by James Gairdner. The series of conflicts – which took place between 14 – spanned multiple different reigns, involved numerous foreign kingdoms, and heralded changes in English politics, social order and battlefield technology. Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III. The Wars of the Roses, fought between the two powerful houses of York and Lancaster, pitted families against each other. The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Warwick switched sides, fighting instead for Lancaster, and.

Less than 100 years after the Black Death, England was again uprooted by dramatic upheaval. The Kingmaker became furious and felt humiliated when he discovered the marriage of the king.

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