War Of The Roses Research Paper

The War of the Roses was truly an interesting event in British history. The War of the Roses was a 28 year conflict between two British royal families who claimed that they each had a right to the English throne. One family was the House of York which included the monarchs’ Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III and the House of Lancaster or Tudor which included Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. It was called the “War of the Roses” because the Yorkist’s emblem was a white rose and the Lancastrian’s rose was red. The spat first began in 1455 when the Welsh Baron of Winchester Edmund Tudor exploited his family secret that he was the illegitimate descendent of John of Gaunt, who was the son of King Edward III of England.

In his will, he stated that his son (who was still only a teenager at the time) that he was legitimate heir to the English throne again. He was then coronated but not crowned at Westminster Abbey on April 9, 1483. This caused lots of strife though, for they believed he was still too young to rule and he had already proven his incapability in keeping power. Protests and riots began to arise and some revived the suggestion that Henry Tudor should be king. On June 26, English parliament had Edward V deposed and locked up in the Tower of London. Though most historical records claim he died there shortly after, but new evidence shows he might have been alive longer than

He was said to be the most dastardly and sinister of all the English monarchs who poisoned his wife, burned animals, brutally mutilated Edward V and his brother, murdered anyone who stood in his way, and fought a grueling war against the heroic Henry Tudor who finally ended Richard’s perilous reign. This was actually entirely false, for Richard III was on the other hand one of the nicest monarchs in history who wanted to make England a pacifist nation that only fought in self-defense. One time, a Lancastrian supporter attempted to assassinate him by stabbing him in his throne room, but instead of executing him, Richard forgave him and gave him a large country estate in Northern Ireland! Another conspiracy was that Richard was a hunchback with a limp in his arm. However, anthropologists have evaluated his recently discovered skeleton and concluded that he instead had scoliosis towards the end of his